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There are other ways to serve, including answering a call from your city, county or state to volunteer for a seat on a board, a committee or a commission responsible for government accountability.

Taking an active role by volunteering epitomizes true democracy and the spirt of citizen-led government. Residents who fill these important positions are acting as the eyes and ears of their community by assuming a leadership role and ensuring government flows smoothly.

These unelected positions include seats on planning and zoning commissions, crime control districts, historical districts, animal control, civil service commissions, ethics review boards, arts districts, bond committees, water advisory committees and more.

Local government has the greatest impact on our daily lives — trash pickup, road maintenance, police and fire protection and so on. But government supervisors and city councils can’t do it all, which is why it is so vital for residents to help steer their communities toward excellence.

In most cases, serving in these positions only takes a few hours each month.

Because the new budget cycle for most cities starts Oct. 1, appointments to boards, committees and commissions are being made now.

Service above self is a noble cause.

Those with a servant’s heart should step forward and aid their community.

THOMAS EDWARDS EXECUTIVE EDITOR

ON THE COVER: Neighbors in a primarily Jewish neighborhood on the North Side, as well as supporters from across San Antonio including other faith communities, put up signs decrying hate speech after someone scrawled racial slurs on cars and property. See story on page 11. Photo by Leland A. Outz

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Lone Star Rail: the right track?

by SUSAN YERKES

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ave you driven Interstate 35 to Austin recently?

It’s not a pleasant trip.

From the traffic jam getting out of San Antonio to the traffic jam that usually starts around Kyle and continues into Austin, the 75-mile drive can take three to four hours – and it’s getting worse.

San Antonio and Austin are among the five fastest-growing cities in the country, and the towns along the I-35 corridor are growing, too. With more people come more cars, and more congestion. That’s bad not only in terms of travel time and costs, but in terms of air quality.

Among Texas cities, San Antonio recently ranked second only to Dallas-Fort Worth for high ozone readings. It’s near the tipping point into “nonattainment” under Environmental Protection Agency clean-air standards. If the trend isn’t reversed, folks may face annual vehicleemissions tests, more EPA regulations on some businesses and, ironically, less federal money for highway construction.

There’s no quick fix. Soon, however, San Antonio leaders will decide whether to invest in one potential solution – Lone Star Rail.

Lone Star is a proposed regional commuter-rail line to connect key cities along the booming I-35 corridor, from Georgetown in the north to San Antonio in the south. Running along existing Union Pacific Corp. tracks, up to 32 commuter trains would travel the line daily, with daytime and evening services. The trip from downtown Austin to downtown San Antonio would take about 75 minutes, according to current projections. Lone Star’s website notes that fares in similar commuter rail districts run from $3 to $13 for a oneway trip, depending on how far you go.

There are 16 planned stations along the way so far. San Antonio-area stops are planned at Schertz, Loop 1604, the San Antonio International Airport,

downtown, Port San Antonio and Texas A&M University-San Antonio at the end of the line. With 17 colleges and universities near the route, Lone Star would be a big plus for some 250,000 San Antonio higher-education students.

This has been planned for some years.

Back in 1997, the Legislature approved a rail district from Bexar County to Travis County. Since then, the Lone Star Rail District has been gathering funds. San Antonio, Georgetown, San Marcos, Williamson County, Hays County, the cities of Schertz and New Braunfels and several metro-planning groups have joined the rail district.

The project got a big boost when Union Pacific agreed to consider building a new, upgraded freight-rail line on San Antonio’s outskirts. That would free up their current line – the one that goes through the heart of San Antonio, currently causing more traffic tie-ups with the long, lumbering freight trains — for Lone Star’s planned commuter service.

There is, of course, a price tag. The rail district already has state and federal funds, but San Antonio, VIA Metropolitan Transit and Bexar County will be responsible for the cost of maintenance and stations in our area. Austin and San Marcos have already committed their share, and New Braunfels is close to an agreement.

