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Dear Editor,
I think we may be overlooking an opportunity with the whole Manchaca/Menchaca renaming issue ["
Would You Like to Swap a Vowel?" News, Oct. 5]. We already have Koenig/Highway 290/Allandale/Northland/Bull Creek Road/RM 2222, and we have a whole set of streets named South First through South Seventh that run perpendicular to First through Seventh streets. What we could do is change one-quarter of Manchaca Road to Menchaca Road, one-quarter to Maenchaca Lane, one-quarter to Minchaca Parkway *AND* continue to pronounce all of it "Man-shack." Maybe TxDOT would even change the spelling on exit signs on westbound Ben White but not on eastbound. That should confuse some people!
Dear Editor,
You know you're in Austin when the explosive, front page [#MeToo] exposé revolves around a spurned kiss and a "creepy hug" from a falling-down drunk [“
Tangled Web,” News, Dec. 21]. Hopefully, between the lawyers, the GoFundMes, and the outraged protesters, we can find the safe space we need to heal our collective PTSD. #SpiderHouseSurvivor