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Late last month, city officials held a meeting to get the community's perspective on a master plan for downtown. They are taking steps bring back the once-vibrant downtown, because despite the many empty windows, the city is growing.

Actors Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez and many others joined director Robert Rodriguez for the red carpet roll out of "Machete."

Central Texans added a little spice to their weekend for the 20th annual Hot Sauce Festival Sunday afternoon at Waterloo Park. The fiery dishes benefited the Capital Area Food Bank of Central Texas.

WEIRDNUZ.M176 (News of the Weird, August 22, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2010 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* A recent surge of Neo-Nazism in several countries--including,
improbably, Israel, and Mongolia (where some dark-skinned natives
are rabidly anti-Chinese)--has generally been denounced, but

WEIRDNUZ.M175 (News of the Weird, August 15, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd
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Lead Story
* Woody Allen Joke, Come to Life: Shirley Anderson, 71, is suing
her son Ken, 46, in Vancouver, British Columbia, for parental
support--even though she and his father had abandoned him when

WEIRDNUZ.M174 (News of the Weird, August 8, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd
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Lead Story
* The Outer Frontiers of U.S. Immigration Policy: The $125
million Jay Peak ski resort in Vermont, with 120-room hotel, ice
arena, golf course, and the Northeast's largest water park, is just

WEIRDNUZ.M173 (News of the Weird, August 1, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd
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Lead Story
* Among the promotions offered by New York City's upscale
Marmara Manhattan hotel is a "birth tourism" package exploiting
the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment. For about $35,000, a

WEIRDNUZ.M172 (News of the Weird, July 25, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2010 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* While the morbidly obese struggle with their health (and society's
scorn), those who eroticize massive weight gain are capturing
increased attention, according to a July ABC News report.

WEIRDNUZ.M171 (News of the Weird, July 18, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd
Lead Story
* "Why are you still alive?" is the question doctors ask Ozzy
Osbourne, the hard-rock singer and reality-TV star, who says he is
now clean and sober after a lifetime of almost unimaginably bad
habits. In June, he started two new ventures: undergoing the three-

WEIRDNUZ.M170 (News of the Weird, July 11, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd
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Lead Story
* A severe but underappreciated American drug problem
(sometimes deadly and often expensive) is patients' failure to take
prescribed medications--even to save their own lives (such as with

WEIRDNUZ.M169 (News of the Weird, July 4, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd
[NOTE: In the 7th item, both of the sources cited represented the
word in question as "F***". I don't normally write that real word out
because of some companies' e-mail filters.]
Lead Story
* In the midst of World Cup fever, readers might have missed

WEIRDNUZ.M168 (News of the Weird, June 27, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd
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Lead Story
* New York state school officials had promised to crack down on
soft test-grading, to end the near-automatic grade-advancement by
students unprepared for promotion. However, a June New York

WEIRDNUZ.M167 (News of the Weird, June 20, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd
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Lead Story
* Catholic Youth Organization coach Michael Kman, 45, was
charged in May with various misdemeanors regarding an alleged
attempt over a several-month period to fix kids' basketball games

WEIRDNUZ.M166 (News of the Weird, June 13, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2010 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* It's clear, based on a May Time magazine dispatch, that Norway's
felons and miscreants are of a superior class than America's. When
Norway's brand-new Halden prison opened in April, the country's

WEIRDNUZ.M165 (News of the Weird, June 6, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd
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Lead Story
* America What a Country! In 2007, after a stay in the United
States distinguished mainly by his acquisition of a long police
record, illegal immigrant Cecil Harvey, 55, was deported to his

WEIRDNUZ.M163 (News of the Weird, May 23, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd

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Lead Story

* Briton Robert Dee, feeling humiliated at being called the "world's
worst tennis pro" by London's Daily Telegraph (and other news
organizations) sued the newspaper for libel last year. After taking

WEIRDNUZ.M162 (News of the Weird, May 16, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd

Copyright 2010 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.

Lead Story

* Our Expanding "Rights": (1) In April, a high official of the
European Union called for member-nations to subsidize "vacations"
for seniors, the disabled, and those too poor to afford one. Said

WEIRDNUZ.M161 (News of the Weird, May 9, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd

Copyright 2010 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.

Lead Story

* In mid-April, senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi
issued a warning that recent earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and
elsewhere were caused by women's loose sex and immodest dress.

WEIRDNUZ.M160 (News of the Weird, May 2, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd

Copyright 2010 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.

Lead Story

* Blair Fowler, 16, delights her frenzied fans as a "haul queen,"
inspirationally "shopping for glory" by smartly tearing through
stores and then displaying and expertly describing her purchases on

*Chuck Finally Addresses His Mismanagement of His Google Groups Empire!*

*Republicans, Democrats Bi-Partisan (All Agree That Chuck's Deskwork Sucks)*

THE F STATE, April 20 — Chuck Shepherd has finally figured out how to
eliminate errors and redundancies and errors in his various Google Group