By Alex Nguyen, The Texas Tribune October 28, 2025 Tarrant County recently sent more kids to state youth prisons than any other Texas county, contributing to a booming waitlist for beds in the Texas Juvenile Justice Department’s five secured facilities.  Tarrant transferred 103 kids to state custody in the 2025 fiscal year that ended in…

By Jessica Priest, The Texas Tribune October 27, 2025 A federal appeals court will take a second look at whether West Texas A&M University can ban drag shows, setting aside an earlier ruling that found the university’s ban likely violated students’ free speech rights. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday tossed a 2-1…

TALCO, TEXAS — October 26, 2025 — The Asylum Haunted House, one of East Texas’s most talked-about haunted attractions, is gearing up for its final weekend of the 2025 season. Guests have just two more nights — Friday, October 31st, and Saturday, November 1st — to experience the chaos, screams, and twisted fun that have…

MONTHLY DATA UPDATE Texas Demographic Center recently released its updated county-level population projections. The data provides detailed projections of Texas’ residential population by age, sex, and race/ethnicity for each year from 2020 to 2060 across all counties in Texas. These projections are available under multiple migration scenarios.   Thank you to everyone who joined our Population Projections…

October 22, 2025 Pictured: Melody Mott—Driver, and NTCC College Liaison for Dual Credit, Emma Mendoza, Ian Mares, Hailey Randall, José Fuentes, and Johnathan Ventura By: Andrew Yox, Honors Director On 10 October, five scholars of Honors Northeast presented work at the annual fall meeting of the Walter Prescott Webb Society at the Sheraton Hotel of…

October 23, 2025 Eight members of Alpha Mu Chi, NTCC’s chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, attended the 2025 Texas Leadership Conference held on the campus of Temple College. The conference, held in the recently completed Main Building, had 384 attendees from throughout the Texas Region of Phi Theta Kappa. NTCC’s José Fuentes, the District III Vice President, helped plan…

By Berenice Garcia, The Texas Tribune October 25, 2025 McALLEN — Mexico failed to deliver millions of gallons of water to South Texas farmers, in defiance of a 1944 treaty. Now, members of Texas’ congressional delegation are calling on the Trump administration to make Mexico’s failure a part of upcoming trade negotiations — including new…

By Marijke Friedman, The Texas Tribune October 27, 2025 WASHINGTON — Since the federal government shutdown began this month, San Antonio resident Imelda Avila-Thomas has canceled her daughter’s tutoring and removed her from after-school care. The furloughed Department of Labor employee tried her best to prepare for the shutdown. She has filed for unemployment benefits,…

By Alejandro Serrano, The Texas Tribune October 27, 2025 In the wake of the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn made a risky decision for a Republican anywhere, but especially in Texas. Moved by the deaths of 19 young school children, Cornyn helped shepherd the nation’s first major legislation on gun safety…