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Published 09/04/2010 - 8:00 a.m. CST
Resources will Help Small Businesses Compete for Federal Highway
Contracts
AUSTIN - The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) received $500,000 from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to help disadvantaged business enterprises (DBEs) compete for federal highway contracts. On August 26, US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood doled out a total of $11.6 million to 30 states including Puerto Rico.
"Giving these small businesses the assistance they need to compete for federal highway contracts creates jobs and ultimately helps taxpayers by reducing project costs," Secretary LaHood said. “Any way you look at them, these grants are a ‘win-win’ for the American people.”
AUSTIN - The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) received $500,000 from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to help disadvantaged business enterprises (DBEs) compete for federal highway contracts. On August 26, US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood doled out a total of $11.6 million to 30 states including Puerto Rico.
"Giving these small businesses the assistance they need to compete for federal highway contracts creates jobs and ultimately helps taxpayers by reducing project costs," Secretary LaHood said. “Any way you look at them, these grants are a ‘win-win’ for the American people.”
Published 09/03/2010 - 8:34 a.m. CST
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New TEF Investment Bringing 100 New Jobs to Baytown
Gov. Rick Perry, at a press conference yesterday announcing a $675,000 Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) investment in Tapco International, Inc., credited Texas’ low taxes, reasonable and predictable regulatory climate, educated workforce and investments through the TEF with helping attract jobs and businesses to the state. The company is creating a new manufacturing facility in Baytown, which will create 100 jobs and generate an estimated $26 million in capital investment.
Gov. Rick Perry, at a press conference yesterday announcing a $675,000 Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) investment in Tapco International, Inc., credited Texas’ low taxes, reasonable and predictable regulatory climate, educated workforce and investments through the TEF with helping attract jobs and businesses to the state. The company is creating a new manufacturing facility in Baytown, which will create 100 jobs and generate an estimated $26 million in capital investment.
Published 09/03/2010 - 6:29 a.m. CST
Perry to submit federal application to try to access funding for
school teachers
Gov. Rick Perry sent a letter to school administrators across the state detailing his efforts to try to access the $830 million in federal funds for Texas schools that Lloyd Doggett’s anti-Texas amendment to the federal emergency education jobs bill (H.R. 1586) has jeopardized. Doggett’s amendment requires the governor to make assurances that the Texas Legislature will make specific funding commitments, which is a violation of the Texas Constitution.
Gov. Rick Perry sent a letter to school administrators across the state detailing his efforts to try to access the $830 million in federal funds for Texas schools that Lloyd Doggett’s anti-Texas amendment to the federal emergency education jobs bill (H.R. 1586) has jeopardized. Doggett’s amendment requires the governor to make assurances that the Texas Legislature will make specific funding commitments, which is a violation of the Texas Constitution.
Published 09/02/2010 - 6:04 a.m. CST
New methodology leads to increased accuracy of congestion
data
AUSTIN - Using more accurate technology, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) unveiled an updated list of Texas’ 100 most congested roadway segments Wednesday.
In developing the update, the state used actual traffic speed data to calculate delay, rather than estimations based on traffic volume used in the previous list. Parameters for roadway segment length were also adjusted to better capture congested points in the transportation system. The results of this heightened accuracy have state engineers a little excited and encouraged.
AUSTIN - Using more accurate technology, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) unveiled an updated list of Texas’ 100 most congested roadway segments Wednesday.
In developing the update, the state used actual traffic speed data to calculate delay, rather than estimations based on traffic volume used in the previous list. Parameters for roadway segment length were also adjusted to better capture congested points in the transportation system. The results of this heightened accuracy have state engineers a little excited and encouraged.
Published 09/01/2010 - 2:49 p.m. CST
Will Continue to Press Administration for Additional
Resources
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today issued the following statement marking the start of Predator B drone flights along the Texas-Mexico border:
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today issued the following statement marking the start of Predator B drone flights along the Texas-Mexico border:
Published 08/31/2010 - 1:18 p.m. CST
AUSTIN - In a unanimous decision Thursday, the five-member Texas
Transportation Commission voted to adopt new rules that, for the first
time, enhance the role citizens and communities play in planning the
state’s transportation system, increasing transparency and
accountability in the transportation planning process. The rules were
written by an 11-member body called the Transportation Planning and
Project Development Rulemaking Advisory Committee, comprised of
members from the Texas Legislature, metropolitan planning
organizations, local government, transit organizations, tolling
authorities and the Federal Highway Administration, created by the
Commission in mid-2009.
