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"Yeah, with Qatar Airlines and Qatar actually sent teams of their own engineers into that airport in Kabul to get it working. Yes to get enough of the control system back in operational capability. To start resuming their flights in and out of Kabul because the U. S military destroyed a lot of the air traffic control systems. It just It doesn't make any sense. Why were these the same people that had a chartered flight waiting on them that the State Department has grounded and they were somehow, uh, trucked over to Kabul to catch this flight that that they then had to pay for to get out after we left them stranded and said, we will get you out. Many, many key questions still need to be an hope that there are Americans on that flight. And I hope when they get home, they start talking. Let's go to Philip 10 52. Welcome to Kehl, BJ. Good morning, Philip. Yeah. Good morning. You know we live in a world today. We live in a country today that you can be born a male and you can say I identify as a female. We have schools that are allowing boys to go into girls' restrooms. We have a lot of businesses that that flat gave up on it, and now they have a male female restroom or undecided or whatever. So my thought is If if you can identify as something you absolutely are not identified as a vaccinated person and identify as a person wearing a math. Do you work for the federal government? I do not. I fortunately worked for somebody who's level headed and and isn't putting mandate thought. Yeah, Got you, Philip. Thank you. You have a good one. We have a text here from a T s a officer that says, you know, when the buying administration came out this they were they gave us the option is about testing. And so we've been doing that We've had to master where the shield and they said, we've been dealing with Covid for the front line for two years. Why now is their question And, uh, the only answer I can give to that is what we just got finished talking about. It's a distraction from what has happened in Afghanistan. It is trying to persuade individuals that may have lost hope in the Biden administration due to all that has happened since he's taken office that this is the one thing they feel strongly May Uh, coerced them to come back to their side and and pump those numbers back up his polling numbers, the rising disapproval rates even among some Democrats. Now, according to the pollsters, Jerry's in East Austin. Hey, Jerry. Good morning. How are you? Good morning, and please correct me if I'm wrong. But isn't this vaccine classified as an emergency use vaccine because of covid and as soon as one of the therapeutics or one of these drugs like Hydroxychloroquine er or or Robert MC and or whatever it is, once it's proved that it cures covid, then that classification for the emergency use of the vaccine. Goes away, and then they can't force it on anybody. Well fighters no longer emergency approval. They got the full approval from the FDA. Moderna is putting in the paperwork. Seeking that full authorization. And as far as you saying, other remedies to cure, I'm going to say that they have not, definately said that there has been something that Quote unquote cures it, so that's why they're able to do that. The Austin City Council got an update yesterday on its plan to pick four homeless camps. Move the homeless out and put them in hotels. They call it the hell initiative and they got a briefing yesterday in the city staff said. We moved 147 homeless people out of four camps and move them into hotels. We still have 100 19 of those people living in the hotels at taxpayer expense. 22 of the homeless people got kicked out for bad behavior and they didn't go into details. They had a few that got arrested. Some have ended up being put into hospitals. But the city staff was taking about yesterday and saying Give us a pat on the back. We still have 119 living in hotels. Yeah, I was going to say And afterwards, they said Insert applause here. We've done such a fantastic job. Y'all told us to get these people off the streets Four months ago, we were able to get 119 successfully off temporarily. You really should be saying what a great job city of Austin How many empty rooms do we have? How many more encampments do we have out there where this campaign is still taking place? No, We're not supposed to ask those types of questions, but I'm going to guess it's more than 147 people. All right, we're going to come back to to four with Ed Clements, Clay and Buck are coming up. Next Mark and Melinda on news Radio K LBJ Great Team.
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"County today is beginning its first felony criminal trial in nearly a year and a half. County hit pause on criminal trials at the onset of the pandemic. Helping create a sizable backlog for prosecutors in the case today involves Paul Adams, who is accused of killing his girlfriend in 2019 and disposing of her body in a dumpster. Greater Austin Crime Commission is encouraging the Austin City Council to approve the increase in police funding next month. As part of the budget. The commission says A PD will be short 156 officers by the end of this month on top of the 150 positions cut last year by the City Council. And millions of dollars likely will be earmarked in Austin's new budget for resiliency plan. City manager Spencer Kronk says The proposal includes four high priority projects. First the Austin Fire Department with support from Homeland Security and emergency management. Will launch a wildfire evacuation assessment to make sure residents have safe escape routes in the events of large scale wildfire. The budget will also fund a community wide preparing his campaign, secure the food supply chain and create hubs that provide resources to people during emergencies like extreme cold or heat, and it should stay pretty cloudy this afternoon high of 90 degrees and I'm Patrick Osborne connect with us at news radio, K. L b j dot com Their live local and they're talking about the stories that matter to you Share your opinions with Mark and Melinda at 51283605 90. Now here are Mark and Melinda. How was it? Melinda? I was great. It was refreshing. It was relaxing. It was hot some of the time to the time that I was in Arizona. Um, it was hot. But overall, I will give it a 10 out of 10. You can't beat that. I heard two Big Arjun there restful and relaxing yet today I know that doesn't happen much, but I would definitely encourage you to try it if you have it in a while. How were the flights? You've been flying the entire time off and on during the pandemic. How do you compare what you saw out there? Now? What? Some of the earlier periods in all of this, Uh, compared to the earlier periods it I mean, it's back to normal, but we've been slowly moving to that. So I wouldn't say it was a huge increase over the last time I flew, but it definitely is every seat taken. Um And it's It's interesting at the different airports that you go to because in California, the San Diego airport they still have and it just makes me laugh they still have at the airport. This seat reserved no one Sit here and then you can sit in the next one. But yet you're getting on a plane where you're sitting side by side by people, But at the airport, you can sit side by side so they still have some things to work out. But I saw The least amount of mask in California than I have seen this whole entire time. Now. Had they been big mask wearers prior to this trip. Oh, yeah, even when you were outdoors, and you know all by yourself, and you saw someone, maybe walking or jogging, Um, they would have mask on And it was less this time. There weren't um, a lot of signs on the doors about mask, which I was surprised by. I figured they would be the ones that still had the sign seen. If you're not vaccinated, you need to wear this and I saw a few of those. But for the most part, there wasn't much wording or wearing of masks. Which was surprising to me in California, so, but I was in San Diego was in the Southern part. I wasn't in l A. Well, it sounds like good news to me. People are confident they're getting back out there living their lives. That sounds good. President Biden is going to be holding a meeting at the White House today, focusing on violent crime. Gun crime is he likes to call it. He's invited the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City and others to come in and talk about this issue, Axios Has obtained some of the memos that the White House team is sending out about the rising tide of violent crime in America. And it says that Democrats, including the president, are very concerned. All of this violence could affect Biden's presidency and the political fortunes of Democrats in the midterms. Yeah, um, you've seen. I mean, you just turn on the news. And any time you turn on the news, you're hearing about the horrible weekend that Chicago had her New York had. I even I stepped away from the news a bit this past week. But the time that I caught I heard about shootings here in Austin, so it doesn't matter where you are. You're seeing that uptick in the crime and I don't They're going to have to do more than just come around, come together and say We've got to do something to come to combat guns and guns alone because that's not The huge thing when it comes to the crime up tickets again what we talk about all the time. It's not the guns fault. It is the people behind the guns that people pulling the triggers. It's the judges prosecutors. It's so much more than the gun. It's not surprising that this memo at the White House says they're worried about their own political backsides rather than all of the American citizens that are losing their lives being hurt, being injured. Devastated. Yeah, the top priority is, Oh, we better put together a meeting and get media coverage and make people think we're doing something about it. And they say the president is giving cities the latitude to use some of the covid relief money to hire more police. Melinda and I talked about that back in June when he made that announcement and several big cities say they're doing so we haven't heard anything from Austin along those lines..
