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ACC students seek housing help

Kay Trent was already attending Austin Community College while living in the San Antonio area when she decided to moved to Austin to qualify for lower tuition rates. Trent, 29, a former English as a second language teacher, sold nearly all of her belongings to move to the city about eight months ago and then was immediately confronted by the city’s high rents.

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Troopers at border make big money

State troopers are banking huge sums of overtime — some more than six figures in a year — under Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security push. Since the operation began in March 2021, the Texas Department of Public Safety has paid at least $68 million in overtime to officers sent to the U.S.-Mexico border.

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What makes a will contractual?

Husband Harold and wife Mildred executed a joint will that gave the survivor of the first to die a right to all their property during the survivor’s lifetime with the remaining estate when the second of them died to go to their three children Harold Jr., Roland and Rocky.

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BECKONING blues

ASTYPALEA, Greece – In a small bay flanked by thyme-covered hills and a medieval castle-topped village, I floated in perfect solitude on the shimmering Aegean Sea. Last summer was my fifth year traveling to different Greek islands like far-flung Astypalea.

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