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Photo by MotherPie on flickr Attorney General Greg Abbott says the rate of foreclosures in Texas is at crisis level; foreclosures in Travis County have gone down since last year, though. Hit-and-run on Airport Blvd. Sunday morning leads to the deaths of a motorcyclist and his passenger. Fredericksburg wants you to be quiet when you visit. State red-light fines that should be going towards medical trauma centers aren't. Del Rio high school student suspended for...

Due to its rather lackluster presence, that statue has now been repealed by the UT Barbara Jordan Statue Committe. Today, they're calling for help from all of Austin--not just students--in order to gain input before the next selection process, as opposed to afterwards. To date, 75 artists have applied and the committee hopes to narrow that number down to five by January.

Texas - Texas Independent Gubernatorial Candidate Carole Keeton Strayhorn sued Texas Secretary of State Roger Williams, a Perry appointee, last Friday, claiming Williams' plan to manually examine her petition signature by signature instead of using a statistical sampling method violated her constitutional rights. Williams also refused Strayhorn's request to be allowed to turn in an initial batch of signatures and then add to that before May 11. Carole Strayhorn and Kinky Friedman have until...

In a four minute session, Congress approved a brief extension to the Patriot Act through February 3rd, preventing its unconstitutional anti-terrorism provisions from running out at the end of this year. The PATRIOT Act, or "Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism" (say that five times fast), previously faced a six-month extension that was blocked by House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner's staunch refusal to agree to the terms: "A six-month extension,...

We told you last week about good ol' W. authorizing the NSA to spy on people inside the country without first getting warrants from a court. Well, fortunately, the bozos in Washington are not going to let the Prez get off with just a smirk, a shoulder shrug and a sarcastic comment (well, as sarcastic a comment as can be conjured by a moron). Democrats and Republicans in Congress are seeking a bi-partisan investigation into Bush's authorization of the NSA to get their spy on.