San Antonio’s City Council is allocating funds for Lone Star Rail in the new city budget, which has to be in place by Oct. 1. For the next three years or so the commitment is relatively small – about $500,000 a year, according to rail interim Executive Director Ross Milloy. Then it would “stair-step” up as the railroad gathered steam. The challenge now is to figure out how the city will fund its part, whether it’s from tax-increment zones around the new stations, general revenue or other sources.

It seems telling that District 9 Councilman Joe Krier, the former 20year president and CEO of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, has been a champion of Lone Star Rail.

Krier opposed the downtown streetcar project.

“People in my district-neighborhood meetings were firmly against streetcar, but they are firmly in favor of Lone Star Rail,” Krier said. “It’s not streetcar, it’s not light rail, and I’m passionate about the potential economic growth, the reduction in traffic jams and the reduction in pollution.”

I love the idea of hopping a Wi-Fi-equipped commuter train to Austin and points between.

What do you think?

Drop a line at syerkes@ localcommunitynews.com.

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Help, not jail, for truant kids

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new state truancy law based on a San Antonio system goes into effect in September, decriminalizing the process and instead trying to address the root causes of skipping school.

The measure is a step in the right direction, recognizing that not every social ill can be corrected simply by declaring something illegal.

A closer examination of most truancy violations shows that absenteeism arises from hardship, often in low-income families hit by economic or health issues.

Criminalizing truancy only creates more obstacles for struggling students, an issue recognized by the San Antonio model.

The old system didn’t work, even with the prospect of facing fines up to $500 and going to jail.

According to state figures, in 2014

nearly 100,000 Class C failure-to-attendschool misdemeanors were filed.

The previous law also seems draconian.

Kids no older than 12 could face a court appearance for three unexcused absences in four weeks. The statute called for campuses to file misdemeanor charges against pupils who logged more than 10 unexcused absences in six months. Students with unpaid fines could be hauled off to jail when they reached 17, and parents also could face penalties.

The new law heralds a better approach to address student absences.

The statute replaces criminal prosecutions for truancy with civil hearings. In addition, before educators file charges, school districts are called to help identify and alleviate the underlying causes of truancy, which can include homelessness, chronic illness or other needs.

School districts still have the option of sending students with 10 unexcused absences over six months to civil court, where a judge can assess treatment and community service.

Truancy laws shouldn’t penalize kids who want to go to school but can’t when confronted by challenges in life or at home.

-The Local Community News editorial board includes Harry Lees, Gregg Rosenfield and Thomas Edwards.

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SEPT. 19

NATIONAL PLAY-DOH DAY The Cody Branch Library will mark National Play-Doh Day with an hour of creative, messy fun using homemade playdough. The 3 p.m. event in the Meeting Room is classified as Kids Time, though the library notes, “You’re never too old for playdough!” Cody

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a presentation on cybersecurity and the universal need for secure devices and strong passwords. The speaker will be Carolyn Green, a professor and director of the Center for Information Technology and Cyber Security at Texas A&M UniversitySan Antonio. The gathering starts at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Room at Castle Hills City Hall, 209 Lemonwood Drive.

HAPPENING continues from pg. 06 MEET THE MAYOR Castle Hills’ Tim Howell will hold a Night With the Mayor starting at 6 p.m. at C’est La Vie Baking Co., 8055 West Ave., Suite 107. The city’s future will be discussed.

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NATURE WALK: GRASSES OF SEPT. HARDBERGER PARK The park’s 26 maturing grasses, as well as the progress being made on savanna restoration, will be on view during a walk led by Floyd Waller of the Native Plant Society of Texas. It starts at 8 a.m. at the patio area of the Urban Ecology Center, near the park’s western entrance, 8400 N.W. Military Highway. A donation to the Park Conservancy – $3 per person or $5 per family – is appreciated.

SHAVANO PARK The City Council will hold its monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall, 900 Saddletree Court.

