Planning to put an event on this South By Southwest? Well, you'll need a permit for that. With just over a month until Austin’s South by Southwest festival begins, the city’s special events office has received a flurry of permit applications – everything from noise permits, to food service, to construction permits for big soundstages. It’s typical of this time of year. But the enforcement of these permits will be extended this year, says the Transportation Department’s Gordon Derr. “The emphasis is to make sure we cover all the periods when there’s activity going on downtown, and really throughout Austin, because it seems...
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Lance Armstrong says a “full blown, global” Truth and Reconciliation Commission is the only way for cycling to move past doping scandals. In his first interview since admitting to doping, Armstrong says cyclists need to be assured that there won’t be consequences if they share the truth. Daniel Benson is the Managing Editor at Cyclingnews.com. He told KUT that to get the interview with Armstrong—all he had to do was ask. Armstrong told Benson that the Tour de France was invented as a “stunt” and that no generation of cyclists was “clean”—whether that meant hopping on trains 100 years ago or using EPO now....
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