Austin, TX
No. 9 Women’s Tennis preview: No. 1 Georgia – University of Texas Athletics
No. 9 Texas vs. No. 1 Georgia
Team Records: Texas (10-3, 5-1 SEC), Georgia (10-2, 5-1 SEC)
When: Saturday, March 14, 2026, 12 p.m. CT
Where: Texas Tennis Center, Austin, Texas
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-Georgia Series: Georgia leads, 14-5
Georgia leads the all-time series with Texas, 14-5, dating back to 1979, however the Longhorns have won the last two, both of which have been played in Austin where Texas leads the all-time series, 4-3. Last year, in their first meeting as conference opponents, the Longhorns took a 4-2 victory over No. 1 Georgia at the Texas Tennis Center. It was one of only three losses for the Bulldogs all year, as they went on to win the National Championships. The year before, the teams played a non-conference match at the Weller Indoor Tennis Center in Austin, and the Longhorns won, 4-3, (clinching at 4-2). Prior to that, the last contest came in 2018 at the ITA National Indoor Championships in Madison, Wisc., which Georgia won, 4-2. Texas’ last win prior to 2024 was a 5-1 decision in 1994 in Austin with the Bulldogs winning 10-straight until the Longhorns snapped that streak in 2024, including UGA’s visit to Austin in 2000.
Last Two Box Scores
#14 Texas 4, #1 Georgia 2
Friday, April 11, 2025
Austin, Texas • Texas Tennis Center
Singles – Order of Finish (4,1,2,5,3)
1. #1 Dasha Vidmanova (UGA) def. #56 Sabina Zeynalova (TEX) 6-1, 6-2
2. #55 Anastasiia Lopata (UGA) def. #32 Carmen Herea (TEX) 6-2, 6-3
3. #93 Ashton Bowers (TEX) def. Mell Reasco (UGA) 7-6 (6), 6-3
4. #74 Eszter Meri (TEX) def. #42 Aysegul Mert (UGA) 6-1, 6-1
5. Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz (TEX) def. #91 Guillermina Grant (UGA) 7-6 (3), 6-2
6. Vivian Ovrootsky (TEX) vs. Sofia Rojas (UGA) 6-3, 6-7 (4), 0-1, unf.
Doubles – Order of Finish (1,3,2)
1. #5 Dasha Vidmanova/Mell Reasco (UGA) def. #24 Ariana Anazagasty-Pursoo/Ashton Bowers (TEX) 6-2
2. Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz/Salma Drugdova (TEX) def. #74 Guillermina Grant/Anastasiia Lopata (UGA) 7-5
3. Sabina Zeynalova/Carmen Herea (TEX) def. #90 Aysegul Mert/Hayden Mulberry (UGA) 6-3
#10 Texas 4, #4 Georgia 3
Sunday, February 4, 2024
Austin, Texas • Weller Indoor Tennis Center
Singles – Order of Finish (6,2,4,3,5,1)
1. #35 Alexandra Vecic (UGA) def. Sabina Zeynalova (TEXAS) 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (4)
2. #30 Dasha Vidmanova (UGA) def. #20 Tanya Sasnouskaya (TEXAS) 6-3, 6-3
3. #45 Malaika Rapolu (TEXAS) def. #116 Mell Reasco (UGA) 7-6 (6), 7-5
4. #106 Charlotte Chavatipon (TEXAS) def. #70 Anastasiia Lopata (UGA) 1-6, 6-1, 6-2
5. Taisiya Pachkaleva (TEXAS) def. Guillermina Grant (UGA) 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
6. #108 Mai Nirundorn (UGA) def. Vivian Ovrootsky (TEXAS) 6-4, 6-3
Doubles – Order of Finish (3,1)
1. Sabina Zeynalova/Taisiya Pachkaleva (TEXAS) def. #58 Aysegul Mert/Dasha Vidmanova (UGA) 6-3
2. Malaika Rapolu/Tanya Sasnouskaya (TEXAS) vs. #15 Guillermina Grant/Mai Nirundorn (UGA) 2-5, unf.
3. Charlotte Chavatipon/Vivian Ovrootsky (TEXAS) def. Mell Reasco/Alexandra Vecic (UGA) 6-1
-ITA Team Rankings
Texas was tabbed No. 12 in the preseason poll released January 7 by the ITA after finishing last season at No. 13. The Longhorns were then No. 17 on January 21 and No. 18 on January 28. After a pair of top-10 wins, Texas moved back up to No. 10 on February 11, became No. 16 on February 19, No. 14 on February 24, and now No. 9 on March 10. The Longhorns closed the 2023-24 season No. 11, just outside of the Top 10 where they had finished each of the previous six years. UT earned a No. 6 ranking in 2018, No. 9 in 2019, No. 4 in 2020, No. 1 in both 2021 and 2022, and No. 7 in 2023.
