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BG Reads 8.23.2023
🗞️ BG Reads | News - August 23, 2023
August 22, 2023
In today's BG Reads:
Bingham Group Content ➡️ BG Podcast Ep. 212 (Also available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify)➡️ NEW - Bingham Group‘s policy and government affairs job board ➡️ BG Blog: Tracking City of Austin Leadership Changes
Our Leading News➡️ Rain breaks Austin’s triple-digit record ➡️ Operation Lone Star Texas border support waning➡️ How to watch the first GOP 2024 presidential debate
[AUSTIN METRO NEWS]
Austin ends streak of triple-digit temperatures with first rainfall in a month (KUT)
Austin's record-breaking streak of triple-digit temperatures is finally coming to an end.
The temperature at the Camp Mabry weather station is not expected to climb above 99 degrees Tuesday, capping 45 days of uninterrupted triple-digit heat.
The previous record, set in 2011, was 27 days of consecutive triple digits… (LINK TO FULL STORY)
And in other Austin Metro News:
➡️ Texas Takes Attacks on Austin to New Level With “Death Star” Law (Slate) -> FULL STORY HERE
➡️ Tesla to expand in Kyle, south of Austin gigafactory (Austin Business Journal) -> FULL STORY HERE
➡️ Here’s How Downtown Austin’s Block-Sized Hobby Building Could Redevelop (Towers) -> FULL STORY HERE
➡️ TxDOT clears last major hurdle for I-35 widening plan (Community Impact) -> FULL STORY HERE
Also:
➡️ The Williamson County Economic Development Partnership has opened in office in Seoul. The announcement came on July 1st, and reflects the importance of Samsung semiconductors the multi-billion dollar investment and need for supplier proximity to its future Taylor facilities.
➡️ The new office will also target the research, life sciences, automotive and software sectors in addition to semiconductor suppliers.
➡️ Check out BG Podcast EP. 208 for CEO A.J.’s discussion with Dave Porter, Executive Director, Williamson County Economic Development Partnership
➡️ Photo Credit: Dave Porter
[TEXAS NEWS]
At Texas Border, Some Support for Abbott’s Crackdown Is Waning (New York Times)
Lt. Christopher Olivarez, a spokesman for the public safety department, said landowners who had agreed to cooperate with the initiative were expected to lend their land to the operation until it wound down. Plans for Operation Lone Star, as the state operation is known, are “indefinite,” Lieutenant Olivarez said.
But many residents who own land near the Rio Grande said the state law enforcement agents had already overstayed their welcome. While he initially agreed to cooperate, Mr. Urbina said he had watched in dismay as state troopers had “completely taken over” his land.
The local migrant shelter has reported that many migrants are arriving with serious lacerations from the razor-wire barriers, and Mr. Urbina is concerned that some of those injuries are occurring on his land. “We don’t want to see people get hurt,” he said.
“I want to be clear that we support the aspect that we need to have some kind of border control. But they have taken over this whole area,” he said… (LINK TO FULL STORY)
OTHER TEXAS NEWS:
➡️ Mayor Karen Bass rips Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for busing migrants to L.A. during Tropical Storm Hilary (NBC News) -> FULL STORY HERE
[NATIONAL NEWS]
How to watch the first GOP 2024 presidential debate (PBS)
The two-hour debate will start at 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday. It’s being moderated by Fox News Channel hosts Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.
Unlike some previous presidential debates, which have been simulcast across a number of major networks and cable channels, the first forum is airing exclusively on Fox News and the Fox Business Network as well as on Fox’s website and other streaming and digital platforms… (LINK TO FULL STORY)
OTHER NEWS:
➡️ Activist Behind Supreme Court Affirmative Action Cases Is Now Suing Law Firms. (Wall Street Journal) -> LINK TO FULL STORY
➡️ What is 'skiplagging' and why do the airlines hate when you do it? (NPR) -> LINK TO FULL STORY
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