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Hour one of the Todd and Don Show:
• Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is moving forward with a lawsuit seeking to remove eight of 13 members of Austin’s Planning Commission because the commission has too many members in development-related professions which could affect the fairness of CodeNEXT
• UT will continue to consider race in admissions, despite Trump reversal on Obama guidance
• The Shoal Creek Conservancy wants to turn a 4-mile trail into a 13-mile walking and biking path to a cost of $66 million
Hour two of the Todd and Don Show:
• Travis County is looking for 438 parolees that have failed to report
• TECH NEWS:
-Amazon plans to open a second cashless Amazon Go store in Seattle
-SONY Pictures accidently released the whole movie of Khali: the Killer instead of a trailer
-Andriod apps are capturing screen and video recordings of what people are doing with software and sending that data to third party companies
-Facebook’s algorithm has flagged and deleted posts with portions of the Declaration of Independence as hate speech
• Trump says he’s done with the interview phase for the nomination for the next Supreme Court Justice
Hour three of the Todd and Don Show:
• VIRAL VIDEO:
– A woman climbed the base of the Statue of Liberty on the Fourth of July to protest migrant family separations
-A group of teenagers were at a Whataburger where a man came up to them and took one of their MAGA hats and threw a drink in their face
• OAG released its annual On-Time-Performance (OTP) star ratings for airlines in the U.S. and they show United Airlines is on top and has achieved a four-star rating (5 is the highest)
• Thailand Authorities are trying to figure out how to rescue a soccer team trapped in a cave before heavy rains hit this weekend
Hour four of the Todd and Don Show:
•Whiskey manufacturers are worried retaliatory trade tariffs will affect prices and shipping
• Richard Overton, oldest living man in the U.S. had his accounts refunded after cyber thieves drained his account
•Companies expanding and relocating to Austin according to Austin Chamber of Commerce because the quality of life is better and lower costs across the board