-ITA Individual National Rankings
Texas
Singles
No. 1 Carmen Herea
No. 16 Anastasia Abbagnato
No. 81 Eszter Meri
Doubles
No. 29 Ariana Anazagasty-Pursoo/Anastasia Abbagnato
No. 47 Elizabeth Ionescu/Carmen Herea
No. 50 Elizabeth Ionescu/Christasha McNeil
Georgia
Singles
No. 6 Aysegul Mert
No. 36 Anastasiia Gureva
No. 37 Anastasiia Lopata
No. 48 Deniz Dilek
No. 61 Sofia Rojas
No. 115 Patricija Paukstyte
Doubles
No. 8 Deniz Dilek/Aysegul Mert
No. 43 Anastasiia Gureva/Aysegul Mert
No. 49 Emma Dong/Deniz Dilek
-Conquering Carolina
The Longhorns defeated No. 22 South Carolina, 4-2, on March 12 at the Texas Tennis Center. Texas won its fifth-straight match, the last four of which have been against top-40 opponents, and posted its eighth victory in their last nine contests. The Longhorns opened by taking the doubles point with wins at Nos. 2 and 3 and followed with singles wins by Eszter Meri at No. 3 and Carmen Herea at No. 1, along with the clinch from Christasha McNeil at No. 4. Meanwhile, South Carolina had taken singles wins at Nos. 2 and 6, and Elizabeth Ionescu was sitting on three match points at No. 5 when play stopped.
-Downing the Dogs
Texas downed No. 33 Mississippi State, 4-1, on March 7 in match that was moved indoors to the Weller Indoor Tennis Center. The Longhorns swept singles against the Bulldogs to win their fourth-straight match. Mississippi State secured the doubles point with wins at Nos. 2 and 1, however Texas answered with singles victories by Carmen Herea at No. 1, Christasha McNeil at No. 4, Anstasia Abbagnato at No. 2, and Elizabeth Ionescu at No. 5 to clinch. Eszter Meri was also in a second-set tiebreaker in an attempt to win her match at No. 3 when play stopped.
-Sweep the Tide to open SEC home play
Texas swept No. 31 Alabama, 4-0, in their SEC home opener on March 5 at the Texas Tennis Center. The Longhorns completed the sweep after five decisive victories with two in doubles and three in singles. Texas captured the doubles point with a 6-0 win at No. 2 and a 6-1 victory at No. 3. The Longhorns then followed with singles wins by Elizabeth Ionescu at No. 5, Eszter Meri at No. 3, and Mathilde Ngijol-Carré at No. 6 for the clinch. Anastasia Abbagnato was also two points from a potential win at No. 2 when play stopped.
-Singles No. 1
Carmen Herea rose to No. 1 in the ITA singles rankings released on March 3. In doing so, she became the fourth Longhorn since 1995 to ascend to the top spot, including Peyton Stearns in 2022, Bianca Turati in 2018 and Kelly Pace in 1995.
-Ionescu named SEC Women’s Tennis Co-Freshman of the Week
Elizabeth Ionescu was named the SEC Women’s Tennis Co-Freshman of the Week on March 4. It marks the second weekly SEC honor for her this season after she earned the same accolade on February 4. Ionescu went a combined 4-0 in helping Texas to two road wins with a 7-0 sweep at Missouri and a 5-2 victory at No. 39 Vanderbilt. Against the Commodores, Ionescu and partner Christasha McNeil earned a top-10 doubles victory over No. 10 Valeria Ray and Bridget Stammel. She later closed the overall match with a win over Erin Pearce at No. 5. She played No. 4 singles versus the Tigers and was first off the court with a decisive win over Andrea Artimedi. Prior to that, she and McNeil clinched the doubles point with over Zoe Lazar and Lara Quaglia at No. 2.
