Tag: journalism
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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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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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