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Tower Girl appears to be long gone, so the camera is pointed here and there around campus. Right now it's on the turtle pond.

ROUND ROCK, Texas (KXAN) — Residents at the Townhomes at Double Creek in Round Rock got a notice they would be without water, as freezing temperatures are expected throughout Central Texas come Sunday. Sandalwood Management oversees the property, it says the original notice wasn’t clear and said staff will only turn water off if it drops below 20 degrees. It added that would likely only be overnight. At least one other complex has taken this measure before, trying to prevent pipes from bursting, which KXAN reported on in 2022. KXAN reached out to the Texas Apartment Association. It said it doesn’t have a policy regarding shutting water off or preparing for winter weather. However, Building and Strengthening Tenant Action (BASTA), said it’s illegal unless there’s an emergency or repairs being made. “Leaving people without water just to prevent those busted pipes shouldn’t be happening,” Jazmin Rivera a tenant outreach specialist with BASTA said. “People should have the right to water and to feel safe and secure in their homes…we would definitely recommend for tenants to contact 311 to get a code inspector out on the property.”

Why is the city subsidizing luxury lakeside condos?

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Free Week 2024 returns on January 5 and 6, and with it comes an assortment of restaurant discounts in conjunction with the 20-year-old free music festival. The Red River Cultural District, which hosts the Downtown entertainment district's annual Free Week, established to help keep clubs and bars afloat during slow winter months, has secured some promotional discounts for folks who want to grab dinner before checking out a show during the first weekend of 2024.

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KVUE digs deep into the archives to bring you a look back at the news stories, reporters and even the commercials from Christmas of 1989.

This appeared on KVUE's Youtube channel last year and I thought it would be good to share with fellow Austinites! It's called "Capitol Christmas". it's a special Christmas Eve broadcast which aired on December 24, 1989 featuring Ron Oliveira, Judy Maggio, Troy Kimmel, Hugh Lewis, and the late Dick Ellis. It's about 30 mins with vintage commercials (I think in the regular news slot), showing various clips of how Austin spent the season back then. Merry x-mas, y'all!

Austin Energy customers to see a 5% rate increase starting next year

Nope, not a repost from a few weeks ago, another 5 percent increase in January too...

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Sounds like a con. Natural gas is what failed in the last freeze causing statewide power outages. Converting it to hydrogen later is just greenwashing the natural gas.

Good think Kyle can now get water from San Marcos.

If you don’t enforce the law, people don’t obey the law. Imagine that. Also being in a constant state of drought doesn’t help.

The Round Rock Library is pretty amazing, and any Texas resident can get a card free and immediately check out books and media. There's no charge to get a card either, you just have to show up in person, which you were going to do anyway if you planned on checking out books.

A major highlight in my opinion is returning the books/movies and watching them run up the conveyor belt and get sorted... Guess I am just a big kid.

Currently people who live within the city limits are able to obtain an Austin public library card for free, but that benefit does not extend to everyone with an Austin address. Those who live in a limited-purpose or extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) have to pay a non-resident fee to get a library card. "This nonresident fee creates an economic barrier to all individuals who may work in Austin and have been forced to relocate to surrounding areas due to gentrification and increased costs of housing that commute into Austin for work,” the commission’s letter to council read. During the last city council meeting of the year, council members approved the resolution to waive the nonresident fee.

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Sounds familiar…

"What would your response be to the people who believe that dismissing these charges is an injustice specifically for the people that were injured?" CBS Austin asked.

"I think that there's a lot of misunderstanding about the role of the police department and their training and what it is that they're doing. Of all the professions in the world, the only one that has as much criticism and scrutiny from non-professionals is law enforcement," said Muery.

Travis County Democrats said they should have had a finalized contract last week but Republicans are holding things up. They say Republicans don't want county-wide polling, which allows voters to cast their ballots anywhere in the county, instead of at a specific precinct location, and they say the Republicans want ballots to be hand-counted.

I did this with the family last year, it was a really well done drive through light show, highly recommend.

I don’t see any mention of Rick Perry in this article for some reason. Also note how the gas tax isn’t a percentage of the price per gallon, but a flat amount that hasn’t been adjusted for inflation since the 1990s.