-Music City comeback
Texas rallied past No. 39 Vanderbilt, 5-2, on March 1 at the Lummis Family Tennis Center in Nashville. The Longhorns twice trailed by one point but used five singles victories to win their second-straight SEC road match. Vanderbilt captured the doubles point with wins at Nos. 1 and 3, but in between, Texas secured a top-10 win at No. 2. The Longhorns then tied it with a singles win by Anasatsia Abbagnato at No. 2, and although the Commodores retook the lead with a win at No. 4, Texas ran off four-straight victories by Mathilde Ngijol-Carré at No. 6, Eszter Meri at No. 3, Carmen Herea at No. 1 for the clinch, and Elizabeth Ionescu at No. 5 for the final margin.
-Sweep for first SEC win
Texas swept Missouri, 7-0, at the Columbia Country Club on February 28 to move to 1-1 in SEC play. Texas did not drop a set throughout the match, opening with doubles wins at Nos. 3 and 2 and following with singles wins at all six positions by Elizabeth Ionescu at No. 4, Christasha McNeil at No. 3, Carmen Herea at No. 1, Eszter Meri at No. 2, Mathilde Ngijol-Carré at No. 5 and Salma Drugdova at No. 6.
-So close on the road against the top-five
Texas fell at No. 5 Texas A&M, 4-3, on Feb. 23 in the Cotton Holdings Lone Star Showdown at the Mitchell Tennis Center in College Station. The Longhorns went the distance in the doubles point, pushing the deciding match at No. 1 to a deuce point that resulted in a 7-5 win by the Aggies. Just before that, Texas had taken a 6-4 victory at No. 2 after Texas A&M claimed a 6-2 win at No. 3. The Aggies followed with singles wins at Nos. 2 and 5 for a 3-0 lead, but the Longhorns had won the first set in the other four matches. Texas secured two of those matches by Christasha McNeil at No. 4 and Elizabeth Ionescu at No. 6 to pull within 3-2, but Texas A&M rallied from down a set for a win at No. 3 to clinch. Carmen Hera then completed the match with a three-set victory at No. 1 for the final.
-Sweeping the Vaqueros
Texas swept UTRGV, 7-0, on February 15 at the Texas Tennis Center in just their second home match of the season to move to 5-2 overall. Both doubles and singles were played out with the Longhorns only dropping one set throughout the match, which came in a tiebreaker. They took the doubles point with wins at Nos. 1-3 in that order, and then followed with singles victories by Elizabeth Ionescu at No. 3, Mathilde Ngijol-Carré at No. 4, Eszter Meri at No. 2 for the clinch, Kate Mansfield at No. 5, Salma Drugdova at No. 6, and Carmen Herea at No. 1.
-Abbagnato named SEC Women’s Tennis Freshman of the Week
Anastasia Abbagnato was named the SEC Women’s Tennis Freshman of the Week on February 11. It marked the first weekly SEC honor of her career and she became the second-straight Longhorn to earn the accolade, following Elizabeth Ionescu the week before. Abbagnato posted a combined 5-1 singles and doubles record, including four ranked victories with three in singles and one in doubles in wins over No. 12 Vanderbilt and No. 7 Duke after a narrow 4-3 defeat to No. 6 Oklahoma at the ITA National Indoor Championships. Abbagnato’s singles wins all came at No. 2 over No. 12 Julia Garcia Ruiz of Oklahoma, No. 40 Bridget Stammel of Vanderbilt, and No. 120 Liv Hovde of Duke. The win over Stammel also clinched the overall match against Vanderbilt. She also won doubles matches with both Anazagasty-Pursoo and Mathilde Ngijol-Carré.
-Two top-12 wins at the ITA Indoors
After pushing No. 6 Oklahoma to the limit in a 4-3 defeat in the round of 16 of the ITA Indoors on February 6, the Longhorns earned a pair of top-12 wins over No. 12 Vanderbilt (4-1) and No. 7 Duke (4-3) in consolation matches in Urbana, Ill., on February 7 and 8, respectively. After the Commodores claimed a tight doubles point with wins at Nos. 2 and 1 that surrounded a win for the Longhorns at No. 3, Texas rattled of four-straight singles victories by Christasha McNeil at No. 3, Elizabeth Ionescu at No. 5, Carmen Herea at No. 1, and Anastasia Abbagnato at No. 2 for the clinch. Against the Blue Devils, the Longhorns had rallied from a 2-0 deficit after Duke claimed the doubles point and the first singles contest at No. 4. Texas then put together three-straight singles wins by Eszter Meri at No. 3, and Ionescu at No. 6, and Abbagnato at No. 2. The Blue Devils evened the overall match at 3-3 with a win at No. 1, setting the stage for the clinch by Kate Mansfield.
