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District 9 Councilman Kevin Wolff, who’d called for a 1-cent reduction to the rate, dismissed the argument that a tax cut could affect the city’s basic services.
“It angers me when I hear that argument, and it angers the people I represent,” Wolff said.
The proposed budget for the general fund, he noted, allocates [...]

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State releases list of deficient bridges
Responding to Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst’s request for a complete inventory of “structurally deficient” bridges, the Texas Department of Transportation on Thursday released a list of 2,024 such Texas bridges, including 36 in the three-county Austin area.
The agency at the same time released a broadside, sending Dewhurst a five-page [...]

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