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Austin call center set to close next year

KEYE - CBS 42  Thu, 12/06/2007 - 6:49am

An Austin center that handles customer calls for Fortune 500 companies will shut down early next year --- months after officials announced plans to expand.



 

ICE nets more than 30,000 immigration fugitives in fiscal year

KEYE - CBS 42  Tue, 12/04/2007 - 6:12pm

Federal agents who track down fugitive illegal immigrants arrested more than 30,000 people nationally this fiscal year, nearly double the previous year, officials said Tuesday.



 

University of Texas to play Arizona State in Holiday Bowl

KVUE - Austin  Mon, 12/03/2007 - 11:00am

Officials with the Pacific Life Holiday Bowl made it official Sunday that Texas will face Arizona State on Dec. 27.



 

When Will The Iraqi Government Wake Up?

Donklephant  Sun, 11/25/2007 - 1:39pm

The answer: when we leave.

See, the surge has given them a gift they’re squandering. And the Bush administration is beginning to set expectations for political progress accordingly.

So for the time being, the focus is being placed on passing a national budget. That’s good, but I think we’re all slowly realizing that they only way they’re going to start making progress is if they’re forced to do it.

And the only way that’s going to happen is if we leave.



 

California Wildfire Victims Start to Rebuild

NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Wed, 11/21/2007 - 5:00am

It's been one month since a series of wildfires devastated parts of southern California.

The fires destroyed more than 2,000 homes and forced the evacuation of thousands. Officials are still assessing the damage and people are starting to rebuild.