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Council Considers Adding Taxi Permits

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Council Considers Adding Taxi Permits

The Taxi Drivers Association of Austin protested a proposal to add 30 taxi permits in the city....
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Automatic Admission to UT Gets Harder

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Automatic Admission to UT Gets Harder

UT President Bill Powers says that starting in the Summer of 2014, UT will automatically admit Texas seniors who rank in the top 7 percent of their high school class....
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PolitiFact: West Austin Overrepresented

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PolitiFact: West Austin Overrepresente...

We fact check a statement made by Travis County’s former State Senator, Gonzalo Barrientos, who wrote that over the decades, many of Austin's council members have come from just one swath of the city....
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Packing a Lunch Presents a Challenge

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Packing a Lunch Presents a Challenge

The Austin school district serves nearly 54,000 school lunches daily. Still, many students choose to bring their own lunches. And after more than a month of school, some families are already fighting off the lunchroom blues....
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Downtown Wastewater Tunnel Opens

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Downtown Wastewater Tunnel Opens

You could call it one of the dirty details of being a rapidly-growing city: upgrading infrastructure to move wastewater to treatment plants. Today marks the end of one of the largest and...
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Capital Metro’s F1 Costs: $122,000

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Capital Metro’s F1 Costs: $122,000

Austin’s public transit agency says it will cost an extra $122,000 to provide expanded services during the Formula One weekend next month....
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Lawmakers May Push for School Vouchers

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Lawmakers May Push for School Vouchers

School voucher programs in more than a dozen states let parents pull their kids out of a public school and get money for tuition somewhere else, including private schools. Texas lawmakers are poised to push for such a system here....
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Exporting Texas Tastes to China

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Exporting Texas Tastes to China

This year’s timely rains are bringing Texas a fruitful recovery of its pecan industry. So much so, Texas is expecting a pecan yield two times bigger than last year’s. Agricultural officials expect Texas to produce 65 million pounds of nuts....
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Justin Cronin and the Rise of Monsters

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Justin Cronin and the Rise of Monsters

Zombies and vampires are everywhere these days, not just on Halloween.  From the popularity of the Twilight books and movies, to the success of TV shows like the Walking Dead and True Blood.  Houston-based writer Justin Cronin has carved out his own space in this bloody...
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State Water Plan Struggles for Funding

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State Water Plan Struggles for Funding

The state water plan costs $53 billion, and Gov. Rick Perry and many lawmakers swear they won't raise taxes next year....
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Cost of School Discipline Scrutinized

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Cost of School Discipline Scrutinized

State lawmakers are talking about discipline policies in Texas public schools, and a report has found that disciplinary programs and school security in Texas don’t come cheap. ...
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UT Makes Final Push For Prop 1

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UT Makes Final Push For Prop 1

The University of Texas is making a final public push to promote a proposed tax increase to fund a new medical school....
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Judge in Ken Anderson Inquiry: Testimony Will Be Public

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Judge in Ken Anderson Inquiry: Testimo...

State District Judge Ken Anderson is the subject of an unusual court proceeding that will determine whether he should face contempt of court and evidence tampering charges in the 1987 trial that sent an innocent Michael Morton to prison for life for his wife's murder....
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Prop 8: More Time for Fundraising

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Prop 8: More Time for Fundraising

Proposition 8 would let winning council candidates continue raising campaign money for 30 days after the election. ...
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