A corporation, Oak View Group LLC, will pay to construct the arena in exchange for future revenue generated at the venue.
Matthew Watkins
Matthew Watkins began serving as editor in chief of the Tribune in September 2024. He is a Texas native, born in Houston and raised in Austin. He attended Texas A&M University and has spent his entire professional career in Texas journalism, including stints at The Eagle in Bryan-College Station and The Dallas Morning News. Matthew joined The Texas Tribune in 2015 has held various roles, including higher education reporter, breaking news editor and politics editor. He has helped guide the Tribune's award-winning journalism that has included coverage of six legislative sessions, multiple election cycles, natural disasters and political scandals. He lives in Austin with his wife, Susan, and their two children.
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Economy
Apple announces $1 billion expansion in Austin
The company will reportedly receive as much as $25 million from a state job-creation fund.
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Texas Legislature 2019
Bill filing for 2019 session begins with legislation on marijuana, taxes and daylight saving time
The Texas Legislature’s 86th session doesn’t start until Jan. 8, but lawmakers got a head start on filing legislation Monday.
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Texas Elections 2018
After SNL mocks his war injury, Texas congressional candidate Dan Crenshaw says he tries hard “not to be offended”
Crenshaw is running for an open seat in a Houston-area district. His opponent also condemned the joke.
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Texas Elections 2018
Beto O’Rourke received threatening messages from pipe bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc, his campaign says
State Rep. Poncho Nevárez, D-Eagle Pass, was also told by the FBI that the suspected bomber had researched him.
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Politics
Ahead of trip to Texas, Donald Trump uses a new nickname for Ted Cruz: “Beautiful Ted”
But Trump said he had no regrets suggesting that Cruz’s father was involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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Congress
Cornyn: Senate SCOTUS vote to be delayed while FBI investigates Kavanaugh
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told reporters in Washington, D.C., that the Senate will delay the full confirmation vote by a week while the FBI investigates allegations of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh.
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Criminal Justice
3D-printed gun designer Cody Wilson arrested in Taiwan
Wilson, an Austin resident, was wanted on a charge of sexual assaulting a teenage girl.
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Families Divided
Trump administration reunites “eligible” immigrant children under 5, but lawyers complain about blunders
In one case, lawyers say, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers left a woman alone at a bus stop with her young kids and no bus ticket. In another, ICE officers were unable to affix a mother with an ankle monitor, so they sent her back to detention without her children.
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Politics
Ailing former first lady Barbara Bush halts treatment, is seeking “comfort care”
Barbara Bush was first lady from 1989 to 1993.
