House Speaker Straus: Managing growth will be state’s biggest challenge

Managing growth will be the biggest challenge the state faces over the next decade, retiring Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives Joe Straus said Monday in Irving.“The business community is wanting to know whether the state is confronting and solving the problems caused by rapid growth,” the San Antonio Republican said at a meeting of the North Texas Commission.
“The concerns that business people have are really not partisan," he said. "They know that there are no Repu