On Thursday, February 21, KXAN published an article about a statewide poll they ran to find out where the State of Texas stands on gambling and in-state casinos.

Article writer Josh Hinkle, made an outstanding job on describing what many locals are doing to gamble, legally, out of state and on depicting the information he acquired from the polls. He says, that some carpool and others follow the dozens of charter buses shuttling like-minded Texans down the highway to other states like Louisiana. 
He later showed the poll results that show Texas' attitudes on gambling.
64 percent of Texans say the support casino gambling in the state
64 percent say they have gambled in out-of-state casinos.
28 percent say casinos would lead to gambling addiction.
23 percent say casinos would add to Texas' crime rate.

He, then, explained that casinos make about  $2 billion and $4 billion from Texas each year, according to various estimates and The Texas Gaming Association says that spending not only takes that money from the state's economy, it also costs the state $1.5 billion a year in tax revenue. 
The title given to this article "Poll: Texans support legal in-state casinos" shows that his audience is mostly people over 21, who are able to vote, buy lottery tickets, and gamble legally in some states.

With that being said, i believe that Texas should make gambling legal, and give Texans the decision to gamble in-state, which would give our government more control of the money that we spend in casinos. The $2 billion and $4 billion that other states get from Texas can stay here to help our children to have a better education and to create programs to help those in need. 

On February 2013, the Texas Monthly published an article titled "What nobody says about Austin" where they question if Austin is the State's most segregated city.
The author of the article described Austin as a prideful city with cultural liberalism and sophistication and believed it to be a very diverse city. As a Tejana she knows that Latinos make up 35 percent of Austin’s population but as a newcomer she was surprised that she didn't see as many as she did in San Antonio, Houston, and other places she had visited. 
Later on in the article she, then, learned that she had just been in the West side of Austin which is basically a different city than the East side divided up by Interstate Highway 35, making the West side majorly white, and East side majorly Latino or black. 
To me this was an interesting article because nobody really acknowledges how diverse Austin is and how overwhelming it can be for newcomers to get settled in this beautiful, yet, diverse city.