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Austin filmmaker Richard Linklater at the top of his game with Before Midnight
May 24--It is fitting that in a historic year for area filmmakers, the greatest movie coming out of Austin is from the godfather of the local film ...
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Austin gets $2.5 million healthy homes grant
AUSTIN (KXAN) - The city of Austin has received a $2.5 million grant to recondition older homes that contain lead and other health and safety hazards, an expansion of a local program that has already helped hundreds of families. The grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Developments Lead Hazard Control Program includes a new focus on healthy homes allowing the city to address other ...
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Six Austin Bridal Gown Shops
Unbridaled701 S Lamar Blvd. Signature Bridal Salon12717 Shops Parkway Ste. #200 Serendipity2438 W Anderson Lane Blush Bridal Lounge1815 W 35th Street Blue Bridal Boutique1007 S Congress Ave Balina Bridal5025 Burnet ...
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Overhaul of troubled cancer agency heads to Perry
In a unanimous vote Friday, the Senate gave final approval to sweeping reforms at the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. The bill now heads to Gov. Rick ...
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Legislature approves tax breaks for data centers
The bill approved on Friday exempts from sales tax the equipment needed to operate a data center, a computer facility that makes the Internet ...
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Valero Energy Foundation makes $100000 donation to aid tornado victims
The Valero Energy Foundation has donated $100,000 to Oklahoma relief efforts. The Valero Energy Foundation the charitable arm of San Antonio refiner Valero Energy Corp. has donated $100,000 to the American Red Cross to assist people affected by the tornadoes that ripped through Central Oklahoma. The foundation also will match employees Red Cross donations up to $50,000. Valero (NYSE: VLO) ...
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Pro-Tesla Motors bill dies in Texas House
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc. Lawmakers have sided with dealers interests over those of Tesla Motors Inc. in the debate over whether manufacturers of electric- or all battery-powered vehicles should be able to sell directly to customers. House Bill 3351, authored by State Rep. Eddie Rodriguez, D-Austin, had proposed changing Texas law that mandates vehicles be sold to customers through ...
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Compare Metrics filing reveals more funding details
A regulatory filing provided additional details about the Compare Metrics Inc. Series A financing announced earlier this week. The Austin-based software maker received nearly $4.4 million from 12 investors, according to a Friday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Compare Metrics, founded in 2010 as Compare Networks LLC, develops search tools for e-commerce websites with a ...
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Safety traffic economic development among Arts Districts top goals
Catherine Cuellar, executive director of Dallas Arts District. It may not be a sexy issue, but safety in the Dallas Arts District will be one of Catherine Cuellar's top goals as executive director of the district, she told me in a recent interview. Cuellar, who started her new job on April 15, said without a safe environment, nothing else matters. That refers to both crime and to the tension ...
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Shouting match erupts in the Texas house over gun rights
Kaufman County prosecutors Mark Hasse and Mike McLelland. Mr. McLelland's wife was also killed. A shouting match erupted in the house last night over the amendment. According to ...
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Man faces arson charge after Houston fire
The Houston Fire Department says one firefighter suffered a minor hand injury in the blaze extinguished early Friday. Several units suffered heavy ...
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Snooki NJ Gov Christie just doesnt like us
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was never a fan of MTV's "Jersey Shore," saying it unfairly cast the state in a negative ...
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Girl Scouts Lemonade Day success reaching Bangladesh
Contributed photo Mayor Nelda Martinez pours water for a batch of lemonade on May 5 at the stand operated by Girl Scout Elizabeth Schmidt and her friend Justin Kar. Chamber of Commerce Director Foster Edwards looks on. The stand’s $446 profit is being donated to Justin’s uncle to help pay for removal of a brain ...
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Crime Stoppers 2013 20
Published May 19, 2013 Police are looking for information on Nueces County's 10 Most Wanted. Call Crime Stoppers at 888-TIPS or visit www.888tips.com to report ...
