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🟪 BG Reads Weekend Edition (1.5.2025)
BG Reads Weekend Edition (1.5.2025)
WEEKEND NEWS
➡️ As arctic blast heads for Austin, city officials say: We are ready (KUT)
An arctic blast headed for Austin next week means many residents will be adjusting thermostats – and hoping the power stays on.
The National Weather Service says a cold front moving in Sunday afternoon will bring freezing temperatures to Central Texas by Monday morning. The cold snap is expected to last several days and could include some precipitation later in the week, which could ice over roads.
The onset of winter weather may cause anxiety for Ausinites who lived through previous freezes and power outages, but officials say the city has learned from past mistakes. They say they are prepared to effectively communicate, both internally and with the public. They've also put tougher materials around power lines and water and electric equipment to protect it from ice buildup, and adjusted transformers for an increase in demand… 🟪 (LINK TO FULL STORY)
➡️ More apartments, plus hotel, retail, entertainment uses planned for Southeast Austin project (Austin American-Statesman)
An ambitious development in the works just east of the Austin airport has a new name, along with newly announced plans for a hotel, more apartments and an entertainment district.
Previously called Velocity, and before that, Velocity Crossing, the 314-acre project has been renamed the Row. It will be built in phases at the southwestern corner of the Texas 130 toll road and Texas 71, along Onion Creek and about 8 miles from downtown Austin.
The project will take shape in the growing Del Valle area in southeastern Travis County, on land just east of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. The developer is Presidium, which is co-headquartered in Dallas and Austin.'
Once complete, the Row will include thousands of apartments, retail and restaurant space, hotel rooms and about 100 acres of green space. The project has approvals for about 7 million square feet of new development… 🟪 (LINK TO FULL STORY)
Heaviest snowfall in a decade possible in some areas as winter storm threatens US (Assocaited Press)
➡️ As Trump rewrites history, victims of the Jan. 6 riot say they feel 'betrayed' (NPR)
For the millions of Americans who watch the presidential inauguration every four years, the Lower West Terrace Tunnel of the U.S. Capitol is a familiar site.
The incoming president walks through that tunnel and on to the inaugural platform, before taking the oath of office.
On Jan. 6, 2021, it was a crime scene - the site of a bloody, hourslong struggle between law enforcement and a mob of supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.
"My fellow officers and I were punched, kicked, shoved, sprayed with chemical irritants by a violent mob," Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell testified to Congress about his experience in the tunnel on Jan. 6.
"I could feel myself losing oxygen and recall thinking to myself: 'this is how I'm going to die - defending this entrance.'"… 🟪 (LINK TO FULL STORY)
➡️ No Jan. 6 disruptions are expected as Trump’s win boosts Republicans’ faith in elections — for now (Associated Press)
This Jan. 6 won’t be the same.
Four years ago, then-President Donald Trump urged supporters to head to the Capitol to protest Congress’ certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.
“Will be wild!” Trump promised on Twitter a few weeks before Jan. 6, 2021. And it was.
Trump gave a vitriolic speech to thousands of people gathered at the Ellipse behind the White House, after which many marched to the Capitol and stormed the building in an attempt to stop the previously routine final step in formalizing the winner of the presidential election. Even after the rioters dispersed, eight Republicans in the Senate and 139 in the House voted against ratifying Biden’s win in certain swing states, despite no evidence of problems or wrongdoing that could have affected the outcome.
This year, the only turbulence preceding the quadrennial ratification of the presidential election resulted from House Republicans fighting among themselves over who should be speaker… 🟪 (LINK TO FULL STORY)
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