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CASTLE HILLS The City Council meets at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall, 209 Lemonwood Drive.

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Open and Opening Soon 1. 18/8 FINE MEN’S SALON, 11745

Interstate 10 West, Suite 400 in the Huebner Oaks shopping center, held its grand opening this summer and is dedicated to meeting the hair care and grooming standards of its male clients, although women are also welcome. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. For more, call 462-1705 or visit http://eighteeneight. com/san-antonio-tx or Facebook. com/188salons. (See story on page 20)

2. VERTESKEBAP, 842 N.W. Loop 410 in the Park North shopping center, is an Austin-based kebap chain that recently opened in San Antonio. Verteskebap specializes in giving customers a unique taste of Europe with hand-stacked rotisserie meats, kebaps, wraps, salads and more. Hours are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.

For more, call 348-8405 or visit www. vertskebap.com. (See story on page 21)

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THE NORTHSIDE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT board recently adopted a $1.2 billion budget for fiscal year 2015-16, with no increase in property tax rates for the fifth consecutive year, officials said. The rate remains at nearly $1.38 per $100 valuation, officials said. The district’s enrollment is expected to reach a record 105,000 students in just a few weeks, educators said; NISD also opened its 75th elementary school, Boldt, at the start of the academic year Aug. 24.

ATHLETIC, CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY UPGRADES for Clark High School have been approved by trustees of the Northside Independent School District, according to a news release.

IN SHAVANO PARK, A TRENCH DUG AROUND TREES AFFLICTED with oakwilt disease is proving successful in keeping the malady from spreading to other oaks, officials said. The city’s oakwilt fund paid for the trenching effort.

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“All the faith communities really came together and everybody has been very supportive. The question is … what’s next?” said Rabbi Yossi Marrus of Chabad Center for Jewish Life & Learning. “And that’s why it’s a cause for concern. That’s why everybody is stepping up security.”

Residents in Oak Meadow just off Northwest Military Highway awoke Aug. 12 to find hate speech and racial epithets scrawled across about 30 structures and vehicles in the area surrounding Congregation Rodfei Sholom, an

Orthodox synagogue. A second incident was reported just five days later at nearby Congregation Agudas Achim.

Police have launched probes into both cases and are seeking links between the incidents. A video of two men vandalizing a nearby business about the same time was released to CrimeStoppers; it may shed additional light on the case, investigators said.

One person of interest has already been interviewed, officials said.

Meanwhile, community leaders said help and well-wishes from the rest of San Antonio during one of the worst outbreaks of anti-Semitic sentiment in years has been heartening.

“The quality and strength — and the quantity — of love and support that we have received gives us so much comfort at a time like this,” said Rodfei Sholom’s spiritual leader, Rabbi Aryeh Scheinberg.

On the morning when the first graffiti was discovered, Scheinberg gathered community members to clean the offensive words and appeared on television, decrying the acts as a disheartening event.

Public officials issued statements condemning the vandalism, and volunteers from across the city, including

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“At the end of the day, I don’t think the Jewish community is so bent out of shape over it,” Marrus said. “The Jewish community has always been at the forefront of standing up for people’s rights and speaking out about injustice. And

the same has been true in this case.”

The graffiti can be cleaned and washed away, Marrus said. The sentiment that led to the vandalism is more worrisome, the rabbi added.

“I think it’s more the concern of what’s behind it,” Marrus said. “If there are feelings of resentment, hatred, bigotry, anti-Semitism or racism or whatever it might be, that’s a concern. That’s not a good thing.”

Senior Rabbi Chaim Block of Chabad Center said he was on his way to Washington, D.C., when the first vandalism was reported.

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“For the first time in 30 years in San Antonio, I felt vulnerable,” Block said.

“This was not an attack where someone broke through locked gates and security systems. They didn’t get into the synagogue, they attacked the neighborhood.”

But Block added the incident is not going to break the community’s spirit.

