Issue 32
Published September 1, 2026 · Bilingual edition
September is a month of start dates. Five state laws begin today, two of them only in part. A registration deadline lands five weeks out, with a race on the ballot that decides what your house is worth. A couple who married here signed for two restaurants. And the grant window that pays for the things a school budget will not opens sometime in the next thirty days.
Civics · Consumer
Five New Texas Laws Start Tuesday. Two of Them Only Start Partway.
Solar salespeople have to register with the state. You get a legal right to the parts and manuals for your own electronics. Volunteer fire departments can pay their people more than they could last week. The gold and silver bill mostly waits until 2027.
Read the story →Politics · Elections
You Have Until October 5. One of the Races You Will Find There Sets the Value of Your House.
Three at-large seats on the Montgomery Central Appraisal District board are on the November 3 ballot. The county has posted the deadline and not much else yet.
Read the story →Business · Restaurants
A Couple Who Got Married Here Just Signed for Two Restaurants. The First One Is Magnolia.
An Atlanta all-day breakfast brand, a two-unit agreement, and no address or opening date announced. A signature, not a groundbreaking.
Read the story →Schools · Community
There Is Money for the Thing Your Kid's Teacher Cannot Get the District to Buy. Applications Open This Month.
$59,177.86 went to 25 teachers across nine campuses last cycle, in 17 separate grants. Individual awards run to $5,000, and the fall window is the only one there is.
Read the story →Coming next
More on Friday. We are still trying to pin down what is actually being built at a couple of the subdivisions west of town, and the acreage figures the developers publish do not agree with each other, so that one is waiting until it is right. If a project on your block is doing something the notices did not mention, the newsroom would like to hear about it.