Lauren McGaughy
Statewide Investigative Reporter and Editor at KUT-FM (Austin, TX)
Investigative reporter + editor @KUT @NPR | Covering Texas politics + Elon Musk | FOIA nerd | Hoya Saxa + Who Dat | Signal: lmcgaughy.40 | [email protected]
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1 week ago |
kut.org | Kailey E. Hunt |Lauren McGaughy
Austin is the third queerest city in the country, by some estimates. So why doesn't it have any lesbian bars? Theo Snow wanted to know the answer to this question, so they reached out to KUT's ATXplained project. "I’m curious why there aren’t any dyke bars — lesbian bars," they said. "Because I know they have existed but they haven’t persisted."Only San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, have more gay people per capita than Austin, according to the Williams Institute at UCLA.
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4 weeks ago |
kut.org | Lauren McGaughy
Earlier this month, the few hundred residents who live around SpaceX outside Brownsville voted to create the new City of Starbase. Now, the new city’s leaders have told landowners they plan to introduce land use rules that could result in changes for some residents. In a letter obtained by The Texas Newsroom, Starbase City Administrator Kent Myers told local landowners they may lose the right to continue using their property for its current use under the city’s new zoning plan.
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1 month ago |
kut.org | Lauren McGaughy
The City of Starbase is now official. On Tuesday morning, the Cameron County Commissioners Court certified the May 3 election results that created the new city near Elon Musk's rocket launch site outside Brownsville. The approval occurred with no dissent. "We congratulate Starbase, the new mayor and the new two city councilman and wish them the absolute best. We look forward to working with them for the betterment not only of Starbase but of Cameron County, Texas," County Judge Eddie Treviño said.
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1 month ago |
hppr.org | Lauren McGaughy
SpaceX just got a lot closer to launching more rockets from its base in South Texas. The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday said there would be no significant impact to the environment if SpaceX increases launches at its Starbase facility from five to 25 times a year — as long as the company takes additional steps to protect the local area. The information was issued in what's called a "final tiered environmental assessment," an in-depth look into the request's potential effects.
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1 month ago |
marfapublicradio.org | Lauren McGaughy
SpaceX just got a lot closer to launching more rockets from its base in South Texas. The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday said there would be no significant impact to the environment if SpaceX increases launches at its Starbase facility from five to 25 times a year — as long as the company takes additional steps to protect the local area. The information was issued in what's called a "final tiered environmental assessment," an in-depth look into the request's potential effects.
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