T-Squared

In advance of a new op-ed and discussion site we plan to launch this spring — and in a general effort to improve the quality of discourse on texastribune.org — we've begun moderating comments much more vigorously. Full Story 

The generous support of our members allowed us to break news and make news in 2013. Can we count on you again to help us realize our even bigger plans for 2014? Full Story 

Today is the first day of our fall membership drive. Here's why our crusade for smarter Texans and a better Texas is worth joining — and never more so than now. Full Story 

Yesterday was the fourth anniversary of our launch — it's not too late to send a card — so today is the first working day of year five. We're so excited for what comes next. Full Story 

This weekend the Trib won one of three General Excellence awards given out at the 2013 Online Journalism Awards ceremony in Atlanta. Woot! Full Story 

Now that we've emerged from our post-Texas Tribune Festival coma — mostly — we can report that this year's three-day gathering was by far our most successful. Full Story 

John Reynolds, the Quorum Report's longtime legislative scoop machine and chronicler of behind-the-scenes political wrangling, will lead our burgeoning newsletter business. Full Story 

Our livestream of Sen. Wendy Davis' abortion filibuster made for an incredible night of television. Today we're launching a Kickstarter campaign to make live, unfiltered video the norm in Texas politics. Full Story 

Today our Knight Foundation-funded Tribune Fellows launched NewsBiz, a website that — we hope — will start a global conversation around best practices in the business of digital news. Full Story 

You may have noticed that one of our more popular databases, the Texas Prison Inmates database, was disabled last week. We want to explain why we did it and when we expect to relaunch the database. Full Story 

Tim Griggs and Jake Batsell will join the Trib team as Knight Foundation-funded investigators of best practices in the news business. What they learn and what we learn will hopefully benefit our fast-changing industry. Full Story 

I'm a few days late reporting this — blame Wendy Davis — but the first six months of 2013 were extremely strong on all fronts for the Tribune. Full Story 

For our new demography beat, we've hired one of our favorite and most feared colleagues from the Capitol press corps: former Austin American-Statesman reporter and current Reuters national correspondent Corrie MacLaggan. Full Story 

We're so pleased to introduce you to our latest hires: Jim Malewitz, who'll be covering energy for us, and Neena Satija, our new reporter on the environment. Together they'll step into Kate Galbraith's hard-to-fill shoes. Full Story 

Our coverage of this week's historic events at the Lege was entirely in keeping with our mission. Your generous donations will help us carry that access, transparency and accountability forward. Full Story 

This week we say goodbye to Kate Galbraith, our chief reporter on energy and the environment. For the last three years she made our audience smarter, and she made all of us around her smarter, too. Full Story 

Good news, Trib fans: We've received a grant from the Ford Foundation that will enable us to dramatically expand our coverage of how precipitous demographic shifts are altering the public policy landscape in Texas. Full Story 

The Tribune is thrilled to announce the 2013 Session Scramble, a Legislature-themed photo scavenger hunt. Think of it as Instagram but with cut-throat competition instead of sepia tone filters. Full Story 

This is one of those weeks of the year when we make the case for modest support of our best efforts. It's an easy sell, or should be. Thanks in advance for your generosity. Full Story 

Ready to get your wonk on? Our three-day politics and public policy powwow is back and better than ever. Buy your tickets now, early birds, while they're still cheep-cheep. Full Story