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No regular City Council meeting this week – the next is Thursday, Oct. 6, when they’ll consider numerous hefty contracts and a handful of annexations. See “Council: Next Stop, ACL Fest.” Rep. Dawnna Dukes, D-Pflugerville, will quit the Texas House in January, triggering a special election some time in the new year. This comes days…

by Chronicle Staff

Day Trips: Comanche City Park

Comanche City Park has been turned into an outdoor art gallery. Among the playground equipment and picnic tables are 10 chainsaw sculptures carved out of the stumps of dead trees. “We lost about 200 trees to oak wilt,” says a city park official. “We’ve tried to save as many as we can.” Four years ago,…

by Gerald E. McLeod

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

A “sook” is a word used in Australia and New Zealand to describe a timid, cowardly person, especially a young person – essentially a crybaby. According to Stanford professor Keith Humphreys, the most affordable university in the U.S. for students who get federal financial aid is the University of North Texas. However, some wealthy schools…

by Mr. Smarty Pants

Soccer Watch

The Texas Longhorns opened their Big 12 schedule last weekend with a tough pair of overtime games, on the road against nationally ranked foes – a 1-1 draw at Baylor and a 2-1 loss at Oklahoma – after scoring first in both games. This week the Horns host Oklahoma State at 7pm Friday, Sept. 30,…

by Nick Barbaro

2016 Texas Teen Book Festival: The Details

The Texas Teen Book Festival is always a starry affair, but it’s especially so this year with Mindy Kaling as first author. The beloved creator and star of Hulu’s The Mindy Project, playwright, and author of the autobiographical Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) and Why Not Me? will open the 2016…

by Rosalind Faires

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