A 224-unit apartment complex goes up in Odessa, which is enjoying a boom because of its oil patch ecomony. The boom has brought in millions of dollars and thousands of jobs.
KERMIT — Around the country, Americans are tightening their belts, scrapping vacation plans, eating more dinners at home and getting rid of their SUVs. But in oil-and-gas-rich West Texas, folks are living large — again.
In the face of a credit crisis gripping most business lending activity, New York-based financial giant Citigroup Inc. on Tuesday opened a $30 million floodgate of capital for small enterprises that will be distributed through San Antonio-based microlender Accion Texas.
Social Security and You with Oscar Garcia: Your monthly SSI benefit may vary depending on where you live and whether someone else pays for your living expenses.
$1,200 worth of quarters in Pepsi bottles. That was all new mother Stacy Cavazos had to her name, and she knew it was time to come up with a survival plan.