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Late-night Lampasas wreck kills man
LAMPASAS, Texas (KXAN) - A man died in a wreck in Northwest Travis County. It happened around 11:35 p.m. Wednesday on Old Lampasas Trail, near Spicewood Springs Road. Emergency workers had to pry the man out of the car. Other information is limited, but KXAN is working to find out more from Texas Department of Public Safety officials working the ...
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One person killed in Northwest Travis County crash
One person was killed overnight in a single-vehicle crash near the Northwest Travis County area, an official said.The incident happened before midnight near the 9100 block of Old Lampasas Trail near Spicewood Springs Road and U.S. 183, an official said.Emergency workers were called to the scene of the single-vehicle crash late Thursday night with reports of a trapped person in the vehicle, an ...
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Rangers turn to Lindblom in finale vs. As
Although a game in June should never be labeled as a "must win," using 2012 -- when the A's beat the Rangers on the final day of the season to claim first place for the first time all year -- as a guide, it would suggest that a win in Thursday's series finale between the two teams would serve both well in regard to postseason aspirations. "You look at last year, and ...
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Range War at the Dobie Ranch
Michael Adams, director of the Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program, next to the gravel driveway leading to the ranch house and the iconic, sculptured wood roadrunner that greets ranch ...
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Then Theres This Swimming Upstream
It's common knowledge that municipal swimming pools – once a neighborhood staple and valued community space in most towns – are always among the first to sink during economic downturns. The worst part? Economic rebounds seldom result in reinvigorated funding for the facilities, which, as Jeff Wiltse writes in his 2010 book, Contested Waters, increasingly makes public pools at ...
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Superman Returns
In the first chapter of his book The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium, critic/film theorist Gilberto Perez offers a passing criticism of the great American film critic James Agee, who he describes as a film critic who mainly yearned for past glories. This crit ... ...
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Point Austin In Defense of Womens Rights
The spectacle of grown men (and it is mostly men) attempting to impose on the general public (in this instance, mostly women) their private notions of sexual and medical morality is not without occasional comedy. The Boob of The Week is Texas Congressman Michael Burgess, R-Lewisville, who informed a House committee considering an anti-abortion "fetal pain" bill that the proposed ...
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Taco Tower Project on Councils Plate
After about two months of postponements, the Taco PUD finally won a round last week. Previously, the city's Environmental Board failed to recommend the environmental aspects of the proposed Planned Unit Development at 211 S. Lamar, currently occupied by a Taco Cabana, and the Waterfront Planning Advisory Board has rejected it outright. Additionally, Zilker and Bouldin Creek ...
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City Cuts Fee Waivers to Marriott Builder Labor Groups File Workplace Complaints
After months of back and forth over the issue of how much the development corporation behind a new JW Marriott Hotel at Third and Congress should pay construction workers on the project, labor rights groups have stopped playing (relatively) nice. On June 14, the Workers Defense Project and the local chapter of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers unleashed a flood of wage and ...
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Council Preview What Can We Afford
That buzzing you hear may be the sound of looming helicopters; not the black variety of survivalist nightmares, but the more mundane variety charged with transporting big-shots across town – say, on their way to the next round of Formula One races – subject of one of the public hearings at City Council today, June 20. After a series of stakeholder meetings, city staff has drafted a ...
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Texas Poised to Hit 500th Execution
With the execution of Kimberly McCarthy slated for June 26, Texas is on the eve of a historic first: The first state to have executed 500 individuals since reinstatement of the death penalty – an event that also extends Gov. Rick Perry's record as the U.S. governor presiding over the most executions ever carried out. McCarthy is slated not only to be tagged with the infamous fate of ...