New Non-Profit Serves Local Startup Investor Community
Accompanying Austin’s astronomical business growth in the past few years is a newly minted startup investor community aimed at catering specifically to the dual needs of local investors and the greater venture community.
Read full storyLast Grill & Chill on the Lawn at Magdalena House
May's Grill & Chill On the Lawn is coming to an end with the very last Tuesday of the month. Now is your last chance to catch the classic cookout at Hotel Magdalena downtown, a popular local tradition involving unlimited grill eats, wine flights and grass-friendly lawn games.
Read full storyLocal Initiative Provides Necessities for Afghan Refugee Families
Families in central Austin are banding together to offer continued financial aid and emotional support for Afghani refugee families who fled their war-torn nation last summer. One co-creator of the GoFundMe account recently introduced the initiative via local social media forms:
Read full storyTrump’s Truth Social and Musk’s Twitter: Is Free Speech Too Dangerous?
While news media and social media alike buzzed frenetically with the seemingly earth-shattering news that Tesla titan Elon Musk had agreed to purchase Twitter — the wildly popular social media platform boasting over 200 million daily users— for a whopping $44 billion, another social media app has quietly slipped into the #1 spot downloads from the App Store.
Read full storyMarilyn Manson Alleges Conspiracy to End His Career
Esme Bianco and Marilyn Manson pose together during better times.Pexels. The latest news in the ongoing battle between the self-proclaimed 'Prince of Darkness' and a tribe of actresses suing him for sexual assault comes from one such alleged victim.
Read full storyJury Finds Kardashians Lied About Blac Chyna
Kardashians sitting in court as trial debates their guilt in "conspiring" against Rob's ex-fiancee.Pexels. Businesswoman Blac Chyna's long-awaited trial against the Kardashians has ended after nine days in court and lengthy jury deliberation.
Read full storyHouston ISD Accused of Stealing Federal Funds
A slew of criminal charges alleging widespread embezzlement of federal funds has shaken the Houston Independent School District to its core, and now Chief Operating Officer (COO) Brian Busby, a decades-long veteran of HISD who has been overseeing the nation's seventh largest school district since the end of 2016, faces additional charges related to his many-pronged bribery scheme.
Read full storyNew Documentary Alleges Epstein-Clinton Relationship
A South African mother and business owner named Juliette Bryant is one of the latest former victims of Jeffrey Epstein to come forth publicly with details about the pedophile financier’s relationship with former U.S. President Bill Clinton, also husband to 2016 Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Read full storyHugh Hefner's Abuse of Playboy Bunnies in New Documentary
A&E docuseries Secrets of Playboy is exposing the horrific secrets behind the sexual liberation icon and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who passed away in 2017 and left behind a crumbling pornography empire.
Read full storyOpinion: Public Schools are Low-Performing
Before my daughter started second grade, she was a voracious reader. She devoured the Harry Potter novels, one by one. Nestled in a corner of her room, she let her imagination run wild for hours at a time.
Read full storyHeyoka: The Most Powerful Empath
The term has Native American roots, stemming from the Lakota branch of the Sioux tribe, today confined to 5 large reservations in the Dakotas. Heyoka translates to “sacred clown” and refers to those members of tribal society chosen for public roles not dissimilar to court jesters, thanks to their unusual talents.
Read full story5 Texas Serial Killers You Should Know About
Are you a true crime aficionado? Are you fascinated by sadistic serial killers? Do you want to know about the darker side of Texas history? Listed below are five of the goriest, most chilling real-life murders in the Lone Star State and beyond.
Read full storyBastrop’s Foster Care System Accused of Trafficking Kids
Just twenty or so miles East of the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport is Bastrop, Texas, a still-small city whose local economy has seen rapid economic growth in the past few years. Unfortunately, the city is also grapplying with a child sex trafficking crisis that has been directly tied to multiple perpetrators employed by the state’s crumbling foster care system.
Read full storyHow The US Military Created Software used by Child Traffickers
Special Agent Daniel Alfin was the leader of an investigation into one of the world’s largest pedophile rings on Tor. But did his Army counterparts enable these same child predators?
Read full storyThree Famous Texas Unsolved Murders
18-year-old Tom Brown had it all: he was both class president and school football star, liked by everyone in the Texas Panhandle town of Canadian. Well, almost everyone. He disappeared the week of Thanksgiving in 2016, his remains not found until a couple years later.
Read full storyTexas Governor Investigating Child Abuse in Sex Reassignment Industry
The National Association of Practising Psychiatrists. The Texas Governor and Texas Attorney General recently joined forces to establish the groundwork for new legislation that would, at least in theory, protect children with gender dysphoria from child abuses ranging from medical and psychiatric malpractices to household psychological abuse.
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