Fellow Joyce Beebe is one of 10 members recently appointed by Texas Comptroller to the Organized Retail Theft Task Force. Created through Texas HB 1826, the statewide task force will investigate & provide recommendations on managing retail crime.
Dubai is likely a far larger market, but Ras Al Khaimah "views the launch of a casino as a potential game changer in its own tourism plans,” fellow Kristian Ulrichsen said of the UAE's recent framework for gambling.
Despite leaks from abandoned oil wells in Trinity Bay, which lies east of Houston, the assumption that the bay’s coastal life is destroyed “is not true,” Rice faculty scholar Jim Blackburn said. But it’s unclear how long its environmental health will last.
Could infidelity lead to Texas AG Ken Paxton’s impeachment? Evidence of an affair would strike his supporters as hypocritical, says nonresident scholar David Brockman. “He’s promoted himself as a conservative Christian, a defender of biblical values.”
Hundreds of new Texas laws come into effect today, including anti-LGBTQ measures, new state funding for anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy centers,” and other legislation Fellow Mark P. Jones calls a “smorgasbord of red meat for the Republican base.”