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The Austin United PAC hoped its petition would give voters the chance to approve or deny the Austin Convention Center expansion project, but the city denied it due to a lack of valid signatures. A Travis County judge sided with the city.
Patricia Lim
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Patricia Lim
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Gabriel C. Pérez
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For the past three years, Early Era Collective has presented the dance/hip hop/spoken word show Say That Again for Black History Month, and this year's version will be the biggest one yet. -
Experts said conventions bring people to a city during the week, which boosts tourism and generates sales tax revenue for the city. But others don't believe a convention center is the only option for spaces to host those events. -
The lawsuit, the fifth against the camp, alleges that failures by camp leadership led to the death of 8-year-old Cecilia Steward, who remains missing more than seven months after the flood. -
The Facebook message derided its recipient as a “leftist” and “whore” whom he hoped would be deported. The message gained widespread attention when it was shared online. -
Austin city leaders said at a community meeting that it's illegal to tell police they can't call ICE. Many who oppose Trump's immigration crackdown want them to do it anyway. -
Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against the Muslim Brotherhood, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and its local Texas chapters, asking a court to shut them down. His office previously argued the local chapters were not part of Texas' foreign terrorist designation. -
The course includes examples of when abortion is permitted to protect the life of the patient, but many experts say the complications women face in pregnancy are impossible to capture in a brief presentation. -
Adjusting contracts that account for much of the remaining commitments could reduce the final amount of bond money spent on closing schools to closer to $41 million.
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