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By Texas A&M University System BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The Texas A&M University System Board of Trustees on Tuesday approved a motion to nearly double the educational space at Texas A&M-Commerce in a high-rise building in Dallas. Since 2021, the university has offered courses in business, education, visual communications, and agriculture in a building at 8750 North Central Expressway in Dallas. In a special conference call, regents approved adding 41,944 square feet of leased space to the original 51,515 square feet. The additional space will allow the university to expand its academic services. In a separate action, the board authorized…

The Texas Tribune is your source for in-depth coverage of the Ken Paxton impeachment trial. Readers make this possible. Support authoritative Texas journalism by making a donation today. WASHINGTON — The impeachment trial of suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is underway and is attracting the attention of members of Congress. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a former Texas attorney general, said he had been following the trial “off and on” and called the allegations of Paxton's conduct “very disturbing.” Ta. “I think it's playing out the way it should be,” Cornyn told reporters last week. Mr. Cornyn previously said he…

Dallas-Fort Worth home prices fell slightly from July to August after prices rose to near pandemic-era highs in the first half of the year.Median single-family home prices in the metropolitan area have fallen 2% since July and fell to 40% in August, according to a new report from North Texas Real Estate Information Systems and Texas A&M University's Texas Real Estate Research Center. It cost just over $6,000. This report tracks sales of existing and new homes listed through real estate agents.While still down from last summer's peak in August, the median is still up 44% compared to March 2020.From…

Sign up for The Brief, the Texas Tribune's daily newsletter that provides readers with the most important Texas news. After two years of post-pandemic recovery, job growth in Texas will begin to slow in the final months of the year, Roberto Coronado, senior vice president and senior economist at the Dallas Fed, said in the Texas Tribune. Tuesday's event. Coronado said the Dallas Fed had projected statewide job growth of 3% this year, but expects growth to fall to about 2% in the final quarter of 2023, lower than Texas' trend level. He said the growth rate is close to…

A “suspicious package” was discovered at the downtown DART station Monday afternoon, causing evacuations and delays, officials said.Dallas Area Rapid Transit spokesman Gordon Shuttles said the package was found at the West End station just after 4 p.m. The department added that the evacuation was done “out of an abundance of caution.” The threat also closed roads near the station, just north of the intersection of North Austin Street and Elm Street.Read more for just $1Get unlimited access to dallasnews.com for just $1 a monthget accessAlready a subscriber?Sign inA “suspicious package” was discovered at the downtown DART station Monday afternoon,…

Thousands of real estate agents from all over Florida gather for a month each year to clean lakes, beaches, and other waterways. Link to https://floridarealtors.photoshelter.com/gallery/2023-Clean-Up-Florida-Waters/G0000hXuu4ToVUK4 Across the state, local committees, associations, intermediaries, and the YPN network participated in the first state-wide water purification project. Check out the photos commemorating this amazing event. View photo gallery► For many of us, Florida's waterways are a happy place. This is the place to boat, waterski, kayak, paddleboard, play in the water, see manatees, and fish for the next big manatee. Throughout the month of July, Florida Realtors® and community partners will work together…

A Dallas power couple with ties to Hollywood and Silicon Valley has a new challenge ahead of them. Business pioneers Megha and Nirav Tolia have been named co-founder directors of the new William S. Spears Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership at SMU Cox School of Business. The Institute was established in April 2022 by Cenergistic Founder and CEO William S. Spears, sponsored by the largest ever gift by a non-alumni in SMU's history. The Tori family, who moved to the Dallas area from the West Coast in 2021 and resides in Park City, brings real-world experience to top companies to the…

When Commodore Perry Estate opened in a 1928 Italianate mansion in Central Austin three years ago, it quickly set a new standard for hospitality in the city and earned a spot in top hotel roundups, including: became. Condé Nast Travelergold list and travel + leisurewon the world's best award. It was also a beachhead of sorts for Auberge Resorts Collection, the luxury boutique resort operator behind the hotel.The Commodore Perry was not only the first Texas hotel operated by Auberge, which at the time was best known for intimate vacation hotels such as Auberge du Soleil in Napa Valley and…

ARLINGTON — It's not just that the Rangers lost far more than they won last month.That said, even its few victories have been, well, a little jarring.Look, nothing has come easy for Texas since mid-August. Not even a good thing. Heading into Sunday's series finale against the Oakland Athletics at Globe Life Field, the Rangers have won five games since Aug. 16, four of which were by one point. One required a walk-off home run. The other required a wild pitch to score. Each win came with the added challenge of tiptoeing around an implosion-prone bullpen.The remaining 16 games in…

It was a breezy evening in Paris the first time I met the filmmaker and multimedia artist Ja’Tovia Gary in May 2022. We were at galerie frank elbaz in the fashionable and historic Le Marais neighborhood. The gallery was holding an opening for “partus/chorus,” a three-woman exhibition she had curated that also featured Eniola Dawodu and Doreen Lynette Garner.  Gary’s as you yield her your body and soul (extract) was the central work of the show: a hollow pyramid cocooned in plucked cotton (which she had sourced from a farm in North Carolina), inside of which were handwoven cushions for…