Exodus to Texas: More than 500K moved here in 2015, report says

People are still moving to Texas in droves, according to a new report by the Texas Association of Realtors. The report, released Wednesday, showed the Lone Star State is second only to Florida in the number of people relocating, with 553,032 people moving to Texas in 2015—a 2.8 percent increase over 2014. Nearly 42,000 Californians migrated to […]

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Pet adoption, NCAA and wine pairing: 6 things to do North Texas this weekend, Jan. 6-8

Friday The Plano Metropolitan Ballet presents “Jungle Book Fairy Tale Ballet—An Original Production” between Jan. 6-21. The troupe brings pages of the book to life with music and dance. 7 p.m. (Jan. 6-7, 13-14, 20-21), 3 p.m. (Jan. 7, 14, 21). $16. Courtyard Theatre, 1509 H Avenue, Plano. 972-769-0017. http://ift.tt/2iJZsiV Saturday Rubber stamp and paper […]

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Texas Lt. Gov. details new controversial transgender bathroom bill filed today

In November, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick identified regulation of bathroom use based on the gender individuals were born as a legislative priority for the coming session. He named the Women’s Privacy Act the No. 6 on his list of 10 priorities alongside property tax reform, voter identification and a statehouse spending cap. That list of priorities […]

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State committee proposes 4 ways to solve Texas-sized pension problem

In 2014, $196 million in the Dallas’ police and firefighter’s retirement fund was lost due to risky investments. Houston is up against a shortfall of roughly $10 billion for its own pensions. Austin ranks in the top 15 United States cities with the largest pension liabilities, according to a report from Moody’s. Texas’ largest cities […]

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Town Center Colleyville seeks approval from council to allow directory signage

At Tuesday’s Colleyville City Council meeting, council members heard the first reading of an amendment to the land development code to allow for directory signage, specifically in Town Center Colleyville. Due to the large size and number of uses in the shopping center, the property owner is requesting to utilize some wayfinding signage, or directory signage, […]

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Austin, Dallas area legislators work together on legislation that would strengthen Public Information Act

After two recent Texas Supreme Court decisions widened loopholes against the Texas Public Information Act, Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, is reaching across the aisle, and statehouse, to Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, R-Southlake. The two legislators pre-filed bills Tuesday to close the loopholes. Each bill addresses a separate ruling made by the Texas Supreme Court. The first […]

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Google and Spoken Queries: Understanding Stressed Pronouns

The future of searches on the Web will likely involve searches by voice, as more and more people are connecting to the web with phones and Google has added voice search interfaces to its search on desktop computers. I thought it was interesting when I ran across a patent that focused on a problem that […]

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