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Local campaign seeks Dems
The Travis County Coordinated Campaign plans to register its 1,000th Democratic voter this week, more than two months before the registration deadline for the November presidential election.
The Austin-based campaign focuses on supporting Democrats seeking re-election in competitive races and winning seats on the local, state and national levels in the November elections.…
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Public transit group uses aid from UT
When Austin's Alliance for Public Transportation wanted ideas for improving public transit in Central Texas, they went straight to the University.
"There are little things, small differences in point of view we would never consider, that are so important to students," said Glenn Gadbois, a member of Austin's Alliance for Public Transportation, a group formed in 2006 by Austin Mayor Will Wynn and Leander Mayor Will Cowman to address public transportation in Central Texas.…
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Clean water more accessible thanks to UT professor
Membrane removes dechlorinating step, making process faster
UT chemical engineering professor Benny Freeman is part of an international research team that has developed an improvement to the water desalinization process, making fresh water cheaper and more accessible. The group has developed a chlorine-tolerant filter that eliminates a major step in the filtrating process.…
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Texas school districts buy environmentally friendly buses for fleets
The Austin Independent School District is one of a few school districts in the nation that use plug-in hybrid electric-diesel school buses.
The district began purchasing the fuel-efficient buses in 2006 and has purchased about 25 new low-emission buses each year since then.…
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Professionals network online with LinkedIn
Ask second-year business administration master's student McKenna Brooks who's in her LinkedIn network, and she'll say "Everyone."
LinkedIn, a professional networking Web site launched in May 2003, has made an already well-networked field easier to network for UT business graduate students such as Brooks who have just broken into the business world.…
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Featured Photo: "Taco break"
Carlos Moreno, owner of Taqueria Star, takes refuge from the sun underneath a tent next to his taco truck Tuesday afternoon. The mini-restaurant, located on Riverside and Congress, has been open for two months.…
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Storms are a pane
McALLEN, Texas - Dolly spun into a hurricane Tuesday, heading toward the U.S.-Mexico border and the heavily populated Rio Grande Valley, where officials feared heavy rains could cause massive flooding and levee breaks.
Dolly was upgraded from a tropical storm Tuesday afternoon with sustained winds near 75 mph, and some strengthening of the Category 1 storm is forecast before landfall Wednesday.…
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ODDLY ENOUGH
NY man earning $100K lived in company paint shed ORANGEBURG, N.Y. - A New York state report says a maintenance man who earned $100,000 last year working at a psychiatric center has been living for free in a paint shed on company grounds and even had his mail delivered there.…
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LOCAL BRIEFLY
Austin police to file charges against woman's kidnapper Austin police will file charges today against a man who kidnapped a woman from her South Austin home Tuesday morning. Veneza Aguinaga, spokeswoman for the Austin Police Department, said a young Hispanic male entered the home of Anita Martinez at 4911 Friedrich Lane at about 3:30 a.…
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Campus watch
iLost my iPhone Gregory Gymnasium, 2101 Speedway Theft: An Apple iPhone was stolen from the 2nd floor basketball court bleachers as the owner played in a basketball game. Loss value: $300. Occurred on July 17 between 10:45 p.m. and 11:46 p.m. Under construction Performing Arts Center, 510 East 23rd Street Criminal Trespass (2 counts): A UT student and a non-UT subject were reported as jumping a fence to the Performing Arts Center construction site.…
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