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Texas, McLennan County support $850M endowment for TSTC in landslide vote
Proposition 1 creates an $850M endowment, giving TSTC a steady capital funding source—about $40M yearly interest—for campus upgrades, boosting workforce training across Texas.
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10mWaco Bridge event explores data centers’ appetite for water, energy
In a region grappling with a data center boom, our expert panel broke down its impact on water, energy and land – and how communities can weigh in.
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6mSetting a course for teaching: First teens graduate from Waco ISD Future Educators Academy
The academy’s first graduating class has been embedded in elementary school classrooms and taken college-level education courses, with several receiving associate degrees.
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11mRural residents alarmed as a second data center is proposed in the Waco area
Cipher Digital has bought some 300 acres near Riesel and is seeking to connect to the state electric grid. Area residents and leaders say they remain in the dark about the details.
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5mCracked streets and leaking pipes give Lacy Lakeview leaders headaches. They see data center dollars as the cure.
Lacy Lakeview struggled for years with tight budgets and deteriorating streets and utilities. The promise of $10 billion in tax base from the Infrakey project looked like a once-in-a-lifetime solution. A photo essay.
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7mWaco is putting Sanger Avenue on “road diet” near Tennyson Middle School. Here’s what that means.
The $1.3 million project will slim an eight-block section of the street from four lanes to three and add bike lanes in an effort to make travel safer and smoother.