October 1, 2007
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Construction worker fell over 25 feet (and may have landed on some upended rebar) from condo construction at 17th and Lavaca this morning.- New background check requirements lead some volunteer dogwalkers to quit their work at Town Lake Animal Shelter.
- Al Gore is in town tonight; we'll keep an eye out for the YCT protesters.
- Numerous people named in Dallas corruption investigation, including city officials and a State Rep.
- A&M is having difficulties attracting and enrolling minority students.
- Former Longhorn Ricky Williams wants back into the NFL.
- Bailey Middle School student sent home for wearing a shirt saying "Juicy Angel" on it.
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By the way, we didn't quit TLAC because the city wanted to do a Criminal Background Investigation on us. We quit because the city told us we had to give them our SSNs, even though they aren't needed for a CBI. We gave them full consent to run a CBI, but left our SSN off the form and were told we could no longer volunteer. We even offered to get a certified CBI at the courthouse, at our expense, but were told that wouldn't be accepted either.
-Gretchen