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Workers employed by Keolis, the company that operates transit services for capmetro, have overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike if contract negotiations fail to produce a new labor agreement, Governor Abbott was in east Texas rolling out his latest property tax plan that he claims will cut your yearly bill in half forever while Democratic senate hopeful James Talarico is calling the decision to keep birthright citizenship a victory for the constitution and a protection that should not be up for political debate, and Austin Democratic congressman Greg Casar is slamming oracle following reports that the tech company has laid off thousands of employees across the nation, including here in Austin while many of those layoffs are directly tied to artificial intelligence.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Texas attorney general and republican senate candidate Ken Paxton has issued a response to the latest slam by democrat opponent James Talarico, who recently accused Paxton of not being Texas enough, and being too bogged down by corruption to represent the state of Texas in the senate, Austin's potholes are more than just a nuisance as they can damage cars and cost taxpayers an average of $1,300 to permanently repair. But now waymo's self-driving cars are on the hunt for potholes with the city using waymo's data to fix roads, and the supreme court vote happened today to decide whether the ban on trans athletes in women's sports was held up and birthright citizenship being removed or restricted from the US constitution.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states can count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, the Texas State Board of Education has officially passed a revised reading list that includes passages from the Bible and the Austin school district is delaying its district-wide school boundary realignment for another year.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The addition of biblical stories into the public school curriculum is expected to come up for a vote today by the Texas State Board of Education, Texas is seeing a higher birth rate compared to the rest of the country and Save Austin Now's Matt Mackoviak joins the show to discuss the option for voters to approve an external city audit this fall.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The owners of Camp Mystic filed for bankruptcy in Houston early this morning as they claim debt in excess of $10-million, with assets in the hundreds of thousands of dollars… 27 girls from the camp were killed last year in the July 4th flooding, Austin police have been busy this month investigating several homicides, the most recent of which happened just yesterday in southeast Austin which is the fifth murder reported in Austin in less than two weeks, and Mendez says police are working as hard as they can to keep people safe, homelessness and mental health were topics of discussion this week at the Texas capitol after the house intergovernmental affairs committee held a hearing to discuss the challenges police officers face when dealing with homeless people with severe drug and mental health issues, and new polling on data centers in Texas is painting a clear picture as the polling, laid out in a legislative committee this week, found the vast majority Texans do not want a data center built in their community.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Central Texas residents urging local leaders to take a tougher stance on proposed data centers got a response this week in Hays county, where commissioners approved what they called one of the strongest industrial high-water resolutions in Texas, Travis county district attorney Jose Garza has caught the attention of the lawmakers in the nation's capital as congressmen chip roy and Jim Jordan are among the lawmakers who are demanding that Garza's office hand over records related to interactions with federal immigration authorities, as well as records on the treatment of non-citizen defendants,  senator Cornyn says he will play hardball in his final six months in office if he has to as he told Semafor that he told senate republican leadership that in order for him to vote on a 70-billion dollar immigration spending bill, the White House must reimburse Texas for border security spending, and Texas attorney general Ken Paxton is sitting on a 2-percent lead over his democrat senate opponent, James Talarico. 49-percent of 800 likely Texas voters support Paxton for senate, 47-percent are behind Talarico.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Patrick Osborn and Brad Swayle in studio today with Todd out, discussing the FIFA World Cup, the Texas Education Agency proposing a new social studies curriculum to be implemented into the public schools with information involving stories from the bible that have historical evidence, Iranian authorities say they will not allow nuclear inspections into their country as part of the peace deal with the US, and Donald Trump threatens more action if Iran does not cooperate. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Vice President JD Vance told reporters in Switzerland that inspectors could be in Iran as soon as this week as negotiations with Iran resumed after a pause over the weekend, the Texas State Board of Education will meet this week to vote on a new controversial social studies curriculum and Austin Police have ruled that a shooting in southeast Austin that left a husband and wife dead was a murder-suicide.