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Home Sweet … Hotel? Students Uprooted from Faulty Student Housing Complex
By Rebecca Butler | Reporting Texas Stella Perez planned to have an at-home date with her boyfriend on Valentine’s Day. Instead, she got a call from her student housing complex, Crest at Pearl, that she would be evacuated and relocated to a hotel room for “routine inspections” in her unit. She spent the rest of…
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Student Government Approves Plan to Make Printing Easier, Cheaper
By Rebecca Butler // Reporting Texas Responding to student frustrations about the cost of on-campus printing, the University of Texas’ Student Government voted Tuesday night to give students a $2 printing allowance each semester. The pilot program, which will be implemented over the next few years, aims to change UT’s longstanding printing system that results…
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Fields, Farms and Factories: How a Foreign Company Is Changing a Rural County Near Houston
By Rebecca Butler // Reporting Texas Driving through Waller, Texas, the peaceful sight of grazing cows and sprawling farmland suddenly gives way to a massive factory, business parks and subdivided housing developments, a stark symbol of the town’s rapid transformation. What was once a quiet rural community 45 miles northwest of downtown Houston is now…
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Divided Austin Council Expands Wheatsville’s Alcohol Sales Waiver on South Lamar
By Rebecca Butler // Reporting Texas A sharply divided Austin City Council on Thursday approved Wheatsville Food Co-op’s request to sell alcohol for on-site consumption despite its proximity to Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders. Wheatsville, a community-owned natural foods retailer with two Austin stores, petitioned the council in August to waive the city’s ban…
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Education in Emergency: First-Year Teachers Struggle Through COVID-19 Chaos
By Rebecca Butler First-year teachers in Texas have been struggling to overcome work and pandemic-related stress. The hours once spent in in-person classes and professional development shifted to Zoom calls virtually overnight, creating a rocky start to their first year in the classroom. According to a report by the Texas Department of State Health Services,…
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