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Austin now 11th-largest but where are these people coming from
Austin is the 11th-largest city in the U.S. with a population of about 843,000, but it's the 33rd-largest metro area in the country with about 1.8 million residents. The recent news that Austin is the 11th-largest U.S. city, according to Census numbers, shocked a lot of people. We're growing fast, but that fast? It seems like only yesterday we were ranked No. 13. Oh, wait, that was ...
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Smells like special session at Texas Capitol
Lawmakers have until Monday to wrap up their regular-session work. Texas Gov. Rick Perry is keeping quiet until the last moment on whether a special session will occur, but Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has made it clear he wants one. At the start of May, Perry advised lawmakers that one of the best ways to avoid a special session would be to show him a budget with $1.8 billion of tax relief for ...
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Bill to require drug tests for unemployment benefits passes Texas Senate
A Texas Senate bill that would make drug screening or testing a condition for receiving unemployment compensation benefits by certain individuals passed favorably out of the House Wednesday. Senate Bill 21, authored by State Sen. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, would amend Texas Labor Code so that individuals in industries designated by the U.S. Department of Labor as regularly conducting ...
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Flexjet sees business take off as economy improves
A Challenger private jet. Dallas-based Flexjet reported that new business grew 83 percent in the first quarter. Flexjet, the world's second largest fractional jet ownership services provider, said that sales of fractional shares grew 108 percent in the quarter and that new jet card sales grew by 48 percent. The company offers fractional aircraft ownership, jet card and whole aircraft ...
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Arlington woman on death row for 9-year-old boys starvation loses appeal
HOUSTON — An Arlington woman on Texas death row for the starvation death of a 9-year-old boy has lost a federal court appeal, moving her a step closer to ...
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Heat Awareness Day in time of Memorial Day Weekend
KXAN (Austin) - With the holiday weekend kicking off, summer activities, many are reminded to beware of the deadly heat. Friday is Heat Awareness Day. The National Weather Service said heat is one of the leading weather-realted killers in the U.S. "Take extra precaution on those mornings you have a change in routine such as someone different taking the child to take care or sleeping late ...
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Dewhurst to Perry Call special session
AUSTIN (AP) -- With legislative adjournment looming on Monday, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said he wants Gov. Rick Perry to call a special session to seek passage of failed legislation insisted upon by conservative ...
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New Macs Will Be Made in Texas Apple CEO Says
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc., worked to defuse a hearing room full of angry U.S. senators on Tuesday by saying that a new line of Macs will be assembled -- drum roll, please -- in ...
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Tucker Company Worldwide Opens Texas Sales Office
Cherry Hill, N.J.-based freight broker 's volume originates and delivers in Texas, and the company wanted to have more direct contact with customers in that region, Tucker said in a written ...
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Atmos CEO talks shale boom natural gas exports
Kim Cocklin of Atmos Energy Conventional wisdom would say that natural gas utilities love high gas prices. Thats not the case. This week, I talked to Kim Cocklin, CEO of Atmos Energy (NYSE: ATM), about the shale boom and how the price fluctuations of the past few years have affected his industry, which provides natural gas to 1.8 million customers in North, West and Central Texas. Utilities such ...
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Judge orders more monitoring for Dallas Brent
reports.In a Friday court hearing, prosecutors said Brent violated the terms of his release by setting off an alcohol-monitoring device and failing to download data from it as required. Judge Robert Burns issued the order but did not raise Brent's $100,000 bond, according to the AP.Brent is scheduled to go on trial in September for the Dec. 8 crash. Regardless of the outcome, ...
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Lack of City Council commitment to streetcar?
Fort Worth looks like it may be a long way off until the city has a proper streetcar system if current commitment to the project by local government is anything to go by.
In July of 2008 the City Council of Fort Worth decided that a modern streetcar system might be beneficial to the rapidly growing city, a solution was needed to urban intra-city mass transportation and plans went into the pipeline, but two years on little progress has been made, it seems instead that the city council lacks the commitment to carry out the necessary work to see a streetcar system come to fruition. Read more
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