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NewsAustin Amps Up Giving as Non-Profits Net $2+ Million in a DayUpdate: Amplify Austin ended its 24-hour fund drive with nearly $2.8 million in donations.
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News‘Drowning House’ Plunges Readers Into A Dark, Victorian GalvestonGalveston Island is famous for many things: miles of beaches, its many festivals and Victorian architecture – and its sea wall – that was built after the hurricane of 1900. That was the deadliest hurricane in US history – and it rewrote the history of Galveston.
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Historic Letter Heads ‘Home’ to Alamo
For the first time since it was written more than 170 years ago, the William Travis “victory or death” letter will return the Alamo. The famous letter requested reinforcements at the mission....
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Texas Book Festival 2012: Joe Nick Pat...
The National Football League's Dallas Cowboys may be based in the Lone Star State, but they have always been "America's Team." The Cowboys have come a long way from the 1960's when they were a struggling expansion franchise competing with the AFL’s Dallas Texans for the hearts and minds of...
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PolitiFact: Checking UT’s Medical Sc...
The University of Texas has a big endowment and a profitable football team. Can it spend that money on an Austin medical school? Nathan Bernier of KUT News spoke with Gardner Selby of the Austin American-Statesman’s political fact-checking team PolitiFact Texas.
An Austinite suggested UT...
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“Ann Richards’ Texas” Opening Tonight
Six years after her death, Gov. Ann Richards remains a presence in Austin, and tonight "Ann Richards' Texas," a documentary about her political life, makes its debut in her adopted hometown....
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No Charges for Driver Police Fired On
Austin police say no charges will be filed against a driver who police fired at on Sixth Street over the weekend.
As KUT News previously reported, shortly after 2 a.m. early Sunday...
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4th State-Backed Tech Firm Goes Under
Another company that got taxpayer money from an economic development fund controlled by Gov. Rick Perry has filed for bankruptcy, the biggest loss yet for the Emerging Technology Fund....
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South by Southwest Expands to Vegas
South by Southwest is expanding again, and looking beyond Austin. SXSW V2V will run August 11-14, 2013, at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas....
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Texas Book Festival 2012: H.W. Brands
Most of us who study Aaron Burr in school learned the basics: he was the United States’ third vice president. He killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. He had a keen interest in the American Southwest. And he spent some time in exile in Europe after being acquitted on charges of treason against...
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GOP Decade: Costs Shifting to Cities
Ten years ago, Republicans solidified their grip on state government in Texas. Since then, the GOP has made limiting state spending a key part of every legislative session.
But some argue those initiatives have only pushed costs down to the local level....
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Austin, F1 Team to Reduce Pollution
The F1 Grand Prix is celebrated as the premiere car race in the world by its international fan base. But, with all those motors running, it also causes its fair share of pollution. Now, as the race gears up for the first Texas, it’s time in becoming an example of the promises and pitfalls of...
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Buy an Electric Bike, Get a Rebate
Austin Energy is offering rebates of between $50 and $300 on electric mopeds, scooters, bicycles and Segways to help customers cut energy costs....
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What You Need to Know About Prop 3 and...
A full breakdown on proposals to change the way the city is represented on its council....
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Texas Book Festival 2012: Michael Bric...
The Austin Independent School District serves about 80,000 local children. Two-thirds of them are economically disadvantaged. The school board spends a lot of its time talking about how to fix the schools stamped by the state as “academically unacceptable.” Reagan High School used to carry the...
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No Simple Solution for Austin Homeless
The city of Miami claims to have taken almost half of its homeless population off the streets in the last 10 years. In Austin, where homeless services are stretched to the limit, the City Council is looking for new solutions. Last...
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