May 9, 2024
Property

How to hire a firm to help protest your Texas property taxes

Homes in the Magnolia Crossing subdivision are seen in 2023. Every year, county appraisal districts around the state assess property values for homeowners with results that are sometimes inaccurate. If property owners believe they are being overtaxed, they can protest their appraisals.  Jason Fochtman/Staff photographer Homes in the neighborhood of The Woodlands are seen in

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Finance

Castle Biosciences’ Chief Financial Officer Frank Stokes Recognized as a Top CFO of Houston for Second Consecutive Year

FRIENDSWOOD, Texas, April 10, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Castle Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSTL), a company improving health through innovative tests that guide patient care, today announced that, for the second year in a row, its chief financial officer, Frank Stokes, has been selected as a Top 25 CFO of Houston by TOP CFOs (formerly Finance & Investing). The

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Property

KPRC 2 helps get Houston Public Works to promise fix after water main break floods elderly woman’s property for months

HOUSTON – Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink. That is the story of one family in Northside Village that has been dealing with flooding caused by a water main break for months now. They tell KPRC 2′s Deven Clarke they’ve made countless attempts to get the city to fix the issue with

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Property

Texas feud over property rights reaches U.S. Supreme Court

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Richie DeVillier’s property north of Houston has been owned by his family for generations and had never flooded, but that all changed when the state revamped Interstate 10. His rice farm first flooded

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Funds

Texas orphan well backlog grows, even as federal funds flow

An old oil well leaks salt water and oil on Antina Ranch near Monahans. Elizabeth Conley/Staff photographer Hawk Dunlap shows a stick, reeking of crude oil after dipping it until an improperly plugged well on Antina Ranch near Monahans. Elizabeth Conley/Staff photographer That should have been enough to plug an additional 800 oil wells beyond

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Crypto

Crypto miners are shaking Texans down like they’re the Mafia (Opinion)

Cryptocurrency miners should not be rewarded at all by Gov. Greg Abbott and the state of Texas for creating a crisis with our energy grid, a Chronicle letter writer argues.  Dreamstime/TNS Crypto con Regarding “Mega-cartoon: How crypto miners raised Texans’ electric bill (Opinion),” (Dec. 30): Crypto miners are getting a sweetheart deal from the state

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