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sweden's Foreign Ministry has announced that planned talks between the U-S and Iran have been postponed, new details in the investigation of a south Texas plane crash reveal the pilot radioed the tower before the crash, stating there were mechanical issues with the plane and the Austin City Auditor's Office says in a new report that more than a half-dozen Austin Energy employees violated city policy by using city vehicles for personal use.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Austin city council's quest for density is causing some concern for at least one member of the city's zoning and platting commission. Lonny Stern represents district 3 on the commission and he says the city should force large housing developments to create public walkways through them so people don't have to walk all the way around them while critics of such an idea says allowing the public to cut through a private housing development would invite much more crime and concerns about the safety of children , Austin’s long-debated light rail project moved into another phase as the Austin transit partnership met this week to discuss design and pre-construction work, and the discussion comes as some businesses along the planned route continue to raise concerns about losing customers, or potential displacement, also there is some concern here in Texas over what is coming to new cars as there is a growing push to repeal an impending government mandate that requires all new cars to have technology to monitor driver's behavior, as a way to stop drunk driving.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Austin police are investigating the deaths of a man and a woman in southeast Austin as officer Austin Zarling says there were multiple calls made to 911 asking about a welfare check of a husband and wife at a home in the 4700 block of Oltorf saying the 911 calls were placed just before 3:15 p.m., but officers didn't actually arrive at the house until 6:20 p.m. , new restrictions on what Texans can buy with their snap benefits have been in place since April, but some critics say those new restrictions are causing too much confusion for struggling families, and for grocery stores. Texas senate bill 379 bans snap recipients from using their benefits to buy things like candy, gum, and sweetened drinks, but Gina Plata-Nino with the food research and action center tells cbs austin the changes have made it harder for people who rely on snap to meet their basic needs, and the Texas education agency has released the spring 2026 STAAR test results for third through eighth graders. Statewide, the numbers show a shift in Texas classrooms, including a surge in advanced math and a jump in middle school reading with state officials attributing those reading gains to a statewide school cell phone ban.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 Texas ranchers may be holding back on reporting screwworm infestations out of fear of the federal government's response as Robin Giles has been working the 13-thousand-acre hillingdon ranch in the hill country for 70 years that’s been in his family for over 130 years saying he's seen it all, including screwworms, the city of Austin is looking for a contractor to help out with the task of taking an inventory of the city's trees as city leaders say they want to follow the lead of other cities like Dallas, Denton, and Chicago who have all completed tree inventories, and the Texas education agency today is set to release the results of the STAAR test for grades 3 through 8. and the results could be very impactful for the Austin school district as Dobie, Webb, and Burnet middle schools have all failed to meet basic academic standards for four straight years and the STAAR test results factor largely into the T-E-A's overall accountability ratings for schools, and Austin ISD superintendent Matias Segura has been sounding the alarm that a fifth failing grade for any of those schools could cost them their local control.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The US and Iran have struck a framework deal as Trump heads to the G7. Oil prices had already fallen sharply in anticipation of the deal, and Trump posted that the Strait of Hormuz will reopen after the deal is signed, Texas Governor Greg Abbott laid out the GOP's agenda going forward at the Republican state convention in Houston and education experts are watching closely to see whether recent gains in test scores at the high school level will carry over to younger students as more STAAR results are set to be released tomorrow.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is trying to protect homeowners from surging power bills connected to new data centers, the City of Austin is considering a partnership with Travis County to expand fare-free public transit in the fall's general election and Karmelo Anthony has filed an appeal in his murder conviction while also telling the court he cannot afford an attorney and must be appointed one.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

