In Crystal City lie the remains of an enormous swimming pool. The circular structure, which stretched for 250 feet across and was originally an irrigation tank, was filled in long ago. Now…
El Chuqueño Blog – A Homegrown City Manager?
Two weeks ago City Council rejected Mayor Oscar Leeser’s proposal to restrict the search for a City Manager to locals. From Adam Powell’s piece on ElPasoTimes.com: The El Paso City Council once…
KTSM News – CRRUA: Some customers getting discolored water
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The Camino Real Regional Utility Authority is reporting that some of its customers in Southern New Mexico are experiencing discolored water Tuesday morning, Feb. 27. Camino Real…
El Paso Matters – Socorro ISD faces potential budget cuts, layoffs, tax ratification election amid $33 million deficit
The Socorro Independent School District is considering layoffs, pay cuts and a tax ratification election that could increase property taxes amid a $33 million deficit. “We could be considering a reduction in…
Tech Crunch – Threads widens the gap with X, with triple the daily downloads on iOS
Although an app’s downloads aren’t an exact proxy for usage, they can hint at where the market is headed. And in the case of the alt-Twitter wars, the app winning the game…
Tech Crunch – GitHub’s Copilot Enterprise hits general availability
GitHub today announced the general availability of Copilot Enterprise, the $39/month version of its code completion tool and developer-centric chatbot for large businesses. Copilot Enterprise includes all of the features of the…
Tech Crunch – As data takes center stage, Codified wants to bring flexibility to governance
Over the last decade we’ve seen data grow in increasing importance to enterprise software, and that role has grown even more pronounced more recently with the rise of large language models. At…
Texas Monthly – Crawfish prices soaring after last year’s drought wiped out most of the harvest
“It’s like the stock market crash for crawfish,” said Thomas Rozelle, a Pasadena wholesaler struggling to find enough supply for his Houston customers. Read: Read More
Texas Monthly – Texas Tech System receives 6,000 acres in state’s “Big Empty” region for research, learning labs
The property is currently an observatory surrounded by open land. System officials say they’ll use it for agricultural research and other opportunities. Read: Read More
Texas Tribune Texas Tech System receives 6,000 acres in state’s “Big Empty” region for research, learning labs
The property is currently an observatory surrounded by open land. System officials say they’ll use it for agricultural research and other opportunities. Read: Read More