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"Austin City Council has a big vote today on whether to resume training new police officers. Before that happens, many on council still have questions they want fleshed out, for instance, and work session, a pretty intern, chief Judge Cohen explains. The reimagine training will make it to current officers. We're not just doing it for pre service we're looking at are in service courses as well. And we've done that, to a large extent already, because it's almost like once you graduate from the academy and move on the nature of the course, is really Changes. Someone counsel won a deeper dive on that Justus. Others have voiced their optimism that the classes will resume early next month. John Cooley, NewsRadio kale be Jackson's senators approved constitutional Carry the sponsor is Georgetown Senator Charles Short, Inner. To me? This is Ellis about two things, the advancement of self defense and a belief in and trust of law abiding citizens to avail himself. Their second Amendment right. The bill would allow adults to carry a gun without a license. It's already passed the house, but they've added some amendments in the Senate. That means he goes back to the House One more time. The governor says he will be ready to sign it into law. The statewide public camping ban is nearing the governors. Is nearing the governor's signature. State representative Giovanni Capitally Leoni says the bill would not only prohibit people from camping in public but also cracked down on cities that refuse to adhere to the state band that prohibits local entities from adopting or.
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"As of today. Texans are no longer required to wear a mask. In public businesses restaurants included canal. Operate at full capacity without restrictions governor greg. Abbott announced the change last week. Despite objections from public health officials sarah self walbrook of texas tech public media joins us now to talk about the change in policy. Hi sarah good morning. I just explain how bad the covert situation is in texas right now. Yes the governor's new order ins mandates that had been in place since last summer at least somewhat helped texas. Is kobe situation. Abbott insisted there are fewer people in hospitals now and more people getting vaccinated although it is worth noting that vaccinations are taking place at a much slower rate than elsewhere in the country Texans are really split on whether the mask requirement should continue many think. It's too soon to not require masks but others say that wearing masks should be a personal decision and not a matter of public policy so now that there are no state restrictions on this it becomes a local issue right so howard different cities and counties responding one example. We've seen so far. I mean austin a local public health ordinance was established. Yesterday that will still require mask. Wearing the governor's executive orders specifically prohibits cities and counties from doing that. But austin city council in health authority found a loophole that they think allows them to no word yet on how the governor or other cities and counties will respond. What about schools. How how does this change schools. The texas education agency has allowed school board to decide what works best for their districts We've seen a handful that have ruled that mass will no longer be required but most districts are keeping their current rules in place through the spring governor. Abbott made his announcement last week at a mexican restaurant in lubbock. Which is where you are heard. You checked in on how that restaurant is planning to respond to the new policy. Which you learn. I did so. Owner rudy. told me yesterday that when he agreed to host the governor last week at his restaurant montelongo does. He did not know exactly what the governor was there to announce he had expected business capacity limits to be lifted but he was just as surprised as everyone. When the governor ended the mask mandate roselle has decided not to change how he does business so he's keeping his restaurant at about fifty percent capacity and will continue to require employees and customers to wear masks. He said it's up to each individual business and each person the responsibility for their health so really. This variety of responses is exactly what the governor intended with this new order. Sara self walbrook of texas tech public media. Sarah thanks thank you
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"Jab in the House managers made a compelling coaches. Case. And the president's team did not. Day two is expected to bring more arguments. But longer. Both sides have up to 16 hours to make their case will listen to arguments and we'll see what the votes are. According to a bipartisan agreement for the structure of the trial, the prosecution and defense will now have two days each to make their case. In Washington. Ray Bogan. There you go. That's newsman Rabaul Get in D. C. It is 5 30 Eights and its promised what he was in county leaders of laying out the groundwork this week for a lawsuit against the city of Austin over the purchase of the Candlewood Suites Hotel. The county officially is hiring attorneys to consider legal options. And today a press conference will be held along with county Commissioner Cynthia Long Council member Mackenzie Kelly and state Senator Charles Shorten her. We get more on the story from near the candle. What sweets in north Austin Fox Seven news. And this is where Williams and County officials, along with the state senator and in Austin City Council member will be gathering today. They'll be holding a press conference and they're angry. They say about how well how quickly All of this was done, they say with little outside input, particularly from officials in Williamson County, where this hotel is technically located. Now. Yesterday, county commissioners voted to hire an outside law firm for a possible fight with Austin City leaders commissioner is making it clear They're not drawing up a lawsuit to stop the hotel from being turned into a shelter, at least not yet, but they say it's unacceptable that the city refuses to have a conversation about it. Meanwhile, Austin City Council and Mackenzie Kelly, the lone member to vote against buying the hotel will be among those speaking out today along with state Senator Charles Schwarz, who's introducing a bill the four cities to be more transparent about projects like this. Meanwhile, security video obtained by Fox seven shows a county leaders giving an informal too Were of this site on Monday to Kelly and fellow council member and Kitchen something county leaders say they encourage their gentlemen..
