Property Taxes in Disaster Areas
Dear Chief Appraisers and Tax Assessor-Collectors: When requested by a local taxing unit, an appraisal district is required to complete a...
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Four new members join DART board
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) welcomes new board members Ray Jackson, Jon-Bertrell Killen, Dominique Torres and Catherine Cuellar. ...
Anyone for the Hyperloop? Testing high-speed pods in a vacuum tube
"Guys, this is getting awkward," billionaire Elon Musk told a group of students from Switzerland as they struggled to control their...
Texas flood disaster: Harvey has unloaded 9 trillion gallons of water
Words cannot describe the catastrophic situation unfolding in Houston and Southeast Texas. As daylight dawned this morning, the scope of...
Trump predicts swift emergency funding for Texas
President Trump predicted Monday that Texas will receive swift emergency funding from Congress to help with Hurricane Harvey relief...
US firm Aecom leads driverless pods research in UK
A consortium led by US construction firm Aecom has secured more than £4.2m ($5.2m) of funding from the UK government to test the use of...
Los Angeles paints its streets white
The Los Angeles’ local government has painted a number of streets white in an effort to lower temperatures. Coating a road in a lighter...
Chinese bridge turns Yellow Sea into a rainbow
The Binhe Yellow River Bridge is located in Yinchun, the capital of northern China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and opened to traffic...
Contractor successfully tests Temporary Portable Rumble Strips
Last October, Shelly & Sands, a prime highway contractor, installed RoadQuake 2F Temporary Portable Rumble Strip (TPRS) arrays in two...
Panama Canal expansion appears to be adding to its success
More than 1,600 neo-Panamax ships have passed through the expanded Panama Canal since its opening on June 26, 2016. According to CBRE...
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