http://www.yourstreet.com/news/arlington-va YourStreet collects the latest local news and information from around the web. Find out what's going on in your town. en-us By TRACI SHURLEY  A $3.2 million state grant will help the Arlington school district expand its pre-kindergarten program into several city child-care centers this fall and boost revenue for the cash-strapped district. The funding comes from the Prekindergarten... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6235348/state-grant-will-help-arlington-district-offer-pre-kindergarten-to-more-kid Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:14:08 -0700 By DAVE MONTGOMERY AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry on Friday vetoed 37 bills passed by the 2009 Legislature, including a measure that would have allowed natural gas pipelines in the Barnett Shale to be routed along state rights of way. Perry also struck down a major... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6171713/barnett-shale-rights-of-way-bill-among-37-vetoed-by-perry Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:10:08 -0700 By DAVE MONTGOMERY AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry on Friday vetoed 37 bills passed by the 2009 Legislature, including a measure that would have allowed natural gas pipelines in the Barnett Shale to be routed along state rights of way. Perry also struck down a major... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6171299/barnett-shale-rights-of-way-bill-among-37-vetoed-by-perry Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:54:08 -0700 Thanks for staying Arlington Councilman Robert Rivera recently collected donations from businesses and individuals for students in his district who are attending local colleges. The scholarships, from $250 to $500, went to one student from each of the four high... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6014685/arlington-education-notebook Sat, 30 May 2009 16:11:08 -0700 BUD KENNEDY ARLINGTON — After a campaign that was about as pleasant as a Sunday stroll through the Pittsburgh Steelers secondary, Mayor Pro Tem Lana Wolff now will be in position for the Super Bowl. "I hadn’t even thought of that," Wolff said, celebrating... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5864509/kennedy-arlington-voters-weren-t-afraid-of-lana-wolff-or-other-incumbents Sat, 09 May 2009 21:03:08 -0700 Martin High’s high note Martin High School’s jazz band, chorale, wind symphony and the symphony orchestra will perform together Tuesday night to celebrate a national honor from The Grammy Foundation. This year, the foundation named Martin the 2009... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5864514/arlington-education-notebook-martin-high-celebrates-national-award Sat, 09 May 2009 19:42:08 -0700 By DEANNA BOYD The number of probable swine flu cases continued to rise in Tarrant and Dallas counties Sunday, though no new cases were confirmed, county officials said. Tarrant County Public Health reported 23 new probable cases within a 33-county region Sunday... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5815040/number-of-probable-flu-cases-growing-in-north-texas Mon, 04 May 2009 05:01:08 -0700 By DEANNA BOYD The number of probable swine flu cases continued to rise in Tarrant and Dallas counties Sunday, though no new cases were confirmed, county officials said. Tarrant County Public Health reported 23 new probable cases within a 33-county region Sunday... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5815001/number-of-probable-flu-cases-growing-in-north-texas Mon, 04 May 2009 05:01:08 -0700 Being mayor or a City Council member in Arlington is not an entry-level job. Candidates are not required to have served on at least one of the many voluntary boards and commissions that assist the mayor and council members, and people have been elected in the past... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5801900/editorial-experience-is-valuable-in-arlington-city-government Fri, 01 May 2009 16:54:08 -0700 By SUSAN SCHROCK ARLINGTON — Council member Lana Wolff said revitalization and eradicating neighborhood blight are the top issues in her east central Arlington district, which includes downtown. Opponent Terry Meza agrees that urban renewal is a key concern,... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5782157/incumbent-faces-heated-challenge-in-arlington-district-5-council-race Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:22:08 -0700 By TRACI SHURLEY Math graduate students from the University of Texas at Arlington will team up with teachers at Arlington secondary schools with high minority populations as part of a nearly $2.9 million National Science Foundation grant. The plan is to get students... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5750770/math-grant-will-pair-ut-arlington-grad-students-with-teachers-in-schools Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:11:08 -0700 By EVA-MARIE AYALA The Fort Worth school district showed a double-digit increase in graduation rates from 1995 to 2005, while the Arlington district had the fourth-highest decrease during the same period, according to a report released today. Fort Worth gained 10.4... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5718390/report-fort-worth-on-time-graduation-rate-up,-arlington-s-down Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:35:08 -0700 By EVA-MARIE AYALA The Fort Worth school district showed a double-digit increase in graduation rates from 1995 to 2005, while the Arlington district had the fourth-highest decrease during the same period, according to a report released today. Fort Worth gained 10.4... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5717853/report-fort-worth-on-time-graduation-rate-up,-arlington-rsquo-s-down Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:04:08 -0700 It’s the busy season for Internet conferences, with SXSWi recently concluded,* Personal Democracy Forum just ahead and the District’s own PoliticsOnline annual conference... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5507559/behind-the-tweets-politicsonline-to-spotlight-congressional-tweeple Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:44:31 -0700 Last week I traded a series of Twitter “@ messages” from Jay Rosen, the NYU journalism professor, blogger and media critic. The first one asked: Maybe you know. Q: why doesn’t... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/3919447/when-not-to-blog-about-the-white-house- Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:12:57 -0700 On Saturday, John Fund wrote a story in which he inadvertently referred to a certain well-known political blogger as: …Ed Morrissey of the conservative blog Captain’s Quarters…... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/3725163/o-captain-my-captain-rise-up-and-read-the-blogs- Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:02:31 -0700 Although All the Rage exists as a feature for the purposes of examining the top 10 most-edited articles on the English-language Wikipedia for the week ending Saturday, sometimes... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/3532225/all-the-rage-12-the-neither-tim-russert-nor-3g-iphone-edition- Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:45:08 -0700 The so-called “DC madam,” Deborah Jeane Palfrey, died of an apparent suicide yesterday. Apparent to most, that is. As others suspected and even invited, it’s apparently murder... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/3256164/the-d-c-madam-suicide-conspiring-to-avoid-the-obvious- Thu, 01 May 2008 16:57:57 -0700 Like we always do about this time, let’s check in with the top 10 most edited Wikipedia articles of the past week, courtesy of the online statistical tool WikiRage. Article:... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/3245299/all-the-rage-5-alien-altissima- Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:59:30 -0700 I’d been hearing the rumors for a few weeks but, finally, the new National Journal site design has had its debut. But on a Friday? In Washington, bad news always gets released... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/3245300/the-new-hotlineness- Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:33:06 -0700