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Texas gets a new official website
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 by Elizabeth Pagano
Yesterday, the state of Texas launched its “first-ever one-page state government website.” Texas.gov features bilingual access to public records and state agencies and provides simplified access to services such as vehicle registration. A tour, for the curious, is available online here. According to the tour guide, the site’s new design “saves you time so that you can do what you really love — which we bet is something besides taking care of your government business.”
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