Environment
Water, Drought and Resilience Across Texas
Texas plans against the driest stretch it has ever recorded, and resilience is the work of closing the gap between that benchmark and a state pushing toward 51 million people.
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Education
Universities and Workforce Development in Texas
Texas set a target for how many working-age adults should hold a credential by 2030, and meeting it runs through community colleges, universities, and the boards that link them to open jobs.
Economy
Jobs, Trade and the Texas Freight Workforce
The tonnage crossing at Laredo is also a payroll, and the drivers, dock crews, and dispatchers behind it rise and fall with trade across the whole state.
Infrastructure
The Condition of Texas Bridges
Texas keeps the largest bridge inventory in the country, and federal inspection data shows it holds the poor-condition share near the lowest in the nation.
Infrastructure
Texas Water Systems and Aging Utilities
A fast-growing state is asking more from a shrinking water base, and the state water plan spells out how far apart supply and demand could drift by 2070.
Public Safety
Commercial Vehicle Safety on Texas Highways
A single loaded truck can outweigh the car beside it many times over, and a joint federal and state safety system exists to keep that mismatch from turning fatal.
Public Safety
Texas Road Fatalities and the State's Most Dangerous Corridors
Texas has not had a death-free day on its roads since 2000, and the crash record shows the deadliest miles are rarely the most crowded ones.
Transportation
Texas Freight and Trucking: Moving a Growing State
Most of what Texans buy, build, and export spends part of its journey on a truck, which makes the freight network quiet infrastructure the whole economy leans on.
Transportation
The I-35 Corridor: Texas' Busiest Lifeline
One interstate ties San Antonio, Austin, and the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex into a single congested spine, and the state is spending billions to rebuild it.
Texas
One State, Many Regions: How Texas Differs Across Its Map
The Texas Comptroller splits the state into twelve economic regions, and the border, the Panhandle, and the metro triangle answer the same pressures in very different ways.
Texas
Texas Growth and Demographics: A Statewide Snapshot
Texas added more people than any other state again last year and passed 31 million residents, and the mix of who lives here is shifting as fast as the total climbs.
Communities
Urban Growth Versus Rural Sustainability in Texas
A record population and a hollowing countryside can share the same state, and the balancing act between them plays out over land, water, schools, and jobs.
Communities
Healthcare Access Across Rural Texas Communities
In much of rural Texas the distance to care is measured in counties, and hospital closures, provider shortages, and thin coverage all pull in the same direction.
Transportation
How Transportation Shapes Daily Life Across Texas
Where you live in Texas decides how far you drive, how long it takes, and how easily you reach a job, a clinic, or a school.
Education
Education as the Foundation of Long-Term Community Strength
Strong schools and strong communities tend to travel together in Texas, and the link runs through early access, steady school funding, and how far a diploma carries a young Texan.
Environment
Why Environmental Planning Matters for Community Health
The air a neighborhood breathes, the water it drinks, and the heat and floodwater it must live with are all planning decisions long before they are health outcomes.
Economy
What Economic Growth Really Means at the Community Level
A record statewide output figure and a family that feels no richer can share the same year, and the gap between them is where community economics actually lives.