Farm bill extension, estate tax fix boosts farmers, ranchers
by Tom Lutey - Billings Gazzett, 01/02/2013

Turns out there was a haystack for farmers to land on at the bottom of the "fiscal cliff."

In the liner notes of the 12th-hour plan to avert tax increases on most ...



Texas Lawmakers Prepare To Take On Water Projects
by Kate Galbraith - The Texas Tribune, 12/21/2012

When the 83rd legislative session begins in January, Texas lawmakers will return to a city of brown lawns and low lakes. Austin has withered, getting just 3 percent of its normal rainfall for the past two months...