Are you tired of rising appraisals driving up your property-tax bill? Some chief appraisers around the state are touting a path to “tax relief” for Texans suffering economically from the COVID-19 pandemic:

As local governments in the state (but not the governor) implement stay-at-home orders to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, Texans are sticking inside, reported Gregory Meyer for The Financial Times. The decline in fuel demand is one factor behind oil cratering to around $20, the other being the ongoing oil-pricing war between Saudi Arabia and Russia. And it’s…

On Monday the price of U.S. crude oil dropped to below $20 a barrel for the first time since 2002. The oil price plummet is due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that’s halted fuel demand and disrupted various sectors of the economy.

Are you tired of rising appraisals driving up your property tax bill? Some chief appraisers around the state are touting a path to “tax relief” for Texans suffering economically from the COVID-19 pandemic: Freeze the value of your property for tax purposes at last year’s lower amount. Bexar and Ellis counties already have adopted resolutions…

Texas voters approved the creation of the rainy day fund in 1988 as an emergency piggy bank to rescue state government in case future leaders faced the sort of oil-and-gas crash that beset the state budget in the 1980s.