Texas is simultaneously becoming one of the youngest and oldest large states in America — depending on where you look. By Texas Capital Report Texas likes to imagine itself as permanently young. The mythology fits the state’s self-image: booming suburbs, crowded school districts, expanding highways, young families arriving from across
Millions of Texans are moving — not out of the state, but across it. The result is a dramatic remapping of political power, economic growth and cultural identity. By Texas Capital Report Texas is in the middle of one of the largest internal migrations in modern America. The movement is not
One Texas is aging, Anglo and slower-growing. The other is younger, diverse and reshaping the state’s future. Increasingly, they coexist uneasily inside the same political system. By Texas Capital Report There is no single Texas anymore. There are at least two. One is older, whiter, more rural or exurban,
For decades, neighborhood distress in America has largely been measured through a familiar set of indicators: poverty rates, unemployment, income levels and federal census estimates. But those measurements often miss something residents experience every day. They miss operational strain. They miss the feeling of a neighborhood where streetlights remain broken
In district after district, demographic change is quietly rewriting the future of Texas politics. By Texas Capital Report Texas politics still speaks in the language of the past. Campaign ads invoke “traditional Texas values.” Legislative battles are framed through the old rural-versus-urban divide. National pundits continue to describe the state
A new ZIP-level analysis reveals that hundreds of Texas communities face severe childcare shortages — not because demand is unknown, but because licensed childcare infrastructure simply does not exist. By Christopher C. Herring By 6:15 each morning, the parking lot outside a South San Antonio childcare center is already full.
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By Texas Capital Report The numbers are buried in appendices, scattered across agency filings and procurement databases, hidden beneath technical language that rarely reaches the public. But together they tell a story about how Texas government actually grows. In just the first quarter of fiscal year 2026, Texas agencies and
Texas is simultaneously becoming one of the youngest and oldest large states in America — depending on where you look. By Texas Capital Report Texas likes to imagine itself as permanently young. The mythology fits the state’s self-image: booming suburbs, crowded school districts, expanding highways, young families arriving from across
A new ZIP-level analysis reveals that hundreds of Texas communities face severe childcare shortages — not because demand is unknown, but because licensed childcare infrastructure simply does not exist. By Christopher C. Herring By 6:15 each morning, the parking lot outside a South San Antonio childcare center is already full.
By Texas Capital Report The numbers are buried in appendices, scattered across agency filings and procurement databases, hidden beneath technical language that rarely reaches the public. But together they tell a story about how Texas government actually grows. In just the first quarter of fiscal year 2026, Texas agencies and
In an era when Americans are increasingly skeptical of the phone ringing on the other end of the line, a new layer of digital geography is emerging — one that maps fear, fraud, annoyance, and distrust not by ZIP code, but by area code. The latest data from the Federal Trade
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In an era when Americans are increasingly skeptical of the phone ringing on the other end of the line, a new layer of digital geography is emerging — one that maps fear, fraud, annoyance, and distrust not by ZIP code, but by area code. The latest data from the Federal Trade
From San Antonio to Nairobi, a decade of digital traffic suggests the rise of a borderless business network. By Christopher C. Herring For Texas Capital Report For years, chambers of commerce were largely defined by geography. A city. A region. A downtown office. A luncheon calendar. But over the last
From San Antonio to India, entrepreneurs across 50 countries are tuning into Global Chamber’s vision of borderless business. By Christopher C. Herring For Texas Capital Report In an era dominated by geopolitical uncertainty, fractured supply chains and shifting alliances, a quiet signal has emerged from an unlikely place: a
By Teresa Chavarria For Global Chamber Texas / Texas Capital Report Long before virtual meetings became a daily ritual of modern business life, a growing network of entrepreneurs, exporters, executives and diplomats were already gathering online across continents to forge partnerships, exchange ideas and pursue international opportunity. For nearly a decade,