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AUSTIN, TEXAS (AP)–The Texas unemployment rate has slipped to 5.5 percent. The Texas Workforce Commission on Friday announced the March unemployment figure, compared to a 5.7 percent statewide jobless rate in both January and February. The latest seasonally adjusted unemployment

AUSTIN, TEXAS (AP)–Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s campaign for governor says it will accept contributions made with the bitcoin virtual currency. Abbott on Thursday called bitcoins, a decentralized digital currency, symbolic of free-market principles. The Republican’s campaign said it would

IRVING, TEXAS (AP)–Retail gasoline prices continue to creep upward as they’ve risen 6 cents this week across Texas. AAA Texas on Thursday reported the average price at the pump has reached $3.49 per gallon. Gasoline prices nationally rose by a

Lt. Governor David Dewhurst seeks re-election in November 2014. The federal government’s litany of policy failures is endless, but their longstanding refusal to take meaningful steps toward securing the border has created a crisis with deadly repercussions. In recent testimony

LUBBOCK, TEXAS (AP)–Lubbock city officials want to expand a ban on synthetic marijuana. The city council Thursday gave preliminary approval to a measure that identifies new chemical compounds in synthetic marijuana sold in shops as potpourri or incense or on

Each business day, Breitbart Texas offers the latest Texas-specific commodity prices and stock market reports for the state’s largest publicly traded companies. West Texas Intermediate Crude     $103.36/bbl      NYMEX Natural Gas        $4.64/MMBtu    +0.05 ExxonMobil Corp.           $96.78

HOUSTON, TEXAS (AP)–A Houston-area pediatric nurse has been arrested for feeding her own daughter such a dangerous amount of salt that the child had to be hospitalized. Harris County sheriff’s spokesman Alan Bernstein said Thursday that 31-year-old Katie Alice Ripstra

Breitbart Texas’ Contributing Editor and author of the forthcoming book Border Insecurity recently joined Fusion LIVE to discuss the market effects of American states legalizing marijuana with respect to Mexican cartels. “[Legalization] will be a big financial hit if marijuana

Each business day, Breitbart Texas offers the latest Texas-specific commodity prices and stock market reports for the state’s largest publicly traded companies. West Texas Intermediate Crude     $103.37/bbl      +0.81 NYMEX Natural Gas        $4.57/MMBtu    -0.02 ExxonMobil Corp.          

NEW YORK (AP) — La Quinta’s stock is up slightly in its return as a publicly traded company. The Irving, Texas-based hotel chain was publicly traded for more than 30 years, before being acquired by Blackstone, the private equity firm,

Each business day, Breitbart Texas offers the latest Texas-specific commodity prices and stock market reports for the state’s largest publicly traded companies. West Texas Intermediate Crude     $102.36/bbl      +1.92 NYMEX Natural Gas        $4.53/MMBtu    +0.06 ExxonMobil Corp.          

The 50th Annual Civil Rights Summit in Austin, Texas is currently being held from April 8-10 at the LBJ Presidential Library. Discussion panels are slated to cover immigration reform, education policy, civil rights, gender issues and addresses from U.S. Presidents.

Each business day, Breitbart Texas offers the latest Texas-specific commodity prices and stock market reports for the state’s largest publicly traded companies. West Texas Intermediate Crude     $100.44/bbl      -0.70 NYMEX Natural Gas        $4.48/MMBtu    +0.04 ExxonMobil Corp.          

Houston-based President of True the Vote and King Street Patriots, Catherine Engelbrecht, will be featured in an upcoming Fox News Channel documentary “Enemies of the State” beginning April 5. According to the announcement, Fox News will offer the stories of

Each business day, Breitbart Texas offers the latest Texas-specific commodity prices and stock market reports for the state’s largest publicly traded companies. West Texas Intermediate Crude     $101.14/bbl      +0.85 NYMEX Natural Gas        $4.44/MMBtu    -0.03 ExxonMobil Corp.          

Junior Texas Senator Ted Cruz joined Governor Rick Perry, among others, to speak before the gates of Ft. Hood after touring the scene of a second shooting in five years and meeting with wounded soldiers from the incident. “In the

Texas Governor Rick Perry spoke at the grand opening of GEICO’s new claims operation in a west Houston suburb on April 3 with GEICO Chairman Tony Nicely and CEO Warren Buffet to celebrate the new 138,000 square-foot office. Perry stressed

Each business day, Breitbart Texas offers the latest Texas-specific commodity prices and stock market reports for the state’s largest publicly traded companies. West Texas Intermediate Crude     $100.29/bbl      +0.67 NYMEX Natural Gas        $4.43/MMBtu    +0.07 ExxonMobil Corp.          

Each business day, Breitbart Texas offers the latest Texas-specific commodity prices and stock market reports for the state’s largest publicly traded companies. West Texas Intermediate Crude     $99.31/bbl      -0.31 NYMEX Natural Gas        $4.37/MMBtu    UNCH ExxonMobil Corp.          

Sid Miller is a Republican candidate for Texas Agriculture Commissioner At the same time Barack Obama is rightfully criticizing Vladimir Putin for his outrageous and unlawful land grabs in Crimea, he is presiding over an equally outrageous and unlawful land

Each business day, Breitbart Texas offers the latest Texas-specific commodity prices and stock market reports for the state’s largest publicly traded companies. West Texas Intermediate Crude     $99.65/bbl      -0.09 NYMEX Natural Gas        $4.28/MMBtu    -0.10 ExxonMobil Corp.