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Fri., March 4, 2016
City Council meets today, March 3, with a relatively short, 44-Item agenda that includes: redirecting water utility fees for the Pilot Knob planned unit development; directing the city manager to do a "comprehensive review" of the city's music scene; reappointing Philip P. Huang as the health authority for the Health & Human Services department; and second and third readings of amendments to the small lot amnesty ordinance. See "Council," Mar. 4.
The Obamas are coming to South by Southwest. On Wednesday, news broke that President Barack will conduct a SXSW Interactive keynote conversation on Friday, March 11. First Lady Michelle follows him up five days later, giving the opening keynote to SXSW Music on Wed., March 16.
Conspiracy theorist Robert Morrow, who bombarded local journalists for years with emails with subjects like "Lyndon Johnson Murder Conference" and called Rick Perry "a rampaging bisexual adulterer," is the new chair of the Travis County Republican Party. Vice chair Matt Mackowiak is already trying to get him removed.
Robert Chody, the former APD cop who won the lottery, settled a pricey brutality lawsuit, then went on to become Precinct 1 Constable in Williamson County, won Tuesday's GOP nomination for Williamson County Sheriff. Chody, who also organized last September's Police Lives Matter rally, is almost sure to win November's general.
Colton Turner: Last week Michael Turner, the boyfriend of Meagan Work, pleaded guilty in exchange for a 20-year sentence in connection with the death of Work's son Colton. Turner admitted to burying the 2-year-old in a shallow grave in Southeast Austin in 2014.
Super Lice: A treatment-resistant strain of the common schoolyard pest has popped up in 25 states. If the kids come down with this incarnation, it'll take a lot more than over-the-counter shampoo to treat them.
Texas House Speaker Joe Straus survived another primary attempt by a candidate backed by right-wing think tank Empower Texans to remove him.
Pearl Moen, the 18-year-old accused of stabbing a woman 21 times in Hyde Park last November, was arrested this week after police received a Feb. 14 tip from Moen's mother and boyfriend.
Super Tuesday came and went. On the GOP side, Donald Trump took seven of the 11 voting states, while Sen. Ted Cruz kept his political hopes alive by taking Texas and Oklahoma. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton took seven as well (including Texas), to Sen. Bernie Sanders' four.
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