Monthly Archives: January 2012

(Community Matters) Love more hostels

(Community Matters) I’m sure a fun activity and it never hurts to play at this.  Likely participants don’t appear broad enough to fully represent the city however – beyond the bakery block, that is

(Community Matters) What do all 100 of this year’s Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For have in common?

nondiscrimination policies covering sexual orientation

listing

Hat Tip: Shakespearessister

Hat Tip: Towelroad

(Community Matters) Thought provoking and enlightening

(Community Matters) Received an email about an APD alert on Keith Terrell Menefield, Indecent Exposure. Appears connected to 31st Street Murder but that is not confirmed

site of top wanted

(Community Matters) Kudos and thanks to San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro for also signing the Freedom to Marry pledge – thanks, Julian!

(Community Matters)  thank you, Mayor!

AUSTIN – Mayor Lee Leffingwell has today joined dozens of mayors from across America in supporting the right of same-sex couples to marry by signing on to the Mayors for Freedom to Marry Pledge. The Mayors Freedom to Marry group — an effort of the national Freedom to Marry organization — aims to expand public and political support for ending discrimination in marriage.

“I’m proud to stand with the gay and lesbian community and defend their right to equal marriage,” said Mayor Leffingwell. “The tide is changing in America and I hope that by joining this loud chorus, I can play a small role in helping set us on a path to full marriage equality in our country in my lifetime.”

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(Community Matters) Possible additional sighting in Hyde Park. The email below was sent to our neighborhood distribution list.

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(Community Matters) Eight of our favorite startups are competing in the first Austin Startup Olympics this weekend, partying at Club DeVille after.

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(Community Matters) A must read – fodder for reflections on American exceptionalism – “Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power,” by Zbigniew Brzezinski

Politico Playbook: THE BIG IDEA –  “The United States is still preeminent [among global powers] but the legitimacy, effectiveness, and durability of its leadership is increasingly questioned worldwide because of the complexity of its internal and external challenges. Nevertheless, in every significant and tangible dimension of traditional power – military, technological, economic, and financial – America is still peerless. It has by far the largest single national economy, the greatest financial influence, the most advanced technology, a military budget larger than that of all other states combined, and armed forces both capable of rapid deployment abroad and actually deployed around the world. This reality may not endure for very long but it is still the current fact of international life.

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Happy 19th Birthday, Ben

our godson is a freshman at TCU and loving it

(Community Matters) Helping kickoff Austin Gives this morning