The Austin Daily News - May 5, 2026

In this week's issue: Dell's board just voted unanimously to bring the company's legal home back to Texas — the kid who started it in a UT dorm room is completing the circle A Cedar Park rocket company is now in the same room as Lockheed and Raytheon competing for Trump's $185 billion Golden Dome missile defense program Texas set a national record: 274,183 families applied for school choice vouchers in the program's very first year Austin's crime and public safety crisis is getting worse and harder to ignore — the numbers don't lie ACL Fest 2026 lineup drops this morning at 9 AM — 25 years of the best music festival in America Rock and roll.