T-Squared

The collaboration of the big five newspapers on polling in the 2010 election cycle is good news for Texas. Full Story 

Four weeks into this thing, we're well beyond where we thought we'd be. And we're just getting started. Full Story 

If we didn't think campaign finance law was confusing before this morning, well, we do now. Full Story 

In which I forgive the mayor of Houston for B.S.ing me last Friday. Full Story 

The latest addition to our elected officials directory: a listing of every staffer (we think) who works for a member of the Texas Legislature. Full Story 

We've made it easier for you to push our stories out to the world — out to your world — on Facebook and Twitter. Full Story 

We've set up our first Twitter list, aggregating the feeds of 58 tweeting Texas elected officials Full Story 

This afternoon, the Chronicle reprinted a Tribune story, in its entirety, online -- and the world did not end. Full Story 

One of the persistent comments we heard after going live last Tuesday was: Why can't you provide an RSS feed for your original news stream, and, more broadly, why isn't the site set up in a way that enables the RSS habits and preferences of your users? Done and done. Full Story 

On the subject of nits picked -- in a very good way -- Aron Pilhofer of the New York Times just posted a long and thoughtful critique of our site. Full Story 

Forty-eight hours or so have passed since we opened for business, and your cards and letters -- more like your tweets and e-mails -- are telling us much of what we need to know about the changes you'd like to see to our site, things that would enhance your experience. Full Story 

I don't blame Leibowitz for making such a fuss about this, and I don't blame Sullivan either. They're just doing their jobs. As are our pollsters. As are we all. Full Story 

For those of us who willingly quit good jobs with big media companies to join an untried journalism start-up with an untested business model, this site, this thing, is the expression of our ideals, the realization of our dreams, and the validation of our faith. We're enormously proud, every one of us, of what we're doing and why. We're awed and cowed by what we've been able to produce so quickly and on a relative shoestring (relative, that is, compared to the budgets we lived within and among just a few months ago). And we've barely gotten started. Full Story 

Because we believe so strongly in distributing our content across as many platforms as possible, we're happy to report that you can take the Trib with you. You can see a constantly updated stream of our top stories on our mobile site, m.texastribune.org, and you can download our podcasts and our free Elected Officials Directory app on iTunes (there's a free version and a paid version). If there's another way you'd like to get access to Trib content other than at your computer, let us know. Full Story