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**Three Big Ways MCBA is Helping Our Community**

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**Communities Thrive By Embracing Growth and Opportunity**

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**Subsidies to Businesses are Only Needed When Government has Failed
it's Residents**

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**Communities Thrive By Embracing Growth and Opportunity**

More than three dozen groups have already booked convention space for
the year after construction is scheduled to be completed on Dallas' Kay
Bailey Hutchison Convention Center
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city staff told council members in the first update on the project in
nearly a year.

Rosa Fleming, the city's director of convention and event services, said
the building is on track to open in 2029, despite slight changes in
plans to accommodate TxDOT and Norfolk Southern Railway projects.

The expansion would triple the size of the convention center's largest
ballroom and double its meeting space, plus update the building the city
describes as "deficient."

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**Subsidies to Businesses are Only Needed When Government has Failed
it's Residents**

The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP)

offers subsidies for internet services to 23 million low-income
households across the country, including 116,259 homes in Dallas. The
program provides participants with up to a $30 discount on the internet,
and qualifying households can also get a one-time discount of up to $100
to purchase a laptop, desktop computer or tablet from certain providers
if they contribute more than $10 and less than $50 toward the purchase
price.

But without any action by Congress, the ACP will run out of funds by
April, leaving millions without much-needed internet access at home.

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**Employees Want to Live and Work in Low Crime Communities**

In January 2024, Downtown Dallas' Crime Score was 8x higher than
Downtown Ft. Worth and experienced:

* 24x more motor vehicle thefts

* 6x more assaults

* 7x more thefts

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continued success and prosperity of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
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