Published 08/31/2010 - 6:11 a.m. CST
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Leigh Anne Tuohy, Judge Glenda Hatchett and Dr.
Jennifer Arnold to Keynote 11th Annual Gathering of More Than 6,000
Women
The Texas Conference for Women, hosted by Gov. Rick Perry and First Lady Anita Perry, announced yesterday presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Leigh Anne Tuohy, Judge Glenda Hatchett, and TLC’s Dr. Jennifer Arnold will be part of the 2010 keynote lineup. The 11th annual Conference is set for November 10 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston.
The Texas Conference for Women, hosted by Gov. Rick Perry and First Lady Anita Perry, announced yesterday presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Leigh Anne Tuohy, Judge Glenda Hatchett, and TLC’s Dr. Jennifer Arnold will be part of the 2010 keynote lineup. The 11th annual Conference is set for November 10 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston.
Published 08/30/2010 - 12:37 p.m. CST
Drug removes toxins associated with kidney, liver failure
Gov. Rick Perry today announced a $2 million investment through the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) in ZS Pharma, Inc., for the development of its therapeutic solution for the treatment of complications associated with liver and kidney failure.
“Texas continues to lead the nation in the evolving biotechnology industry thanks to an environment that encourages innovation and investments from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund,” Gov. Perry said. “This investment in ZS Pharma will help develop a therapy that will provide kidney and liver failure patients with a more effective and less dangerous alternative to current blood cleansing treatments.”
Gov. Rick Perry today announced a $2 million investment through the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) in ZS Pharma, Inc., for the development of its therapeutic solution for the treatment of complications associated with liver and kidney failure.
“Texas continues to lead the nation in the evolving biotechnology industry thanks to an environment that encourages innovation and investments from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund,” Gov. Perry said. “This investment in ZS Pharma will help develop a therapy that will provide kidney and liver failure patients with a more effective and less dangerous alternative to current blood cleansing treatments.”
Published 08/26/2010 - 10:54 a.m. CST
Quality Higher Education is Essential to Strengthening Texas’
Workforce
Gov. Rick Perry, speaking at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new facility at Texas A&M- Central Texas, today highlighted the state’s commitment to ensuring Texans have access to a quality higher education.
“Quality higher education is not only essential to the strength of our state’s workforce, it is also the best avenue to a better life by accelerating students toward continued success, greater prosperity and a brighter future,” Gov. Perry said. “This campus will provide access to a quality education for a diverse and growing student body, including active duty and retired military and members of military families who are working toward a better life.”
Gov. Rick Perry, speaking at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new facility at Texas A&M- Central Texas, today highlighted the state’s commitment to ensuring Texans have access to a quality higher education.
“Quality higher education is not only essential to the strength of our state’s workforce, it is also the best avenue to a better life by accelerating students toward continued success, greater prosperity and a brighter future,” Gov. Perry said. “This campus will provide access to a quality education for a diverse and growing student body, including active duty and retired military and members of military families who are working toward a better life.”
Published 09/02/2010 - 2:48 p.m. CST
Gov. Rick Perry met with plant managers from the Baytown area
yesterday at the Southeast Texas Plant Managers Forum to discuss
Texas’ economy and the role of the state’s petrochemical industry in
fueling the nation.
“This industry creates jobs and generates products and services that have helped our economy lead the nation,” Gov. Perry said. “We will continue to create the economic climate in Texas where these businesses can not only survive, but thrive. We will also continue to fight an increasingly activist EPA that threatens industries like this one to ensure they can continue driving Texas’ economic engine.”
“This industry creates jobs and generates products and services that have helped our economy lead the nation,” Gov. Perry said. “We will continue to create the economic climate in Texas where these businesses can not only survive, but thrive. We will also continue to fight an increasingly activist EPA that threatens industries like this one to ensure they can continue driving Texas’ economic engine.”
