Uneven Population Boom is Creating Ghost Towns
Local leaders and rural revitalization experts say Texas’ smallest towns can survive — despite a shift to urban and suburban counties — but it will take investments.
State Effort to Fund Schools Shortchange Rural Districts
In the past, the comptroller’s office says, many county appraisers were valuing property under market value, leading some school districts to receive more state funding than they were supposed to.
Rural Texas is in Jeopardy
Downtowns are deserted, hospitals are closing, teachers are leaving.