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NewsTake a Multimedia Tour of the Blanton Museum’s ‘Masterworks’The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a new exhibit — "Through the Eyes of Texas: Masterworks from Alumni Collections". The exhibit features almost 200 pieces of art from the private collections of UT alumni.... |
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NewsBill Lets College Football Playoffs Tap Major Events Trust FundPublic subsidies could attract college football playoffs to Texas.
A public hearing will be held Thursday on a bill that would modify the language of the major event trust fun…... |
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No Change at QB for Longhorns
Backup quarterback Case McCoy led UT's crucial scoring drives Saturday, but head coach Mach Brown says David Ash is still the starter....
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No Cellphones in the Voting Booth
State law bans electronic recording devices from polling places. And almost every cellphone now has a camera or video camera, so you can't have yours out in the voting booth....
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Prop 7 Would Change Referendum Process
Currently the city charter requires 10 percent of qualified voters to sign a referendum or ordinance in order to get it on the ballot. Changing the city charter itself requires only half those signatures....
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Eye in the Sky on Texas’ Water Supply
Water in Texas can be confusing. There’s a lot of rules, agencies, and uncertainty involved. But trying to sort through that confusion and present the public with a detailed look at water supplies in the state is Jay Famiglietti, a professor at the University of Calfornia, Irvine....
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Texas Code Conflicts with Election Tre...
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has been making waves in international waters. Abbott and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, an international watchdog group, have been clashing all week....
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Concerns Over Medical School Ballot Pr...
Some residents and the Travis County Taxpayers Union have opposed Proposition 1....
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Another Side to Eagle Ford Boom
The Eagle Ford shale has brought in more than $2 billion in tax revenue in the last year....
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Central Texas Sends Help to East Coast
Hurricane Sandy is bearing down on the East Coast, but the effects are being felt in Austin....
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Domestic Violence Is Still a Killer
Officials are looking for ways to reduce deaths from family violence; a report says 128 people died last year....
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Texas Wants More Medicaid Control
The Texas Legislature will focus on the state’s Medicaid program the moment the 2013 legislative session starts because lawmakers underfunded the program by a few billion dollars in 2011. What the state does may come down to the Affordable Care Act – and who ends up being President....
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US Political Divide Has Roots in ’60s
The 2012 presidential election is deeply divided among voters and states, red and blue, conservative and liberal. Most of the South, including Texas, has been solidly red for at least a decade. The roots of that can be traced to the 1960s, says filmmaker and chair of UT’s Department of Radio,...
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Texas Book Festival 2012: Jan Reid
That hair... that twang.... those one-liners. Ann Richardswas a larger-than-life Texas political figure who vaulted onto the national political stage after her keynote speech at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Her life, and Texas politics, would never be the same again....
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Book Festival 2012: Royal & McEachern
For some Longhorn football fans, there will only ever been one football coach for the University of Texas: Darrell Royal. His career spanned many miles, many jobs, and many decades. And his wife of 68 years, Edith Royal, has many tales to tell ...
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Suspect Arrested in Texas State Threat
A former Texas State University student, Brittany Henderson, 19, has been arrested for making a bomb threat at the school last week that prompted evacuations of several campus buildings....
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