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Nick Barbaro
For anyone in town still unclear on the extent to which the Real Estate Council of Austin is the enemy of the people of Austin, RECA Director of Communications Ryan Poulos clarified to the Austin American-Statesman last Wednesday, Dec. 23: “I recommend Uber and Lyft simply shut off their service at midnight on New Year’s. Then we’ll learn about public safety.”
This article appears in 2015.
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