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    AUSTIN (KXAN) - The 2013 legislative session is now in the homestretch, and last week's deal on a state budget could help lawmakers avoid having to stay in Austin for the summer. House-Senate negotiators came to an agreement on the state's two-year spending plan that restores much of the $4 billion cut from public education last year. The agreement must be formally approved by both ...

  • Lawmakers give Texas craft breweries a boost

    State Sen. Kevin Eltife, R-Tyler Several proposals that would loosen regulations for Texas craft breweries and beer makers received approval in the House last week. State Sen. Kevin Eltife's, R-Tyler, bills which had already moved through the Senate passed the House on May 17 without changes or amendments, the Austin American-Statesman reports. The proposals enable small beer makers to ...

  • United Airlines new small business loyalty program

    United Airlines is introducing a loyalty program designed for small businesses. Attention small businesses. United Airlines wants you to know your business is important to the carrier. Chicago-based United (NYSE: UAL) is launching a new United States travel loyalty program that will enable small businesses to earn and redeem miles. Participating businesses will earn award miles by purchasing ...

  • Council to tackle 117-item agenda this week

    The Austin City Council has a busy week ahead, as it hashes out an agenda with some 117 items ranging from an independent Austin Energy to the decommissioning of the Holly Street Power Plant. Council will discuss plans on Thursday to transfer power to a board of trustees that will govern Austin Energy, take $7 million from the entities budget for the decommissioning of the Holly Street Power ...

  • Reid Ryan leaving Round Rock Express for Houston Astros

    Reid Ryan, left, Houston Astros' new president, and Owner Jim Crane Round Rock Express founder and CEO Reid Ryan is leaving Central Texas to become president of business operations with the Houston Astros. Ryan who helped establish the baseball team in 2000 will maintain his ownership stake in the Express, the Community Impact Newspaper reports. Reid's younger brother Reese Ryan has ...


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Movie Review

The Thirteenth Floor

There have been a number of American films in the last few years that have been built on the notion of questioning What is reality? These include "Dark City," which played with the idea of implanted memories, "The Truman Show," which gave us a TV studio masquerading as the real world, and, most recently, "The Matrix," with its alien-imposed, prison-like virtual world. What these films have ... ...

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  • Officials Man charged in Spicewood double slaying kills self in jail

    The Burnet County sheriff's office reported Sunday that one of three suspects charged in the killing of a Spicewood couple committed suicide while in custody.Sheriff W.T. Smith said Gregory Mark Currie, 30, was found in his cell during a routine check by correctional personnel about 7:30 p.m Saturday. Currie had ripped off a part of his bedsheet and hanged himself from the showerhead, Smith ...

  • PolitiFact Counting Abbott’s 27 lawsuits against Obama administration

    Here's a typical workday for Texas' attorney general: "I go into the office, I sue the federal government and I go home," Greg Abbott was quoted as saying recently.Speaking to FreedomWorks Texas in Austin on April 27, Abbott said, "I've sued the Obama administration now 25 times, over the last four ...

  • Poverty takes root in Austin’s suburbs

    From 2000 to 2011, the Austin metro area saw the nation's second-fastest increase in the number of poor people living in the suburbs, according to a new book to be released Monday which describes poverty dramatically shifting from America's inner cities to the suburbs and which calls on policymakers to rethink how they respond to poverty.The suburban poor population grew 143 percent in ...

  • Austin memorial for AIDS HIV

    AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austinites gathered Sunday in Republic Square Park to pay tribute to the fight against AIDS and HIV. Community leaders spoke to the crowd and had a moment of silence to remember those whove lost their lives. Congressman Lloyd Doggett and Austin Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole participated and spoke at the event. This year's theme: "In solidarity," emphasized the need of ...

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