While cities and counties across the state debate moratoriums on data center growth, Governor Abbott calls for more regulations on them as he directed the public utility commission and ERCOT to to require data centers to add power generation to the grid, to require them to pay their own infrastructure costs and to lower residential ratepayer costs, the shakeup continues in Texas education as public school enrollment is on the decline, and numbers showing that charter school enrollment is down too, while at the same time, the trend of home schooling is outpacing both, the prosecutor in the Karmelo Anthony murder trial is speaking out, saying this was one of the most unique cases he has ever worked on and says in all his years he has never seen as much mis information and intentional dis information put out into social media platforms… that's why he agreed with the decision not to allow cameras or audio into the courtroom.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The city of Austin has put out a warning after potentially toxic blue-green algae mats were spotted floating on some local waterways as officials say thick mats of algae have been seen at red bud isle on lady bird lake, and at the walsh boat landing on Lake Austin, The city of Austin is on the hunt for a new organization to take over operations for the overnight cold weather shelters, as they're open to anyone, but they largely serve as a place for the homeless to come and stay overnight when the temperature is below 35-degrees, Travis county formally recognized pride month this week with a ceremony outside of the county administrative building, the Hays county commissioners court is still discussing data centers after this week, county judge Ruben Becerra proposed a 180-day emergency water review period that would limit how much new data center activity would be authorized by the county.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Democrat Texas gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa held a press conference at the capitol this week to announce the creation of a new effort aimed at public schools as she says her "team texas public schools" initiative will train teachers, parents, and administrators to fight against school closures, especially in areas of the state she says are being hit the hardest, are roundabouts the answer to some of austin's mobility problems? love them or hate them, the city of Austin has continued to add more and more of them to various intersections, and by the end of the year, work is set to begin on the city's 50th roundabout, Ken Paxton launched an industry-wide investigation into protein powder manufacturers, he says to protect texans from heavy metals like lead and cadmium as Paxton mentioned in a release that consumer reports tested 23 products and found the lead levels in plant-based protein powders on average, nine times higher than those made with dairy proteins.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nearly a year after floods destroyed much of the Sandy Creek area, heavy rainfall caused major flooding Friday night and destroyed an animal sanctuary, President Trump says he had a tense exchange with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over strikes in Iran, and prosecutors have rested their case in the murder trial of Karmelo Anthony See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Critics are slamming Austin Mayor Kirk Watson for taking a trip to Manchester as the city struggles to fund basic city services while also facing a $33 million budget deficit, a parent at an Austin Montessori school accidentally put a THC lollipop in a goodie bag for students and the Austin School Board got their first look at a proposed $181 million budget reduction plan.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Austin ISD school board will be presented this evening with a plan to cut $181-million-dollars from the next year's budget to address a massive deficit as superintendent Matias Segura highlighted several of the planned cuts yesterday, including 558 district roles. he says that all employees with teaching certifications will be given alternate placements, while the district is working to find roles for those who are not certified when possible. An Austin ISD student in the country illegally was able to walk across the stage for graduation with his classmates this week. It was early last month when Luis Fernando Cabrera -- a senior at Northeast early college high school -- was detained by ICE officials following a traffic stop due to an expired registration, following the arrest, Cabrera had been held at the Karnes detention center until a judge ordered his release, and Texas parents are giving the public school system a failing grade as 15 percent of parents say the quality of education in their ISD is excellent, 41-percent call it good, 22 percent describing it as fair and 9 percent as poor. The numbers jump up a bit when talking about the parents of private, charter or home-schooled students. 66-percent rate their education as excellent.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The group behind a charter petition that would force regular external audits onto the city of Austin believes it has enough signatures to get that petition on the November ballot. Save Austin Now has officially handed those signatures over to the Austin city clerk as the petition requires the city of Austin to complete an external audit within a year of its passage, and to review its budget every five years, or no less than one year before the city of Austin asks voters for more money in a tax rate election, a new Texas law is adding tougher requirements for the companies behind operating driverless vehicles as senate bill 2807 imposes stricter rules on autonomous vehicle companies operating in the state, including state authorization, emergency response plans for law enforcement, and a public portal where residents can verify operators and file safety complaints, and new numbers from the city of Austin show the homeless population accounts for a significant share of all fatal auto-pedestrian crashes as the data shows 40-percent of the people who are hit by cars and die from their injuries are homeless.