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One of the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s major issues in recent years has been increasing the public’s access to information on state and local government spending. To that end, the Foundation has launched TexasBudgetSource.com, a new website that will provide a one-stop resource for information on state and local government budgets and spending. This week, we talk with The Honorable Talmadge Heflin, Director of the Foundation’s Center for Fiscal Policy and a former chairman of the Texas House Appropriations Committee, about the importance of spending transparency and about what people can find at www.TexasBudgetSource.com.
The fashion designer has signed a deal to design 80 homes on the new Isla Moda in Dubai.
The Bush administration has held talks about what to do in the event Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac falter. These discussions have become more serious recently given the financial woes of the government-chartered companies.
While the loss of a tenant can prove disastrous for a sole landlord in a real-estate deal, the experience of multiple investors in a Phoenix bottling plant shows that the headaches can be magnified if something goes awry in a tenant-in-common structure.