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On August 7, 2008, the Austin City Council approved $1 million toward the purchase of a conservation easement on the Dahlstrom Ranch, located in Hays County in the Barton Springs segment of the Edwards Aquifer. The ranch includes several recharge features that are estimated to provide a substantial amount of recharge to Onion Creek. Experts consider the ranch to be the most important aquifer recharge property in the region.

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Austin News Real features Vote Rescue’s Jenny Clark and Vickie Karp along with additional video footage from testimony recorded at a hearing of the Elections Committee at the Texas State Legislature on June 25, 2008. The testimony is from Jim March of Black Box Voting.

This Austin News Real program aired on July 10, 2008 on channelAustin 10. channelAustin is Austin’s public access television station / community media center (www.channelaustin.org).

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Austin News Real’s Pam Thompson and her guests from Vote Rescue, Jenny Clark and Abbe DeLozier, present video of testimony recorded at a hearing of the Elections Committee at the Texas State Legislature. This episode features Clint Curtis, a computer programmer for the Wang Corporation in Florida in 2000. At that time Wang was asked by a high level official in the Florida legislature to design software that could change the results of an election. Mr. Curtis became a whistle-blower when he realized he was being asked to do something highly unethical.

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Austin News Real’s Pam Thompson interviews Austin City Council candidate Laura Morrison and shows footage of Laura Morrison at a Save Barton Creek Association (SBCA) meeting and at another event hosted by the Austin Center for Peace & Justice. Footage shot on June 9, 2008 at an SBCA meeting is a conversation between Laura Morrison and run-off Cid Galindo, moderated by SBCA President Jackie Goodman.

This Austin News Real program aired on June 12, 2008 on channelAustin 10. channelAustin is Austin’s public access television station / community media center (www.channelaustin.org).

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In this episode of Austin News Real, host Pam Thompson shares footage she shot at the Mother Earth Festival in Austin’s Zilker Park on May 9, 2008. The festival featured music by Bill Oliver and the Otter Space Band (www.billolivermusic.com).

This Austin News Real program aired on June 5, 2008 on channelAustin 10. channelAustin is Austin’s public access television station / community media center (www.channelaustin.org).