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The improbable but true triumph of 19-year-old amateur American golfer Francis Ouimet at the 1913 U.S. Open is given the David and Goliath treatment.

A Texan's in the White House, we're in a quagmire war – and 'The Rag' returns to Austin

A botched autopsy leaves medical examiner with "serious explaining to do"

House Bills 2 and 3 die; it's back to square one

Odds and ends – mostly odds – from beneath the pink granite dome

Although this Mighty Ducks/Bad News Bears clone is predictable and inoffensive, it's filled with sweet humor and well-drawn young characters.

Burger joint on MLK threatened by university expansion plans

Progressives organize – yet again – to fight the right

Underdogs' ambitious education package carried the support of a dozen Republicans and every House Democrat

A look back at the 79th

The inside game of the 'property rights' legislation reveals the usual suspects

Odds and ends (mostly odds) from the 79th

Odds and ends (mostly odds) from the 79th

When it comes to sharing the wealth, Texas has its priorities top-down

Odds and ends from the 79th

Death penalty proponents trot out predictable arguments against it

How much more food and music can you ask for in this town around this time and after?

'Clear Skies' gets shot down, and Legislators try to cut the crud in Texas

Quixotes saddle up their horses

The Supreme Court's ban on executing kids has repercussions all the way back to Austin

The Wilson boys are back in town with their 'Wendell Baker Story,' which took one an eternity to write and the other a month to shoot

Strama says take the money out of politics and the politics out of redistricting

The pols and the lobby shuffle the deck on gambling for education'

It's time to celebrate the coming of South by Southwest and think about how we're going to pay for our roads

The Lege solves school finance. Or not.

The Zachary Scott Theatre Center is hosting a special performance by Anna Deveare Smith in which she'll present theatrical portraits of select Austinites

Head for the hills ... the Lege is back in town!

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

I have a confession to make: I have never been an enthusiast of Tex-Mex cuisine