Category: Austin
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Seeing Race
The moment that many white students walk into my course they are experiencing a series of firsts: The first time many of them have had a black teacher or…
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Aggressive Birds
Walking down the Paseo next to the children’s museum in my neighborhood the other day and I was attacked by number of grackles. Every few seconds, one would buzz the…
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Visualized: How the insane amount of rain in Texas could turn Rhode Island into a lake
What 8 million acre-feet of water actually looks like. Source: Visualized: How the insane amount of rain in Texas could turn Rhode Island into a lake The Washington Post has…
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Austin’s Tallest Tower
The proposed-to-be tallest buliding in Austin makes people cry on the inside.
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SXSW crash: One Tragic Night. One Year Later.
For many of those who were on or near Red River Street when Rashad Owens plowed into a late-night crowd of music fans, their recollections today are as sensory as…
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Joys and Sorrows of Liturgy
This week, Austin celebrated the ordination of our first auxiliary bishop, Bishop Danny Garcia while the Notre Dame and Holy Cross communities celebrated the funeral of Fr. Ted Hesburgh, CSC,…