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- Police have identified more victims of former CASA volunteer who sexually assaulted an 8-year-old girl.
- Far West Tropical Sno stand-owner protests against Kneaded Pleasures.
- Local reaction to McClellan's book, What Happened.
- APD on the look-out for jaywalkers.
- "We should be appalled and enraged as Texans and as patriots at his behavior on the Senate floor," Democratic US Senate candidate Noriega said about current Senator Cornyn's vote against the GI Bill.
- Judge says that Farmers Branch ordinance blocking rental of apartments to illegal immigrants is unconstitutional.
- Texas Observer poll shows that 2/3 of the Democrats who voted in the primary were new voters.
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where's the public outcry over the condition of waterloo park?
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I am one of the lucky ones that got a ticket. They wanted $250 and 15 hours of community service. My lawyer got it down to $100 and 0 com service.
You can run a red light in your car and pay $75. You can publicly urinate for $120. You can get a speeding ticket for $150..
but JAYWALKING *shutter* is $500.
This city has lost it's focus. Who cares!?! If a person walks out in the street and dies.. It's HIS fault. He made that decision ..
For me, it was 10:30PM on a Tuesday night. No traffic in sight.. ANYWHERE... (downtown Austin is EMPTY on a Tuesday night)..
Still trying to figure out if it'd be really fun to go jaywalk without any form of ID on me.... I think that'd be fun.
Of the 55 or so people that have commented on the Statesman website, it looks like maybe 2 agree with the crackdown on jaywalking and everyone else is pissed off about it so that's good.
$250+15hours for crossing the street when there was no traffic approaching? That's obscene, particularly when you point out what some of the other fines are.
And a quick comment on one of the other stories....Cornyn's such a lousy senator, I am no longer disappointed by anything he does.