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Austin becomes the first Texas city to experiment with ‘guaranteed income’
Austin will be the first major Texas city to use local tax dollars to give cash to low-income families to keep them housed as the cost of living skyrockets in the capital city. Under a yearlong, $1 million pilot program that cleared a key Austin City Council vote Thursday, the city will send monthly checks of $1,000 to 85 needy households at risk of losing their homes — an attempt to insulate low-income residents from Austin’s increasingly expensive housing market and prevent more people from becoming homeless.
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Natural Sanitary Napkins | Miss Arlene's | Texas
Online retailer launches The-O’Dora, naturally made pads, as a safe, healthy option for women who stuggle with painful periods
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13-year-old was driving truck in Texas crash that killed 9, including New Mexico college golfers
The child was driving the truck that swerved into a van carrying members of the University of the Southwest golf teams Tuesday night, officials said.
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9 dead in Texas crash involving U. of Southwest golf teams
Nine people died in a fiery, head-on collision in West Texas, including six students and a coach from a New Mexico university who were returning home from a golf tournament, authorities said.
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Texas Lawsuit Claims Facebook's Facial Recognition Violated User Privacy and Broke the Law
The suit claims the company violated state laws by gathering and using facial recognition data on millions of users without their consent.
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Elon Musk is hopeful Texas site will clear approval for Starship’s first orbital launch
"We have gotten sort of a rough indication that there may be an approval in March."
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Texas Instruments details its plan to invest billions in US semiconductor chip production through 2030
Texas Instruments revealed plans Thursday to invest $3.5 billion annually in its U.S. semiconductor chip manufacturing through 2025 as manufacturers face a global shortage of the tech necessary for an increasing number of goods.
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Supreme Court deals another blow to Texas abortion providers that want new law blocked
The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Thursday dealt another blow to Texas abortion providers' quest to challenge SB8 in federal court.
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Texas sheriff under investigation for routinely seizing cash from undocumented immigrants
Search warrants show that Real County Sheriff Nathan Johnson is under scrutiny by state investigators, accused of illegally confiscating cash and a pickup truck from immigrants stopped by his deputies.
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The push to ban books in Texas schools spreads to public libraries
Some Texas residents are asking for greater say in what titles appear on public library shelves.
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You Should Go Read All 400 Books Texas Just Removed—They’re Awesome
A school district in Texas has preemptively removed Ta-Nehisi Coates’ bestselling memoir, Between the World and Me, dedicated to his young Black son, and 400 additional books about social justice—in case they happen to be “vulgar.”
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Matthew McConaughey: Texas Governor Race Is 'A Path I'm Choosing Not to Take'
Despite strong poll numbers suggesting he’d be the leader in a race for Texas governor, actor Matthew McConaughey said in a video posted to his social media pages on Sunday evening that public office is “a path I’m choosing not to take at this moment.” “I’m going to continue to work and invest the bounty I have in supporting entrepreneurs, businesses and foundations that I believe are leaders,” the Oscar-winning actor said in the three-minute video.
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Samsung Is Setting up a 1200-Acre Chip Plant in Texas
South Korean electronics giant Samsung is set to announce a $17 billion advanced chip plant spanning 1,200 acres of land in Taylor, Texas. The plant, which will make advanced logic chips used in mobile phones and autonomous vehicles, will add 1,800 jobs to the U.S. economy and is part of a $205 billion investment fund, according to the Wall Street Journal. The factory isn’t expected to go live until 2024.
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Ramon Wholesale Sharks makes a Splash at Carl Hayden High school
Real estate made, Ramon best known for the “Wholesale Sharks” was invited to speak in Phoenix
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Gov. Abbott slams 'pornographic' books in Texas schools, adopts new probe
The Republican leader has joined a conservative lawmaker’s campaign to investigate...
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A Moroccan man was shot to death in Texas while sitting in a car
A Moroccan-American man was shot and killed while sitting in his car in the early morning hours on Oct. 11 in Martindale, Texas, about 40 miles outside of Austin. Adil Dghoughi, 31, was parked in a rural neighborhood late at night. According to local reports, Dghoughi was shot through the window of the car and died on the scene.
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Supreme Court doesn't block Texas abortion law, sets hearing
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing the Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in place, but has agreed to hear arguments in the case in early November.
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The Top 50 Texas BBQ Joints: 2021 Edition
There's a new generation of pitmasters in Texas, and many of them aren't satisfied with simply doing things the same old way. (Though fear not, staunch traditionalists: plenty of them are.)
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How the Texas gas industry, in cahoots with regulators, created a loophole to avoid weatherization
Winterization of natural gas facilities in Texas is slow going.
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Ted Cruz says bitcoin will stabilize Texas electric grid—here’s why he’s wrong
Numbers and potential incentives just don't add up.
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