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News for the Panhandle from ProNews 7
Latest news from around the Texas Panhandle, the State of Texas and the Nation/World
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Friday, February 22, 2013
Wednesday the Pentagon announced that 800 thousand civilians who work for the department of defense could be furloughed, and 85 billion dollars in cuts could kick in if no budget agreement is made before March 1.
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Friday, October 12, 2012
Many economists agree Amarillo's economy is better than much of the country, and the farmers in the Texas Panhandle have played a big role in keeping the area on the charts.
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
The economy is booming in Pampa, according to the Economic Development Corporation there.
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Saturday, July 28, 2012
The continued worsening of the drought has cattle markets on the defensive in just about every respect. Loss of forage and reduced hay production is causing early feeder cattle sales and additional cow culling.
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Saturday, February 11, 2012
With more people enrolling also comes more people who are applying for student loans, and now those loan numbers have reached an all-time high.
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Thursday, January 05, 2012
2011 was a tough year, economically, for almost everyone across the United States. But here in the Panhandle, 2011 ended on a relatively positive note.
Of course, the question looms: what's in store for 2012?
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to put the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard on the Endangered Species List, and that poses a potential threat to the oil and natural gas industry in the Permian Basin.
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
The announcement of Libyan leader Gaddahfi's death was one event that had an affect on our crude oil prices. The price of oil fell after the death of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, although it should take months for Libya's oil industry to recover and for the full impact to be felt on world markets. Oil fell $1.08 to $85.03 per barrel in New York on Thursday. At the pump, the price of gasoline was flat at about $3.47 a gallon.
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
The economy is something all of us are thinking about and during FirstBank Southwest's Panhandle Economics luncheon on Thursday, speaker Ray Perryman addressed the latest trends.
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Pantex announces that it has helped bring millions into our economy, by helping small businesses through its own projects.
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