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I-35 service road at 38th closed

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Published Oct. 28, 2008 at 11:41 a.m.

The Austin Police Department said the Northbound Interstate 35service road is closed at 38th Street due to an accident. Noinjuries reported at this time ...

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Reader Submission

Published Oct. 23, 2008 at 10:44 p.m.
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It's a Barack O'Lantern. Thank you to KVUE viewer Rachel for sending this. She carved it at the Dripping Springs Pumpkin Carving Contest ...

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Palin Reading Texan's Book

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Published Oct. 22, 2008 at 8:48 p.m.

After famously not naming any newspapers or magazines she's currently reading, McCain running mate Sarah Palin told People magazine she's "not a bubblehead" and is currently reading "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11". That's the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by the Austin-based writer Lawrence Wright. For your convenience, I linked you to the Texas Monthly talks piece with Wright from last summer ...

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Larry Joe on the Airwaves

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Published Oct. 20, 2008 at 6:49 p.m.

Rep. Michael McCaul's opponent is up with a new commercial criticizing the congressman's role in the current economic crisis. Since congressional district 10 stretches from the Austin market into the Houston market, I'm not clear whether this is just in one market or in both. (Houston's far more expensive.) ... The commercial was produced by Doherty's consultants, Message, Audience and Presentation (James Aldrete's outfit out of Austin) ... More to come ...

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Farewell... For a Week, Anyway

Published Oct. 18, 2008 at 1:32 a.m.

Yes, this is not ideal timing for a political reporter. But I'll be out of the country for this next week and only able to blog sporadically. Good thing this world wide web creation is actually worldwide ... staying connected should be pretty simple! ...

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Thanks, I Think?

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Published Oct. 15, 2008 at 11:24 p.m.

A big thank you to the editors at The Austin Chronicle, who gave me a Critic's Pick Award in this year's Best of Austin issue. The category for which I (perhaps ironically) won? "Best TV Reporter Who Can Write" ... The write-up: ... The sound-bite world of TV news can make the on-camera talent look a little superficial, but that's just image. When KVUE's Elise Hu isn't skillfully trimming down policy nuance for the idiot box, she's raising hell in her sometimes scathing, take-no-prisoners

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McCaul Holds Money Lead Into Final Stretch

Published Oct. 15, 2008 at 9:59 p.m.

The 30-day-out federal campaign finance reports are trickling out, and U.S. Rep Michael McCaul, R-Texas, is sitting on almost 600K for the final stretch ... McCaul reported $597,740 cash on hand in his third quarter filing ... He raised $283,000 in the third quarter from 406 individual donors. So the average size of a donation to McCaul was $697 ... "I am pleased with our fund raising efforts and the number of individual contributors to our campaign," McCaul said ... "It shows our message of

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Is Your Ballot Safe?

Published Oct. 15, 2008 at 11:38 a.m.

As millions of Texans prepare to vote in this year's presidential election (early voting starts next Monday), a state Senate panel will hear testimony arguing that all those eSlate voting machines upon which you cast your ballot are easily hacked and need to go ... Dr. Dan Wallach, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Rice University, has argued that even with the multi-pronged testing performed before elections, the machines still have "severe security vulnerabilities which allow for

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CD-10: DCCC Gives Greater Backing to Doherty

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Published Oct. 14, 2008 at 11:27 a.m.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has upgraded the Doherty challenge to U.S. Rep Michael McCaul, R-Austin to a more competitive status. The campaign arm, operated out of D.C., is going to give Doherty more financial and strategic support as part of its "Red to Blue" program ... "Larry Joe Doherty, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Congress in Texas' 10th Congressional District, has taken what was believed to be a non-competitive district and, through the strength of his campaign, is

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Bill Clinton to Stump in Dallas

Published Oct. 12, 2008 at 7:46 p.m.

The former president will be at a Dallas event Tuesday night to stump for US Senate candidate Rick Noriega. For those of you who are in Dallas, the rally will take place at Thomas Jefferson High School. Doors open at 5:30pm, event starts at 6:30pm ... The event will also feature a whole slate of North Texas Democratic candidates, including state Reps Allen Vaught and Kirk England, who both face tough re-election battles ...

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