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Austin police department has launched an investigation into the death of a man who was found stuffed in a trash can over the weekend as APD says they were called to the area around Packsaddle pass and Ben White on Saturday for a welfare check, and officers arrived on scene and found the man -- identified as 59-year-old duc vo -- who they say was "clearly deceased.” , Two men from Houston are accused of pulling a jewelry store heist in Round Rock after police say Javon Davis and Leslie Lavun Jones were arrested in connection to a robbery at Marc Robinson jewelers at the Round Rock premium outlets back in April as court documents say the two men were part of a group of masked robbers who entered the store and started smashing display cases with hammers before stealing a large amount of high-end jewelry. Georgetown police are again urging residents to lock their vehicles and secure their firearms as they investigate 20 vehicle burglaries that occurred over the weekend across four neighborhoods, including the theft of seven firearms after burglaries took place late at night in the village, Fairhaven, Teravista and Summercrest neighborhoods. Of the vehicles targeted, six were confirmed locked and six were confirmed unlocked.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Some small business owners along South Congress are voicing their concerns about Austin's light rail project, Democrat Rep. Greg Casar is calling for a new tax on artificial intelligence companies as a way to combat potential mass unemployment that could come from A.I. technology and Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico held a rally in Leander yesterday to try and lure voters over to his side in the race against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 A NEW TEXAS LAW REQUIRING APP STORES TO GET PARENTAL CONSENT FROM USERS UNDER 13 YEARS OLD WILL NOW BE ALLOWED TO GO INTO EFFECT, THANKS TO A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT. YESTERDAY WAS THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL FOR AUSTIN ISD, AND IT ALSO MARKED THE END OF AN ERA FOR SEVERAL SCHOOLS IN THE DISTRICT. AUSTIN CITY MANAGER T.C. BROADNAX HAS GOTTEN THE DIRECTIVE FROM THE CITY COUNCIL TO DEVELOP NEW RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING DUMPSTER COLLECTIONS. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Legislation is on the way to regulate collegiate sports spending and transfers as the 'protect college sports act', written by Texas senator Ted Cruz and Washington democrat Maria Cantwell would hand the NCAA an antitrust exemption to enforce a series of rules that have been challenged in court over the past few years, limiting athletes to a one-time transfer without penalty, limit eligibility to 5 years, ban former pro-athletes from playing in college, halt schools from poaching coaches during the season, and granting the NCAA the ability to enforce a spending cap for how much schools can pay their athletes, a proposal from Austin mayor Kirk Watson to pull back some of the city’s commitment to building highway caps over I-35 won’t move forward this week as last year, the city council approved $104-million for what are called vertical "roadway elements", which are structural components needed for about six planned highway coverings of varying sizes, stretching from near the river to north Austin, but none of that money will cover any of the caps themselves, nor any of the amenities that the council wants included.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton is the big winner in the lone star state's bitter republican senate primary battle, which spanned for more than a year and became the most expensive senate primary in history as Paxton, who was endorsed by donald trump just one week ago, convincingly defeated longtime GOP senator John Cornyn in the runoff election for the republican nomination, in the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct decades ago, the Austin city council this week has begun discussions over renaming Cesar Chavez street, and some of the proposed names include reverting back to the original "first street," renaming it after another member of the farmworkers movement -- Dolores Huerta, or renaming it after fallen Austin police officer Jorge Pastore, who was killed in the line of duty, and Cedar Park will soon play host to an out-of-this-world effort by NASA as the space agency has announced that Cedar Park-based Firefly Aerospace will build a new craft designed to transport drones to the moon.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Central Texas Gun Works Owner Michael Cargill joins the show, the Austin ISD has moved its budget discussion to June 4th, claiming they need more time to come up with solutions to address the projected $181 million budget deficit and Flock Safety is hoping to convince the Austin City Council to lift the ban on automated license plate readers in the wake of the shooting spree this past weekend.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Texas Attorney General candidate Mayes Middleton joins the show, the Austin City Council will vote today on annexing a four square-mile piece of land in east Austin for new infrastructure and Austin cyclists gathered this week for the "Ride of Silence", an annual event hosted by the Austin Ghost Bike Project to honor the lives of people who have been hurt or killed on local roadways while calling for improvements to cyclist safety.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

