Hays County area small business owners breathed a sigh of relief Nov. 22 when Texas Judge Amos Mezzant of the U.S. District Court of Eastern Texas filed an injunction against new overtime rules that were scheduled to go into effect Dec. 1. According to a press release, Mezzant filed the injunction b...

ith the Thanksgiving holiday hitting this week, local businesses in the area prepare for the coming of Small Business Saturday.  Wedged between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Small Business Saturday promotes local businesses and encourages shoppers to spend their money locally during one of the busi...

Thanksgiving is almost here. Over the years, this holiday has taken on a variety of meanings, most of them centered on family, caring and sharing. You can carry these same values past Thanksgiving into your daily life – and you can certainly incorporate them into your financial strategies for taking...

A new 18-hole public golf course is currently under construction in San Marcos, but what makes this new course so special is, according to the National Golf Foundation, it is the first new public, 18-hole golf course to be built in Texas in the past five years. The Kissing Tree Golf Course, which is...

By Russ Horton of the Texas Tribune Nearly two-thirds of Americans now own smartphones. More and more are getting their news from social media rather than the morning newspaper. A fifth of the nation's onetime cable subscribers have now “cut the cord” in favor of online streaming services, and the r...

Federal changes are on the horizon as updates to the standards regulating overtime pay are slated to go into effect Dec. 1. But concern is rising for some as the changes may in turn cause employers to cut employees in order to meet the new standard. On May 16, President Barack Obama announced public...

ear Terese,I’m going to be listing my home over the holidays.  A friend has told me to spruce up the exterior of my home, specifically my siding.  Besides painting, what exterior treatments do you recommend?Mae Dear Mae,There are several items you can address on the exterior of your home to improve ...

Small business is life for Wimberley resident and Dovetails owner Sheri Fowlie. Having grown up in a family that owned a small business in Maine, Fowlie believes small, local business is the “heartbeat of America.” As Small Business Saturday (SBS) approaches on Nov. 26,  Fowlie and many others conti...

It was while working at a marketing job several years ago that former Kyle resident and military veteran Christie Smith had enough with her authoritarian boss. Her former boss, who went too far one day, drove her over the edge and prompted her to quit her job. “I thought to myself, ‘screw this. I do...

The Kyle city council approved spending $270,000 on a preliminary engineering study to remove a railroad switch station, or rail siding, from the downtown sector. The scope of the study is to provide the city with an understanding of how much work will be required to move the siding from downtown Ky...