Vera Johnson's fifth-graders barely noticed as visitors walked into their classroom this week. They were far too focused on the disembodied head that seemed to float in the front of the room.
Suddenly a human ear, with all its innards exposed, jumped out at them.
"Whoa!"
The kids were...
posted on Sep 3, 2010
Texas has more than a dozen freshman on its depth chart.
Coach Mack Brown doesn't see that as cause for concern as the Longhorns prepare for Saturday's opener against Rice.
"Youth is an excuse," Brown said. "These guys are good players, and they came to play. It's our job to get them in the right places. It's our job...
posted on Sep 3, 2010
With money tight, Dallas Area Rapid Transit executives want to convert area carpool lanes to paid toll lanes, and with board approval the agency could be operating the first so-called managed lanes in North Texas by 2012.
DART manages 84 miles of carpool lanes, also known as high-occupancy lanes, on area highways. It's a...
posted on Sep 1, 2010
The Texas Department of Transportation, lacking the sort of big cash it takes to eliminate stoplights on Texas 71 by building overpasses, will turn the thoroughfare into a "superstreet" just east of the Austin airport.
The counterintuitive changes — drivers wishing to turn left from FM 973 onto Texas 71 would...
posted on Sep 1, 2010
Austin's business community has split on the city's $90 million transportation bond election in November. Two weeks after the Real Estate Council of Austin's board voted to oppose the bond proposal, the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce on Monday joined about 20 local groups in support of the vote.
"It is a significant first...
posted on Aug 31, 2010
Despite a fire that destroyed Harris County's voting machines last week, County Clerk Beverly Kaufman said Monday that she intends to keep all polling places open with replacement machines on Nov. 2.
Commissioners Court approved...
posted on Aug 31, 2010
President Obama speaks to the nation tonight about the end of US combat operations in Iraq. Starting tomorrow Iraq is supposed to take responsiblity for its own security. But nearly 50-thousand American troops are staying on to help.
posted on Aug 31, 2010
The city of Austin is cleaning up a wastewater spill in a heavily wooded area of eastern Travis County.
Monday evening, a city contractor discovered sewage leaking from a manhole at the corner of Loyola Lane and Wentworth Drive , near Elm Creek.
City officials estimate at least 100,000 gallons of sewage spilled into...
posted on Aug 31, 2010
Texas is one of the least highly educated states in the country, ranking 40th in the nation for the number of people ages 25 to 34 who hold at least a college associate degree, according to a study released Thursday by the College Board.
The board, which administers the SAT and AP tests,...
posted on Jul 23, 2010
The new principal tapped to lead LBJ High School in East Austin was disciplined by her former school district in 2006 for misuse of district funds.
Sheila J. Henry , who is slated to take her new post on Aug. 4 , pending approval by the Board of Trustees on Aug. 2 , was suspended without pay for 20 workdays by the Palm Beach...
posted on Jul 23, 2010
