Texas Tomorrow

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Charles Blain focuses on the issues impacting urban and suburban communities now that will shape the future of Texas for years to come. Texas Tomorrow, a show dedicated to covering the issues important to families living in the fastest growing parts of Texas.

Episode Date
Is Wall Street Really Buying All the Houses?
May 07, 2026
$174 Billion and Counting: Texas Got the Water Bill It Spent 50 Years Ignoring
Apr 30, 2026
The County Judge Might Have More Power Than You Think
Apr 23, 2026
Cities Face A Tough Choice, Autonomy or More Money. Which Will They Choose?
Apr 16, 2026
When your city council starts making immigration policy, who's actually running the city?
Apr 09, 2026
The Texas Mega-Event Machine: Who Really Pays?
Apr 02, 2026
What’s Going on in Corpus Christi?
Mar 26, 2026
Who's Building Texas?
Mar 19, 2026
What Happens When Citizens Get Auditing Power?
Mar 12, 2026
Will Corpus Christi’s Water Crisis Worsen?
Mar 05, 2026
Public School Closures Sparking Community Concerns
Feb 26, 2026
2/25/26 Latest Texas Polls
Feb 25, 2026
Where Will Texas's 400+ Data Centers Land?
Feb 19, 2026
A Texas School Spent MILLIONS of Dollars Without Approval?!
Feb 12, 2026
How Much Power Does Your School Board Hold?
Feb 05, 2026
What is the “Right Size" for Government?
Jan 29, 2026
Do You Live Under an Invisible Government?
Jan 22, 2026
People Need More Access to Their Local Officials, Not Less
Jan 15, 2026
What Happens When Even Local Trust Fails?
Jan 08, 2026
Is Your City Hiding Debt Behind a Glossy Budget?
Dec 18, 2025
Is Your City Council Secretly Blocking Market Rate Housing?
Dec 11, 2025
Can Friday Night Lights Save a Dying Town?
Dec 04, 2025
Do You Know Who Serves You?
Nov 27, 2025
What Happens When Citizens are Tired of Their City Selling Their Property?
Nov 20, 2025
Is Microtransit Mission Creep Happening Near You?
Nov 13, 2025
Who is Really in Charge of Local Issues?
Nov 06, 2025
Where is Local Government Filling the Gap?
Oct 30, 2025
Public-Private Partnerships, Innovation, or Growing Problem?
Oct 23, 2025
Local Governments and AI
Oct 16, 2025
Convention Centers Going Up in Texas: Who Will Pay?
Oct 09, 2025
Who's To Blame For Broken County Jails?
Oct 02, 2025
Fraud Costs, But How Much?
Sep 25, 2025
How Much Are You Indebted To Your City?
Sep 18, 2025
Are Unqualified Teachers Teaching Your Child?
Sep 04, 2025
Is Your HOA Out of Bounds?
Aug 28, 2025
Are Tax-Funded Stadiums Providing the Benefits They Promised?
Aug 21, 2025
Will Trump's New Homelessness Approach Work?
Aug 14, 2025
How Many Transparency Stars Does Your City Have?
Aug 07, 2025
Should We Have a Public or Private Police Force?
Jul 31, 2025
Are We Being Lied to About Homelessness Spending?
Jul 24, 2025
Quiet Collapse of Law and Order?
Jul 17, 2025
What is the Cost of Public Corruption?
Jul 10, 2025
What is Going on With Baytown's $75M Stadium?
Jul 03, 2025
Why Did This City Abolish Its Police Force?
Jun 26, 2025
Are Police Officer Quotas Really Banned in Texas?
Jun 19, 2025
Three Major Local Transit Reform Bills Died, Why?
Jun 12, 2025
Small Town Corruption Strikes Again
Jun 05, 2025
What's Going on In ISDs Across the State?
May 29, 2025
Are Policing Agencies Seeing a Mass Exodus?
May 22, 2025
Is Your Data Open to Attack?
May 15, 2025
What Happened In May's School District Elections?
May 08, 2025
Are Local Officials Distracted by Corruption?
May 01, 2025
Corruption and Conspiracy in the State's Largest School District?
Apr 24, 2025
Is the Texas High-Speed Rail Dead?
Apr 17, 2025
Is Your District Electioneering?
Apr 10, 2025
What's Your School District Putting on Your Ballot?
Apr 03, 2025
How Is Illegal Immigration Impacting Your Jail?
Mar 27, 2025
If You Call 911, Will Anyone Come?
Mar 20, 2025
Why Does Homelessness Only Seem to be Getting Worse?
Mar 13, 2025
Do You Know How Many Fights Were in Texas Schools Last Year?
Mar 06, 2025
Are Stadiums a Worthwhile Investment?
Feb 27, 2025
We've All Heard of DEI, But Have You Heard of MWBE?
Feb 20, 2025
Why Are Local School Districts Suing?
Feb 13, 2025
Are Local Sheriffs Going to Fix the Border Crisis?
Feb 06, 2025
Do Your Legislative Priorities Align With Your City's?
Jan 30, 2025
Are Your Local Government Wages Going Up?
Jan 23, 2025
Is Housing Affordability on the Legislative Agenda?
Jan 16, 2025
Are Local Police Oversight Boards Effective?
Jan 09, 2025
Do You Know What the New 4th Largest City in Texas Is?
Jan 02, 2025
What's the Point of Efficiency Audits?
Dec 19, 2024
Have You Heard of the South Texas Triangle?
Dec 12, 2024
Do You Want to Know the Fiscal Picture of Your City in 300 Seconds or Less?
Dec 05, 2024
Should the Government Pay for Destroying Your Property?
Nov 28, 2024
How Familiar Are You With Issues Going On Around Texas?
Nov 21, 2024
Are You Familiar With Local Government Corporations?
Nov 14, 2024
How'd Your School Bond Do This Election Cycle?
Nov 07, 2024
Where is the Cost of Living Lowest Right Now?
Oct 31, 2024
Do You Know What's on Your Ballot?
Oct 24, 2024
What’s Going On With Your Local Criminal Justice System?
Oct 17, 2024
Is Your Community Impacted by Illegal Immigration?
Oct 10, 2024
Are Your Taxes Going Up?
Sep 26, 2024
Federal Relief Funding is Coming To An End, What Has Your City Done?
Sep 19, 2024
Do You Live In A Micropolitan Region?
Sep 12, 2024
Citizens Across the State Are Using the Charter Amendment Process
Sep 05, 2024
Comptroller's Housing Affordability Challenge
Aug 29, 2024
Is Jail Overcrowding a Problem in your County?
Aug 22, 2024
Cities Exploring New and Old Transportation Models
Aug 15, 2024
Are You Following Your Bail Bond Board?
Aug 08, 2024
Are We Resilient?
Aug 01, 2024
Is Guaranteed Income Working?

