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• We saw an episode of "Who Wants to Be a Superhero?" this season, but we didn't realize that The Defuser was one of Austin's finest. He won in last night's season finale.
• Congress bridge officially became the Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge in ceremony today.
• Man carrying at least 72 pounds of pot gets pulled over on the way up from Brownsville.

Pending a vote by the Austin City Council tomorrow, Congress Avenue Bridge is to be renamed in honor of Ann Richards, Texas' 45th Governor who passed away in September. [Excerpted from our previous post] From humble beginnings in Waco, Texas, Richards went on to attend Baylor University on a debate scholarship, later marrying high school sweetheart David Richards and settling in Austin. She began her political career by campaigning for such respected Texas Democrats...

A few things we didn’t know: • The Mexican free-tailed bat colony living underneath Congress Avenue Bridge is    visited by over 100,000 ecotourists per year. • The bat colony brings in over $10 million in ecotourism revenue annually for our     city. This is beside the point here, but we nevertheless have to ask: Who are these people? What makes them tick? Where do they come from? Are they like us? Is there some...