BG READS - July 27, 2026
✅ Today's BG Reads include:
🟪 Austin council addresses deadly police shooting (KXAN)
🟪 What's on track and behind schedule with Austin's transit expansion nearly 6 years later (KUT)
🟪 Guadalupe County sued over data center development agreements (Community Impact)
🟪 Thousands of apartments going up thanks to new Texas housing laws. But resistance lingers in the suburbs. (Texas Tribune)
🟪 San Antonio Mayor Jones asks execs, philanthropists to help close city budget gap (San Antonio Express-News)
🟪 Dallas mayor’s budget blueprint: Reduce taxes, shrink bureaucracy (Dallas Morning News)
🟪 Texas GOP cuts ticket prices to Trump’s unconventional convention (Dallas Morning News)
🟪 Inside the phone-throwing drama at the troubled, broke Democratic Party (New York Times)