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"Three times, Jeffries and on prior here on the tide of Don show Joe Biden acknowledge. His proposed boost in the federal minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour will not be included in the $1.9 trillion coronavirus package here is prepared as president of states on a separate negotiation on minimum wage toe work my way up from it what it is now. Yeah, that's what you call backpedaling from a campaign. Promise your satellite. Yeah, The plan to raise the minimum wage was removed from the proposed legislation after Senator well after senators back the amendment from Senator Joni Ernst, two Republican from Io. Well, apparently, that's not going to occur because of the rules of the United States Senate. So you're saying the minimum wage won't be in. My guess is it will not be in there. But I do think that we should have a minimum wage stand by itself. $15 now and work your way up to the 15th doesn't have to be boom and all the economic show. If you do that the whole economy rice. I think everybody that voted for Joe Biden based on the boost of $15 an hour we're counting on it happening immediately. I think some people are waking up this morning feeling like they were tricked by Joe Biden. Oh, I'm sure they thought it was like magic. Yeah, This is what happens when you vote for Joe. And I'm sure it hurts greatly. And you might have to go out and try to make it happen yourself. And I'm sorry. I'm very sorry, John. Good morning On the tide of Don show do that. Your morning. Today is so good. Good. Got a question. I don't understand the minimum wage. Uh, what minimum wage The way I understand it is for a minimum job, like sweeping floors. Whatever you don't have any experience. Anyone who wants to increase Their productivity within a job should be paid more than minimum wage minimum wage is not to be made a living on now, like I'm on disability. And I If you take my $1189 Lunch and divide that by 160 years. Ah, work month. I only make $7 and some cents an hour. They're not talking anything about that with me, even below the poverty level, so I don't understand. That's interesting, John. Yeah, in a way, That's interesting. John. A boost in the minimum wage would push you further down the economic scale. Wow. Wow. Unfortunately, I was disabled have been disabled since 2000 and two But I'm if they claim poverty level of the such I'm so far down, and then that they don't care about it. Well, I wouldn't say that. We care about you, John. Well, I'm glad you called. I know y'all y'all of everyone in your collars and you're listening. I love everybody that's listening for sure. Except one. There's a couple out there, John. We don't care for, uh, one in particular. Thanks, man. I appreciate your call. That's an interesting point. I didn't think of right there. Hey, listen. Today, the Austin City Council's very busy agenda on we're gonna be talking about a variety of issues. And one of the most watched issues today will likely be the say Boston now camping petition. This was submitted recently to the city clerk and then certified more than 26,000 signatures. So today could be the day that they either vote to adopt the ordinances and bring back these camping bands or place it on the ballot for you to consider Come May Say Boston now co founder, Matt Mackowiak fully expects the City Council to opt for a public vote. So we have a tremendous opportunity the next 10 weeks to run a great campaign to bring it off sites, every neighborhood from every demographic from every ideological perspective to come together around the viewpoint that camping is not the answer..
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"Mark Caesar. This update is brought to you by the boat, a TX restaurants. Congress continues its work on President Biden stimulus package While the framework is in place. Lawmakers are negotiating the specifics, including stimulus checks and expanded unemployment benefits, Republican Senator Ron Johnson argued on Fox's Sunday morning futures. The buying agenda will be spent a lot of money and increased people's taxes by a lot on ABC this week. Transportation sector Repeat, Footages said. The danger is doing too little. You've got Moody's saying that we could have four million fewer jobs if we don't act now. President Biden has said Democrats are prepared to go it alone because Republicans aren't willing to go far enough. Rachel Sutherland. Fox is a Democrat, economists say's that package is too big and could create inflation Republicans. They're citing criticism from Larry Summers, President Clinton's Treasury secretary, that passage of the measure could run the risk of triggering runaway inflation. Summers also maintained that Biden's plan would make less money available for other initiatives. Such as improving the nation's infrastructure. But Yellen said the central bank have the tools to handle any potential inflationary threat and the urgent need now is to deal with the problems raised by the pandemic induced recession. Joblessness lost small businesses and re opening schools. Democrats are hoping to get it through Congress before current unemployment benefits run out in mid March. I'm Julie Walker. The Austin City Council will have to make a choice this week on a petition to reinstate a citywide camping band. Two options are before the council adopt the ordinance, as written in the nonprofit Save Austin Now's petition or call for an election on May 1st and let the voters decide. Whatever happened Save Austin now, co founder Matt Mackowiak says they're ready learned that they have already started working on it. They play games that they try toe. It will be intense, but confusing or mistake what we're trying to do. We're going to stay within one hour. The vote is called ballot language needs to be finalized by Friday. It's not expected to counsel outright adoptee Ordinance as presented by Save Austin Now Patrick Osborne News radio K L. B. J A 33. Here's Austin's on Time traffic.
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"Quietly. Store for details. North Austin Mind Patrick Osborn Get Austin News on demand at news radio. K l b j dot com Todd and don show is on the air. We're live jump in at 51283605 90. Now here are Todd and done. It was just a friendly wager that we made last Friday. I guess I guess you and I have to go play golf now, Right? Is that what it is? What? The bets. If Tampa Bay one you and I would go play golf If Kansas City one you and I go bowling Are two respective sports that we're both champions in. I think I came out ahead on that. I think you did. Then you should You called itself the score wrong, But nonetheless, it was a good game. Listen, the big highlight from last night's LV. That's 55 in Roman numerals terms. Don was this was the streets around the field in the play by play with CBS 503 to go. Someone has run on the field man. Some guy with the broad Now he's not being chased. He's running down the middle of 40 hands in the air in the victory salute. He's pulling down his pants. Put up your pants. My man Pete thinks thinks he's going to change to the 30. He breaks it taken from a security dog, Kenny down the middle. The 10 failed this stage of the one that will converge on the mythical long pull up your pants took off the corn. Be a man. And then the players with him. John Hips at the other end of the field are looking at him and shaking their head and saying Why? Oh, why is this taking place in a Super Bowl, man? Oh, man, it it actually Sounds like somebody just driving down. I 35 calling out the homeless paper today. Yeah, Exactly what we know is a Wednesday, right? Yeah, man, beautiful, beautiful job, And it was, ah, material and it was a beautiful slide into into the end zone. Oh, yeah, That's what he decided to do. That was the big Priority in his life. That point Listen, the Austin City Council gonna hold a meeting tomorrow to discuss the citywide homeless camping ban. This comes after the nonprofit say Boston now is submitted more than 27,000 signatures on a petition to get the band reinstated, or at least get it on the ballot. Co founder Matt Mackowiak is hopeful that the voters will say yes in the spring population has doubled. In a year and a half for 2,505,000 people. I believe it'll double again in the next two years if we don't succeed on May 1st, yeah, the council can either adopt a new ordinance as written by save Austin now or it can call for a public vote, which is more likely the decision. The ballot language must be finalized by this coming Friday. So it's a big deal. I mean, they're already working on this behind the scenes. Jumping at 51283605 90. Also Travis County officials, they hosted a weekend drive through vaccination clinic in Southeast Austin. More than 650 doses were administered, and Austin Mayor Steve Adler says he's really hopeful the county can get more of these opportunities out in the community. Working with Austin public hat, the doctor at Scott to make sure that we can scale upto However, many vaccines the state and the federal government will give to us There you go. Now, he says. The city and the county are looking at areas that could host even larger drive thru clinics that could handle thousands of people every day, but supplied levels remain. Ah, big hurdle, according to the according to the officials. Yes. Can't wait to get mine. Get that needle in my arm. I'm looking forward to it whenever whenever, Wherever That might be. I mean, some people have had trouble just getting scheduling an appointment. So I mean, there's the demand is through the rule for the supply is low, so it's gonna be It could be a little tricky. I have some good friends who found some in Fort Worth and took a day trip up to forward to get it done. Already. Lot of people are doing that. A lot of people are searching around Texas and seeing you know, where can I get on the list? And they did. They went up there and they got it done. One is over. 65. The other one is a teacher. So they were both, you know, qualified to do it. Well, that's not good. They shouldn't have to drive that felt I should not. They should not. But that's what a lot of people resort yes, Yeah, that's.
