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Mayor Leffingwell and Chief Acevedo Stand With President Obama On Firearm ...
Burnt Orange Report
Today Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell stood alongside Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo and Texas Gun Sense's John Woods to implore Congress to act on sensible firearm legislation including background checks and ending the "gun show loophole". The event ...
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Austin Chronicle (blog)
News Ticker: March 28: All the news that's fit to blog
Austin Chronicle (blog)
The Texas House quenches its thirst, Big Tex gets laryngitis, and an Austin apartment goes up in smoke. Public health is on the News Ticker. • While it may be true that Texas leads the nation in clinical medical trials, the numbers are a little misleading.

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ANGERS: La Cave Aux Moins
Hilltop Views
A year and a half ago, I left my home of Portland, Oregon, to study English Writing, eat tacos, and discover a new city in Austin, Texas, at St. Edward's University. Now, I am in Europe for the very first time on the Angers program, where I hope to ...

Names and Events for the week of March 28
Austin American-Statesman
Emily Guthrie, a 2012 Westlake High School graduate now attending Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, has been named one of the college's first Clare Boothe Luce Research Scholars. This program is funded by a grant made to Olin College from the ...

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Tanknology Introduces TankCam - CSPnet.com
CSPnet.com
AUSTIN, Texas -- In response to the growing need for a solution to the problem of identifying what is going on inside underground storage tanks (USTs), Tanknology Inc. is introducing TankCam, a remote video system that gives operators a clear and ...

Women's Coalition Gets Federal Funding Instead of State
Burnt Orange Report
In the most recent development that is the sage of the state of women's healthcare in Texas, Federal family planning money, instead of being given to the State of Texas, will now be given to an Austin-based consortium of statewide reproductive health ...

Austin Chronicle (blog)
ATX Television Festival: 'Boy Meets World' Meets Austin: TV fest adds lost ...
Austin Chronicle (blog)
Time to drag yourself away from the idiot box: The ATX Television Festival has confirmed the lineup for its long-awaited Boy Meets World reunion, plus a rare screening of Richard Linklater's 2004 pilot for HBO, $5.15/Hr. We've known about the Boy Meets ...

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Can't-Miss Critics' Picks
Austin American-Statesman
Billy Gibbons, singer and guitarist for ZZ Top, will play at Austin Psych Fest with his pre-ZZ Top psych outfit Moving Sidewalks. By Jeanne Claire van Ryzin. American-Statesman Staff. Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, arts writer. “Mad, Beat, Hip and Gone ...

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SXSW Review: An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story
Slackerwood
An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story The timing for An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story to premiere in Austin at SXSW could not have been more appropriate, if you know the news story it recounts. And how much you know about Michael ...

License renewal ban triggers law of unintended consequences
Austin American-Statesman
Another example of how passing a law can trigger another one — the law of unintended consequences — came into focus recently when Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo testified at a House committee hearing on a bill passed last session restricting drivers ...

Hot Movers: ArcelorMittal, IAMGOLD, VimpelCom, Molycorp
SBWire (press release)
ArcelorMittal (ADR) (NYSE:MT) went down 1.37% to $12.95 on a traded volume of 3.52 million shares. AK Steel said that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied, on March 20, ArcelorMittal's petition for re-hearing in its patent ...

Suit dismiised against officers in Bog Lots shooting
Austin News
AUSTIN (KXAN) - The federal lawsuit filed against Austin police in the Oct. 1, 2010, deadly shooting of a 16-year-old boy was dismissed this week with the judge saying the officer had reason to believe his life was in danger. U.S. District Judge Sam ...

For Strama, Education Interests Hit Close to Home
Texas Tribune
Tiger Whitehead and his children Logic and Domnick, who use SNAP and the the Sustainable Food Center Farmer's Market double dollars coupons, shopping at the Tuesday afternoon Farmer's Market at 2835 East MLK Blvd., Austin, Texas, on March 19, ...

Texas Lunch Links: A&M Gay-Unfriendly, Gohmert Pulls Rank, State Board of Ed
Burnt Orange Report
We do our best, but we can't cover everything. To fill in the gaps, please enjoy Texas Lunch Links, a lunchtime buffet of links to Texas-related news and views. PULLING RANK: A "rude and irate" Texas Republican congressman Louie Gohmert pulled rank in ...

It's a landmark year for some Austin icons
Austin American-Statesman
The George S. Patton biography “A Genius For War” points out that, as a young child, Patton thought two revered portraits at home were of Jesus and God. Turns out they were Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee — probably an honest enough mistake in ...

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Palm Trees and Paranoia: An Interview with Award-Winning Writer Nick Twemlow
Austinist
1Twemlow_Pic.jpg Being a writer is hard work. So is being a film director. So is being a journal editor and co-editor of a small press. Iowa-via-New Zealand-and-Canada-and-elsewhere's Nick Twemlow has been that rare success who has yoked himself to all ...

Northwest Austin company creates new tablet device for Air Force
Community Impact Newspaper
Northwest Austin–based Xplore Technologies Corp. announced March 27 the release of its newest product, the iX104C5-M2 rugged tablet, which can withstand extreme weather conditions from about minus 32 degrees Fahrenheit to 140 degrees Fahrenheit ...

Senate passes ban on gas euthanasia for pets
Austin News
AUSTIN (KXAN) - The practice of putting dogs and cats to death by subjecting them to carbon monoxide would be outlawed under legislation unanimously approved Thursday by the Texas Senate. State Sen. Kirk Watson, the Austin Democrat who authored ...

First Friday set for this week
Austin American-Statesman
Get ready for it. The First Friday Artwalk is tomorrow. The slate of artists is as follows: Just Bead It, 705F Pine St., artist is Dee Morris; Bastrop Bling Company, artist is Karen Creswell; Art Connections Gallery, artist is Jeff Phares; Old Town ...

Runners on their marks in Austin
Austin American-Statesman
Bastrop's Antwuan Davis is one of several Bear runners that will try their hand against the best in the state at the Texas Relays this week in Austin on the University of Texas campus. By Chris Dukes. Bastrop Advertiser Staff. With several Bastrop ...