by mcourtright | Oct 7, 2025 | Announcement, Announcements, Arts & Culture, Business News, High Traffic Keep, home-featured, Learn, Lifestyle, Lifestyle-Featured, Press Releases, Pulse, Pulse-Featured
We’re excited to reveal the Best of McKinney 2025 finalists — the top three vote-getters in each category! This year’s competition drew an incredible 8,500+ votes from our community, recognizing the outstanding businesses, organizations, and individuals who make...
by Vesta Schneider | Sep 18, 2025 | Announcements, home-featured, Informative Articles, Learn, Learn-Featured, Pulse-Featured
If you’ve been waiting for mortgage rates to finally ease up, there’s good news. Last week, they dropped — and not just a little. On Friday, September 5th, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate hit its lowest point since October 2024. It was the largest single-day...
by mcourtright | Sep 5, 2025 | Business News, home-featured, Learn-Featured, Pulse, Pulse-Featured
The McKinney Chamber is excited to launch McKinney Minute—a new monthly video series featuring Chamber President & CEO Lisa Hermes and Shelbie Hamilton, Editor of Community Impact. Each month, they’ll sit down to highlight key business news from Community Impact...
by Linda Bonner | Aug 21, 2025 | Announcements, Education, home-featured, Informative Articles, Learn, Learn-Featured, Pulse, Pulse-Featured
For parents and caregivers of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), navigating the maze of policies, terminology, and requirements that seem to keep changing can be overwhelming. These issues can create barriers to understanding and...
by Vesta Schneider | Aug 14, 2025 | home-featured, Informative Articles, Learn, Learn-Featured, Pulse-Featured
If you’re thinking about selling your McKinney home, here’s the hard truth: buyers today are pickier, and they have every reason to be. Increased inventory means more competition. Homes are sitting longer. And across the country, price cuts are becoming...
by Linda Bonner | Jul 16, 2025 | Informative Articles, Learn, Learn-Featured, Pulse, Pulse-Featured
Inclusion: Simple Ways We Can All Make a Difference Inclusion is more than just a buzzword. It’s an intentional practice of recognizing and valuing everyone, including individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). It’s about making people...