Welcome to The Tyler Loop!

Our mission is to help Tylerites develop a shared understanding of challenges and opportunities in our diverse and rapidly growing city. We do that through fact-based reporting, public events, and more. We’re nonpartisan and nonprofit, and we aim to be 100-percent community supported.

Highlights of our past reporting include a taco tour of Tyler, a 130-year timeline of Robert E. Lee High School, a foodie deep dive, profiles of undocumented East Texans, and our data-driven storytelling. Our next series, which we’re currently working on, is about the future of Tyler.

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The Food, Drink, and Farming Issue

Special Series: Robert E. Lee High School

Data-Driven Storytelling

Special Series: Undocumented East Texans

Read From the Beginning

Want to write about Tyler? Do some research? We should talk.

Tyler, Texas population growth by age group

You’re Not Imagining It: Tyler Is Getting Younger

After Trump, East Texas progressives are “coming out of the woodwork”

Embark Women

A new group in town wants women entrepreneurs to fail — in a good way

Has Tyler’s economic boom helped everyone? We crunched the numbers

Alan Lizarraga is a candidate for Tyler City Council in District 5.

Four local problems District 5 candidate Alan Lizarraga wants to fix

We’re going on a taco tour of Tyler!

Tyler’s voter turnout is so low, 100 votes could swing an election

After 40 years of Hispanic growth, we’re now a majority-minority city

Where should we go on our taco tour of Tyler?

Tyler’s traffic is as awful as you think it is (and we’ve got proof)

The story behind the mural at Stanley’s BBQ

The Tyler Loop Taco Tour begins! First stop: Tacos Mexico

Louie Gohmert speaking at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference.

Is Louie Gohmert unbeatable?

As Tyler’s women become more educated, men fall behind

What does Texas’s anti-sanctuary cities law mean for undocumented East Texans — and for the rest of us?

The Tyler Loop Taco Tour: La Michoacana Meat Market

These eight maps show how annexation shaped Tyler, from 1940 to today

Here’s how the Republican healthcare bill would affect Tyler

Tyler Loop Taco Tour: El Norteño

Mayor Martin Heines talks to The Tyler Loop about race, downtown, and taxes

A Tyler ordinance authorizing land acquisition.

How The Tyler Loop uses the Texas Public Information Act (and how you can, too)

Five Questions for Aristeo Rodriguez, the entrepreneurial music nerd behind El Guapo

The Tyler Loop’s Weekly Picks

The Tyler Loop’s Weekly Picks for the Week of August 9th

A 1933 map of the East Texas Oil Field, by E.D. Ray. Published online by the Texas General Land Office.

Is Tyler’s economy really tied to oil booms and busts?

Stay, or go? An undocumented Tyler schoolteacher faces a hard choice

What’s it really like to be an undocumented immigrant in East Texas?

“Deporting us is bad math”: an undocumented East Texan makes his case

Where Tyler honors the Confederacy

“I just want to help people feel better.” An undocumented Tyler nurse’s story

The Tyler Loop’s Event Guide: Open taps, Molly Ivins, pizza night, and a Selena tribute

A foreclosure sign.

In Tyler, as in America, the wealth gap between blacks and whites is all about housing

“I can’t let the degree that I’ve worked so hard for go to waste”: a Tyler DACA student’s story

Robert E. Lee High School, race, and segregation in Tyler: a 130-year timeline

Unfinished history: Black Tyler’s long fight to change the name — and many other things — at Robert E. Lee High

Transcript: School board president Fritz Hager’s remarks on the Robert E. Lee name change debate

The Tyler Loop is back — and we’ve got some big plans up our sleeves

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