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When Texas' Secretary of State issued emergency voter secrecy guidance to election offices, allowing them to redact more voter information that is traditionally publicly available to civic nonprofits, MCBA's own Julie Strum published a strong argument for balancing voter privacy with Get Out The Vote efforts.

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**A City is Only as Healthy as Its Number of Startups**

TestFit, a Dallas-based real estate development feasibility platform, aims to "revolutionize" building optimization through computational artificial intelligence. To help advance that goal, it's launching a new tool in July called Generative Design.

The company-which wrote its first line of building-optimization code in 2016-has become an emerging leader in the space with its TestFit Site Solver, a computational AI co-creation tool that enables users to "generate site plans instantly with real-time insights into design, cost, and constructibility."

The Generative Design tool is "the next step forward," TestFit says, because it allows AI to test site solutions "on its own," based on specific project requirements.

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Nearly four years after acquiring the former Hotel Miramar on Fort Worth Avenue, Dallas City Council members on Wednesday unanimously approved development and loan agreements with St. Jude Inc. to convert the West Dallas property into permanent supportive housing.

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