T-Squared

Congrats to a super-smart QRANK: TT Edition player whose username is ThaddeusScott: He scored 99,711 points in February — more than 3,000 points better than the second-place finisher, KentWillis, who put up 96,505 points. Full Story 

No, your eyes don't deceive you: The Trib looks different this morning — hopefully better. We couldn't be happier. Full Story 

The time to acclimate yourself to our daily news trivia quiz has come to an end. Starting today, everyone who plays QRANK: The Texas Tribune Edition competes for fabulous prizes. And I do mean fabulous. Full Story 

Late yesterday afternoon, Apple's App Store kindly put our latest technological offering out to market: a brand new — and, naturally, free — iPad/iPhone app containing our news, blog posts, data applications and mutlimedia, our elected officials directory and our events listings. Full Story 

Thanh Tan, a star in the PBS constellation, will join our staff on Monday, Feb. 7, stepping into the multiplatform reporter position that will be vacated in early February by Elise Hu. Full Story 

Say it ain't so: Elise Hu, one of the Trib's best and brightest, is leaving us for NPR. Full Story 

We've been waiting for it and wanting it for almost a year — and now the day has arrived. Finaliy, we're launching a Trib-content-centric edition of the daily trivia game QRANK right here on our site. Full Story 

It was a very interesting and newsworthy year for Texas politics and public policy, so it makes sense that traffic on our still-new-ish site would be robust — but even we optimists at Trib HQ didn't imagine that it would be this robust. Full Story 

There's no way to put lipstick on this particular Oriole: We screwed up, plain and simple, in writing that you are "in heaven." Full Story 

Today marks the beginning of an effort to more openly and aggressively disclose when donors to The Texas Tribune are — for reasons entirely related to their place in the center of the news — the subjects of stories. Full Story 

Mark Miller — most recently the editorial director of Newsweek and the editor of Newsweek Digital, and previously an assistant managing editor for Sunday and enterprise reporting at the Dallas Morning News — has agreed to join the Trib's staff in mid-December in the newly created position of editor. Full Story 

You may be wondering what happened to The Texas Tribune on Election Night. *You're* what happened: We had a truly unprecedented (for us) surge of traffic that crashed our servers. Full Story 

Yep, we turned 1 today. (It's not too late to send a card.) Full Story 

At last night's Online Journalism Awards, presented as part of the annual Online News Association conference, The Texas Tribune was one of six sites to win the prestigious General Excellence award. Full Story 

Today is the first day you'll see robust journalism produced by the reporters of The Texas Tribune in the pages of The New York Times and on nytimes.com. Full Story 

On Tuesday, Nov. 2 — which happens to be Election Day — The Texas Tribune will have been live and online for a year. Hell of a good time for a party, yes? Full Story 

Now it can be told — more deliberately and more fully fleshed out than you may have read yesterday: The Trib has indeed inked a partnership with the New York Times that will result in the best of our content appearing in the pages of the most iconic newspaper in the world. Full Story 

I'm pleased to report that next Friday, Oct. 15, the Trib — in partnership with Austin public radio station KUT and Austin public televison station KLRU — will present separate hour-long interviews with Democrat Bill White and Republican Rick Perry. The interviews will take place at KLRU's Austin City Limits studio before a live audience. Full Story 

Coming this Sunday: the latest collaboration between the Trib and one of the state's venerable newspapers. Full Story 

Six weeks and counting: November 3, 2010, is the day when we reset the Trib membership clock to zero, when anyone who's been with us for a year or more needs to stand with us again to remain an active member. There are a bunch of good reasons to re-up. Full Story