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9/3/2010
Democratic candidate for governor Bill White has laid out his plan to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, a job he said his opponent, Gov. Rick Perry, has failed to do in 10 years in office. White said he would use federal grants, state money and forfeiture dollars from drug seizures to hire 1,000 new local law enforcement officers and 250 state troopers. White also promised to use state money more effectively, establish formal partnerships with local and federal law agencies and "revamp" the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Dem. Bill White was a guest on The Todd & Don Show (Friday)
http://www.590klbj.com/podcast/Episodes.aspx?PID=1513
The former Houston mayor added that he would help local law enforcement adopt a federal program called Secure Communities, which he said he used in Houston to identify criminal illegal immigrants and get them turned over to federal authorities. "Texas needs to do better a job than what it's done," White said. "We can do it only if we have more resources on the ground.
The Dallas Morning News Reports:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/DN-white_03tex.ART.State.Edition1.35b5070.html
Earlier reporting:
Republican Gov. Rick Perry says he won't debate Bill White unless the Democrat releases all of his tax returns by Sept. 15. ...
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9/3/2010
Some new bells and whistles have been added to southwest Austin's YMCA, to the tune of more than five million dollars. The YMCA's Sean Doles tells KLBJ what all that money has bought.
They are having special events all weekend and a ribbon cutting will be held Monday morning at 10.
KLBJ'S Jarrod Allen Reports:
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9/3/2010
The officer that pulled the trigger and killed Nathaniel Sanders takes the stand in order to get his job back. In his own words, Lenny Quintana says Police Chief Art Acevedo needs officers like himself back on the streets. But Quintana's commanding officers are concerned about Quintana's admitted drinking problem and poor judgement like posting a photo of himself holding an AR-15 assault rifle on Facebook, shortly after the Sanders' shooting. An independent arbitrator will decide over the next few weeks whether Quintana should be re-instated.
KLBJ'S Ryan Poppe Reports:
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9/3/2010
Austin police are once again cracking down on drunk driving and during this Labor Day weekend they won't be taking "no" as an answer. Police Cmd. Stephen Baker says APD's DWI unit has actually receives a little help during this weekend's no-refusal enforcement.
Cmd. Baker says those officers actually work with Austin fugitive task force, who will also check suspected drivers' criminal record for any outstanding warrants. This weekend enforcement runs from 9 on Saturday through 5 o'clock on Sunday morning.
KLBJ'S Ryan Poppe Reports:
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9/3/2010
The food bank which serves the entire Austin area making up about 300-thousand people each year -- has a new man in charge today. Hank Perret, a technology veteran in Austin, has been asked by the Capital Area Food Bank to take over.Perrett takes over after David Davenport, who spent two years in that job. Perrett would not comment on reports of high staff turnover and other troubles at the food bank.
KlBJ'S Jarrod Allen Reports:
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9/3/2010
The county's health care district has broken ground on a 50 thousand square foot facility on Braker Lane. Non-profit Community Health will be operating the facility. The organization's C-E-O David B Vlite (vleet) says they are hoping to get some of the federal funding available for facilities like these through the Health Care Bill.
The center will serve residents who are uninsured or get Medicare or Medicaid. It is due to open in the fall of 20-11.
KLBJ'S Emily Trube Reports:
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9/3/2010
Samsung Electronics Co. is downplaying suggestions that the price for its new Galaxy tablet computer will be higher than Apple Inc.'s iPad. UK retailer Expansys lists the device for pre-order at 679.99 British pounds (more than $1,000) for a 16-gigabyte version of the device which uses Mountain View, Calif.-based Google Inc.'s Android system. That is $200 to $300 more than the iPad. But Samsung, which is also the world's second largest mobile phone maker and operates an Austin manufacturing plant, insists that prices seen online now are only speculation.
Read more: Samsung downplays reports it will cost more than iPad - Austin Business Journal
http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2010/08/30/daily55.html
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9/3/2010
Former Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Phillips and his wife have been sued over the 2009 death of a teen in a traffic accident. The wrongful death lawsuit alleges Phillips and his wife, Lyn, let minors drink alcohol at their home. The suit was filed Tuesday in Bastrop by Cheryl and Bobby King, whose 17-year-old daughter Audrey died in the single-vehicle wreck. They seek unspecified damages. The lawsuit says the ex-judge's then-20-year-old son had a party, his parents were home and were aware "that minors were getting drunk in their backyard.'' Attorney Richard Mithoff, representing the Phillips family, denied that the couple served or provided alcohol or allowed anyone to become intoxicated. Phillips retired from the high court in 2004 and is now in private practice.
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9/3/2010
This weekend's event in Austin brings together hundreds of mind readers, escape artists, illusionists and other magical arts experts. Attorney Hull Youngblood is president of the Austin chapter of the Society of American Magicians, which is co-sponsoring the event with the International Brotherhood of Magicians. Youngblood says he became hooked a few years ago when he was at an airport and showed a woman a card trick he'd just learned. Youngblood says other travelers gathered around to see what he was doing and "it was a great feeling.'' The Texas Association of Magicians traces its roots to the 1940s.
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9/3/2010
Doctors have registered 217 pain clinics with the Texas Medical Board under a new state law meant to attack rogue pill mills, though authorities suspect the newly-documented clinics represent only a fraction of a massive network of suppliers of potentially dangerous prescription pills. As many as 200 clinics dispense millions of controlled drugs each year in the Houston area alone, law enforcement officials estimate.
The law required pain clinic owners to register by Wednesday, a process created to combat organized crime and accidental overdose deaths tied to a proliferation of cash-only prescription pill pushers. Dr. C. M. Schade, a Dallas physician who supported the reform as past president of the Texas Pain Society, said he expects many of the worst operators to skip registration. But he said he hopes the new law will help patients find reputable treatment - and give enforcers and whistle blowers a tool to quickly close pill mills.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7184377.html
"It's a new American epidemic, it's a public health crisis — it's called Generation Rx," he said. "The carnage from illegal use of these medications is real, and physicians have the tools and the training to deal with this … and that's why we've stepped up and ...
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