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Holland matches up with Felix in Seattle
Their once-heralded future of the franchise has been sent to the Minors, and they've lost seven in a row. The Mariners have seen better days. How quickly they must forget if they're to move on from their 20-28 start to the season and begin a fight back up the standings in the American League West. "People have really short memories," said manager Eric Wedge. ...
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The age of IRAs
If you are in your 20s or 30s, I have a tip for you: Learn about IRA accounts. They are the retirement vehicles for your future.Few have figured this out. Individual Retirement Accounts get little attention because our personal and media focus is on 401(k) and 403(b) accounts sponsored by employers. Worse, IRA accounts have much lower contribution limits. This year, the maximum contribution to ...
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Retirement in sight for longtime orthopedic surgeon
Dr. L.D. Greenway, an Austin orthopedic surgeon in practice for 50 years and change, swears he's going to retire this year from his practice at the Austin Bone and Joint Clinic, and one of the factors driving him to that move is out of his control: He has cancer.We profiled Greenway, much admired for his work ethic, attention to patients and unimpeachable sartorial sensibilities, in June ...
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30 years ago MCC consortium helped ‘put Austin on the technology map’
Way back in primitive times -- 1983 -- Austin was a smaller and simpler place.Willie lived in the neighborhood, but the Armadillo World Headquarters was already ...
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Are Texas lawmakers too gullible spending your money
How gullible are Texas lawmakers?A Rutgers University expert on economic incentives posed that question to me as I was researching House Bill 2061,which would have provided loans to small businesses in poor ...
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Ministry of Fear [Blu-Ray]
Ministry of Fear, the third of four anti-Nazi films that German director Fritz Lang made during his tenure in Hollywood (the other three being Hangmen Also Die, Man Hunt, and Cloak and Dagger), is hardly one of the great directors signature works, but it still holds up ... ...
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Top Local Business Stories of the Week
Austin-area home sales jump 32 percent in April: Continuing on their upswing, Central Texas home sales jumped 32 percent last month, the highest level for an April in nine years, the latest figures show.The area's median home price rose 8 percent from April 2012, with half the homes selling for more than $227,250 and half for less, the Austin Board of Realtors said in its monthly report.The ...
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The top local stories of the week
Andria Stanley, 32, was sentenced to 50 years in prison after she was convicted last week on four felony charges in a vicious attack on her ex-husband in February 2012. A Travis County jury on Friday found Stanley guilty of aggravated kidnapping and burglary of habitation with an intent to commit a felony, and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly ...
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Special session appears likely
While nothing is official, the prevailing assumption around the Capitol is that lawmakers, and their staffs, will be called back to work quickly for a special session.Gov. Rick Perry refused to address the possibility when reporters hounded him on the House floor Friday, but legislators from both parties said they expect the governor to order them back to work soon after Monday, the final day of ...
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Sexual assault reports and prosecutions rise at Fort Hood
Reports of sexual assault at Fort Hood, the nation's busiest wartime deployment hub, have nearly doubled in recent months, with more than 200 such reports filed since October 2011, according to officials at the post.Fort Hood soldiers made 100 reports from October 2011 to September 2012; they made just as many -- 101 -- in the following seven months, according to information from Fort ...
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More school money but Austin and other districts don’t get much of it
Austin school leaders cannot bank on Texas legislators making the district whole after losing more than $95 million in funding over the past two years.Nor can the Round Rock, Eanes, Lake Travis, Leander and Manor ...