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AUSTIN, Texas — U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett is asking federal officials to expedite a request from the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport director to increase the number of agents as the facility contends with an ongoing passenger surge.

The embarrassing failure I witnessed at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on the morning of March 28 sends the message to our global visitors that this city is unprepared for the rapid expansion at our doorstep.

Weeks before what U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett called an “embarrassing failure” at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, the airport’s director urgently sought more federal agents to bolster operations as officials anticipated a passenger surge, documents obtained by the American-Statesman show.

AUSTIN, Texas — U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett is asking federal officials to expedite a request from the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport director to increase the number of agents as the facility contends with an ongoing passenger surge.

On March 21, Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, announced that he has secured $2 million in federal appropriations for the new Central Texas Community Mental Health Sur­veil­lance Collaborative, a project that aims to create an interactive map of mental health data similar to local COVID dashboards. The project, one of 10 chosen from a community project funding request, is being designed by Texas State Uni­ver­sity's Dr. Melinda Villagran and Dr. Alessandro De Nadai. Villagran says when the pandemic hit in March 2020, she was struck by the simple visual language of COVID dashboards: "There's a lot of data available, but very few of us have the bandwidth to look at it, find it, understand it, and use it every day. I found it to be a visual way to make sense of what was happening. And I thought, man, we need one of these for everything!"

Give Koch Industries credit for consistency: It’s aiding the foes of democracy at home and abroad.

WASHINGTON — All politics is local is an adage that has been especially true when it comes to earmarking federal money for local projects, a practice that just made a comeback after a decadelong hiatus, with millions of dollars benefiting Austin and Central Texas.