President Trump has endorsed current Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over incumbent U.S. Senator John Cornyn in the Republican primary for Cornyn's seat, the city of Austin has purchased 50 acres of park land in south Austin and a decline in public school enrollment is predicted to be bigger than expected, Texas could lose 100,000 students by the year 2030.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Three people and two suspects are dead after a shooting at a mosque in San Diego yesterday morning, the owner of Central Texas Gun Works, Michael Cargill, has told reporters the gun used in the weekend shooting spree involving three teens in south Austin was stolen from his store and a new Texas Senate poll shows both Republican candidates John Cornyn and Ken Paxton are deadlocked against Democrat candidate James Talarico.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Three teens have been arrested in connection to a shooting spree in south Austin over the weekend, the Austin City Council is discussing scaling back the I-35 cap and stitch project and parents in the Pflugerville school district are upset after district leaders voted to close four elementary schools to address an 11$ million deficit.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Interrogations between the US and Cuba intensify as Cuba's oil shortage worsens, Caldwell county is calling for state intervention to regulate the development of data centers in Texas, and amidst school under-enrollment, Pflugerville ISD is closing four elementary schools.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Governor Greg Abbott has expanded his latest crime reduction initiative as he originally rolled out the Texas repeat offender task force in Houston in October, and now he's expanding it to include Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio, and here in Austin, and Austin renters may have more bargaining power than they’ve had in years, as hundreds of apartment complexes across the city offer incentives like free rent amid a wave of new development after a recent report from Apartments.com shows roughly 700 apartment properties in Austin are currently offering rent concessions to attract tenants, and about 38-percent of those properties are advertising one month free, while another 25-percent are offering two months free.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former Austin councilman Greg Casar held a press conference yesterday to demand the release of 18-year-old Luis Fernando Cabrera -- an illegal alien who attended northeast early college high school before being detained recently by ICE agents, five people have been arrested for allegedly robbing a teenager at gunpoint in Leander as the victim says a white suv approached him carrying the four other teens and one adult who began harassing him before pulling out a gun, an officer eventually chased two of the alleged robbers on foot, and during the pursuit, a drone was following and caught the moment one of the teens threw a backpack into a backyard. Officers later recovered two guns, one of which was stolen, also, Uhland has a new Mayor after recently, Mayor Lacee Duke resigned following a felony arrest back in December and Guadalupe Garza will take over after being appointed last night by the city council.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former Austin city councilman Greg Casar will be in Austin today to demand the release of a northeast early college high school student who was detained by ice recently after being pulled over for an expired registration, state health officials have temporarily waived the hard-wired internet requirement for summer camps and an appeals court has reinstated an injunction stopping the ban on stores from selling smokable hemp.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

President Trump is threatening Iran again after U-S forces carried out strikes on military facilities in retaliation for an attack in the Strait of Hormuz, Austin ISD is updating how it plans to deal with a $181 million budget deficit, including increasing class sized in second through fifth grade and reducing planning time for teachers and the CDC is tracking two cruise passengers in Texas who may have been exposed to the hantavirus.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The central Texas regional mobility authority is proposing a big expansion of mopac from downtown to Slaughter lane, which would add two new toll lanes in an effort to alleviate the major congestion through the corridor, but critics aren't satisfied, after last night's meeting of Austin's environmental commission where multiple people showed up to slam the proposal over environmental concerns, Caldwell county could soon see a major boom in data center development that has some residents worried about changes to their communities, and Governor Abbott is threatening to pull state funding from Grand Prairie over an event at a waterpark as Epic Waters plans to host a private event to celebrate the Muslim holiday of EID on June first that will require a modest dress code and Governor Abbott says that could result in the loss of half a million dollar for the city, which owns the water park, he also says what the park did is religious discrimination.