Jul 25, 2024
City's Spend Big on Civic Art
Jul 18, 2024
Does Texas Have Unions?
Jul 11, 2024
Squatters, a Growing Problem in Texas
Jul 03, 2024
Will Stafford Remain A City Without Property Taxes?
Jun 27, 2024
Major Investments in Small Towns
Jun 20, 2024
New Group Hopes to Encourage Republican Mayors
Jun 13, 2024
Cities are Struggling to Find Police
Jun 06, 2024
Listen to Texas Tomorow
Jun 01, 2024
Will Texas Cities Ease Parking Requirements?
May 30, 2024
It’s Local Budget Season
May 23, 2024
Deferred Maintenance is Killing Local Infrastructure
May 15, 2024
Do You Know How Much Power Un-elected Officials Have?
May 09, 2024
Inflation Is Up And Bonds Are On The Ballot
May 02, 2024
It Pays To Be a Texas Superintendent
Apr 25, 2024
Who Controls Your Property Values?
Apr 18, 2024
Corruption Isn’t Just for Big Cities
Apr 11, 2024
Cities Banning Unwanted Businesses
Apr 04, 2024
Don’t Ignore Texas’ Local Debt
Mar 28, 2024
Rail Moving Forward in Texas?
Mar 21, 2024
Where Job Growth is Happening in Texas
Mar 14, 2024
Texas Towns Bloom in Unincorporated Areas
Mar 07, 2024
Do You Know What Your School Districts Are Spending On?
Feb 29, 2024
Financial State of Texas Cities
Feb 22, 2024
Do You Live In One of Texas’ Fastest Growing Cities?
Feb 15, 2024
Homeownership Out of Reach?
Feb 08, 2024
Local Governments Are Looking to Ban Short Term Rentals
Feb 01, 2024
Take Advantage of the Texas Public information Act
Jan 25, 2024
Citizen-Led Initiative Can Change Local Government
Jan 18, 2024
Harris County Launches Guaranteed Income Program
Jan 11, 2024
Texas Tomorrow with Charles Blain
Dec 29, 2023