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A little old lady adopted an older cat from me last week and has been posting daily updates like this I am CRYING

A small town public library is in turmoil. Some in the community believe it houses pornography. Others think books about queer and racial ideas are being censored. “There are so many people that are divided.” texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

Remember to kiss your cat at midnight

The most expensive part of attending UT Austin? It’s not tuition. It costs *at least* $867 more yearly to live on campus than on average tuition prices. Off-campus costs can be even more. And students pay the price. My latest series for Austin Statesman. A 🧵 statesman.com/story/news/edu…

NEW: Driving from Houston. Selling a car. Paying rapidly rising rents. Like many, UT Austin faculty say they're having trouble affording the cost of living in Austin. The second half of my look at affordability at UT is out now. Read here in Austin Statesman: statesman.com/story/news/edu…

A record number of Bexar County residents have registered to vote this election season ahead of the Oct. 7 registration deadline — 1,283,302 to be exact, brooke reports. The county expects that 900,000 of these voters will actually go to the polls. expressnews.com/news/article/b…

What’s it like to get a new criminal district court up and running in Bexar County? For the new Pre-Indictment Court, the beginning was riddled with challenges — from a “hobbit hole” courtroom to absent attorneys. expressnews.com/news/article/p…

North Siders have always elected a Republican commissioner — one of the last GOP seats left in the county. But each election, Democrats have been gaining ground, and that should concern Republican incumbent Grant Moody, political consultants say. expressnews.com/news/article/b…

Bexar County voters cast a record 46,820 ballots on the first day of early voting and beat the 2016 record of 35,431. expressnews.com/news/article/b…

What’s the average age of Bexar County’s 2,200 election workers? 72.5 years. Among these elders are 17-year-old Hudson Locke and Leona Daniel, two of at least 18 teenagers working the polls this fall. “I love bringing my energy,” Daniel said. expressnews.com/news/article/b…

About 47% of Bexar County's nearly 1.3 million registered voters cast ballots during early voting. That total fell short of Bexar County Elections Administrator Jacque Callanen's prediction of a turnout of at least 50%. bit.ly/4fuczOc

City officials have been talking about a downtown sports & entertainment district since April 2023, requiring firms they’ve met with to sign NDAs barring them from publicly discussing the project. The city will finally talk publicly about it next week. expressnews.com/news/article/c…

The Spurs are trying to gauge whether voters would OK public financing for a downtown arena, possibly as soon as the May 3 election. w/ Madison Iszler and brooke expressnews.com/news/article/s…

Last year, the Forest Oaks apartment complex filed eviction suits against tenants in the complex' 166 units --- 154 times. Those are among the 24,533 eviction cases filed in Bexar County, where over 50% of leaseholders are considered rent-burdened. expressnews.com/news/article/b…

County commissioners on Tuesday will discuss holding a venue tax election to raise public money to build a new billion-dollar arena for the Spurs downtown, Molly Smith and brooke report expressnews.com/news/article/c…

Spurs executives have been pushing for a May tax election to help pay for part of the NBA franchise's new downtown arena, but Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai won't move until he has more information -- like how much the arena will cost. expressnews.com/news/article/b…

A $261,000 effort to blitz Bexar County with voter registration forms ahead of the Nov. 5 election — which was met with a lawsuit by AG Ken Paxton — yielded just over 15,000 successful registrations, brooke reports. expressnews.com/news/article/b…

Only 5 of Bexar County’s 300 polling sites for the November presidential election had deaf-accessible equipment. The county will soon offer virtual sign-language services for deaf voters at every polling site, brooke reports. expressnews.com/news/article/b…