Kirby Civic & Financial Report Who Wanted Kirby’s Bonds? Inside the $161.6 Million Investor Order Book Thirty-one accounts submitted nearly 11 times more orders than Kirby had bonds to sell. The demand helped lower borrowing costs—but it did not make investors owners of the city. Texas
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TEXAS CAPITAL REPORT · GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY America Has No National Standard for 311 Service Requests Why Texas Policymakers Cannot Compare Cities by Complaint Counts Alone An analysis of more than 22.7 million public service requests from New York City, Houston and San Antonio found that America’s largest cities measure
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Texas Legislature Josey Garcia Helped Advance 89 Bills Signed Into Law During Her First Texas House Session Who is Josey Garcia that leads Texas House District 124? In 2023, Representative Josey Garcia became the first and only woman veteran to serve in the history of the Texas Legislature. During her
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Consumer.info Civic Service Intelligence South and West San Antonio Carry the Heaviest 311 Service Demand A spatial analysis of 450,702 city service calls shows that demand is concentrated in a handful of SAPD substation areas, with South and West accounting for nearly 40 percent of all calls. By
Consumer.info Public Safety Intelligence San Antonio ZIP Codes With the Lowest Measured Police Response in 2025 A ZIP-level ranking identifies the neighborhoods and communities where arrest activity was lowest relative to recorded offenses. The measure reveals enforcement gaps—but it is not a ranking of 911 arrival times.
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Kirby Civic & Financial Report The July 9 vote clears the way for approximately $15 million in project funding for municipal facilities, streets, drainage, parks, utilities and public-safety needs—but it also begins a three-decade public accountability period. Texas Capital Report · Kirby, Texas · July 2026 The central finding
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AUSTIN, Texas — The lawmakers who exerted the greatest influence on Texas public policy during the 89th Legislature came from districts that span nearly every corner of the state, from the rapidly growing suburbs of North Texas to the border communities of South Texas, demonstrating that legislative effectiveness is not confined
Texas Legislature Josey Garcia Helped Advance 89 Bills Signed Into Law During Her First Texas House Session Who is Josey Garcia that leads Texas House District 124? In 2023, Representative Josey Garcia became the first and only woman veteran to serve in the history of the Texas Legislature. During her
S&P Global Ratings assigned an A+ rating to Kirby’s $15 million 2026 certificates of obligation and affirmed the same rating on the city’s existing general-obligation debt. The stable outlook recognizes credible financial management while identifying reserves, debt costs and formal fiscal policies as the measures
The decade-long data reveal a childcare system that is growing in reported capacity while shrinking in the number of licensed operations and new providers entering the system.
Digital international engagement remains strong across Texas, even as inbound travel to the United States has shown signs of weakness. San Antonio’s 5.65% year-to-date sales-tax decline raises a timely question: Are traditional tourism cities absorbing more of the economic impact? By Christopher C. Herring Global
ZIP-level maps tracking infrastructure, childcare, hardship, housing, and regional change.
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The Employment Labor Market Intelligence Backbone demonstrates that the future of public intelligence is not simply collecting more information. It is understanding the context surrounding every record—including when the absence of data tells an important story.
S&P Global Ratings assigned an A+ rating to Kirby’s $15 million 2026 certificates of obligation and affirmed the same rating on the city’s existing general-obligation debt. The stable outlook recognizes credible financial management while identifying reserves, debt costs and formal fiscal policies as the measures
The decade-long data reveal a childcare system that is growing in reported capacity while shrinking in the number of licensed operations and new providers entering the system.
Digital international engagement remains strong across Texas, even as inbound travel to the United States has shown signs of weakness. San Antonio’s 5.65% year-to-date sales-tax decline raises a timely question: Are traditional tourism cities absorbing more of the economic impact? By Christopher C. Herring Global
by National Data System Economy & Growth City sales-tax allocations nearly doubled between 2013 and 2025. A 5.65% year-to-date decline in 2026 now raises a central question: Is San Antonio experiencing a temporary pause or the beginning of a broader slowdown? By River Walk Magazine | Data
District demographics often change slowly. Legislative representation can change overnight. A Texas Capital Report analysis compares legislative activity before and after officeholder transitions, measuring how legislative priorities, participation levels, and district alignment changed when new lawmakers entered office. The findings suggest that districts are not represented the same way by
Should lawmakers focus on the measurable needs of their districts? Should they focus on the areas where they possess professional expertise? Should they focus on the committees where they have influence? A new Texas Capital Report analysis suggests the answer may be all three. By combining district demographic profiles, legislative
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Texas Capital Report By Christopher Herring For more than a decade, San Antonio has pursued an ambitious economic development strategy centered on five strategic industry clusters: * Mobility * IT Security & Infrastructure * Sustainable Energy * Corporate Services * Bioscience Anchors & Catalysts Together, these sectors account for nearly half of the city'
A Texas Capital Report pilot project compared measurable district conditions with legislative activity in two Texas districts: Senate District 21 and House District 119. The analysis did not ask whether lawmakers were effective. It asked whether lawmakers directed legislative attention toward the measurable needs of the people they represent. The
The lottery remains fundamentally a game of chance, but the geography surrounding where winning tickets are sold offers a compelling reminder that even games of luck leave measurable footprints across a city.
In an age increasingly driven by data, the greatest risk may not be that America lacks information—but that some of its most trusted public sources quietly fade away before anyone notices they are gone.