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Republican Texas governor Rick Perry and challenger Bill White of the Democratic Party describe how they would address issues related to the economy and job generation as they vie for the gubernatorial seat. Insights into immigration concerns, Texas' public transportation, and national health care reform are also provided by Perry and White.

CPS Energy and NRG Energy Inc. are planning to construct two 1,350 mega-watt nuclear fueled electrical generating units in addition to CPS' existing power units in South Texas. The project, with an estimated cost of $10 to $13 billion, will address the growing energy demand in the state. Financial details and safety concerns regarding the proposal are also discussed.

The US Department of Defense's (DoD's) decision to recommend closure of Brooks-City base has resulted in some city official feeling that they were led down a path for the past several years. The Brooks city-Base was projected as a unique experiment in cost savings for the military with the understanding that it would increase the facility's chances of surviving future base-closing initiatives.

Tidelands Oil & Gas (OTCBB: TIDE.OB) stock declined though there was no change in the company's business developments. Company founder and CEO Michael Ward held the practice of short-selling called 'naked shorting', where groups of people could manipulate the market by selling fictitious shares of stock in an effort to force a company's share prices to fall.

North American Development Bank (NADBank) is an international financial institution based in San Antonio, capitalized with equal contributions from the United States and Mexico. The bank's mandate is to support the development of environmental infrastructure projects in communities along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Nine years ago, Richard Sechrist wasn't feeling well. He was taking numerous medications for high blood pressure and allergies and still felt sick all the time. Doctors were prescribing antibiotics [...]

Tom Frost Jr. determined sometime in the mid-1990s that he would begin looking for someone to replace him as chief executive officer Frost National Bank. The transition of power has [...]

SBC Ameritech has been granted until January 2003 before it must respond to certain customer requests within 60 minutes. For now the company will be allowed to respond in up to 120 minutes in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio due to some incompatible equipment in those states.

Intellisolve Group Inc. has teamed up with HPA Medical Services Technology to provide medical professionals with detailed information about which insurance companies pay their bills on time and which ones [...]

Joe McKinney will step down as chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, San Antonio region, early next year after serving 14 years as the bank's top executive. McKinney announced Wednesday [...]

SecureInfo Corp. is planning to go global next week when it launches a new educational partnership and business venture in Monterrey, Mexico. The San Antonio-based company, which provides cybersecurity services, [...]

Bankruptcy reform effort stalls in Congress Bankruptcy filings in San Antonio are spiking for the second time this year and attorneys are struggling to keep pace with all of the [...]

Before Sept. 11, it was just another regulatory burden that broker/dealers in the securities industry had been fortunate enough to avoid. Now, they may soon be required to file suspicious [...]

Feds seeking beefed up reporting rules Banks could soon see their regulatory burdens increase as lawmakers seek ways to track the dollars that fund terrorist networks across the globe. Since [...]

Like most legislation not directly related to the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, a broadband Internet-access bill favored by the regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs) has stalled in Congress. However, supporters [...]

High-speed Internet service has helped small businesses to be more competitive and more productive, according to a survey commissioned by SBC Communications Inc. Out of 500 small businesses using digital [...]

Nearly 50 companies competed for the privilege and just 14 were selected. And of those, it is likely that only three or four will end up with the big prize: [...]

The federal government's interest in expanding its stockpile of equipment to protect against bioterrorism was already increasing prior to the Sept. 11 terror attacks in New York City and Washington, [...]

Since the mid-1990s, telecommunications companies have been sprouting like mushrooms across the United States, seeking inroads to compete with Southwestern Bell and the other regional Bell operating companies. As of [...]

SecureLogix Corp. laid off 13 people recently in an effort to reduce expenditures, company officials confirm. John Dickson, vice president for international sales and head of marketing, says the move [...]

As Congress considers expanding the federal government's authority to conduct wiretapping operations and electronic surveillance in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, experts in the network security industry [...]

Frost & Sullivan, still suffering from the loss of its lower Manhattan office space following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, has laid off 10 percent of its [...]

The Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce is looking for someone to help revive the long-dormant San Antonio Foundation for Free Enterprise. The charitable, tax-exempt foundation has been inactive for [...]

MyFreeLD.com, the first of the free Internet-based long-distance phone services, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The San Antonio-based company, which at one time employed 10 people, is now [...]

A proposed city ordinance that would limit city contractors' options in addressing union organizing efforts has raised the hackles of a number of leading business organizations. There is also some [...]

The course of U.S. history may nave been changed in a big way on the morning of Sept. 11, when terrorists used hijacked commercial airliners in a series of deadly [...]

Security guard services have seen a significant increase in business in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. Wackenhut Corp. has moved [...]

How does a small, four-person tech start-up company compete for business with major corporate giants like Boeing? First, go for the small contracts that are below the larger company's radar [...]

One week after terrorist attacks destroyed the World Trade Center towers in New York and severely damaged the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., officials with the San Antonio Chapter of the [...]

Area credit unions have more than doubled their cash assets during the past year while being inundated with deposits from investors fleeing the stock market. With investment opportunities drying up [...]

The city of San Antonio's effort to save money with an online bidding service has upset some small-business owners who fear they will be left behind in the rush to [...]

Ionex Telecommunications of Dallas says it has opened a second branch sales office in San Antonio. Ionex spokesman Jim Altemus says the move reflects the company's belief that there is [...]

Microsoft Corp. nearly tripled its political campaign contributions during the 1999-2000 election cycle, to $3.7 million, up from $1.3 million during the previous election cycle. The run-up in political spending [...]

Bexar County officials are hopeful that a software upgrade will alleviate problems slowing down its new document-imaging system for official public records. E.Z. Mull, recording manager for Bexar County, says [...]

San Antonio Federal Credit Union (SACU) is opening, its doors to members of other credit unions who are visiting San Antonio as part of a shared-branching program that links more [...]

While other tech start-ups have been wiping out, the folks at Gigawave Technologies are still plugged into the fast-track growth of the wireless Local Area Network (LAN) market. They were [...]

Mobius Partners of San Antonio has received authorization to, resell the HP9000 product line for Hewlett Packard. Mobius, which was founded in October 2000, becomes just the second company in [...]

With more than 22 million registered Web addresses in the dot-com domain, it is not surprising that there has been an increased demand for some fresh real estate on the [...]

San Antonio technology start-up LARES Technology Inc. recently attracted the interest of Sanchez Capital Partners, the Austin-based venture capital firm founded by possible Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tony Sanchez Jr. This [...]

AeA, the nation's largest high-tech trade group, must sometimes walk a fine line while representing its members' interests in Washington, D.C., and Austin. Whenever an issue affects the industry as [...]

Even in this era of cell phones and digital pagers, one San Antonio company is betting that communication between doctors and hospitals is still a big problem for the medical [...]

Local firm designs filtered Web service When Judge Sam Katz of the 186th state district court was seeking ways to keep convicted sex offenders away from pornographic Web sites, he [...]

The founders of the Web Head Group, a provider of Internet technology services, are responding to the tough times in their industry by launching a new business. The goal of [...]

Linda Noltemeier-Jones, an executive recruiter based in San Antonio, knew she was casting a wide net in her search for someone to serve as the executive director for the San [...]

About 15 percent of the management at SBC Communications Inc. opted for early retirement during the past 11 months as part of a companywide restructuring plan, according to officials with [...]

SecureLogix Corp. laid off four employees last week in a move that company officials described as a 'tweaking' to adjust to the slowdown in spending for information technology (IT) products. [...]