The controversial proposal to build a 4,000-mile network of highways and rail lines across Texas never came to fruition, but the Trans-Texas Corridor proposal helped usher in a change in how the state builds roads.

Despite Gov. Rick Perry's firm opposition to Medicaid expansion, a key tenet of federal health reform, Texas Democrats remain optimistic that the 2013 legislative session can yield a deal on the issue.

The board of the Dallas-based utility company Oncor recently authorized a $17 million payment to its chairman and chief executive, Robert Shapard, according to an SEC filing on Nov. 21, the ...

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