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  • House gets ready for major budget vote House gets ready for major budget vote

    AUSTIN (AP) In the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature, a furious final week is being dominated by distrust, deadlines and delays. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst says he takes House leaders at their word, and that delicate pieces of a complicated budget deal will be passed. A big test comes Wednesday. That is when the House is expected to finally take up a new state water plan that is crucial to a ...

  • Senate OKs legislation to cut business taxes

    The Texas Senate passed three bills on Tuesday to cut business taxes. The Senate version of House Bill 500 gives businesses with revenue of less than $1 million a permanent exemption from paying the state's franchise tax, and gives all businesses a 5 percent rate cut over the next two years, the Austin American-Statesman reports. House Bill 800, which gives companies a choice between a ...

  • COTA to city of Austin help us win X Games bid

    Sixteen of the competing X Games athletes live in Austin, COTA President Steve Sexton told City Council, the Statesman reports. Circuit of The Americas is asking the city of Austin to endorse ESPN's summer X Games so the sports facility can apply for money from Texas' Major Events Trust Fund. COTA President Steve Sexton estimates the circuit may seek about $800,000 a year from the fund, ...

  • Council shelves plan for Austin Energy independent board

    Mayor Lee Leffingwell said the current plan to create an independent board would add bureaucracy, making things less efficient. The plan to create an independent board to oversee Austin Energy has been grounded, as concerns rise over whether such a board would add bureaucracy and make things less efficient. I think for the good of the Utility, we would be better off just withdrawing this whole ...

  • Hip hop artist Timbaland invests in Austin app developer

    An Austin-based music software company has received backing from hip hop heavyweight Timbaland. The artist and music producer is the lead investor in a $500,000 investment in Open Labs Inc., which develops StageLight, an app that enables users to create music on a standard PC, the Austin American-Statesman reports. Timbaland, whose real name is Timothy Mosley, said he has been involved with the ...


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Movie Review

Just My Luck [DVD]

Just My Luck [DVD]

Just My Luck is a riff on body-switch comedies, except this time it's not entire souls that swap corporeality--just one's luck. The movie skates along on the brittle-thin premise that some people are lucky and others are not, and if those people happen to kiss, they can swap fortu ... ...

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  • Super Bowl 50 awarded to Bay Area Super Bowl 51 to Houston | NFL

    BOSTON — Let the Bay Area's Super Bowl party begin. NFL owners on Tuesday selected the San Francisco 49ers' new Santa Clara stadium to host the 50th Super Bowl in 2016, sending the nation's biggest sporting event back to the Bay Area for the first time since 1985. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell made the announcement at a news conference after the vote at the league ...

  • Wolf set for first big league start vs. Parker As

    Ross Wolf will not have an easy task in his first Major League start. The 30-year-old, who has 25 big league appearances but none in a starting role, will face the Athletics, who have won five straight games and are going for a series sweep of the Rangers on Wednesday afternoon. Wolf will be starting in place of Nick Tepesch, who was scratched from the start with a blister on his right middle ...

  • Welfare drug testing fails after stall

    AUSTIN (AP) - More than an hour of delaying tactics from House Democrats has blocked a vote on a hotly debated bill that would have mandated drug testing for some welfare applicants. Lawmakers earlier Tuesday night approved a measure requiring some people seeking unemployment insurance to undergo drug screening. But a proposal requiring such testing for people enrolled in Temporary Assistance ...

  • Senate approves Capitol complex protections

    The Texas Senate took another step Tuesday limiting public private partnerships and protecting the Capitol complex.The Senate approved House Bill 3436 that prohibits the Texas Facilities Commission and the General Land Office from disposing of land in the Capitol complex. It allows the commission, however, to develop and operate a project with the private sector's help only if the ...

  • Man stabbed in San Marcos

    SAN MARCOS -; A man was stabbed Tuesday night in San Marcos, and an assailant who fled on a bicycle was being sought, the Sheriff's Department ...

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