Published 09/02/2010 - 5:18 a.m. CST
Gov. Perry Now 0-for-3 Against EPA in 2010
AUSTIN, TX --
Tuesday The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) disapproved
another portion of the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality’s
(TCEQ) clean-air permitting program the federal
agency says does not
meet federal Clean Air Act requirements.
Tuesday's
disapproval is the latest in a series of significant
rebukes from the
EPA and focused on changes TCEQ proposed making to the
New Source
Review (NSR) program it administers. The NSR program
requires new
plants or existing plants that undergo major modifications
to install
“state-of-the-art” technology to reduce emissions.
Published 09/01/2010 - 6:15 a.m. CST
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Airborne predator flights cover the border from California to Texas Gulf Coast beginning today
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HOUSTON, TX – Beginning today, Unmanned Aerial
System (UAS)
flights will begin out of Corpus Christi, Texas with the expressed
intent of covering the U.S./Mexico border from the El Centro Sector in
California all the way to the Gulf of Mexico in Texas. The UAS drones
will be used for aerial
surveillance to assist personnel on the
ground.
Published 08/31/2010 - 1:02 p.m. CST
Gov. Rick Perry today announced an incentive for school districts that
pool resources and save money by cutting administrative costs that
divert much-needed funds from the classroom. Participating districts
would receive a grant from the state equaling 10 percent of their
total savings from the first year.
“This new school savings incentive rewards Texas school districts that save money by partnering with other districts and entities to share some of these tasks and their associated resources,” Gov. Perry said. “These functions can often be performed more efficiently over multiple districts, representing an ideal opportunity for cost savings.”
“This new school savings incentive rewards Texas school districts that save money by partnering with other districts and entities to share some of these tasks and their associated resources,” Gov. Perry said. “These functions can often be performed more efficiently over multiple districts, representing an ideal opportunity for cost savings.”
Published 08/30/2010 - 12:52 p.m. CST
Environmental Defense Fund and Environmental Integrity Project File
Motion to Intervene; Would Argue EPA Properly Disapproved the Texas
Flexible Air Permitting Program
AUSTIN, TX -- On Friday, August 27, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit brought by Attorney General Greg Abbott and the State of Texas against the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding the EPA’s June 2010 disapproval of a portion of Texas’ air permitting program.
AUSTIN, TX -- On Friday, August 27, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit brought by Attorney General Greg Abbott and the State of Texas against the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding the EPA’s June 2010 disapproval of a portion of Texas’ air permitting program.
Published 08/27/2010 - 3:51 p.m. CST
David Porter, the Republican nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner, announced today the endorsements of the Texas Association of Business (TAB) as well as the C Club of Houston.
For more than 85 years, TAB has been on the front lines of the legislative, regulatory, and judicial battlefields, fighting for every issue that impacts business to ensure that employer opinions are being heard. Their goal is to make the Texas business climate the best in the world.
Published 08/24/2010 - 4:29 p.m. CST
Putting Texas School Children First Helps Ensure Our Economy’s Future
Success
Gov. Rick Perry today announced the creation of Texas Education on iTunes U, which offers a modern approach to keeping teachers and students engaged and informed by providing free, supplementary educational content that can be accessed anywhere.
“iTunes U will easily and efficiently distribute Texas-based educational materials to teachers, parents and students statewide, and will help improve Texas education and secure our position as the best place to live and work in the years to come,” Gov. Perry said. “The quality of education in Texas is steadily improving as we continue to combine tried and true teaching methods with new technology to achieve educational success.”
Gov. Rick Perry today announced the creation of Texas Education on iTunes U, which offers a modern approach to keeping teachers and students engaged and informed by providing free, supplementary educational content that can be accessed anywhere.
“iTunes U will easily and efficiently distribute Texas-based educational materials to teachers, parents and students statewide, and will help improve Texas education and secure our position as the best place to live and work in the years to come,” Gov. Perry said. “The quality of education in Texas is steadily improving as we continue to combine tried and true teaching methods with new technology to achieve educational success.”
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