Okay, maybe not all the news events we’re reflecting on here are as big as Texas, but they sure seemed that way at the time. Take a look below and you’ll see what we mean, given that so many of these stories and their characters have made news far beyond Austin’s boundaries. So without further introduction, here we go:
This article appears in 1999.
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