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Hays County environmentalists and other area residents applaud a recent LCRA decision to delay building a water pipeline to Dripping Springs until an Environmental Impact Statement can be completed.

Which comes first, the train or the passengers?

Council closing in on a raft of unfinished business

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Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

As the city reviews historic zoning, neighbors consider buying Bellmont cottages

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Council Watch

Hyde Park Baptist Church is back at council, this time claiming that neighbors have no right to appeal its five-story parking garage in the Hyde Park neighborhood.

It could be that the 20 reporters who showed up at the Governor's Mansion on the Sunday before Labor Day saw the only presidential debates that will occur this year; Hyde Park Baptist Church seems intent on moving "Forward Forever"; The light-rail train ride to the polls continues to build steam.

Council will appoint nine members to the Mueller Municipal Airport Implementation Advisory Commission; city may implement new septic tank rules; Suzanne Gamboa has left the Statesman; Brigid Shea starts a new consulting firm; UT professor Emerson Tiller has been nominated for the board of ICANN; Triangle project action postponed for a week.

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Austin Stories

Neighborhoods get together for a workshop to discuss how to deal with Smart Growth, redevelopment, and neighborhood empowerment.

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What's poppin' this week in council-land …

Baptists Lose Appeal

Why God Created Lawyers

A proposed church development has some residents losing sleep

Big-leaguers back Leffingwell, but really, who'd want the gig?