Allen High School is a study in bigness: A 5,000-student campus with a 650-member marching band supporting a football team that draws 8,000 fans to away games. And now — the pinnacle of suburban spoils — the Collin County community will break ground on an 18,000-seat stadium, the largest occupied by a single team. Pricetag: $60 million.
Are You Ready for Some Football?
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T-Squared
T-Squared: We Know Who You Are
As we fan out across the state to solicit memberships, major gifts and corporate underwriting, we’re hearing only good things about the size of our audience — a 25 million page view run rate in the first year is no small potatoes — but we’re increasingly getting questions about who that audience is. Who’s reading the Trib?
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Demographics
Waiting Their Turn
The number of unresolved cases in the federal immigration detention system has reached an all-time high, driven in part by surging backlogs in Texas, especially in San Antonio and El Paso. Blame it on not enough judges.
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The Weekly TribCast: Episode 30
What the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll says about the governor’s race and Texans’ views on public education, etc.
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TribBlog: The Return of Voter ID
Remember that long, heated voter identification debate last session? State Rep. Debbie Riddle is working on a sequel.
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Health care
TribBlog: Health Care Reform Could Cost TX Only $4.5 Billion?
In an ironic twist, states that have done the least to bring low-income residents onto state Medicaid rolls — including Texas — stand to benefit the most from federal health care reform, according to a report released this morning by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.
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Higher Education
Gaming the Systems
Should we base the funding of state universities on course completion rather than enrollment? The commissioner of higher education says yes. Some state lawmakers say no — not until we attack the manipulation of the financing formula by the higher ed lobby.
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Demographics
The Nativists Are Restless
Texans narrowly oppose a “pathway to citizenship” for illegal immigrants, strongly favor an end to in-state tuition for non-citizens at state colleges and universities, would support a constitutional “English-only” amendment and overwhelmingly say that businesses should verify the immigration status of their workers, according to the new UT/Texas Tribune poll.
