by Cole Arreola-Karr | Mar 5, 2025 | Data
Nearly 3,000 special districts play a significant role to provide critical and essential services to millions of Texans altogether providing critical infrastructure and essential services, with a heavy focus on water resources and public safety, in all but one of...
by Cole Arreola-Karr | Feb 8, 2025 | AASD, Data
Special districts are not well represented in federal data and reporting on the health of local governments across the country, and the populations they serve are not federally recognized due to a glitch in federal law preventing recognition of special district’s...
by Cole Arreola-Karr | Aug 1, 2024 | Data, Legislation
Home and property values across the country have generally climbed since 2020, a product of a myriad of economic issues, interstate migration, and more. The result has been growing pains for states that have historically had low property tax levels. Americans’...