The Texas 4-H STEM ambassadors, including Castro County 4-Her Spencer Acker, hosted Texas 4-H Night at NASA Saturday night in Space Center Houston. Space Center Houston is the official museum and Visitor Center of NASA’s Johnson Space Center, which is where both the Mission Control and training facility for astronauts are.

Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced he will send cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose districts $1 billion in local sales tax allocations for March, 9.9 percent more than in March 2022.

Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan threw his support behind a striking border security bill that would create a state unit of officers empowered to “repel” and arrest migrants crossing the border outside a port of entry and return migrants to Mexico if they were seen trying to illegally cross the border.

According to Texas lawmakers, homeowners would see the largest cut to their property taxes in history according as the Lt. Governor and members of the Senate unveiled the chamber’s plan for tax cuts this session.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced new steps the Department of Agriculture is taking to recenter U.S. agriculture and benefit small and midsized operations, including a proposed new “Product of USA” labeling rule and an $89 million expansion of the USDA intermediary lending program.