-Ionescu named SEC Women’s Tennis Freshman of the Week
Elizabeth Ionescu was named the SEC Women’s Tennis Freshman of the Week for the week of January 28-February 3. It marks the first weekly SEC honor of her career and first for the Longhorns this season. Ionescu went a combined 4-0 in singles and doubles, including the first singles win of her collegiate career, which came over Pia Kranholdt of Iowa at No. 4 that clinched the overall match. Ionescu and partner Carmen Herea also clinched the doubles point against Wisconsin. Ionescu joined the team in January and had only played one singles and one doubles match in her collegiate career prior to this past weekend.
-Nine-straight trips to the ITA National Indoor Championships
In advancing out of the 2026 ITA Kickoff Weekend Texas Regional, the Longhorns advanced to the ITA National Indoor Championships for the ninth-straight year. Texas reached the quarterfinals in six of those trips, including five of the last six (2019, 2021-25), while advancing all the way to the final in 2021 when they were edged by then No. 1 North Carolina, 4-3, in what would be the only loss of the season on the way to winning the first of back-to-back NCAA National Championships. That was UT’s second all-time appearance in the final, along with 2006 against Stanford. The Longhorns have also won two matches in six of the last seven tournaments, including consolation matches in 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2026 (2021 began in the quarters).
-Sweep of Big Ten road trip
Texas completed a sweep of their two-match Big Ten road trip with a 5-2 victory over Wisconsin at the Nielsen Tennis Stadium on February 1. The Longhorns used a top-five win at No. 1 doubles and combined it with a win at No. 3 to claim the doubles point. After Wisconsin picked up a win at No. 3 singles, Texas followed with singles wins by Ariana Anazagasty-Pursoo at No. 5, Elizabeth Ionescu at No. 6, Carmen Herea at No. 1, and Eszter Meri at No. 4. The Badgers then closed the scoring with a win at No. 2.
-First win in first visit to Iowa City
The Longhorns earned a 6-1 win at Iowa on January 30 in their first-ever road match against the Hawkeyes. Texas captured the doubles point with wins at Nos. 2 and 3 and followed with singles wins by Ariana Anazagasty-Pursoo at No. 5 and Carmen Herea at No. 1, Elizabeth Ionescu at No. 4 for the clinch, Salma Drugdova at No. 6, and Christasha McNeil at No. 3.
-Joffe in Year 11
Head Coach Howard Joffe is in his 11th season leading the UT program. Under Joffe’s leadership, Texas claimed back-to-back NCAA team championships in 2021 and 2022 and has finished each of the last eight years in the top 13 of the final ITA national polls, earning year-end rankings of No. 6 in 2018, No. 9 in 2019, No. 4 in 2020, No. 1 in both 2021 and 2022, No. 7 in 2023, No. 11 in 2024, and No. 13 in 2025. The Longhorns also captured four Big 12 regular-season championships (2018, 2019, 2021 and 2023-co) and four Big 12 postseason tournament titles (2018, 2021, 2022 and 2023) in their last six chances (2020 season canceled due to COVID-19).
The 2021 ITA Division I Women’s National Coach of the Year, Joffe has registered a 216-60 (.783) mark in his time at Texas. During his 20 seasons as a collegiate head coach, he has tallied a 347-121 (.741) dual-match record. Peyton Stearns claimed the Honda Sport Award for Tennis and the ITA National Player of the Year in 2022. Joffe has helped six Longhorns earn a total of eight ITA All-America honors in singles (Breaunna Addison in 2016, Bianca Turati in 2018, Anna Turati and Bianca Turati in 2020, Stearns in both 2021 and 2022, Kylie Collins in 2022, and Malaika Rapolu in 2024) and two duos earn ITA All-America accolades in doubles (Kylie Collins and Lulu Sun in 2021 and Stearns and Allura Zamarripa in 2022). Stearns became the first player in program history to win the NCAA Singles Championship in 2022, while Collins and Sun reached the finals of the NCAA Doubles Championship in 2021. In addition, 19 players have registered a combined 26 All-Big 12 singles and 22 All-Big 12 doubles selections in Joffe’s tenure in Austin.
-Back from 2025
Texas will have a different look from 2025, but at the same time return a few familiar faces. The roster will feature six returners, four of whom had match experience, including sophomores Carmen Herea, Eszter Meri, Ariana Anazagasty-Pursoo and Salma Drugdova, along with redshirt freshman Audrey Deatherage and Lucy Schmeil.
