Plano
Tis the season for bell-ringing kettle drives, helping needy families, and giving to homeless shelters. But there’s one city in North Texas that keeps this lovely Christmas spirit all year long. It’s Plano. The North Texas city recently earned a top spot in the rankings as one of the most caring cities in America, according…
Don’t wait for 2027. That was the message often repeated at the Texas Municipal League’s 113th Annual Conference held last week at the Fort Worth Convention Center. More than 3,500 municipal employees and elected officials attended the three-day event that included a first-day welcome from Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker, where the overarching message was…
Borrowing tools is a tradition as old as time — maybe even the first person chiseling out a wheel had to wander over to the neighboring cave to borrow a bigger blade. Several cities around North Texas are giving that age-old habit a modern upgrade with a free tool-sharing program that lends everything from lawnmowers…
Where freshly printed newspapers once made their way to carriers and delivery trucks, electric golf carts will now roll out of this long-standing plant. DallasNews Corporation, owner of The Dallas Morning News, has closed on the sale of its Plano printing facility for $43.5 million, part of an ongoing effort to streamline operations, CultureMap reports.…
As National Night Out approaches on Oct. 1, neighborhoods across North Texas are planning festive outdoor events in the name of awareness — but there’s a lot of discomfort when discussions turn to public safety in the ninth-largest city in America. Less than a month ago, Dallas Police Officer Darron Burks, a former schoolteacher, was…