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"America's listening to Fox News. Que LBJ News Time 902 Good morning I'm Mark Caesar. The Austin City Council has voted to buy its fourth hotel to house the homeless. They will pay up to $9.7 million for the Candlewood Suites. There's 6 21 83. It is appraised at $2.5 Million. The Austin City Council also approved a plan that will create four no camping sites around the city. The homeless now living at those sites will be moved. The City Council will spend $3 million to give those homeless new housing. The City Council also approved spending $12 million to create a new crime lab. It will be separate from the Austin Police Department. 49 degrees Get Austin News on demand at news radio tail BJ dot com. Welcome to the treehouse of love. Just want you to have somehow Don't you enjoy life quarterback enough for us? 5 90 now here are controlled on 903 time. Jeffrey's Don Pryor. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the live recording of our Daily podcast, which is the most downloaded podcast in central Texas, right on down in the third most downloaded podcast in the region and that's an 88 state region. We have followed to third. Because we were number one. That was so long. I think I think we're dropped the ball on the CEO side of our uploads. Okay. You know what I'm talking about. Now, did I just go bazaar on you? Just You just lose your shit. I'm gonna stress what you said. You know what s e l is No, not a clue that that a search engine optimization. Oh, God. Thank God. I didn't know what you were talking to very important. God. I did not know what's very important all of our clients. You.
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"We'll find out how many Americans got new jobs. Last month, Americans listening to Fox News Tail VJ news time is 702. Good morning I'm Mark Caesar. Big pushback from the community and requests from elected officials for a delay were not enough to stop the Austin City Council from voting to spend $9.5 million on a hotel to house the homeless. It's the Candlewood Suites at 6 21 83. Councilman Greg Hussars says that price tag is not too high, even though its value to 2.7 million how much folks talking about This cost us the money upfront. Getting people in the permanent supportive housing saves US. Tens of thousands of dollars per person on Lee Council member Mackenzie Kelly voted No one buying that hotel. The City Council also wants to ban camping at four locations around the city. Several residents condemned the so called hell initiative. Among them is Caleb Todd, homeless advocate who says fears of these camps are unfounded and 55. £120 soaking wet. I worked in these camps for eight months. I At one point I had to stop delivering after dark because I was scaring people. Those opposed to the initiative say this is a step closer to re criminalization. The city says once people in those designated areas are connected to housing and services. Camping will not be allowed there. Once again. John Cooley NewsRadio Kale, BJ City Council also voted to spend $12 million on a new forensics lab. It will help police solve crimes. That lab will have 86 full time positions. Dozens of teachers in Pflueger Vill have resigned this year because they don't want to work on campus. Jasmine Shaw is one of those, she tells CBS Austin that she has asthma. Rto work in that kind of environment where life happens to people and like no sympathy is being charmed. 77 Pflueger Ville teachers quit this year 704 Now it K L. B J. Here's Austin's on time traffic.
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"The Austin City Council is set to reintroduce partial public camping bands today. Michelle Steve what the Texas Public Policy Foundation says the so called hell resolution of the homeless and campaign assistance Link is actually pretty good first step and then we need to start to enforce it and That's going to take a lot of different people helping the homeless understand what the new rules are and where they can be and where they can't be. That's where Steve is critical of the city because officials have already said the camping bands will not be enforced through policing or with fives. And because of that, ultimately, Steve Steve believes the hell resolution will not work. The petition submitted by local nonprofit save Austin now to get the camping ban. Recent. It has been certified by the city of Austin. 20,000 signatures are needed to get The issue on the ballot this May and city clerk's unit, Goodall says 26,103 signatures have been validated on the eve of Austin's vote to purchase the Candlewood Suites Hotel for homeless housing, which will happen today, Residents and business owners have rallied together again to call in the city to postpone similar to what Williamson County commissioners have expressed this week. Protesters say the city snuck this in quickly without transparency. Bianca Rodriguez talked to CBS Austin. That's fun, something that's in the non residential area that's actually going to provide mental health, the rehabilitation services for these individuals, almost 2500 people have signed an online petition in opposition. But despite the push back, the plan does appear to have plenty of support on the city Council diets. Georgetown State Senator Charles Shorter is waiting into this debate over the Candlewood Suites hotel. He talked to Fox seven. He to, he says the Austin City Council is not addressing homelessness properly and should not be shipping its problems. Upto Williamson County I'm gonna get.
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"Using Planned Parenthood for things like cancer screenings and birth control. A Texas plan for covering health care for women is intended to help low income women find providers. But there's concern that federal funding for that program could be cut. By the Biden administration because Texas refuses to cover abortion services. Evan Brown Fox News, the Austin City Council will vote to use re allocated police dollars for a new forensics lab. Tomorrow's agenda says just under $12 million the council took from a PD's budget will be used to set up an independent and separate forensics lab. A massive backlog Edna cases back in 2016 led to an audit of a PDS lab, and ultimately, it's duties being handed off to private and state labs. Council member Alison Altar does support the independent lab and very concerned, particularly with the DEA work, and I think this is a really important next step. The lab would not be connected to the Austin Police Department and councilman. Greatness are wants to form a citizen oversight panel to keep tabs on it. Patrick Osborne News Radio K L. B J 7 33. Here's Austin's On Time traffic with Melinda Brandt. We continue to see slow traffic conditions in the round rock area. 35 South down approaching 14 31 to make meal. 35 at North found dealing with the brake lights starting the death on 13 27 extending to Stassen E. And then we have reports of a collision over the William Cannon and Bluff Springs. Your next reported 7 45 a Melinda brilliant with Austin's on Time Traffic. Mostly sunny, mild day Breezy by the afternoon high Today 75. Mostly cloudy. It'll be mild this evening and the low and 59.
