AFP-Texas Director Commends Comptroller Combs
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Americans for Prosperity-Texas Director Peggy Venable commends Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Susan Combs on the agreement with Amazon.
“It is good news for Texans that an agreement has been reached with online sales giant Amazon over collecting sales taxes.
“We are pleased that Amazon has decided to return to Texas. Texans and the Texas economy will …
Perry back to work, promoting Texas business
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By Sommer Ingram
Gov. Rick Perry, back from the campaign trail, returned to a familiar theme in a speech today lauding Texas’ business-friendly climate as the nation’s next high-tech hub of innovation.
Perry was speaking in Austin at the Angel Capital Association Summit to a group of investors. He bragged on the state’s low taxes and regulations and the …
TI to close Stafford plant, move 500 jobs to N. Texas
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By L.M. Sixel
The 500 employees who work at Texas Instruments’ semiconductor manufacturing site in Stafford received word Monday the plant will close at the end of 2012.
The production work will move to plants in Dallas and Sherman, said Whitney Jodry, spokeswoman for Texas Instruments in Dallas.
The Stafford factory, which opened in 1967, makes 6-inch wafers used in products …
Boeing will move up to 400 jobs to Alamo City
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By William Pack
The Boeing facility in San Antonio will gain hundreds of workers and maintenance responsibilities for Air Force One now that the aerospace giant has decided to shutter a Wichita, Kan., plant over cost inefficiencies.
The decision announced Wednesday after a lengthy evaluation of facility costs will move 300 to 400 jobs to Boeing’s plant in San …
Low taxes, wages bring business to Texas
These companies want to come to Texas to enjoy its low taxes, low wages and little business regulation, said former UT professor and current Ohio State business professor Michael W. Brandl. “Corporations that relocate to Texas can instantly be more …
CCC: California’s Loss is Corpus Christi’s Gain
Corpus Christi received a welcome dividend from Gov. Rick Perry’s invitations to businesses in high-tax states to move to Texas. EDM Laboratories Inc. left Southern California because its owner was — to borrow from Perry’s anti-D.C. book title — “Fed up!” with that state’s high taxes. EDM’s presence here thus far amounts to only four employees. But FINALLY the city has lured a high-tech company that requires highly specialized skills that fetch commensurate pay. Also, it’s a manufacturer and therefore an exporter, which means genuine growth in the local economy. The company machines parts for aerospace and other high-tech applications. Its products range from too small to be seen without magnification to three tons. That’s cool, and for this community it’s a start.
Free-Wheeling Texas Lures California Companies
Texas is the heavyweight champ among states in luring businesses and it’s likely to keep the title by treating California like a punching bag. The beating has started to prompt some soul searching in California’s capital, where heaping scorn on Texas is routine, and may gain wider attention in the near term should Governor Rick Perry, Texas’ most prominent salesman, join the field of Republican presidential contenders. Longer term, California risks more companies turning to Texas or other states, more trouble for a job market already weakened by the recession and the housing bust. Some executives say California has only itself to blame.
Forbes: The Next Big Boom Towns In The U.S.
Many of our top performers are not surprising. No. 1 Austin, Texas, and No. 2 Raleigh, N.C., have it all demographically: high rates of immigration and migration of educated workers and healthy increases in population and number of children. They are also economic superstars, with job-creation records among the best in the nation.
Gov. Perry: Employers Continue to Look to Texas as the Best State to Do Business
Thank you, Dennis [Muilenburg, President and CEO, Boeing Defense, Space & Security] for that introduction, and I’d like to thank the good people at Boeing for giving me a tour of your facility here.
Texas adds 732,800 jobs in 10 years; no other state tops 100,000
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Austin Business Journal – by G. Scott Thomas , The Business Journals
Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 9:16am CDT – Last Modified: Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 10:26am CDT
Texas has enjoyed an unequaled economic boom the past 10 years.
The inventory of private-sector jobs in Texas increased by 732,800 between April 2001 and the same month this year, …
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