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Will Gov. Abbott’s State of the State Address reveal his inner Trump?
Good morning Austin: I was in Washington for inaugural week. Then, I went to New York for a week to visit family, figuring I could take a little time off between Donald Trump’s inauguration as...
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Amid the chaos, President Trump does something completely normal
Good morning Austin: Last night, President Trump announced his choice of Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court. Trump’s and Gorsuch’s ties clashed a bit. That could have been better coordinated, though...
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Is licensing music therapists sound policy or a regulatory bottleneck?
Good morning Austin: Today’s question is which do you find more worrisome – the prospect of an unlicensed music therapist, or the possibility that you might have to have a license to be a music...
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No sanctuary: On Gov. Abbott’s promise that `Texas will hammer Travis County’
Good morning Austin: You may recall that in March 2013 it was revealed that North Korea’s U.S. Mainland Strike Plan had targeted New York, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles for attack. Oh, and...
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`You wanna give me his name. We’ll destroy his career.’ On Trump and the...
Good morning Austin: Watch this brief clip from a meeting President Trump had yesterday with officials of the National Sheriffs’ Association. That’s Donald Trump, president of the United States, on...
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Bagging a unicorn: Texas mom gets 8 years for illegally voting for Ken Paxton
Good Monday Austin: That is Rosa Maria Ortega in the photo above, with her brother and her four children (I assume the fifth child in the photo is her brother’s). Last Wednesday, Ortega, a legal...
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Make the Constitution great again: On a Convention of States in the age of Trump
(Trump coloring book) Good morning Austin: This morning, the Senate State Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on Gov. Greg Abbott’s call for a Convention of States, in which, under Article V of the...
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Celebrating the Rag: Austin’s iconic underground newspaper
Gilbert Shelton Good morning Austin: I miss The Rag. Of course, I only arrived in Austin in December 2012, so I missed The Rag, which published its first issue in October 1966 and its last in May...
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In battle over veterinary school, Texas A&M routs Texas Tech
(11/03/01.Texas Tech fans and Texas A&M fans broke out into a fight when fans brought the goal post out of the stadium where the Aggies sit at Jones SBC Stadium. Tech defeated A&M 12-0.) Good...
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`My heart breaks over their deception.’ On Christian conservative opposition...
(Demonstrators opposing SB 6 gather in the Rotunda at the Texas Capitol Extension for a press conference following the first public hearing on the bill on March 7, 2017. Tamir Kalifa/...
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How Austin mom Jinny Suh is taking on anti-vaxxers, President Trump and RFK...
Good day Austin: Jinny Suh is a South Austin mother with a baby and a four-and-half-year-old, a lawyer who received a bachelor’s and master’s in biology and the founder and leader of Immunize Texas,...
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Rick Perry takes break from Cabinet duties to intervene in Aggie GlowStickGate
Good day Austin: Well, I suppose glow sticks do come under the purview of the Department of Energy. Maybe. After all, all you do is crack them and they produce light, which is some crazy science,...
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The education of Briscoe Cain: On the schooling of Jonathan Stickland 3.0.
(An image passed around by members of the Texas House after the confrontation between Reps. John Zerwas and Briscoe Cain during the budget debate last week.) Good morning Austin: Briscoe Cain is a...
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It’s not lack of an ID but the `uninformed and misinformed state of the Texas...
(A voter ID ad being used as part of the voter education campaign by the office of Texas Secretary of State Carlos Cascos.) Good day Austin: Voter ID in Texas is back in the news. As Chuck Lindell...
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Under disability flag, advocates held all-night vigil at Capitol seeking...
Good morning Austin: About 25 people in wheelchairs and other disability advocates spent last night into this morning on the sidewalk in front of the south sate to the Capitol, an all-night vigil...
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Some like it hot: How Amy Hedtke went from Scout mom to anarchist Republican...
Good morning Austin: When I called Amy Hedtke last evening she was outside the Red Oak ISD Education Service Center, where folks were early voting in a school bond election and Hedtke was...
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Gov. Abbott is getting his signing pen warmed to ban sanctuary cities, but...
(Jalyn Catro testifying at the Texas Senate hearing on SB 4 in February) Good Friday Austin: On Wednesday afternoon, the Texas Senate sent the bill banning sanctuary cities, which Gov. Greg Abbott...
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Emoji that! Gov. Abbott signs ban on sanctuary cities in solitary Sunday...
Good morning Austin: I was at Barton Springs Pool late yesterday afternoon, lying in the warm sun and making good progress on the Sunday Times crossword puzzle when, at 6:02 p.m., I received a text...
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Rashomon of the bathroom bill: Were Abbott’s calls to the pastors really the...
Good day Austin: In journalism, objectivity is to be desired, subjectivity is inevitable, and the Rashomon effect is everywhere in evidence. A definition: Noun (plural Rashomon effects) (psychology)...
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Amid Comey’s firing, a glimpse inside the Trump-Stone-Jones Zone.
Roger Stone, with Alex Jones, leads chant of “lock her up” outside the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. From Netflix doc, “Get Me Roger Stone.” Good day Austin: There is no more prized...
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