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AUSTIN NEWS & VIEWS
August 22, 2011
Hosted by Thom White & SMiles Lewis
Special Guest: Kevin Schooley
Parking meter compromise reached: Meters will run until midnight on Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Cesar Chavez to 10thStreet; otherwise 8 am -6pm Monday through Saturday citywide.
Drought continues; water mains break all over Houston, Austin ; city to enforce “Phase 2” water restrictions
Rick Perry officially announces he is running for president; What is his record on Texas economy and job creation?; Local activist Robert Morrow places full-page ad in Chronicle trying to dig up dirt on Rick Perry’s personal life “Committee Against Sexual Hypocrisy“ – media try to pin this on Ron Paul campaign… Is this significant or a distraction?
Public school year begins today – how will budget cuts affect students? Will there be overcrowding, new charges for students? SMILES reports on students having to pay to ride the bus….
SCHOOLEY: Musical interlude
APD Shootout: SMiles reports on officer involved shooting on South Congress last Monday, Aug 15, and Police technology (Military surplus helicopter now in APD arsenal); also further discussion of police surveillance grid going up in downtown and APD’s “ Real Time Crime Center ”
SPECIAL REPORT: 9/11 First Responders, ten years later – In July, World Trade Center Health Program, part of Zagroda Act passed in 2010, announced Cancer is NOT covered as part of compensation, since there is not enough evidence linking cancer to exposure to dust and particles at the clean-up site. First responders are outraged – PLUS at 10thanniversary event, first responders are not invited by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, another exclusion….
KOOP Membership Drive begins next week! But if you renew your membership before then (by August 25th), you will be in a drawing for (2) tickets to ACL festival coming up! Basic membership starts at $35.00, or become a Sustainer for only $10/month!
Metered Parking Controversy
Austin City Council in discussing payday lenders, downtown parking
http://www.kvue.com/news/local/Austin-City-Council-in-discussing-payday-lenders-downtown-parking-128014533.html
Get Ready to Pay to Park
http://www.austinpost.org/content/get-ready-pay-park
Water Woes and Water Wars
Desperate to drink, West Texas turns to wastewater
CNN – By Ed Lavandera, CNN Correspondent Big Spring, Texas
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-08-10/us/texas.desperate.to.drink_1_drinking-water-water-reclamation-project-water-reclamation
Analyzing Rick Perry’s record: Water woes could cost Texas – Houston Chronicle (blog)
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/08/analyzing-rick-perry%E2%80%99s-record-water-woes-could-cost-texas/
Water woes could cost Texas – Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Water-woes-could-cost-Texas-2121713.php
Amid Texas drought, a water war brews – CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/19/eveningnews/main20094824.shtml
School Woes
Students, educators face changes as first bell rings in new school year today
http://www.statesman.com/news/local/students-educators-face-changes-as-first-bell-rings-1771066.html
Texas school cuts to be felt in ways big and small – Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Texas-school-cuts-to-be-felt-in-ways-big-and-small-2133836.php
Texas school district to charge students to ride the bus – Washington Times – Claire Courchane – Jul 20, 2011
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/20/texas-district-to-charge-students-to-ride-the-bus/
District decreasing school bus stops – Austin News
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/texas_lege/District-decreasing-school-bus-stops
When the bus costs so much, is it public education?
Fort Worth Star Telegram – Jul 24, 2011
http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/07/24/3242695/when-the-bus-costs-so-much-is.html
Parents to pay for children to ride bus?
ABC15.com (KNXV-TV) – Katrina Schaefer – Jul 20, 2011
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/now_at_nine/parents-to-pay-for-children-to-ride-bus
Rick Perry’s Record
Rick Perry’s budget sleight-of-hand
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/rick-perrys-budget-sleight-of-hand/2011/08/15/gIQAuiGCHJ_blog.html
Texas unemployment rate hits its highest mark since 1987
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/politics/entries/2011/08/19/texas_unemployment_rate_hits_i.html
Education cuts, Perry record will draw campaign scrutiny – Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/Education-cuts-Perry-record-will-draw-campaign-2133387.php
Arne Duncan Attacks Rick Perry’s Education Record Education Week News (blog)
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2011/08/arne_duncan_attacks_rick_perry.html
State’s education funding is not making the grade San Antonio Express
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2011/08/arne_duncan_attacks_rick_perry.html
Shots Fired and APD’s Military Copter
APD identifies robber involved in shooting with police (VIDEO) by NOELLE NEWTON / KVUE News
http://www.kvue.com/news/APD-identifies-robber-involved-in-shooting-with-police-127898133.html
Man charged with aggravated robbery after chase at which officers fired at him
http://www.statesman.com/news/local/man-charged-with-aggravated-robbery-after-chase-at-1752482.html
Austin Police Department Air Operations Unit
http://www.policehelicopterpilot.com/austin-police-air-operations/
911 Anniversary & Health Effects News
9/11 First Responders’ Cancer Treatments Will Not be Covered: U.S. Government
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/187950/20110727/cancer-9-11-report-first-responders.htm
First responders decry exclusion from 9/11 ceremony
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/08/16/new.york.911.memorial/
Ground Zero Hazards: Environmental and Health Impacts of the WTC Bombing
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/groundzero/environment.html
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