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- A former lawyer at the Texas Secretary of State's Office sues after being fired in 2005 for making "embarrassing" statements about Karl Rove's Texas residency status
- In yet another sign of Austin's ongoing transformation, the Statesman debuts its own gossip/society column, helmed by entertainment editor Michael Barnes
- Things in Crawford, Texas quiet down now that no one cares to visit (or protest)
- TxDOT is rolling out a fancy new $9 million ad campaign to promote the Trans-Texas Corridor
- Tech firm Applied Materials turns on the city's largest "business use" solar array, generates enough energy in fifteen minutes to power the average house for a month
- It's official: the DeLorean is coming back next spring
- No one messes with Texas—when it comes to drunk driving deaths
Illustration by David Gilmore
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