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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.

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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.

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• 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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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 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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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