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A new national report from the Allstate Insurance Company shows that Austin drivers are 35 percent more likely to be in an accident than the national average – over ten percent more likely than drivers in Houston, Dallas or San Antonio. Allstate looked at insurance claims for the 200 largest cities in the country and [...]

Forget the hot dogs and the hamburgers, what you need is a big bite of In the Know kids! Join us this week as we celebrate our nation’s birth. Can you believe that the U-S-of-A is 232 years old?! Man, have we come a long way since then…or have we?
Tonight we will be talking about [...]

This week on In the Know, we are asking you once more: What would you do?
Last week’s show concerning ethical dilemmas was so entertaining that we have decided to come back to this topic.
For instance, what would you do if the person you were seeing revealed to you that they were transgendered? Would that be [...]

U-T’s student government met yesterday to talk about stuff they want to do next year. About 25 students, including SG reps, showed up to the meeting. They didn’t come to any conclusions except that they intend to talk about health care and tuition sometime soon.
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City Council is changing the curfew (for minors) from 10PM to [...]

On this week’s edition of In the Know, we’ll be talking about a new item on the market: broke teens! 
Money is hard to come by for a lot of college students. With tuition rates increasing, gas prices soaring, unemployment rates peaking, and the overall cost of living skyrocketing, some students  will pretty much do anything [...]

A season of In The Know episodes premieres on 91.7 FM tonight. At 7 o’clock, tune in and hear U-T Austin students open their minds and verbally explore narcolepsy: What is it exactly? Can you catch it from your dirty room mate? And can having it prevent you from getting a [...]

Topic: Media objectivity

      We’ll discuss the reasons certain media outlets are considered more objective than others. And whether being an objective journalist is an achievable goal in a world of FOXy pundits. And if a journalist were to identify their own bias before [...]

Origins of the Cinco de Mayo:
May 5, 1862 was the day General Ignacio Zaragosa led Mexican forces against the French and won. No one really celebrated that day until about 100 years later. Los Angeles Recreation and Parks commissioner Riordan decided to use the day to market the Coors beer distributors he owned. He [...]

Wednesday, on In The Know: We’re talking birth control. We heard about a 30-dollar paternity test and opinions started flying.
Who’s responsible for birth control? The guy or the girl?
What about specific methods like the ring? Does anyone really want something up their yaya for months?
We’ll also talk about _______________. This is where you come in.
Tell [...]