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"Show is on here. Join the conversation at 51283605 90. Now you are tired of dying. Welcome back Todd Jeffries. And don Prior. We want to begin with a question and we'll just throw that out there and you could you could call in our text any time at 51283605 90. Name one accomplishment of President Joe Biden so far in his new administration, he's the 46 president. What is he accomplished So far? I'm not seeing anything out there in the twitterverse or anywhere on social media, where progressive lefties are bragging about the accomplishments of their presidents. Really? What has he done so far? Is he Is he done anything? To make you excited. Does he done anything to make you happy? Because the only thing I've seen Rose really, so far that he's eliminated her cut his jobs in the oil and gas industry. And if you're into that, well, then you're a very happy person. So if you'd like to see employed people go away. Yes. So what? You just told the question out there. What accomplishments has he made so far? 1st 10 days or so it is 904. You could jump in at 51283605 90 capacity restrictions loosen for businesses. Following this downward trend and hospitalizations. That's good. That's good, right? That's good news, even even though they still have to socially distance inside these restaurants, which means they had to eliminate tables, so the 75% is not really 75%. That they had pre pandemic for smaller restaurants and businesses. That's not going to meet me just to help a lot now. Also on the table. The Austin City Council considers the purchase of as the local news outlets call it a second hotel, which is not true, because we bought a couple of more early last year. Second one this year. I guess they're at the You know the Candlewood Suites in northwest Austin in District six, and I think it could be delayed tomorrow. Williamson County commissioners have an agenda item where basically they're going to pot. Simply put it on hold calling for a 180 Day delay, if you will, because it is a city of Boston proper, but it's in Williamson County and the city of Boston never reached out to Williamson County on this issue. That's a big deal that zone unthinkable deal actually for them to go into it that sloppily and not realize what Or maybe they did completely realize what they were dealing with. There is far as you know, Look at the map. Look, figure out what the reality is, in the fact that they did not really even go to the residents around. This was just dumped on them. And of course, the residents down business owners as well are standing up and they did over the weekend. Well, what's pretty interesting about this whole deal about buying these two hotels? This has been in the making. We learned from some of these now that some of the documents have been released that it's been the making for about a year and a half, keeping it secret for about a year and a half now. There you go. That's that's on the table. Also getting word that the Leander I s D is experiencing some Internet issues. So it Z. It's affecting virtual classes right now in the league and Uriah stay, okay. I got a wife I issue I guess. I'm panicking parents right now. Well, I mean, yeah. Yeah, e mean, I went, Yeah, that might that slows things down for sure. No problem. Now come back when you get a chance, Go to the tide of Don show Facebook page. We posted the story there earlier this morning. The group's save Austin Now they are on a mission. Say Boston. Now it's a nonpartisan educational nonprofit made up of organizations concerned citizens and a demanding a thorough and independent audit of the city spending on homeless programs, especially housing facilities that they purchased since July. The first of 2019 when the camping ordinance is, you know, took effect. This should include, and you know Information commission related to, uh, property purchases and sales. Yeah, The group say Boston now is calling for a full audit of homeless expenditures now the citywide on it because the voters already said they didn't want that, But But they do want a full audit of how much money we've spent on homeless issues where it's gone. And what are the results of that money? Oh, yeah, absolutely totally 100% justified. I You know how much of this ghost I assume the arches part part of where this money goes, but food tents. What? What? What? What? What am I paying for counseling on rehab? I don't know. I I really want to break down because remember the city told us they were doing all these homeless initiatives and changing the ordinances of buying the shelters because They wanted to prevent people from using up. All of the resource is at a P D fire and a local hospitals. That's that's what they told us right right well and to really see Any true payoff from all of this money Somehow, some way it has to address the root cause of homelessness. That has to be part of this deal, right? Otherwise we're just going to keep spending more and more and more, and we just kind of maintain it, Foster it and ultimately also bring more people here to the city of Boston who are homeless because they hear of all the money that we spend. We keep missing, But it's got to be more than just keeping these folks comfortable. Yes, for sure. No, I get it. I understand that. Yeah, and I know that That throwing money at the root cause of homelessness. Is, you know, we're never going to get rid of drug addiction. We're not. We're going to get rid of of, you know, whatever situation in the household led to this or whatever The cause is divorce. In some cases, losing a job, you know the causes air or are just so many But somehow some way some of this money has to somehow go in that direction. You want to see some progress? That's a legitimate Yeah. Could've, I guess, summed it up with that. What's the return on your investment? One of the results. Are we winning in this war against homeless? Not an unrealistically request. I just, You know, once they do get the hotel's up and running in there full of people that are homeless. Yeah. One of these people going to do day today? That's a very good question. Because you know, idle hands idle time. You know, you get yourself in trouble when you got nothing to do out there. That's right. You know, they got to have.
KLBJ 590AM
"austin city council" Discussed on KLBJ 590AM
"Six and CBS. Austin was out there with AH large group of people protest in yesterday afternoon protesters speaking out days before Austin City Council will vote on the purchase of Candlewood Suites. Second hotel for the homeless. There are parts of town. They're ideal for this kind of a thing, but this isn't it. Candlewood Suites is located in Northwest Austin next to other businesses, including a restaurant, the owner of Frida Seafood Girl says she'll have to consider relocating her business after 18 years. If this deal goes through a lot of my custom already told me they're not coming because Homeless this'll scare because there have a lot of older here's for me for my restaurant. Candlewood Suites currently shares a parking lot with another hotel. Hampton and Sweets can't even imagine what this will do for their business. If all of our businesses are gonna lose revenue just if it's losing its city, taking responsibility that they will bridge the gap with the loss of revenue residents in a nearby neighborhood. Want to know why Austin City Council chose this hotel. Say housing the homeless in this hotel is unsafe for the community. There are houses all around here, and people love to walk. Their dogs ride bikes with their Children. And they're not going to be able to do that safely. Mackenzie Kelly District six, Austin City Council member admits the city hasn't been transparent about this purchase. This hotel in particular to my knowledge will be used for permanent, supportive housing for individuals experiencing homelessness that are disabled, and in that regard there will be controlled access to the hotel. There will be a front desk operators, security and fencing along the property. Kelly says. There will be a town hall on Wednesday at 6:30 P.m. to discuss the purchase of the Hotel City Council will vote on the purchase of this hotel on Thursday. Reporting live. Lindsay Regas, CBS Austin News, All right, There you go. Thank you. CBS Austin News so that Z latest now I've gotten word that there's an agenda item of the Williamson County Commissioners Court for tomorrow morning that asked for this to be delayed for 180 days. This is in the city of Boston proper. But it's in Williamson County, and apparently the Austin City Council never reached out to Williamson County. So they're they're asking for a 180 day delay, which would push it beyond that may vote to Rio, You know, bring back the homeless ordinance, Wouldn't it be pretty interesting? Yeah. No, I mean, you know, as you know, this mayor is hell bent on getting some more hotels for the homeless that about And I think he wants a dozen of them. And once at least at least 10 1 in each district. Can you imagine there's a lot of planning got planned some activities. You gotta be entertainment. Some menu items things like that, right? In fact, I met there. You know, you gotta have a social director. If you're gonna have These. This many people kind of like Julie on the love boat. Exactly. Ship Director, the entertainment director. You've got to keep people busy. So fine. I found out some of the activities that they're gonna have it. These homeless hotel. Come on. No said, get land active. Gonna be a lot of fun. First of all they're going to have a thing weekly is called DT Night since you're not gonna be able to drink or drug at the hotel's Whoever has the worst withdrawal shakes gets a $25 gift card to Twin Lickers. Hey, we're gonna think Whole story night. I want to speak story night. Whoever going tell their life story without somewhere in the story saying, my old lady or my old man or there just ain't no work out there, brother around the edges. There just ain't work. No work out there, brother. If you do it without saying that you went to extra nights at the hotel as I go from from from party to party, nothing call most creative panhandling, so whoever can write their sign without ending it by saying, God bless gets a box of free sharpies five days of exclusive access to premium panhandling locations across town. That's great. Speed smoking night. Now, what is that speed smoking? First has spoken. Entire pack in 30 minutes, will while they get high praise is what they get No right now. Within homeless tradition, each cigarette needs to be smoked right down to the filter. Sure. Highest number wins to the point where I burned your finger right? Here is one of my favorite urine stream appreciation night. Low life. E don't know what that is. But I went to camp longest urine stream with the highest arc Wednesday years. What are you talking about? Now? The top gun show. Uh, all right, folks, There's more to come by the way. 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WBAP 820AM
