- 9-year-old girl died this morning after being pulled out of Lake Travis.
- 13 positions cut at Texas Monthly today.
- Don't forget tax-free weekend started today and goes through Sunday!
- The area of Cesar Chavez between San Antonio St. and Congress Ave. will be closed this weekend for crosswalk work.
- This year's BatFest will be held on the First Street bridge.
- Custody cases involving 34 FLDS kids have been dropped.
- Canton councilmember offended after Stephen Colbert calls the Texas town "an incorporated outhouse."

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I still subscribe to Texas Monthly, but the quality of that magazine has gone downhill since they quit reporting on stuff that Texans want to read about. Now it's like a Nu-Texas knockoff of Tribeza, but with a little better writing and about 100 more pages of ads. They should have stuck to writing articles that interest Texas natives instead of countless pages of reviews for the latest greatest yuppie restaurant, BBQ rankings, church reviews (wtf?), and the other ridiculous filler they publish. And it's too true that their "slant" is left and often-times quite PC, both of which only appeals to new Austin transplants.
Man,I don't care what nobody say,this whole Canton riff by Colbert if fucking GOLDEN......if anything it's shining a light on towns that normally wouldn't get a national spotlight..and oh yeah,YEA THE BATFEST IS STILL GOING ON!!!!!!....I'm working that bad boy and would've been hurt if it had been canceled...I'm broke as a mu'fucka...