“We’re not going to barricade ourselves behind fences,” he said.

Winslow Swart, a board member of Congregation Rodfei Sholom, said the assistance offered by the surrounding community has shown the vandalism is not a true reflection of San Antonio.

“What’s come out of this series of events and what I find really remarkable is it shines a spotlight on the character of our city and almost all the people in it,” Swart said.

He added, “And in many ways, the response to this and the way we’re all thinking and talking about this, I think, has the potential to increasingly set a tone for the conversation that’s happening across our nation.”

State Sen. José Menéndez contributed $1,000 toward a reward fund that grew to more than $11,000 within days. He called on the Texas Department of Public Safety

and the Texas Rangers to investigate.

“This is not merely graffiti, this is an orchestrated effort to try to intimidate an entire community of people based on their religious beliefs and we cannot stand for it,” he said. “I have found that the diversity of San Antonio is what makes this a special place where people want to start up a business or raise a family.”

Joe Krier, who represents City Council District 9, said, “Hateful acts such as this have no place in civil society.”

His colleague, District 8 Councilman Ron Nirenberg, added, “I’m encouraged and grateful for the outpouring of support from area neighbors in response to this unfortunate crime. Those neighbors – some of whom stood on corners last week with signs that read ‘Stand Against Hate’ and ‘I Support My Neighbors’ – have proven that here in San Antonio, we are different.”

Nirenberg represents the district where the vandalism occurred.

Support has also been strong from the Christian community.

Cornerstone Church Pastor John Hagee stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Scheinberg when the rabbi first talked to reporters.

“In this city, Christians and Jews are united like no other city in the United States of America. An attack on the synagogue is an attack on every church in this city,” Hagee said.

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In August, the North East Independent School District heard arguments for and against removing the name after senior Kayla Wilson submitted a petition with 9,000 signatures urging trustees to drop “Robert E. Lee” from the school’s designation.

Wilson, who is African American, said Lee’s name is a reminder of the Confederate States of America’s support of human enslavement during the war of secession, 1861-65. Proponents said the school’s name reflects American

history and does not represent hatred, but heritage and campus traditions.

Trustees ultimately decided to table the issue.

“At this time, the board is not considering a name change,” Aubrey Chancellor, an NEISD spokeswoman, recently said.

Not everyone agrees with the decision.

“I think the school should have never been named that in the first place, but since it was, I feel it is our responsibility to fix the mistake that happened in 1958,” Wilson said. “We should not be celebrating someone who fought against his country and was willing to die to tear this country apart. I think there are better people we can name the school after.”

Proponents of keeping the name, however, say the Civil War involved several complex political and social issues, not just slavery. They also argue that Lee — a Virginian who graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, and fought for the U.S. Army in the Mexican-American War — deserves the recognition for his “honorable life” and service both before and after the War Between the States.

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LEE continues from pg. 13 counter-petition to keep Lee’s name.

“We started our petition for no name change to any NEISD schools because a name change, any school’s name change, is disruptive to the students, the district and school’s administration, and it is a frivolous waste of taxpayers’ money,” Craig said. “If one school’s name changes, they can all be changed and it can impact taxpayers negatively.”

According to Craig, who is a Lee graduate, the school’s name has been recognized by the community for decades.

“The history and traditions of a school matter to alumni, as does the support,” she said. “It destroys the community and alumni identity in the institutions and names given to them. The pride goes away because it changes the dynamics when names change.

The spirit diminishes, as does the support.

It matters. My class alone has given over $10,000 in donations for the school to use.”

Wilson, however, said starting the petition to rename the school was the right thing to do because it raises awareness and provides a voice for others who find the name and symbolism of the school to be inappropriate.

“When I started the petition, a lot of people said they wanted this change for a long time,” she said.

Craig said those in opposition to dropping the name have gotten signatures from students, former students, residents, parents, grandparents, current and former teachers and administrators.

