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1 week ago | 
ktrh.iheart.com | Michael Shiloh
Texans are seeing slow but important progress in home sales markets, with the greatest change coming over the past several months, the turning of a sellers' market into a buyers' market. Home sales expert Jennifer Hammond watches the trends very closely and she says the trend is showing up all across the nation but, surprisingly, also in Texas, including the once red-hot home markets of Austin and Houston.
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1 week ago | 
ktrh.iheart.com | Michael Shiloh
There's been a shortage of skilled workers at home construction sites for years, and while some illegal immigrants have been filling the gap, one home builder says there need to be long-term solutions. And perhaps the best solution is helping people understand the effects of the skilled labor shortage -- more expensive homes and longer construction times.
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1 week ago | 
ktrh.iheart.com | Michael Shiloh
How much does it cost to live comfortably in Texas? The key word is "comfortably." The cost of living is low in most parts of Texas when compared to many other states, but one expert says the average, especially in the cities, seems high but depends on a lot of factors. That comfortable lifestyle comes at a cost of about $90,000 -- that's how much the average Texan must earn per year to keep that lifestyle going. And for a family of four, that number is now about $200,000 a year in earnings.
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1 week ago | 
ktrh.iheart.com | Michael Shiloh
President Donal Trump signed an Executive Order back in April that raises the fish catch limits for Gulf of America fishing, but it's not clear just how the new rules are going to be handled. The President's intention was to increase the nation's seafood output, but at first there were concerns whether the new catch limits might raise the number of recreational fishers to the detriment of commercial fishing interests.
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1 week ago | 
ktrh.iheart.com | Michael Shiloh
The Texas-based home furnishings and specialties retail chain At Home is filing for bankruptcy. The company has depended heavily upon imports, and cites a "volatile" trade market as one of the reasons for its move into bankruptcy court. The retailer, which grew out of the Garden Ridge Pottery chain (it changed brands in 2014), is based in the Dallas suburb of Coppell.
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1 week ago | 
1190talkradio.iheart.com | Michael Shiloh
The Texas-based home furnishings and specialties retail chain At Home is filing for bankruptcy. The company has depended heavily upon imports and cites a "volatile" trade market as one of the reasons for its move into bankruptcy court, including higher shipping costs, inflation, and changing shopping habits. And then there are tariffs recently established in the US and elsewhere which add to that volatility in the wholesale markets.
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1 week ago | 
ktrh.iheart.com | Michael Shiloh
One person was killed and two others injured in a shooting at the parking lot of a popular nightclub in northeast Harris County just about closing time Sunday morning. There appears to have been more than one person who did the shooting, but they fled before law officers could arrive. Now Harris County Sheriff's investigators are talking with witnesses and looking at surveillance video for clues.
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1 week ago | 
ktrh.iheart.com | Michael Shiloh
A man arrested Saturday in connection with threats against Texas politicians in Austin is identified as a resident of the Houston suburb of Katy. That man's name has not been released by the Texas Department of Public Safety, which headed up the investigation into a threat against lawmakers that resulted in the shutting down of the state capitol in Austin and the postponing of a rally that was scheduled on the capitol grounds for Saturday afternoon.
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2 weeks ago | 
ktrh.iheart.com | Michael Shiloh
The Texas Capitol building and surrounding grounds are back open after being shut down for much of Saturday afternoon, following threats against state politicians who were planning to speak at a Capitol rally against Donald Trump and his policies. The "No Kings Day" rallies, which The Wall Street Journal says are organized by Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Federation of Teachers, were held all across the US on Saturday.
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2 weeks ago | 
ktrh.iheart.com | Michael Shiloh
A bill by Texas state Senator Paul Bettencourt to use money from Harris County toll roads to help the City of Houston has failed in the state legislature, but the senator says it drove home the point. Senate Bill 2722 wasn't able to pass despite getting all the way through Senate votes and into the Texas House of Representatives. It never made it to a vote there, though, in the final days of the legislative session, which was over June 2nd.
