BG READS - July 28, 2026
✅ Today's BG Reads include:
🟪 Austin looking into feasibility of scaling local geothermal projects (Austin Business Journal)
🟪 Mold at APD headquarters prompts staff relocations, changes to in-person police reports (KVUE)
🟪 Greater Austin YMCA files plan to redevelop downtown TownLake campus (CBS Austin)
🟪 Austin transit union says contract talks remain at stalemate as strike remains possible (KVUE)
🟪 Austin City Council approves 10-year, ‘once-in-a-generation’ deal with Texas Gas Service (Austin American-Statesman)
🟪 Texas’ multibillion-dollar sales tax exemption for data centers is growing, while audits lag (Texas Tribune)
🟪 Dan Patrick directs Texas Senate to study ways to further ingrain religion into public life (Texas Tribune)
🟪 Passenger rail between San Antonio and Austin? Two routes, major hurdles (Texas Public Radio)