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Last year, Tribune readers made it possible for us to spend months telling tales of life in Texas' shale plays. The crowdfunding effort worked so well that we're trying it again, this time for a major project on unsafe drinking water. Full Story 

Introducing the third member of our Trib+ newsletters family: Trib+Health, published in partnership with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and all about the state's health care landscape. Sign up today. Full Story 

Our fifth annual gathering of big names from the worlds of public policy in politics will be right smack in the middle of the busy post-session, mid-presidential-campaign fall. You won't want to miss it. Full Story 

As excited as we are about the start of the 84th session, we’re equally pumped to roll out our brand new 84th Lege page — a comprehensive and convenient portal to all of your Texas legislative needs. Full Story 

Tomorrow isn't just day one of the 84th legislative session — it's also the kickoff of our new afternoon email report, one we’ll be offering as a new benefit for subscribers to our premium newsletter for political insiders. Full Story 

Starting next month, we'll offer daily afternoon email blasts on the scuttlebutt in the Capitol to subscribers of Texas Weekly, our paid newsletter for insiders. Need another incentive to subscribe? We'll throw in a digital subscription to The Washington Post. Full Story 

We're pleased to announce a wide-ranging content and marketing partnership with The Washington Post. Starting Jan. 1, we'll share stories, collaborate on reporting, co-brand and co-produce events and expand our respective audiences in Texas and D.C. Full Story 

Two new members of the Tribune’s news apps team mean more database explorers, more interactive graphics, more investigative features — in short, more great journalism. Full Story 

Today's story on Death Row inmate Scott Panetti's impending execution marks the beginning of a new content partnership with The Marshall Project, a hard-hitting criminal justice policy start-up. Full Story 

If you believe in the Trib's mission — if you believe our work makes communities smarter and stronger — let's make the last day of our fall membership drive week the best ever. Full Story 

We're pleased to announce that we've hired our first Washington, D.C., bureau chief: Roll Call political correspondent (and seventh-generation Texan) Abby Livingston. Full Story 

This week we kick off our fall membership drive, and the argument for supporting us couldn't be clearer: It's about all we've accomplished over the last five years — and the amazing things we have planned for the next five. Full Story 

In the wee hours of Nov. 3, 2009, we flipped the switch on our website, this little experiment of ours in raising the level of civic engagement through nonprofit, nonpartisan journalism. Yep, happy birthday to us. Full Story 

We've spent the last five years hounding lawmakers at the Texas Capitol. Thanks to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, we'll soon provide this same level of scrutiny of Texas’ congressional delegation — from our new D.C. bureau. Full Story 

The four-year collaboration between The Texas Tribune and The New York Times will come to an end at the conclusion of the calendar year — a casualty of the challenging economic times that continue to bedevil the media industry. Full Story 

The Shale Life project, the culmination of months of reporting on the people and communities behind Texas' energy boom, launches today. It's our first-ever project that's entirely visual — and also the first we've financed via crowdfunding. Full Story 

At this weekend's Online Journalism Awards ceremony in Chicago, the Tribune was honored in a big way — twice — for reporting projects in and around the 83rd legislative session. Full Story 

At this year's Texas Tribune Festival, we partnered with Twitter to capture backstage images of politicians and pundits on the social media company's Internet-connected, do-it-your-selfie photo booth. Full Story 

At the Trib, we're all about experimenting, from our business model to the tools we use to tell stories. This month, we’re toying with a new way to let readers support reporting they care about — using the crowdfunding-for-journalism site Beacon Reader. Full Story 

We'll soon have a new managing editor, a new news editor, a new demographics reporter and a new night editor — maybe you? Full Story