"austin city council" Discussed on WBAP 820AM
"Drive the temperature up into the lower seventies. Tomorrow afternoon could be some fire danger, but you also might blow some believes up your yard. Sunday. Sunny, windy and cooler with a high in the fifties. Right now, it is 34 DFW 40 w b a P. Thank you, Brad 6 24 w B. A P down the Austin just real quickly. Ah, story that Uh, things may make you crazy. Austin City Council. Buying a new hotels to house homeless people. Okay, that's you know, I mean, maybe they're just trying to help out. The whole must have a shelter when it's 25 degrees outside, or you're you know big storms that Brad talks about. $6.5 million. By the hotel. They got the money from the police budget. Yeah. Oh, Yeah. What do you think the value that hotel will be in five years? All right years. Five years from now will be worth 69 minutes from now. High cheese. 6.7 Yeah Week City Council voted in favor of the $6.7 Million acquisition of the Texas bungalows, hotel and suites in North Austin. They did propose Poona similar vote by the Candlewood Suites. In northwest Austin for 9.5 million But the money is coming out of the police budget. What have they taken like 100 and $25 Million from the police budget. Something like that is that is that Is that the figure? I haven't been Austin in a few years. I don't know that I'm real real hurry to go back to the council agreed to pull 20 million from the Police department's budget. By canceling new classes of incoming police officers and reducing overtime for officers. Man is gonna be real safe. You know what? Okay, This is just what you get, folks. I can't get it in an amazing the differences of Of common sense thinking among people. To me, that would be a major study. How something so common to me, and you and all of us have work together his comments since the one and completely out of bounds to another. Well, one thing that seems to start stymie the people that are on board with taking all the money and all this stuff away from the police department is when you ask him the question, Okay. When you get mugged when somebody breaks into your house, and somebody holds a gun on you. Who you gonna call? There you go. And they have. And of course they always say, Well, the police. Yeah. You want to go? Really? Now you gotta wind up calling a social worker coming up. It's 6 36 this morning. Dr Patil Malli joins us to talk about the social separation. At school Children have been facing and what it may do to a child years down the road. Kim Lamp kids has the 6 30 news. Next. Who does the U. S. House speaker think the enemy within is details coming up Everyone's talking about Newsmax TV, now the fourth highest rated cable news channel in America. More than.
KLBJ 590AM
"austin city council" Discussed on KLBJ 590AM
"Ladies and gentlemen, you have found the tide of Don showed you could jump in any time at 51283605 90 Listen, We got a lot on the table this morning. Good update you on everything that is happening on the stock market and All these short squeezes and that app called Robin Hood that shut everybody down. We'll also update you on the Austin businesses may soon be able to move back to 75% capacity. What we'll explain all of that straight ahead, But ah lot of business owners they're really starting to. We'll learn a lot more about the hotels that were being purchasing to solve this homeless issue. Yes, you know, the Austin City Council voted this week to purchase a hotel and turn it into transitional housing for people. They're homeless, and the council unanimously voted to buy the Texas bungalow Hotel and suites to the Tuna $6.7 million. It's a purchases the what's the latest in a strategy from the city to buy hotels to house the homeless. They plan to buy another next week and weighing in on it on this story is Kelsey, Bowler of the Independent Women's Forum. Look, there's a whole separate debate to be had about whether cities buying hotels for millions of dollars that are only going to realistically how somewhere around 70 homeless individuals is going to make a dent in the root causes of homelessness. But separate from that the question is Should these city officials be purchasing these hotels at the expense of public safety? Because the way that Austin was able to do this, in this case is by de funding the police the defund the police movement is very real. It has happened in multiple cities across the country. And you have residents who live next to these hotels that were not consulted were not asked their opinions about housing the homeless population right next door to them their number one concern, according to report. Hertz is public safety, and now the police are stripped of their resource is to provide that extra layer of security. If this is the way the city wants to go about addressing the homeless population, let's go ahead and take a look at the breakdown of some of the numbers.
What A Day
Boston City Council votes to use police budget to fund permanent housing for homeless
"Austin city council voted on wednesday to use money from its police budget to fund permanent housing for people experiencing homelessness under a new measure. The city will spend six point seven million dollars from its housing department to buy a hotel which will be converted into six units for supportive housing maintaining that property and providing services to residents will cost over a million dollars per year and that money will come from a recurring six point five million dollar fund the city created when they cut police budgets and twenty twenty one council member claimed the only reason this project could even be done was because of that recurring fund from the pd so when we talk about the funding the police. These are the kinds of things. Were prioritizing boston. Dynamic dogs and moderate out tesla cyber tracks law enforcement at the start of last year over a thousand people in austin were unsheltered while experiencing homelessness. The city is in talks to acquire a second hotel which could provide an additional eighty units of permanent housing and the leftover money can be used to potentially target and eliminate the dynamics
KLBJ 590AM
"austin city council" Discussed on KLBJ 590AM
"Todd of Don show Patrick. You do me a favor. Find out the appraised value of those two hotels. I know that may be a little difficult. Did you see what you could find? Because The Austin City Council decide tomorrow whether to purchase two hotels to provide additional permanent housing for those they were currently homeless and, if approved for the purchase by the City Council, the Candlewood Suites in northwest Austin. And the Texas bungalows, Hotel and suites would add 150 units to the city's existing capacity for housing people Existing, you know, experiencing homelessness, those two hotels combined purchase $16.2 million.51283605 90, Bob. Good morning on the tide of Don show. Hey, Good morning, fellas. Are you all doing what's on your mind? Well, I've got a I've got a novel idea for the City Council bottle base. Spread out the $108,000 a person want to give it to 150 businesses that are struggling and try to keep those folks open and that way they can get some sales receipts and tax coming back in and maybe help 150 business owners that are trying to make it Instead of people that aren't I don't know why you bring it some common sense to the conversation. Bob. That's just seems ridiculous, but throws us all kind of throws everybody off, but you're absolutely right. Because because the city is about to take those hotels all for the tax roll. Correct. Yeah, Yeah, I'm the 151 108,000. That's just from day one. I like to know out five years from now that 16 million probably turned into 20 million. And the businesses. They're still going out of business on a daily basis, and it's just upside down. I think the City Council when it comes to buying hotels. It's zits kind of a partial thing. They want to help the homeless. Okay, Temporary transitional housing is what they call the transitional means. They're gonna have to leave eventually, right? I think the old City's ultimate goal is to use these locations as their transportation corridors as part of code next And property you That's the only thing I can think of, because it would be a feather in their cap. If they saw the homeless crisis and then had the ability to own that property, you know, to transform these corridors. Yeah, something that well, it It seems like they might get more out of that a Zafar as their ultimate goal versus what they think they're going to do for the homeless or he said North Austin. Good morning. Good morning. Yeah. You just stated a lot of things that I told your