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NewsBill Lets College Football Playoffs Tap Major Events Trust FundPublic subsidies could attract college football playoffs to Texas.
A public hearing will be held Thursday on a bill that would modify the language of the major event trust fun…... |
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NewsStudy: ‘Sonogram Bill’ Doesn’t Change Minds About AbortionThe Texas law that requires women wait twenty-four hours after receiving an ultrasound to get an abortion is not causing them to change their minds but is causing “excessive har…... |
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Suspect Arrested in Texas State Threat
A former Texas State University student, Brittany Henderson, 19, has been arrested for making a bomb threat at the school last week that prompted evacuations of several campus buildings....
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Texas Book Festival 2012: Robert Caro
Robert Caro's name has become synonymous with the study of the life and times of Lyndon Baines Johnson. In his most recent book about LBJ's life, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4, Caro covers the years from 1958-1964....
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Big Tex to Rise Again – Even Taller?
Key members of the State Fair of Texas staff are coming together this afternoon to start planning next year’s event, much earlier than usual, in part because they need+ to get to work on how to bring Big Tex back....
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These Days, the Twang Ain’t No Thang
When you think about Texas and what makes a Texan, one of the first things that comes to mind is probably the twang. But it's changed in recent decades, linguists say that decades from now, talking Texan may sound a whole lot different than it does today....
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“Digital Wallet” Is Slow to Catch On
Three rival telecoms are working together on Isis, a “digital wallet” system that lets customers buy things with their smartphones instead of using cash....
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No Indictments Over Open Meetings Law
Some members of the Austin City Council will avoid prosecution for alleged violations of open meetings laws. The Travis County Attorney’s Office finished its investigation into a complaint that council members deliberated among themselves in illegal ways....
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Early Voting Numbers Are Up in Austin
Early voting has begun, and the number of people heading to the polls in this year’s election is up after the first couple of days, even though there are only a handful of contested races....
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State Increases Cap on Electric Rates
The Public Utility Commission of Texas, which oversees electric utilities in the state, voted today to raise the limit on what electric companies can charge for wholesale power....
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AISD Debt Ratio Among Region’s Lowest
That said, AISD also has the most debt of any district in the area, at $809,435,850....
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Texas Book Festival 2012: Ben Fountain
Ben Fountain was watching the Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day football game halftime show a few years back when he says it suddenly hit him: he wondered what had happened to the country where he was born and grew up? He says the combination of entertainment, media, military, and what he calls...
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GOP Leaders Not Coasting on Success
From movements like the tea party to the Hispanic Republicans of Texas, the 2012 GOP looks quite different from the 2002 version. Party leaders talked to KUT about the evolution of the GOP -- and what the next 10 years might look like in a state of rapid growth and changing demographics....
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Strategies in the Texas Senate Race
This is not necessarily the U-S Senate race Texas voters were expecting. GOP Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst had been a considered a favorite to win his party’s nomination to succee…...
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Rural Water Customers Ask for Advocate
Texas lawmakers heard from county officials and ratepayer groups today about the consolidation of small private water utilities in the state, and what that means for water rates in many rural parts of Texas....
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Cancer Center Tries To Move Past Resig...
The head of the state’s $3 billion Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas sought to reassure some of its biggest supporters today over a recent wave of resignations....
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