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News Ticker: March 27

Rick Perry heckles a heckler, UT scientists work their magic, and Ted Cruz forms a not-so-secret society. Family values are on the News Ticker.

4:30PM Wed. Mar. 27, 2013, Brandon Watson Read More | Comment »

AISD Sued Over Eastside Planning Transparency

It's little secret that a lot of people think Austin ISD is too secretive. Now the administration is being sued by an Eastside Memorial community member and campus volunteer, who alleges they are violating the Texas Public Information Act.

1:07PM Wed. Mar. 27, 2013, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

UT Gov't to Vote on Downplaying Pot Possession

UPDATE: Love's resolution went down in flames last night, with just nine votes in favor and with several removing their names as co-sponsors (apparently a resolution asking UTPD to ensure it is implementing campus wide an existing state law was somehow controversial). Love says he'll give it another shot in a few weeks.

5:09PM Tue. Mar. 26, 2013, Jordan Smith Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Monster Jam

Moody Center

Freedom + Juneteenth: A Night of Jubilation at Pease Park

Kids Block Party
at Central Library

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Cottage Foods Law Update

Bakers, artisans, farmers, and the markets are anxiously awaiting the outcome of tomorrow’s hearing on House Bill 970. Filed by Rep. Eddie Rodriguez, D-Austin, and frequently referred to as the Cottage Foods Law, activists are hoping for increased access to locally produced foods.

4:40PM Tue. Mar. 26, 2013, Anna Toon Read More | Comment »

The Waiting Game

First, an admission. From the time I was a little boy, I fantasized about getting married. Back then, it was all cupcakes and pretty flowers – child's thoughts on what love meant. But growing up queer in small town Texas, the promise of love eventually soured. Guilt and self-loathing popped the bubbles of romance.

1:28PM Tue. Mar. 26, 2013, Brandon Watson Read More | Comment »

Senator Open to Compromise on Drug Testing Bill

A budding compromise promises, for now at least, to temper the scope and punitive nature of Senate Bill 11, Flower Mound Republican Sen. Jane Nelson's bid to ferret out and ban drug abusers from obtaining welfare benefits.

10:28AM Tue. Mar. 26, 2013, Jordan Smith Read More | Comment »

Psych Experts Support Keller Appeal

A roster of leading psychologists and related experts from around the world last week signed on to a pair of letters in support of an appeal filed on behalf of Frances Keller, who was convicted of sexual assault and who has spent the last two decades behind bars for a crime that almost certainly never happened.

8:08AM Tue. Mar. 26, 2013, Jordan Smith Read More | Comment »

Women's Coalition Wins Fed Family Planning Funding

UPDATE: In an emailed statement, Texas Department of State Health Services spokeswoman Carrie Williams says that the agency just received notice that it will lose the Title X grant and is "reviewing the information to get a sense of the full impact." The agency hopes the transition is smooth and the provider base remains strong, she wrote.

4:52PM Mon. Mar. 25, 2013, Jordan Smith Read More | Comment »

Beer Laws Moving Today

Today and tomorrow, the Texas Senate is expected to vote on the four beer bills, Senate Bills 515-518, and a fifth, SB 639, introduced at the last minute by Commerce Committee Chair John Carona, R-Dallas. The last bill is described by San Antonio beer blogger Markus Hass as “a wish list of demands from the Wholesale Beer Distributors of Texas.”

2:20PM Mon. Mar. 25, 2013, Ivy Le Read More | Comment »

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