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NewsLonghorns Lose to Houston in Opening CBI GameUT Men’s Basketball team lost their opening game in the College Basketball Invitational against Houston last night.... |
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NewsLegislature Considers Job Help for VeteransUnemployment among U.S. veterans fell in 2012 but is still higher than the rest of the workforce. Two bills dealing with vets and employment are before the Texas Senate Veteran Affairs and Military Installations Committee. One would help veterans find work in Texas agencies; the other would ensure they could take time off from work.... |
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Ethics Commission Backs Off Investigat...
The Texas Ethics Commission backed away Thursday from a controversial proposal to take certain investigative authority away from the Travis County district attorney’s office, but the agency approved two recommendations aimed at enhancing criminal...
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Vets Get Creative in Returning Home
A local nonprofit is employing the arts to help veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan reintegrate with life back home. ...
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Austin Projected to Lead U.S. in Growt...
The Austin metro area will grow more in the next five years than any other in the United States, according to a new study based on U.S. Census Data. ...
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Affordable Housing In Tough Spot
Austin’s Housing Authority is trying to figure out what to do after the failure of Proposition 15, which would have provided $78 million for permanent and transitional housing. ...
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State Wants To Seize FLDS Ranch
A 1,700-acre West Texas ranch owned by a religious sect that practices polygamy is the target of seizure efforts by the Texas Attorney General’s office. It’s the latest chapter in a long legal battle between the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the State of...
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Checking the Support for Texting Ban
Gov. Rick Perry vetoed a statewide ban on all texting while driving in 2011. Now a Midland lawmaker wants to try again, and PolitiFact checked on some of his numbers....
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Texas Third in Graduation Rate
Texas is tied for third among all states in the percentage of students graduating high school in four years....
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Utility Fund Isn’t Serving Its Purpose
there’s a pile of money -- nearly a billion dollars -- that’s been growing in a state fund for years, not being used for its intended purpose. KUT’s Mose Buchele reports for StateImpact Texas on the $850 million System Benefit Fund....
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City Examines Incentives for Visa Jobs
The Austin City Council reviewed its plan to offer incentives to the credit card company Visa to establish an information technology center in the city....
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Cornyn Mum on No-Tax Pledge
Republicans in Congress continue to wrestle with whether or not to abide by a strict no-tax-increase pledge many of them signed. ...
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UT Scientists Identify Most Massive Bl...
It sits in the center of a galaxy called NGC 1277 and has a mass equivalent to about 17 billion suns....
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Some Texans Overpaying for Electricity
StateImpact reporter Dave Fehling finds that electricity may be costing Texans a lot more than it should....
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Updates to Economic Incentives Propose...
The city of Austin will soon consider changes to its economic incentives program, which aims to lure companies to move here. Today a committee drafted recommendations about living wages, training and workers’...
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McCaul to Be Named Chair of Homeland S...
U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, will be named the chairman of the powerful House Committee on Homeland Security later today, Republican sources have confirmed. ...
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