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The Capital Metro Transportation Authority board meets at noon at Capital Metro, 2910 East Fifth Street . . . The Design Commission meets at 6 p.m. in the Boards and Commissions Room at City Hall . . . . The Library Commission meets at 6 p.m. at the Austin History Center, 810 Guadalupe Street . . . The Historic Landmark Commission meets at 7 p.m. in One Texas Center, 505 Barton Springs Road.

Mike Kanin is the Publisher of the Austin Monitor. As such, he doesn't report on much--aside from the workings of the Monitor--any more. In his previous life as a freelance journalist, Kanin has written...