# The Directory News

> The Directory News — civic news covering politics, crime, sports, culture, financial, and weather.

Original reporting alongside a searchable directory of governments, officials, meetings, elections, bills, votes and public documents. Pages are server-rendered HTML; this site is read-only for agents. An anonymous read-only API (OpenAPI at /openapi.json), MCP server (/mcp), A2A agent and NLWeb /ask are documented at /developers; no authentication is needed.

## When to use this site

- Looking up who holds a local, state or federal office, and how to reach them: start at Officials.
- Finding what a city council, county commission or school board decided, or its agenda and minutes: Meetings and Documents.
- Checking an election's candidates and results, or a legislator's bills and votes: Elections, Bills and Roll-call votes.
- Getting local reporting and analysis on government, crime and sports: Articles.
- Cite the canonical page URL of the specific record; every government, official, meeting, election and document has its own page.

## Sections

- [Articles](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/article): Reporting and analysis, filterable by section, jurisdiction and date.
- [Politics](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/politics): Local, state and national politics with county-level civic data.
- [Governments](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/governments): Counties, cities and districts, with their officials, meetings and documents.
- [Officials](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/officials): Elected officials and their offices, contact details and election history.
- [Meetings](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/meetings): Government meetings with agendas, minutes and AI-generated summaries.
- [Elections](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/elections): Election races and results by jurisdiction.
- [Bills](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/bills): Tracked state and federal legislation.
- [Roll-call votes](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/votes): Recorded legislative votes.
- [Documents](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/documents): Public government documents: agendas, minutes and filings.
- [Crime reports](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/crimes): Local crime reports from police feeds.
- [Sports](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/sports): Live scores and standings.

## Latest reporting

- [France’s Students Wanted Better Schools. Then Everything Else Arrived.](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/article/frances-students-wanted-better-schools-then-everything-else-arrived): What began as a protest over missing teachers, overcrowded classrooms and deteriorating schools has grown into something much harder to define — with thousands…
- [Texas’ After-Dark Campus Speech Ban Goes Before the Fifth Circuit](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/article/texas-after-dark-campus-speech-ban-goes-before-the-fifth-circuit): Can Texas turn off free speech on its public college campuses at 10p.m.? Three federal appeals judges in New Orleans started answering that question Tuesday…
- [Trump Promises $5,000 Checks if Republicans Keep Congress. Can the Math Work?](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/article/trump-promises-5000-checks-if-republicans-keep-congress-can-the-math-work): President Donald Trump says every adult American citizen could receive a $5,000 “Trump Dividend” if Republicans keep control of Congress. The proposal would…
- [Killeen Reconsiders Data Center Rules as City Weighs Short-Term Rental Changes](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/article/killeen-reconsiders-data-center-rules-as-city-weighs-short-term-rental-changes): Council backed away from requiring a conditional-use permit for every future data center while officials continue addressing a short-term rental program with…
- [The View Changes With the Altitude](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/article/the-view-changes-with-the-altitude): What a day spent seeing Belton from the sidewalk, the lake and the air taught me about understanding a community You can live in a place for years and still…
- [Abbott Halts Texas Data Center Permits Pending Statewide Audit](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/article/abbott-halts-texas-data-center-permits-pending-statewide-audit): The governor ordered Texas environmental regulators to stop approving data center permits until state officials finish reviewing the industry’s demands on the…
- [Can the President Ban the Press From the White House?](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/article/can-the-president-ban-the-press-from-the-white-house): The First Amendment does not give journalists an unrestricted right to enter the White House. But once government creates press facilities, decades of…
- [Why Government Is STILL the Problem](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/article/why-government-is-still-the-problem): Thirty-three years after Milton Friedman made the case, it is time to run the experiment again. In 1993, Milton Friedman published an essay with a deliberately…
- [The People Warning Us About AI Also Want to Write the Rules](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/article/the-people-warning-us-about-ai-also-want-to-write-the-rules): AI executives may sincerely fear catastrophic risk. They also lead companies that could benefit enormously from regulations smaller competitors cannot afford.…
- [I Can Hear You](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/article/i-can-hear-you): Twenty-five years after September 11, America remembers the day we were attacked. We should also remember the brief moment afterward when we remembered that we…

## About

- [About](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/about): who runs the site
- [Contact](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/contact): reach the newsroom
- [Privacy](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/privacy): privacy policy
- [Developers](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/developers): API, MCP, A2A and NLWeb for agents
- MCP server: https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/mcp (card: https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json)
- [OpenAPI](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/openapi.json): machine-readable API description
- [Sitemap](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/sitemap.xml): every public URL