🎒 A McKinney ISD community input meeting initially scheduled for Dec. 2 will now be held Dec. 4, district officials confirmed.

The district’s progress in determining new attendance zones for elementary, middle and high school levels will be the focus of the meeting, which follows a decision by district officials to close and repurpose three elementary schools for the 2026-27 school year.

The gist: The meeting will be held from 6-8 p.m. Dec. 4 at the McKinney ISD Community Event Center, located at 4201 S. Hardin Blvd. The event will be a come-and-go style session to provide input on the work of the Educational Facilities Alignment Committee, or EFAC.

Looking ahead: Following the completion of committee meetings scheduled for November and December, as well as the second community input session, a recommendation for new attendance zones is expected to be presented to board members at a Dec. 15 meeting.

🖨️ A new FedEx Office location recently opened in McKinney, a company representative said.

The details: The business offers a variety of services, including:

• Copying and printing
• Packing and shipping
• Sign and banner printing

Gia Massage & Facial Spa recently opened in McKinney, Business Owner Minzhi “Tiffany” Lei said.

The details: The business offers 30-, 60- and 90-minute full-body massages.

📍1400 N. Coit Road, Ste. 1702, McKinney

Texans began receiving full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits Nov. 14, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission announced. The renewed SNAP payments came after two weeks of delays due to the 43-day federal government shutdown, which ended Nov. 12.

The overview: SNAP is a federally funded program that provides low-income individuals and families with monthly stipends to spend on groceries. The food assistance program ran out of funding Nov. 1, one month after the government shut down amid disagreements over federal health insurance subsidies.

The details: Over 3.5 million Texans receive SNAP benefits each month, according to Feeding Texas, the statewide network of food banks. Payments are issued on a rolling basis throughout each month.

“For SNAP clients who receive benefits on or after the 14th of the month, full benefits will be issued on their normal issuance date,” the HHSC website states. “SNAP clients who already received partial benefits will receive the rest of their monthly amount on or after Nov. 14.”

Texas cannot use its newly redrawn congressional map in the 2026 election, an El Paso federal court ruled Nov. 18.

The details: The state must instead use the congressional map that Texas lawmakers drew in 2021, after the 2020 census. 

“The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics,” U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown wrote in the Nov. 18 preliminary injunction. “To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 map.”

What they're saying: Texas Republican leaders said they would “swiftly appeal” the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. If the court takes up the case, its justices will be pressed for time ahead of the Dec. 8 deadline for candidates to apply to run in the March primary elections.

Texas Democrats celebrated the Nov. 18 ruling as "very good news for Texans."