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NewsAnother Way to Celebrate Valentine’s Day: Learn CPRIf your Valentine goes into cardiac arrest during dinner, Austin-Travis County EMS wants you to know how to help.
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NewsA Texas Valentine: LBJ’s Love Letters to Lady BirdJust in time for Valentine’s Day, the LBJ Presidential Library and Museumis releasing never-before-seen love letters written by the former president and his soon-to-be br…... |
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City Closing In on Budget Approval
The Austin City Council is meeting today to discuss and possibly change the city’s proposed budget for 2013. A vote could happen as early as today or as late as Wednesday on the final slicing of the $3.1 billion pie....
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Voter Registration Changes OK’d
New voter registration rules in Texas can be enforced ahead of the November elections after a court cleared the way for the new rules Thursday....
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New Section of 130 to Have 85 mph Limi...
Central Texas will soon have a stretch of highway with the fastest posted speed limit in the Western Hemisphere: 85 mph.
The limit is going up on a soon-to-open stretch of State Highway 130 from Austin to Seguin. It and the rest of 130 was created to relieve I-35, one of the most congested...
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Tolls Going Up on Three Area Highways
Starting in 2013, some Central Texas toll roads will get pricier, and some tollbooths will disappear. KUT’s Joy Diaz spoke with transportation reporter Ben Wear with the Austin-American Statesman about the coming changes being put in place on three toll roads by the Texas Transportation...
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Texas to Request No Child Left Behind ...
Texas is asking the federal government to waive requirements associated with No Child Left Behind....
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Kerrville State Hospital Faces Possibl...
This month the Legislative Budget Board will consider privatizing the state hospital in Kerrville. When the bidding process for the move began in July, the only bidder that came forward was Florida-based GEO Care, a company that’s part of a group that specializes in the management of private...
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Looking Forward at State’s Econo...
The Legislature’s new Select Committee on Economic Development began its work today studying and making recommendations for state and local policy. Texas’ state economy has fared better than most. Job growth in the Lone Star State has stayed ahead of the national average. But in order to...
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Wind, Cooler Temperatures Coming
A much anticipated relief from triple-digit temperatures is coming Saturday for Central Texas....
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Longhorns Face New Mexico On Saturday
The team will try to build on its solid if not overly impressive win against Wyoming last week....
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Fight Over Nazi Art Theft Comes to Big...
A movie opens tonight at the Violet Crown Cinema that encompasses history, villainy, tragedy, triumph and a great deal of poignancy. It’s a sort of detective story that follows efforts over seven decades to prove the ownership of a piece of looted Nazi art....
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Tejano Walking Trails Receive Designat...
The Tejano Walking Trails in the East Cesar Chavez community was designated by the National Parks Service on Thursday, clearing the way for future federal funding....
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Will the Tablet’s Rise Mean More or ...
The largest corporate employer in Central Texas, Dell, has sent out pink slips to an undisclosed number of workers.
Despite acquisitions designed...
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Moving Crude Relies on Aging Pipeline ...
There are thousands of pipelines in Texas, and some of them are starting to age. Now federal regulators are urging pipeline companies to start replacing them. As Dave Fehling reports for StateImpact Texas, that could be especially important now that old pipelines are being used in new ways....
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City Selling Land Near Bergstrom Airpo...
The city is selling 36 acres of land near Austin Bergstrom International Airport. And while you might think property near an airport runway might not be the most desirable, the land is a hot commodity....
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