“Our petition is about any school’s name change in NEISD,” she said. “No changes now or in the future to any schools. If it can happen to one, it can happen to your school next if the political winds decide to one day blow your direction to unfairly target your school.”

Petitions aside, some believe the school’s name and mascot — the Volunteers, but often characterized by a caricature of a charging Johnny Reb with drawn sword — bring painful memories and emotions.

“I feel that there should be a name change,” said Carolyn Wilson, Kayla Wilson’s grandmother. “They keep saying it’s about tradition and not bigotry, but it really is. When you’re African American and you walk around those symbols, you feel terrible in your soul.

You don’t feel like it’s a part of you.”

But many insist that Lee — both its name and mascot — do not advocate racism.

“The school has been here for almost 58 years now,” said Lori Ayotte, a 1981 graduate of Lee who is of Hispanic descent. “I never thought of racism while going to school here. We all got along great and we still get along. We still have reunions and to this day we love each other still, regardless of race.”

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“There are some developers who have done some preliminary exploration, and I think access has a lot to do with that.

There’s still room for growth,” Izbrand said.

Although when it comes to existing retail space, “I think you would be challenged to find many empty storefronts in Castle Hills,” he added.

The most prominent recent development was the consolidation of several scattered offices around San Antonio into one corporate headquarters for Pape-Dawson Engineers at 2000 N.W. Loop 410. Last summer, the company moved into the two-story building owned by D2410 LP, which is controlled by the Dawson family.

Not only did Castle Hills gain a prominent corporate citizen, but the taxable value of the property increased from $6.2 million in 2014 to $13.6 million this year. According to Bexar Appraisal District records, more than $68,000 in ad valorem taxes on the property flowed to Castle Hills.

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ASTLE HILLS — Two new corporate headquarters, an H-E-B remodel and more small businesses locating to the city have combined to create an economic development boom for the community.

A financial downturn in 2008 that mirrored a national slowdown hurt many small businesses in the city, including restaurants, retailers and service companies, but a slow rebuilding has occurred.

The head of a key city development committee said even more development is on the way.

“Castle Hills is uniquely located,” said Joe Izbrand, chairman of the Zoning Commission. That includes quick access to Loop 410 frontage, U.S. 281, Interstate 10 and several routes to Loop 1604, including Northwest Military Highway. Much of the city is only five to 10 minutes from the San Antonio International Airport.

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Next up is the Bank of San Antonio, which is moving its headquarters from the Forum Building near Interstate 10 and Loop 410 to take up residence next to PapeDawson. Construction is underway and the building is expected to open by mid-2017.

The city of San Antonio now gets about $3,400 in property taxes on the personal property contained inside the bank headquarters at 8000 I-10 West. A similar amount could be going into Castle Hills coffers after the move in 2017.

The Bank of San Antonio, the fourth largest locally based banking institution in the city, will have more than 100 people in the new, 57,000-square-foot building at 1900 N.W. 410 and add a significant taxable value to the property.

The presence of a corporate headquarters also can add to the sales-tax revenue because of taxable purchases for the whole company. That’s because those taxes often are credited to the home city of the business.

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Several individual campuses earned distinction designations from the TEA, which monitored academic performance at the state’s 8,646 public school campuses for the 2014-15 school year.

However, districts are closely focused on conforming to and enhancing standards outlined in House Bill 5, passed by the Legislature and signed into law in 2013, officials said.

The law called for less reliance on state-mandated tests used for assessments, while also requiring public school districts to improve career-path readiness programs for students headed to college, as well as creating vocational programs for pupils who aren’t going to college.

While proud of their districts’ TEA assessments, NISD and NEISD officials said their focus remains on enhancing career-path programs for students.

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TEA’s latest report cards for overall district and individual school performance were based on an indexed point system that assessed four categories: student achievement, student progress, closing performance gaps and postsecondary readiness.

Also considered in the assessment were State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness test scores, student improvement in various subject areas – especially among minority and low-income students; and district advancement in creating postsecondary “career path” programs for college-bound and non-college-bound students.