screener about. Um, you know the appraisal value of these places and once the homeless transition from the hotel into permanent housing, at least it open to bring more in, um It would make more sense to me to leave the rent the room for the homeless to stay in transition, Aly, Um, but at the same time it occurs to me that no hotel is gonna wanna lease their rooms. So a bunch of homeless people that are not going to take care of them And like you said, the maintenance person on day his going in and overflowing toilets and things like that. So that almost forces the City Council to buy these these hotels because Then they're gonna paid to keep them clean. So it's not a good business model for Ah, hotel owner to release these rooms to the city for the homeless. Um, very real. I wanted to say no, I got you, Theresa. I appreciate your call. Thank you very much. What did they say? The price of the one Northwest. Is that the one on is it Pecan Park? Sounds right right there near Frieda's. What did they say? They're buying that for? Well, they don't break it down. But they say the two could cost as much as 16.2 minute. I'll say that Individual. Okay. What's the appraised value that it shows on, Zillah? I'm looking on Zillow. I have the exact address their 2019. It was assessed at 2,504,000 essentially still $8 million in that kind of falls in line with what they did with a few other hotels. Now they would say that that money the extra on top of that is for maintenance. And ongoing, you know, taking care of the place, and maybe some refurbishing or having to do some remodeling may have to is that I've never been clear on that, because when we just what they said, we hear the purchase price. We just hear the Here's the purchase price. And if that is how they're doing this working in the remodeling or whatever they have to do knock walls out. Whatever their plan is, then maybe I understand that price a little bit more. But if they but anyway, the assess prize for this property was 2,504,000. Why do they need to be remodeled? You're living under a bridge now. I don't know. Why does the old rundown motel need to be remodeled? You're right, right? What's wrong with concrete floor? Yeah, I don't know. Exactly right? Yeah. What has to be what? Running water, air conditioning and a door that locks is is what they currently needed the most. You have a building this designed to hold people, right? Well, it's then that would be ready to go. Ready to go. Yeah, ready to go. With the pool and continental breakfast. Yeah, I mean, Well, maybe it seems like there's seems like there's a ton of other solutions than what we're doing right now. I don't military has some pretty big tents, don't they? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They can set up a city within hours, Jim and South Austin. Good morning. Hey, guys. I agree with you. We don't need to be buying real estate. You know the governor? Yeah, but I believe has Landes allocated for use for the homeless? Campground do is take advantage of that land. Have the military set up a tent city that we use for our troops all over the world, and they're they're much better than what they have under 3. 60 set him up. They can have heat taking that put in portable air conditioners to him for the summer. We could centralize all our services, welfare employment opportunities. We could have a medical station.
KLBJ 590AM
"austin city council" Discussed on KLBJ 590AM
"That time. Officials say registration will begin at noon on Friday. Hays counties getting 2100 and 50 new doses this week. 604. Now let's get a look at Austin's on time traffic without prior the big issue right now, and it looks like it's starting get a little bit better North and 35 approaching 51st. There's a wreck there, so it is still slow and it looks like things are picking up a little bit, but still very slow approaching 50% on North bound at 35 Dawn prayer with Austin's on time traffic. Today. Mostly sunny, mild and behind and 74 from the weather Center. I'm Steve Williams. This segment brought on 42 degrees. I'm Patrick Osborne. Get Austin News on demand News, Radio K LBJ Deco. Welcome to the live recording of the Todd and Don show podcast Way. Want you to join us Had 51283605 90. Now here are Todd and Dani is 605 untied Jeffries. He's done prior. A rush will slide in in just a few minutes here. He's got the rush update coming up in just a few minutes. We're going to see him. Listen, the Austin City Council appears to be slowly reversing course on its controversial homeless policies. Councilor Alison Alter says the way the city has allowed camping to grow has not benefited anyone. Goal is to get people to housing by where people and how people are camping right now does not seem particularly humane. They start to feel the heat, aren't they? Now she's advocating for temporary housing for the homeless. Who were removed from those campsites. They're deemed to be dangerous. You know near, you know, underneath, you know, robe, bridges and overpasses. Things like that. So you have to ask the question about whether we can get to that other place quick enough, Or if we need to put some temporary steps in place along the way, they are going to find at least four locations to turn to me to determine which you know once they're gonna Shoot people away from an offer him some sort of transitional housing. Or they're going to find some locations where they can camp kind of. Ah, no camping or camping zones very similar to what Portland put in place a few months ago. Also this week, they are us late in two by two additional hotels, the house the homeless, they're going to spend probably up to $20 million to maybe house, you know, a few dozen folks. That's what they do when that when when they start paying attention, the homeless problem. They buy hotels. They don't put anybody in them, but they buy hotels had somehow makes them feel better. Well, there's just not a not a retail therapy or just not enough people that are transitioning into those hotels. That's for sure, that's for sure Show Listen. The idea of having designated campgrounds is an obvious idea. It's what they're going to have to do before they make another move in the you know to transition, actual housing they need Not to, You know, Try Tonto make these folks sound like animals or not, but they do need to essentially corral everyone. So it's a more organized situation so that it's safe. So it's safe rooms, water, health care, mental health care, variety of fascist, all those resource and everything that has to happen. I don't know why that has happened. I don't know what the purpose of hate. Let's ruin our city. I don't know what that was I I don't because that's what they have done. They should Done the decks and designated campground thing to begin with us. Don't be naive. They allowed it to get worse so they could collect a bunch of money and bond packages and things like that, and they're even started use some of the covert money as well that they got from the feds for this. I just haven't wanted to accept that. It's just better. They're hard pill to swallow. There may be more people isolating themselves in these homeless hotels because of covert. Because they are allowing some people to stay in those that can't isolate our quarantine because they live in a multi generational family. There may be more people living this way in the homeless hotels than actually home national homeless. You're absolutely right now. Here's some of the numbers you wanna hear. The numbers are current stats when it comes to this virus, and a number of cases of Copan 19 said to be active in Travis County has steadily been falling over the past four hours of 24 hours. We have 55,401 cases that are active and more than that. Let's see 240 less than a day ago. 157 people are in ICU, and that has followed by 10. Overall 65,507 cases have been reported and 59,475 fully recovered. Okay, getting similar numbers out of what I am saying, Count at least the trajectory. Williamson County has seen a healthy declined an active cases over the past day. The number is down by more than 400 to 1626 available. Hospitals. Bed space climbed up to 19% 29,742 cases in 27,883 of those have fully recovered. S so there you go ahead in the right direction It has been is no doubt about it 609 a time for the Rush update. So get this from the Los Angeles Times. Some kids are thriving, doing better than anybody expected because the schools are closed. That's right. My friends. He's screwed. Children are feeling less stress. They're getting better grades. They're happy. They're productive now that they don't have to go to school. Some of these kids say that they aren't tired anymore. They don't have bouts of hunger during the day. They don't worry about being bullied their well fed their energetic. They're loving life ever since they have been able to attend their classes online, which they don't really do, rather than at their oppressive schools. Not all students feel that way. The kids who live in noisy homes or whose families are suffering hardships or illness because of the virus pandemic. Well, they're not doing so well. But for the kids, the L A Times reported on man, Old man. Life is good. So maybe it's time to re evaluate everything, folks. What are we doing to our Children? Why should Americans precious, fragile, sensitive kids ever be forced to go back to school? It's too stressful. The grades suffer. They're tired. They're hungry. They're bully their miserable They never win. We should close him. That's what we should do. We should close the schools most of many way forever. We should do it. We must do it. In order to save the Children. Think of the billions of taxpayer dollars. Actually, no, they would still charge of the tax revenue. So, but we still should close. The schools makes all the sense in the world. Right Rush at.
