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Texas Bill Spotlights Minors Charged With Prostitution
One Texas senator wants to allow more counties to set up specialty courts for minors charged with prostitution
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After Boston Bombings, Being Vigilant Without Being Paranoid
In the two weeks since the Boston Marathon bombing, suspects have been identified and news outlets have interviewed people who knew them – asking if there was any sign that they might be capable of the attacks.
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Remembering the First Responders Killed in West
More than 9,000 people gathered at Baylor University yesterday to honor the twelve firefighters and first responders who died in the West Fertilizer Plant Explosion.
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Not Clear What’s Next for Eastside

A high school on Austin’s east side is once again facing the possibility of state closure. Eastside Memorial High has received the state stamp of academically unacceptable since 2004. In 2008 it was closed and reopened with a new name -- it used to be Johnston High School....
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Jeb Bush Talks Texas Education Reform

Update: This morning, Jeb Bush had much to say on education reform and potential strategies Texas can use to ensure student achievement – mostly if you want success, fund it…...
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TxDOT Looking at High-Speed Rail from ...

The Texas Department of Transportation has moved one step closer toward the idea of using rail as an option to address highway congestion on Interstate 35....
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Perry Adviser Says Governor Will Run f...

Ken Armbrister, Gov. Rick Perry’s legislative director, told a crowd on the University of Texas at Austin campus Tuesday that his boss had told him he had decided to run for...
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Texas DPS Has a New High-Tech Eye in t...

Texas’ state police force is beefing up its aerial surveillance technology. The use of aerial drones for domestic surveillance has drawn a lot of controversy nationwide, and while that debate has raged on, the Texas Department of Public Safety has quietly moved ahead with increasing its aerial...
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State to Exercise Disaster Preparednes...

For the first time, Texas is staging a full-scale disaster-preparedness exercise that involves response from emergency-management agencies, hospital personnel, law enforcement, EMS and hazmat responders. And they’re asking for a thousand volunteers. Agencies from Travis, Hays and Williamson...
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From Marsh to Mangrove

The coastline of Texas is changing, but this isn’t a story about rising sea levels – it has to do with what’s growing along the Gulf Coast. Much of the Texas Gulf Coast is undeveloped like here along Pelican Island at the mouth of Galveston Bay. There are vast stretches of shoreline...
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State Releases Voter-Friendly App

Early voting in Texas begins on Oct. 22. If you need a friendly reminder about that and other election information, there’s an app for that. The Texas Secretary of State’s office has produced a smartphone app that gives the user the 411 about election dates, has the statewide sample ballot...
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UT System Offers Free Online Courses &...

The University of Texas System Board of regents voted unanimously this morning to join an initiative to provide free online courses to anyone through a non-profit organization called edX....
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Council Considers Changes to Short-Ter...

The Austin City Council is already considering changes to the rules and fees surrounding the short term rental ordinance that went into effect Oct. 1. As of Friday, the city had issued just 19 licenses. Council wants to know if more people would comply if it were easier and less expensive. But...
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UT Joins Forces With NASA’s Jet ...

The University of Texas has inked a deal with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to work together in areas such as robotics, miniature satellites and high-precision mapping. The director of UT’s Center for Space Research, Byron Tapley says it will ultimately help to advance space exploration....
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Texans Won’t Vote Without a Reas...

Forty-five percent of the Texas voting age population turned out for the 2008 presidential election. That's about a half a percentage point below the 2004 election. Gubernatorial elections bring out less than 30 percent, and constitutional elections hover in the single digits. Our continuing series...
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City Gets Grant to Study Rosewood Reno...

Today the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded the Housing Authority of the City of Austin a $300,000 planning grant to redevelop the Rosewood neighborhood in East Austin. The idea is to transform an obsolete and aging neighborhood into a green and more visible one....
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Texas Voter Registrations Set Record: ...

State officials say a record number of Texans have registered to vote in the November elections. As of today, more than 13.6 million people have registered to vote in Texas. That’s about 20,000 more than the last presidential election year in 2008. And it's about 70 percent of voting age Texans....
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