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NewsHandbag Drive Gives Domestic Violence Victims Handle on HopeThe Texas Advocacy Project and the Travis County Sheriff’s Office are launching its annual “Handbags for Hope” drive.
The sixth annual installment of the drive a…... |
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NewsPolitiFact: Austin Not the Biggest City Missing European FlightsIn this week’s Politifact: a fact check that started with a KUT News report.
Emily Donahue with KUT News spoke with Gardner Selby of the Austin American-Statesman’s PolitFact Texas team. It all started with a KUT News report on Mayor Lee Leffingwell’s push for non-stop flights from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport to Europe. We quoted Austin lawyer Pete Winstead, who said Austin is the biggest city in the country without a nonstop flight to a European capital.
PolitiFact Texas started with a Census Bureau breakdown indicating that a dozen cities are more populous than Austin, starting with New York and extending to Dallas, San Jose, Jacksonville and Indianapolis. It also checked travel websites and with... |
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