This is is the second death in North Texas related to COVID-19.
North Texas
North Texas is the state’s largest and fastest-growing metropolitan region, centered on Dallas and Fort Worth. Its sprawling suburbs, major employers and transportation networks make it a powerful economic and political force.
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Transportation
To fight huge drop in bus riders, North Texas transit agency faces hard choices about who gets service
The new bus layout coming in 2022 might bring more service to high-demand areas, but it could also modify routes that serve people at their doorsteps.
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TribCast
TribCast: Captured by coal, a Legislative Budget Board in turmoil
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Kiah, Edgar, Emma and Cassi about a major Tribune investigation into coal clean-ups in Texas, state leaders’ role in a North Texas child custody case, a mass exodus from the Legislative Budget Board and the latest on the House speaker.
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Criminal Justice
Dallas transgender community on edge in the midst of violent attacks
Muhlaysia Booker’s death is just one of a string of killings and violent attacks on black transgender women in Dallas.
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Texas Legislature 2019
Gov. Greg Abbott raves about Dallas’ teacher incentive pay program. But it’s hard to replicate.
Dallas ISD spearheaded a program that floods its low-performing schools with the best resources, including highly rated educators who get paid large stipends. Lawmakers want to see it expanded.
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Texas Elections 2018
GOP state Sen. Craig Estes ousted; Sen. Bob Hall defeats Burkett
State Rep. Pat Fallon beat state Sen. Craig Estes for a seat in the Legislature’s upper chamber, while state Sen. Bob Hall held off state Rep. Cindy Burkett. Meanwhile, Angela Paxton won Texas’ most expensive state Senate primary.
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Economy
Arlington voters overwhelmingly support subsidizing new Rangers ballpark
A bond measure asked voters to approve $500 million in tax revenue for a new Rangers ballpark.
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Politics
Early voting turnout surges in Collin County, but nobody’s sure why
Population growth is nothing new in suburbs north of Dallas, but not even that explains why so many people in affluent and rural Collin County are turning out in droves this year.
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In Arlington, voters debate paying to replace Rangers ballpark
Opposing sides on the bond measure disagree on whether the baseball team will leave for another city if voters refuse to pay for half of the $1 billion ballpark.
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Energy
Study: Oil Activity May Be Cause of East Texas Quakes
University of Texas at Austin researchers call it “plausible” that underground injections of oil and gas waste triggered a series of temblors that rattled Timpson residents in 2012.