-Five newcomers arrive for their first dual match season on the 40
The Longhorns add five new faces for 2026, all who are expected to be impact players, starting with Christasha McNeil of Lindenhurst, N.Y., and Mathilde Ngijol-Carré of Paris, France, who arrived in the fall. Three more joined the team in January, including Anastasia Abbagnato from Palermo, Italy, Elizabeth Ionescu from York, Pa., and Kate Mansfield of London, England.
-Summer/Fall Wrap-up
A number of players on the roster spent the summer and fall nursing injuries, leading to some of them not qualifying for fall ITA rankings. However, Eszter Meri captured the singles gold medal at the FISU World University Games in July, while Carmen Herea finished as the singles runner-up at one of the fall majors in the ITA All-Americans, and then was a quarterfinalist in the NCAA Singles Championships.
Michael Dorman
Austin, Texas, is revving up to sell $2.35 billion of debt for a convention center and a wastewater treatment plant, while a legal battle continues over bonds to help finance a light rail system.
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The bond boom comes as the city council voted on Thursday to pursue the development of a $390 million baseline general obligation bond package for the November ballot despite a call by Mayor Kirk Watson to wait until 2028.
“I believe we can and we should bring forward significant investments in the future,” he said. “In fact, if we restore compliance with our financial policies and we maintain the discipline we actually will have greater future capacity to do more for this community in 2028.”
A bond election would
The city, which last held a successful GO bond election in 2022 for $350 million of debt for affordable housing, had $1.03 billion of unissued voter-approved GO bond authorization as of the Sept. 30 end of fiscal 2025. Last year,
On Thursday, the city council signed off on a $34.5 million wrongful prosecution and conviction settlement with four individuals to be financed through the sale of non-voter-approved GO bonds.
The council approved up to $1.35 billion of special tax revenue bonds on May 21 for a $1.6 billion project to replace the city’s now-demolished convention center with a facility that will increase rentable event space to 620,000 square feet from 365,000 square feet.
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The bonds are backed with revenue from certain city hotel occupancy taxes and incremental state tax revenue generated within a project finance zone the city established in 2024. Amounts and timings for issuing the debt are being determined, according to the city, which filed a petition with a Travis County District Court for an expedited validation of the bonds.
An ordinance approved in October
The city also plans to refund hotel occupancy tax-backed debt issued for the prior convention center in order to pledge a 4.5% hotel tax for the upcoming bonds.
“The refunding bonds are a separate, but related item to the expansion bonds and will only be secured by 2% venue HOT,” city documents said. “The 2% venue HOT will not be pledged to the expansion bonds and will cease to be collected upon final maturity or early payoff of (the refunding bonds).”
A petition drive that would have delayed the project fell 494 signatures short of a requirement for 20,000 valid signatures of registered voters, Austin City Clerk Erika Brady determined in November.
Petition backers are appealing a district court’s refusal to force validation in state appellate court after the Texas Supreme Court dismissed
The petition drive by Austin United PAC and others sought a ballot measure to stop the demolition and reconstruction of the convention center for seven years — or until the project was approved by voters — and prioritize city funding for local live music, arts, cultural, and outdoor tourism.
The Austin City Council also approved as much as $1 billion of water and wastewater system revenue bonds last month for the Walnut Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant expansion and enhancement project. The bonds will be used to obtain a direct low-interest loan from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act program.
Other financing sources for the $1.5 billion project are $59 million from the Texas Water Development Board Clean Water State Revolving Fund program and funding from Austin Water.
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The plant, which serves more than 50% of Austin and operates at a treatment capacity of 75 million gallons per day, will have its capacity increased to 100 MGD, helping meet future demand and requirements set by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for Austin’s projected growth of 1.5 million by 2040, according to a city statement.
A legal logjam over a light rail system eased May 22 when the Texas Supreme Court finally ruled on a procedural issue related to an initial $150 million of bonds for the project. The high court ordered a Travis County Court judge to decide whether the bonds’ issuer, the Austin Transit Partnership, a nonprofit corporation created by the city and Capital Metro Transportation Authority, has standing to seek court validation for the debt.
City taxpayers who filed a lawsuit in 2023, along with the Texas Attorney General’s Office have been challenging the legality of the bonds, which would be paid off with a portion of Austin’s operation and maintenance property taxes
Escalating costs led ATP to downsize Project Connect to an initial less than 10-mile, 15-station system with a similar price tag. The completion of a federal environmental review in January allowed the project to continue a process
ATP said Project Connect is moving forward with construction scheduled to begin next year.
