Money
The numbers nobody hands you straight
Appraisal notices, registration pages, “team fees” that arrive after you have already paid. These are the household numbers around here that are quoted without explanation, so we go and work them out, and show you where every figure came from.
Property taxes
Do the tax-protest firms actually beat doing it yourself?
Collin County's own records for 14,345 Frisco protests. Homeowners who filed alone got a bigger median reduction than those who paid a firm 25–40% of the savings. Plano, McKinney, Allen and Prosper too.
Read the protest data →Youth sports
What it costs to participate in sports in North Texas and which sports to get your kids into
What a season actually costs, once the gear is counted. Soccer, football and hockey across five cities, 20 programmes with the whole bill, including the team fee your coach collects later and the equipment nobody warns you about.
Compare season costs →Every figure on these pages says where it came from, and where we estimated something we say so. Spot one that looks wrong? Tell us . A receipt from a parent beats anything we can find online.