🗳️ Last Chance to Vote + Frisco’s New Mango Spot Is Coming

If you live in Frisco and haven't voted yet, today is your last shot. Polling is open today for the May 2 city and school board elections, and there is a lot on the ballot.

Here's the quick rundown:

A few things worth noting: school board races require a majority to win, while city council races need over 50%. If nobody clears that threshold, we're looking at a runoff.

One more thing: Collin County voters can vote at any county polling location. Denton County voters, you're tied to your designated precinct, so double check before you drive somewhere.

FISD board members shape curriculum, budgets, and the culture of the schools my kids will walk into someday. The mayor shapes what kind of city greets them when they get home.

Go vote. It takes 10 minutes.

(Or legally required, same thing.)

Texas passed a financial literacy graduation requirement in 2025. Frisco ISD's response was basically: we've been doing this for years.

Panther Creek teacher Amanda Lucero, 13 years in the classroom, has been teaching kids about budgets, loans, and compound interest long before the state told anyone to.

Her take: "Financial education should be empowering and rooted in real-life scenarios."

The moment that got me: She described students calculating compound interest on debt for the first time. The gasping. The recalculating. The "the calculator must be wrong!"

Reader, I have been that person. The calculator was not wrong.

What's next: The new state-required course will likely start with incoming 9th graders. Curriculum development kicks off once the state releases its guidelines. In the meantime, FISD offers five economics courses including AP and dual credit.

I commute to Legacy West every day. Dallas North Tollway. Preston Road. Whatever mood traffic is in.

So when a report from mental health org A Mission for Michael ranked Frisco 11th worst burnout belt in the entire country, I did not fall out of my chair.

Only DFW suburb on the list. Sandwiched between West Chester, PA and North Bergen, NJ.

Their description of the Frisco commute:

"Mornings that start before they should, evenings arriving already compressed. The hours lost don't register anywhere officially, yet they reshape the week all the same."

That's my Tuesday. That's my Thursday. That's just... Wednesday.

I don't have a fix. Traffic is traffic. But knowing the data is useful, especially when you're deciding how hard to push for remote days or thinking about where to work next.

The good news: we have great grocery stores. And soon, mango dessert.

🎓 FISD Graduation Season 12 ceremonies. May 20-22. Comerica Center and Ford Center at The Star. Ticketed via Hometown Ticketing. Free livestreams available for U.S. viewers. Congrats, Class of 2026.

🏆 Liberty High Won the State Academic Octathlon Liberty Team 1 took first in Texas. Centennial (5th), Independence (8th), and Liberty Team 2 (9th) also cracked the top 10. Four teams from one district. Quietly incredible.

♻️ $61M Recycling Center is Open 120,000 square feet. Serves Frisco, McKinney, and DFW. Single-stream recycling, drop-off kiosks for non-curbside items, ~35 new jobs. It's also phase one of a larger Environmental Campus. For a city growing this fast, that's infrastructure that actually matters.

Homes are sitting 54 days on average right now… up from 49 last year. 34% of listings had price drops. 80% sold under asking.

That's not doom and gloom. It just means who you list with matters more than it did two years ago.

My wife Emily runs a free service that matches Frisco sellers with agents who actually know your neighborhood, not just someone who'll take the listing and hope. She moved here in 2023 and built this because we wished it existed.

Takes 5 minutes. No pressure. No cost.

👉 Find your agent through Emily