Preliminary assessments, issued Aug. 6, won’t be finalized until TEA reviews appeals from school districts in November.

Ten school districts in LOCAL Community News’ coverage area passed, garnering “Met Standard” ratings for overall performance. Of the 296 schools in those districts, 273 received “Met Standard”

designations. Nineteen were not rated, with four NEISD elementary schools receiving a designation of “Improvement Required” for at least one year.

However, each district graded well above state standards based on overall academic performance, student participation and graduation rates, and meeting federal benchmarks in relation to alternative assessments.

Randolph Field ISD met all 37 of its requirements for a perfect mark. It was followed by NEISD and New Braunfels ISD (both 96 percent); Fort Sam Houston ISD (95 percent); Comal ISD (94 percent); Alamo Heights ISD (93 percent); Northside ISD (91 percent); Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City ISD (90 percent); Judson ISD (88 percent) and Boerne ISD (84 percent).

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STANDARDS continues from pg. 17 Top performers included NEISD’s Northwood, Huebner and Roan Forest elementaries (five of five); and Northside’s Clark and Health Careers high schools (seven of seven), as well as Glass, Esparza, Linton and Brauchle elementaries (five of five).

NEISD elementaries that received improvement-required designations are East Terrell Hills, Camelot, Montgomery and West Avenue. Last year, the district’s Olmos Elementary was the lone campus cited as needing improvement, but it was not included this year.

“For the four campuses, it was a matter of missing the state’s target score by just one to three points,” said Pauline Dow, NEISD associate superintendent for curriculum and technology. “This may have been a difference of one or two students passing a test, but not scoring high enough to meet the advanced passing standard.”

NEISD spokeswoman Aubrey Chancellor said the district’s campuses are engaged in the Texas Accountability and Intervention System, which helps develop targeted improvement plans for students. NEISD has also created support teams that work with principals and campus instructional teams.

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Top performers under state academic assessments for the North East Independent School District included Northwood, Huebner and Roan Forest elementary schools, elating officials at NEISD headquarters.

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LEE continues from pg. 14 Another Class of ‘81 alumna, Roberta McKeown Smith, also insists that it’s not about racism.

“My mother graduated from Lee in ’61,” she said. “My brother, sister and I graduated in the ’80s. There was never any racism at Lee back then. We were friends with everybody. We all got along and we were proud of our high school.”

Mobi Warren, who lives in the school’s enrollment zone, said the name was chosen in 1958 as message to chill a burgeoning civil rights movement in San Antonio.

“I was a young child at the time, but have vivid memories of the signs of bigotry, segregation and discrimination in the South,” Warren said. “Lee High School was built during that era of very blatant bigotry and discrimination, and I don’t think it was an accident that a name was chosen that legitimized, if not glorified, the ideals of the Confederacy, which was the enslavement of other human beings.”

According to Warren, “We are at a point now in our history where it’s really time to not name a public institution after someone who led Confederate forces. I understand that Lee may have been a very complex and nuanced figure in history, and by some perspectives even an honorable man,

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but that rightly belongs in a social studies class, not as the name of a public school.”

Outcries nationwide to remove Confederate symbols picked up steam after a suspect in a racially motivated mass shooting in a Charleston, South Carolina church was seen in a photo with a Confederate battle flag. Subsequently, the flag was removed at the South Carolina State House by order of state lawmakers.

Not much later, officials at the University of Texas at Austin voted to remove a statue of CSA President Jefferson Davis and transport it to a museum.

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restaurant featuring “handstacked meats” started in 2011 by two German students at the University of Texas at Austin has made its way to the Park North shopping center.

VertsKebap — pronounced “vurts-kuhbop” — is a European street food. According to the company website, a kebap is short for “döner kebap,” which loosely translates to “spinning roasted meat” and refers to the rotisserie meat that makes the kebap unique.

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