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Austin vaults to No. 11 on list of biggest U.S. cities
Step aside, Indianapolis and Jacksonville. Austin is moving on up.With the fifth-largest population increase among all U.S. cities for the year ending July 1, 2012, Austin leapfrogged past Indianapolis and Jacksonville, Fla., to become the nation's 11th-most populous city, according to population estimates released Thursday by the Census Bureau. Between 2011 and 2012, Austin's ...
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Key budget bills pass as legislators break impasse
Dtente descended upon the Texas Capitol on Wednesday night after several tense days during which it seemed a delicate political deal to craft the state budget might fall apart.Two budget-related bills, providing tax relief and water funding that Gov. Rick Perry has demanded, passed out of their respective chambers before a midnight ...
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Despite last-minute push by Dewhurst campus-carry bill appears to die
In a week when negotiations over a state budget have blown up again and again, when political bickering between the House and Senate has reached pitched levels, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst had been working another issue with laser focus, say senators.Passing legislation to allow concealed handguns inside campus and university buildings for the first ...
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Drug testing approved for jobless aid but not welfare applicants
Hours after a barrage of Democratic delaying tactics scuttled a drug-testing program for welfare recipients, Texas House Republicans grabbed a consolation prize Wednesday, approving a similar program for some Texans who apply for unemployment benefits.Democrats fought both measures as unnecessary, costly and mean-spirited, but the end-of-session calendar favored them only in fighting the ...
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City to vote on additional EMS
AUSTIN (KXAN) - With the drought and the threat of wildfires local emergency officials say the need for their service is growing. Austin's continued population boom puts demands on those agencies as well. Austin-Travis County Emergency Services Director Danny Hobby says they're hoping to add more EMS medics on east side of the county. They also are considering where they can make other ...
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Movie Review
Narc
Writer/director Joe Carnahan has a generic, unimposing name, the kind you would expect to see in the credits of a straight-to-video slugfest. And, in some ways, that is exactly what his sophomore film, Narc, is, except that it is filmed with such energy and bravado and boasts two performances by Ray Liotta and Jason Patric that are so impressive that it rises above its generic roots and be ... ...
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Community center’s $19500 code violation bill to keep growing
A city commission has delayed a vote to suspend fines for a popular South Austin community center and instead asked its owners to come back with a more proactive plan to fix its code violations.Casa de Luz is run by a nonprofit that serves up a whole foods, plant-based menu and is also home to a private, separately operated elementary school and an educational center with yoga and meditation ...
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Plan for university construction bonds advances
A supplemental appropriations measure working its way through the state Legislature would allocate $175 million for debt service to accommodate a major round of construction projects on numerous public university campuses.The Senate gave final approval to the measure, House Bill 1025, Wednesday evening. The upper chamber had previously proposed $200 million in so-called tuition revenue bond ...
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2nd suspect charged in sex assault during SXSW
After an alleged accomplice connected him to the case, a second man -- an Army sergeant -- has been charged with the sexual assault of a woman during the 2013 South by Southwest festival, according to an arrest affidavit.Jeremy Christian Bolen, a 23-year-old Killeen resident, is charged with aggravated kidnapping and sexual assault in the March 16 incident. Bolen was booked into the Bell County ...
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Lawmakers debating whether to require disclosure of university donors
Transparency has been one of the watchwords of the current session of the Texas Legislature.Among other things, donations from nonprofit foundations to the state's cancer-fighting agency and to the University of Texas School of Law have come under ...
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Austinites required to recycle but not bars
While Austin is trying to save the planet by banning plastic bags, every night thousands of glass bottles are thrown away. A lot of those are beer bottles that could be recycled, but in Austin there's no requirement to do so. However, that could soon change. Night after night tons of recyclable glass bottles are thrown in the trash by bars and nightclubs across the city of Austin. ...