TEXAS – The Texas oil and natural gas industry paid more than US$14 billion in state and local taxes and state royalties in fiscal year 2018, up 27% from fiscal year 2017, and the second-highest total in Texas history, according to a Texas Oil and...
CALIFORNIA – Two-thirds of California municipalities prohibit marijuana businesses from setting up shop, underscoring the hurdles MJ entrepreneurs face in trying to break into the world’s largest legal cannabis market Only 161 of California’s...
CALIFORNIA – California’s solar industry shed nearly 10,000 jobs last year over uncertainty about the Trump administration’s tariffs on imported solar panels and state policy changes, a new report reveals The tariffs were set in January 2018,...
NEW MEXICO – New Mexico received US$22 billion in revenues from oil production in 2018, according to numbers from the state’s Tax Research Institute This was a 26% increase on the year, or US$465 million As stated by the Albuquerque Journal, a...
CHIHUAHUA – The head of Desarrollo Económico y Turístico, Maria Angelica Granados, announced four new national commercial flights and one new international flight for the city of Chihuahua, starting in March The flights will depart from...
AUSTIN, TX – Google recently announced that it is to expand in Texas Through a post on the company’s website, Google explained that they are investing more than US$13 billion in the development of new offices and data centers across the United...
MEXICO – For Mexico, the shrimp industry is fundamental in its trade balance Only in 2017, foreign sales of this product totaled US$452 million, representing a central element for the country's economic development Aquaculture farms for the...
MEXICO – As of September of 2018, Nuevo Leon, Chihuahua, Coahuila and Quintana Roo ranked as the states with an indebtedness per capita above US$584, according to the Centro de Investigación Económica y Presupuestaria (CIEP) As stated by their...
BAJA CALIFORNIA – The federal government is to grant Baja California a strong economic increase for investment programs and projects to be executed in 2019, according to the Centro de Estudios de las Finanzas Públicas (CEFP) In this sense, the...
ARIZONA – A first-of-its-kind study reveals that the economic and fiscal impacts of Arizona’s public universities total billions of dollars each year The Arizona Public University Enterprise, which includes Northern Arizona University, Arizona...