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Activists are slamming the homeless strategy office's latest plan to clear out homeless camps around Austin after homeless strategy officer David Gray says they have created an updated process with a goal of reducing health and safety risks while also connecting homeless people with services including increased camp cleanings by some members of the Austin police department would establish six dedicated teams operating monday through friday with three teams that would be responsible for camps in parks, greenbelts, and residential areas and one team would focus on transportation corridors, and The Austin school district has released a summary of proposed budget cuts as the district works to close a $181-million deficit as district leaders say they have identified $73.8-million in central office reductions, which includes eliminating vacancies such as the deputy superintendent of business and operations and a proposed one-thousand-unit housing complex with pre-approved office space in southwest Austin is moving forward in the rezoning process.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sexual assault victim services provided by the safe alliance in austin are set to end in june because of a lack of funding after CEO Pierre Baristain says there is currently no plan for victims once the services are terminated, but that safe alliance could continue helping if it raises $1.5-million-dollars as he tells CBS Austin they've lost about $5.6-million in funding, Texas prisons are under attack, and it's coming from the skies as prison system leaders are tracking a spike in the number of cases where drones are flying contraband into the arms of inmates and the comptroller's office has issued 53-thousand more school choice vouchers to Texas students as part of the education freedom accounts program.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Austin City Council will consider a settlement with an Austin couple who had their home damaged by Austin police and Department of Public Safety S.W.A.T. officers after initially claiming immunity and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on legal representation, Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza has hired defense attorneys ahead of an upcoming misconduct hearing and a Travis County judge has issued a temporary injunction pausing a new Texas rule banning smokable hempSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Austin Board of Realtors is out with a new report claiming the city of Austin's H.OM.E. initiative is working at reducing housing costs, Camp Mystic has decided to pull their application for an operating license and will not open this summer after days of contentious public hearings and the city of Austin has released its long-term financial forecast, which could lead to a modest surplus in 2031.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The city of Austin is preparing to ramp up homeless encampment sweeps in the coming weeks as a proposal outlines targeted cleanups across the city, but it’s already drawing criticism from activists who say the approach risks doing more harm than good like Eli Cortez with the group "Vocal TX" tells KVUE the police department is causing a lot of fear among the homeless community, which makes it difficult to get them help, Austin's first responders are taking their concerns about self-driving vehicles to city leaders after the 6th Street mass shooting early last month, an ambulance was blocked from getting to the scene by a self-driving Waymo vehicle that was stuck in the middle of the roadway, and Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick reiterated his call for state health officials to block the license of Camp Mystic following a two-day legislative hearing in which investigators, families of flood victims, and the camp's operators took hours of questions from lawmakers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

State lawmakers and the camp leaders are debating at the state capitol over whether Camp Mystic should be allowed to reopen its Cypress Lake campus this summer, Camp Mystic director Edward Eastland was the first to address the house and senate committees about what led to the tragic deaths of the 27 girls in the flood and investigators concluded the camp leaders failed to follow national weather service warnings, and didn't have a camper evacuation plan and now they want to reopen the Cypress Lake campus on May 30th, Austin school district officials continue to try to figure out how to bridge a massive budget gap as this school year, the district expects to wrap up with a $49-million-dollar deficit, and it's expected to grow to $181-million-dollars by next school year, also get ready to hit the ballot box again as we are now less than one month away from a primary runoff in Texas which is the biggest race is for senate, pitting the incumbent John Cornyn against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

