News of the Night: Compiled from Domain Influence reports 7/98-10/98
July, 1998:
* Police officials have named Infinicom as a major suspect
in the terrorist activity leading up to the final failure of the
Austin Nuclear power facility. The loss will mean Austin will
have to look elsewhere for the power needs of its future and it
is expected that police and government officials will come down
hard on anyone implicated in the failure of the power facility.
* Hayes County has filed major territorial disputes with Travis
County over its claims of imminent domain concerning the area
of land now selected as a nuclear waste disposal site. While
officials of Hayes County have not commented on their plans for
the land, one can be certain that placing more radiated material
on the land is not part of the future as they see it.
* Shockingly both Time Warner Cable and Heartland Wireless Cable
services have released that in the coming months K-Eye will no
longer be carried as part of any of their existing entertainment
packages. Officials of both organizations site the new uses of
the existing cable lines, such as high speed cable modem access
and cable phone systems, as the culprit. They have been quoted
as saying that it is only expected that in the war with direct
television satellite access services that the cable companies
will have to look else where for their dollars. While it is unfortunate
that local broadcast station will have to be removed you can rest
assured that the band width freed up will be put to use in other
areas that will be most pleasing to the largest body of the public.
* Health advisors continue to point out water shortages in
the local areas even though it appears public consumption is down.
During a public press conferences a hospital official let slip
the name of Atlas Intl. as a possible cause for the water shortage.
His source for this information is unknown and he has been unavailable
for interview since.
* A new and popular night club has opened… or should we say
reopened… in Austin… Darque Knights has opened it’s
doors again!
* A small newspaper add was placed in the classified section of
several Austin papers… it contained every possible opening
move that can be made in a chess game… subsequently the
player seemed to be playing the black side of the board.
September, 1998:
* Representatives of Time Warner and Heartland cable have come forward and publicly apologized for the removal of K-EYE from its service. They state that service to the public will continue to be their biggest goal, and they will continue to attempt to do what is in the public’s best interest. Both carriers have restored Service.
* The Ballet Austin's Winter production of The Nutcracker seems particularly well backed this year, it would seem that it will be Austin premiere performance as the "who’s who" of the world have already begun to take up the seats.
* Darque Nights has once again reopened it’s doors in all of it’s former glory and beyond.
October, 1998:
* Students rally in protest of the "Hopwood decisions".
They have been peacful thus far but threats of violence have often
been heard from unknown individuals in the student body.
* Several Semiconductor industries such as Motorola and AMD have
hidden and squashed records requested by OSHA abouty safety at
chip manufacturing plants.
* The sewage treatment plant north of McKinney falls has been
shut down on minor health code violations. Workers will not be
allowed to return to work until the facility has been brought
up to code.
With thanks to Chris Stewart...