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Pflugerville band students participate in contest with loaned instruments after bus carrying students and instruments was hit by drunk driver over the weekend. Construction slowing down at some downtown condo projects? We admit to driving a little fast on Chestnut; neighborhood residents ask drivers to take it slow. City leaders are hoping that local retailers will phase out plastic bags in a year. Will this lead to an official city ban on plastic bags?...

Remember when Air America came to Austin? Now there's a new show called Workin' It that airs in 50+ markets around the country (not in Austin, unfortunately).

We love Air America, oh yes, we do. The very concept makes our inner liberal quiver with glee. Seriously, who isn’t secretly in love with Janeane Garofalo? We’re lucky to live in one of the American cities where one can listen freely to Air America (1600 AM), but it hasn’t been such an easy road for the nationwide radio network. Gosh, it’s hard to imagine why.

In case you missed Al Franken’s speech at SXSW, Austinist would like to remind you that Air America is now on the air in Austin. You can find it at 1600 on your AM dial. Austinist can vouch that it’s pretty clear in most of South Austin, at least. Among other things, you can listen to Janeane Garofalo on The Majority Report. We caught a bit of it this weekend in which Janeane posed the...

Al Franken, speaking at SXSW, just announced that Air America has gone live on KOKE 1600 AM here in Austin. He also talked about the very good chance that he'd be running for a senate seat in Minnesota in 2008. The word is unofficial, obviously, but Mr. Franken said that his wife may have just bought a condo in Minnesota so that they can establish residency.