State lawmakers got a breakdown from their independent investigator as to what went wrong at camp mystic, causing the flood deaths of 25 campers and two counselors as members of the state house and senate flood investigation committees heard a minute by minute breakdown of the failures of camp leadership including not heeding national weather service warnings ahead of the July 4th floods, or having a coherent camper evacuation plan, the Austin city council has advanced a new incentive deal for a $985-million-dollar resort project at Circuit of the Americas that's expected to generate billions of dollars in the local economy as Rida development is planning a 1000-room hotel with a golf course and 170-thousand-square-foot conference center on the western portion of the COTA project in Del Valle, and Melania Trump and the administration have called for the firing of Jimmy Kimmel from his late night host spot on ABC after a joke of ill-taste was directed at the First Lady.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The City of Austin is considering another property tax rate hike to make up for a $26 million budget deficit, the Austin Police Department has agreed to rework their general orders to avoid millions in state funding cuts and the Austin ISD will pause additional school closures at it moves toward gathering community feedback on district boundaries. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has extended the deadline for the city of Austin to change its police department's policies on cooperating with federal immigration agent, A U.S. Supreme Court appeal is in the works by the families who originally filed a lawsuit against the State of Texas for requiring the Ten Commandments be posted in every public school classroom and special guest & former Texas GOP Chairman James Dickey joins the show to discuss the booming data center industry in Texas.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Texas is running out of water, and you won't believe the price tag to fix it, as a new report shows that cities across Texas will need to spend 174-billion dollars over the next 50 years to avert a water crisis. Perry Fowler, who heads the Texas water infrastructure network, says that's a huge jump from the previous price tag, the environment was the main focus of a town hall event yesterday where dozens of people turned up to learn more about the proposed expansion of Mopac from Cesar Chavez to Slaughter lane, critics of the plan, including some high school students, tell CBS Austin they don't believe the mobility authority has done enough studies on what impact the mopac project could have on the environment while CTRMA's environmental study shows that the project would have "no significant impact" to water, wildlife, and nearby areas like lady bird lake, and the hunt continues for a group of smash-and-grab thieves who hit the Marc Robinson jewelry store at the Round Rock outlet mall on Tuesday after video shows eight masked people enter the store, attack an employee with pepper spray, and then smash display cases filled with high-end jewelry and rolex watches.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A new research center combining medical and technological research is getting a head-start from Michael and Susan Dell as they say the goal of the new investment is to bring together medicine, science, and computing on a single campus designed for the artificial intelligence era, the 5th circuit court concluded the Texas law does not violate the establishment clause or the free exercise clause of the first amendment, going on to say, Senate Bill 10 requires no religious exercise or observance and Students are not taught to adopt them, nor are teachers commanded to convert students to Christianity, and an Austin firefighter battling stage 4 ovarian and endometrial cancer has won a legal battle against the city of Austin over worker compensation after she worked for AFD for nearly 20 years, she was diagnosed with cancer in May of last year and believes it was caused by her job.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Congress has passed the mystic alerts act named after Camp Mystic where 25 campers and two counselors were killed in the horrific July fourth flooding, requiring the FFC to encourage mobile service providers to adopt satellite technology to reach those that don't have cell service, girl scouts in central Texas can now earn a new patch designed to help them recognize and protect themselves from online predators, following the launch of a first-of-its-kind online safety curriculum unveiled this week in Austin, and an Austin woman is telling her story after chasing a strange man out of her house in the middle of the night Shayla Worley tells KXAN she was in her home on Nueces street when she realized she was not alone as Worley says she confronted the guy with a gun, once the man was gone, she says she called 9-1-1, because the crime was no longer in progress, she was told to call 3-1-1 instead, and to eventually file a report online.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Planned peace talks with Iran are now in jeopardy after the U.S. seized an Iran-marked cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, Austin's Community Police Review Commission appears to be split on whether the city should expand public reporting on police interactions with federal immigration agents and the latest poll shows Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton gaining momentum over Senator John Cornyn in the GOP Senate primary runoff.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.