“We are confident in our case and look forward to our day in court,” ATP said in a statement. “The pending litigation has not slowed our progress advancing Austin light rail, which has hit major milestones in the federal funding process, design, and pre-construction work this year.”
Bill Aleshire, an attorney who filed the taxpayers’ lawsuit, cautioned that several issues remain before the court, including the legality of the downsized project and the ability to pay off bonds with property tax revenue that is supposed to be used for operations.
“Their federal funding is uncertain, their ability to issue bonds is uncertain, and they just stubbornly will not listen to us and say it’s time to pause Project Connect and rethink it, that maybe rail isn’t the best way to go at this time and maybe we can’t afford it at this time,” he said.
AUSTIN, Texas (KTRK) — Does the state of Texas have too many law enforcement agencies? That was a topic of discussion at a Texas House Committee meeting on May 28, which focused on police standards and policy.
It was comments from TCOLE Deputy Chief TJ Vineyard that drew the attention of unions and lobbying groups representing law enforcement across Texas.
“We’re starting to look now at encouraging the consolidation of agencies,” Vineyard said during the nearly eight-hour-long hearing.
The response was almost immediate from groups representing various aspects of law enforcement.
One social media post on Facebook from the Texas Law Enforcement Association proclaimed concern about the future of smaller departments across the state, despite an exchange later in the hearing between the committee chair, State Representative Cole Hefner, and TCOLE’s Executive Director, Chief Gregory Stevens.
“We’re not taking police off the street?” Hefner asked. “We’re making sure that we have qualified people that are equipped and trained.”
“One hundred percent,” Stevens said.
According to TCOLE’s own numbers, there are more than 2,700 accredited agencies and some 83,000 peace officers.
The chair asked whether 2,700 was a good or bad thing, given that Texas has more agencies than the next four largest states combined.
“There is a lot of duplicative coverage,” Stevens said, “overlapping coverage. When it comes to resources, it can be inefficient.”
Also speaking on the panel was Jennifer Szimanski with the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT), which also posted on social media about the hearing. While the group wouldn’t comment directly about consolidation, Szimanski told ABC13 that “consolidation is not the legislative intent for TCOLE” and that “we should be forward-looking and raising standards”.
But in a conversation with ABC13, Stevens said targeting smaller departments is not their intent. TCOLE wants every department, regardless of size, to comply with the higher standards implemented in 2023.
“Some of the things that are out there surfing out across social media and on other platforms is that TCOLE wants to shut down small agencies and let sheriff’s offices take over, and that’s absolutely not true. It couldn’t be further from what we’re doing,” Stevens said. “It doesn’t matter about the size of the agencies, and I want to be really clear on that point. TECOL is not out to shut down or to make life hard on a small municipal agency, a school district, police department, or what have you.”
But the larger conversation is not limited to the state of Texas.
Harris County is home to more than 60 agencies. In the last major study on overlap in 2018, Rice University’s Kinder Institute found that consolidation could help address inefficiencies. Kyle Shelton, now at the University of Minnesota, co-authored the report eight years ago.
“It’s really just an opportunity to look at how regional governments, which are often overlapping, best coordinate and collaborate on the services that they’re providing,” Shelton told ABC13.
Whether it’s Harris County or the state of Texas, the cost of funding and maintaining law enforcement agencies is getting more expensive. While consolidation may not be the answer, it is part of a conversation in which Kyle Shelton says governments should be engaging.
“It’s not a quick band-aid to pull off and say, ‘Hey, look, we fixed the budget crisis, or, you know, addressed some efficiencies here in a nice, neat three-month process,” Shelton said. “You know, it likely takes years and a lot of trust building, both with residents and the agencies.”
Texas does have more law enforcement agencies than the next four largest states combined, according to TCOLE.
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AUSTIN, Texas – Pride Month is celebrated each June.
It marks the anniversary of the Stonewall uprising that started in late June 1969. The protests are seen as a turning point in the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. It inspired marches across the country in the years that followed.
More than a dozen cities and towns across Texas are celebrating with everything from parades to festivals to concerts and more.
A Pride flag is seen held up in a crowd during preparation for a Queer March to the Texas State Capitol on April 15, 2023 in Austin, Texas. (Brandon Bell / Getty Images)
Here’s a look at some of the dates and places Pride events are happening around the Lone Star State this month:
Austin also has a Pride celebration, but it is scheduled for Aug. 22.
The Source: Information in this story came from various sources, including official websites for events. AI was used to help assemble the list of events.
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