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  • Lawmaker Emerging Tech to get $50 million

    The Texas Emerging Technology Fund will get $50 million to continue operations as part of a budget deal, state Rep. Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, said Monday.Gov. Rick Perry requested $69.5 million for each of the next two years, but negotiations between legislative leaders and the governor's office reduced that to $50 million over two years, according to Pitts, who is chairman of the House ...

  • Payback Member kills bills to get even Payback Member kills bills to get even

    AUSTIN (AP) A member of the Texas House is killing bills authored by a Houston senator in retaliation for her opposition to an exoneration bill. San Antonio Democrat Ruth McClendon quashed two bills on Friday authored by Houston Republican Sen. Joan Huffman. She killed another bill last week. McClendon is angry that Huffman is blocking a vote on the Timothy Cole Exoneration Review Commission. ...

  • Austin gas prices hold steady as national numbers jump

    Austin gas prices are 15 cents less per gallon than the same day one year ago. The average price per gallon for gasoline in Austin on Sunday was $3.38, just 0.4 cents less than the week before. Reports from GasBuddy.com show national prices jumping 8.9 cents over the last week to $3.67. Recent increases across the U.S. are breaking records in states such as Nebraska, Minnesota and Kansas, ...

  • Acevedo debates gun control on Twitter

    For months Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo has lobbied lawmakers to expand background checks to more gun sales. On Sunday night, the debate continued on Twitter, where the city's top police officer sparred with users over the need for increased gun control.It certainly wasn't the first time Acevedo has engaged with the Twitter population and discussed why he thinks new gun restrictions ...

  • Man charged with stealing 15 cell phones at bar Man charged with stealing 15 cell phones at bar

    AUSTIN (KXAN) - A man charged with taking cell phones out of womens purses was arrested early Saturday morning at a bar on East Sixth Street. Josue Vivar-Hernandez, 28, is accused of being in possession of an estimated 15 stolen cell phones. He was detained shortly after 2 a.m. at the bar Aquarium after manager Tyler Carr told police he saw the suspect snatching phones out of the purses of ...


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Movie Review

Silver Bullet [DVD]

Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf was always one of the prolific novelist's slightest works, a short, readable-in-one-sitting novelette constructed as a series of 12 episodes in which a werewolf terrorizes a small American town, with each one corresponding to a month of the year. With a punchy, present-tense prose style and almost no characterization, the best thing about it were the gra ... ...

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  • Brandywine REIT selling an interest in its big Austin portfolio

    The Barton Skyway complex on South Mopac Expressway is being shopped around by Brandywine Real Estate Investment Trust. Brandywine Realty Trust (NYSE: BDN) has placed its Austin suburban office portfolio on the market with an unusual marketing proposition. The publicly traded real estate trust is looking for an investor who wants to share ownership in the 1.4 million-square-foot ...

  • Classroom curriculum system dies amid criticism

    AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A classroom curriculum system used by hundreds of Texas school districts will stop offering lesson plans after some conservative groups claimed it was promoting anti-American values.State Sen. Dan Patrick said Monday that officials who created the system known as CSOPE will vote to scrap thousands of lesson plans this week, effectively killing the entire system.CSCOPE ...

  • Dell committee wants more info from buyout group

    Dell Inc. wants more information again from the investor group challenging CEO Michael Dells shareholder buyout. The companys special committee formed to consider buyout offers has asked billionaire investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc. for more details about their takeover plan, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), the No. 3 computer maker in the ...

  • Vista Equity Partners to pay $1B for Calif. tech company

    Vista Equity Partners has agreed to buy out the shareholders of a California software company for about $1 billion. The Austin-based firm would pay $24.75 per share for Websense Inc. (Nasdaq: WBSN), the developer of software and provider of services designed to protect companies from cyber attacks and data theft, according to a Websense news release. The Websense board of directors have approved ...

  • Austin MA deals worth $11.75B in 2012 slideshow

    Click through this slideshow for the top five M&A deals last year, and click here to take a look back at the 12 most-read M&A stories in 2012. It is no surprise to Austin Business Journal readers that deals abound in the Austin area we report on them every day. The Mergers & Acquisitions list in our May 17-23 print issue summarizes the top 25 transactions involving local companies in ...

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