All Things Considered
Texas leaders want to freeze property taxes for cities defunding police
"Texas Governor Greg Abbott wants to punish any Texas jurisdiction that reduces funding for police departments by freezing it. States property tax revenue Remember Station Kerry's Miranda Swire's reports. His legislative proposal comes his activist nationwide push local governments to rethink how police funding is used. Abbott says the threat of a property tax revenue freeze would make cities think twice before they cut police funding. If they do make the decision to defund law enforcement, they're constricting their ability. To ever be able to meet the other needs they have. Last week, the Austin City Council voted to shift $150 million out of its police budget and into other services. Abbott says police funding isn't the issue if we have police brutality. We don't need fewer police. We need less police brutality. Other Big Texas cities like Dallas and Fort Worth have proposed budgets that keep police funding intact. I'm Miranda Suarez in Fort Worth
Todd and Don
Austin City Council creates $1.5 million relief fund for musicians, opens funds for artists, event spaces
"One point five million dollars will be put into the Austin music disaster relief fund provide grant money and financial assistance to local musicians buskers yeah in a separate move the city council has also approved the realignment the current creative spaces assistant fund into the new Austin artist disaster relief fund one million dollars will be available through that so looking at about two point five million dollars to help protect creative spaces which I'm not quite sure what that is hi musician I'm not sure what that means in this case
Charlie Parker
Austin allocating $150,000 in city funds to support abortion access
"The Austin city council become the first in the country to use tax money to make it easier for low income women to get abortions as part of the city's new budget one hundred and fifty thousand dollars is allocated for logistical and support services for abortion access like transportation counseling and child care the tax money will not be used to fund the abortions themselves which would be a violation of
Austin's Morning News
Texas task force convened after El Paso shooting discusses 'welfare checks,' private gun sales in first meeting
"Republican governor Greg Abbott is raise concerns about private firearms sales but didn't commit to cracking down on them or act on gun control issues as he emerged from a meeting on ways to prevent mass shootings following the el Paso attack that killed twenty two people I won't lawmakers are feeling pressure to respond quickly to the August third shooting at Walmart governor abit so he said that Texas would take a long hard careful look at gun laws of other safety measures before the legislative session in twenty twenty one that's where we begin this morning the commission was formed in the wake of this month's el Paso mass shooting that left twenty two people dead police say the alleged shooter was targeting Mexicans during the panel's first meeting governor Greg Abbott says a variety of ideas were proposed including more quickly identifying threats made online we had members from social media with this provided great insights about how they operate in great advice about strategies that we can pursue the governor says representatives from Twitter Facebook and Google were all in the meeting and agreed with law enforcement to communicate more regularly they they have water call trusted slugger programs they can flag information whenever they see anything online that may look like it could lead to potential endangerment of someone or a potential terroristic threat another popular proposal doing more than just focusing on background checks when it comes to buying weapons we want to do a better job of addressing stolen guns there's something it didn't matter where you are on the second member right spectrum I think everybody agrees that we as a state with a government have a responsibility to crackdown stolen guns according to the governor concerns were raised about why the Allen Texas police department didn't do more when the alleged shooter's mother called with questions about her son's high powered rifle weeks before the shooting the governor points out the sun did pass a background check but there was a concerned mother he raise issues to law enforcement is there some new top a strategy that we can have that would lead to welfare checks when issues like that our rates the conversation just getting started the commission made up of lawmakers and community leaders meets again next week in el Paso I'm Clayton apple now the Austin city council is making a new gun violence task force a top priority but there was some heated discussion during last night's council meeting on this very issue helps members Natasha Arbor medicine and Jimmy Flanagan both feel adding yet another task force to the system was not the answer which earned this review from councilmember Leslie pull I can't believe we're actually arguing over whether to establish a task force on gun safety and gun violence it just strikes me as is our most of council voted for the new task force and when it gets at least six members it'll have it eight months to study the local gun violence problem and report back to
Jim Bohannon
Trump's visit to El Paso met by protesters
"Twenty protesters greeted president Donald trump's visits to Dayton el Paso yesterday holding signs demanding action to banned weapons like those used by the shooters and some Austin city council members and the city's mayor are banking a resolution up for debate today that demands like taxes and federal lawmakers in X. some anti gun violence laws gets member else alter says like many parents this is a matter that hits close to home I held my breath when my sixteen year old daughter stepped out of my car in the school parking lot this spring I had to figure out how to like go after an active shooter threat at her high school here in Austin Alton says that she is learning how to talk to her kids about the fact that the way Texas gun laws are today the next school shooting could be
ESPN FC
What's at stake on the field in the 2018 Heineken Rivalry Week
"We start with MLS because there is some mid week action and it's prominent midweek action because JJ this is rivalry week. Yes, Wednesday, seven o'clock, a nice Wednesday night, New York Darby to look forward to. I love it NYC FC and the red bulls navy each one one against each other. So far this season next Morales scored pretty late on the last time that they met to spoil Chris Armas first Darby between these two, typically the red bull's eye. I'm very curious about this game because I feel like both teams are pretty good and then wide CFC I feel like we're starting to see greater. Aspirant's from them on a grander scale, although they're coming off a loss at the weekends. Both teams may be hitting this game in an interesting time. Now, here's the one real quick that I, we haven't talked a lot about this, but now things are starting to happen. So I did want to get your thoughts, Thursday, seven o'clock, Chicago fire and Columbus Crew. And this has nothing to do with the game. But sadly, it's starting to feel more and more like an inevitability that the crew are going to be leaving. Columbus. The Austin city council passed a vote of seven to four for the building of a soccer specific stadium in the northern part of the city. And so now I guess JJ it comes down to this. If you give me a sec here, I'm going to read from something I saw on deadspin. They did a whole feature on this. This is from the article in deadspin.
Charlie Parker
Trump administration nearing deal with Mexico on revised NAFTA
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