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Texas Woman’s University to build $30M athletics facility

Texas Woman’s University will construct a $30 million brand-new athletics facility, the university announced.

What’s happening: The university received a $10 million donation from an alumna that will go toward the on-campus athletics facility, according to a news release. The venue is expected to break ground in 2027.

Dawn Chaney, who played three sports at TWU in the 1960s, made the donation to the project. The new facility will bear her name. 

The athletics complex will be 30,000-35,000 square feet and will support the university’s growing athletics program as well as the needs of student-athletes, the release states.

“I am excited to support this new athletics complex because it will provide student-athletes with the resources, facilities and opportunities they deserve to excel in competition, in the classroom and in life,” Chaney said.

 
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Three Denton libraries to close in August for maintenance, staff training

Three Denton libraries will temporarily close for maintenance and staff training in August, according to an announcement on the city’s website.

The details: The library closures will stagger so not more than one library will close at a time. 

  • North Branch Library will be the first to close. The library will be closed all day Aug. 7. 

  • South Branch Library will close from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Aug. 14.

  • Emily Fowler Library will close from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Aug. 21.


What else? All libraries will still accept returns in the book drop-off, and WiFi will be available in the library parking lots during the closures, the announcement states.
 

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Texas spends billions on tax breaks for data centers. There’s a bipartisan legislative push to repeal them.

Texas lawmakers are considering cutting a costly, decade-old tax break for the state’s booming data center industry.

The overview: Texas spends more than $1 billion annually on the sales tax exemption, and the comptroller’s office estimated in 2025 that due to the program, the state will lose about $3.2 billion in sales tax revenue over the next two years.

The Lone Star State is home to the nation’s fastest-growing data center market, and the Data Center Coalition, which advocates for the industry, has argued that the tax break program is key to maintaining that title. Senators and members of the public who spoke at a July 27 hearing disagreed.

Looking ahead: Amid a bipartisan push for more regulation of data centers, senators indicated that they intend to add more strings to the tax exemption program or eliminate it entirely.

"The question is whether or not we need to have a special session where all of us are focusing in on this," Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, said.

“We do,” Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham, replied.

 

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