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title: "The Directory News"
description: "The Directory News — civic news covering politics, crime, sports, culture, financial, and weather."
canonical: https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/
last-updated: 2026-10-28
---

# 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

- [Hinojosa Campaign Reports $200,000 in Payments to Digital Firm Amid Questions Over Undisclosed Political Ads](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/article/hinojosa-campaign-reports-200-000-in-payments-to-digital-firm-amid-questions-over-undisclosed-political-ads)
- [Two Elections, Two Unsettled Questions: Brazil, Israel and the Vote Ahead in America](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/article/two-elections-two-unsettled-questions-brazil-israel-and-the-vote-ahead-in-america)
- [The Public Was Invited. The Press Was Turned Away.](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/article/the-public-was-invited-the-press-was-turned-away)
- [Polling firm admits to fabricating data as a 'social experiment'](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/article/polling-firm-admits-to-fabricating-data-as-a-social-experiment): A national polling organization, Wedgewood Polling, revealed that most of its data was fabricated as an "experimental project to demonstrate the…
- [Bell County Election Predictions: Safe Bets, Close Calls and Famous Last Words](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/article/bell-county-election-predictions-safe-bets-close-calls-and-famous-last-words)
- [More Than 21,000 Early Votes in Bell County. What Does the Surge Tell Us?](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/article/more-than-21-000-early-votes-in-bell-county-what-does-the-surge-tell-us)
- [Gov. Greg Abbott Visits Temple, Joined by State Reps. Buckley and Hickland](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/article/gov-greg-abbott-visits-temple-joined-by-state-reps-buckley-and-hickland)
- [Inside Bell County’s House Races: Small Donors Are Close. The Big Money Isn’t.](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/article/inside-bell-county-s-house-races-small-donors-are-close-the-big-money-isn-t)
- [Where Is The Plan? Bell County Is Voting on a Hospital District.](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/article/where-is-the-plan-bell-county-is-voting-on-a-hospital-district)
- [My Senate Prediction: A 50–50 Chamber and More States That Refuse to Pick One Party](https://thedirectorynews-staging.vercel.app/article/my-senate-prediction-a-50-50-chamber-and-more-states-that-refuse-to-pick-one-party)

## 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