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have been the result? the result is mass casualty. reporter: in a year, fentanyl seizures have jumped 800% in texas. the drugs coming across the border here are fueling an unprecedented epidemic across the country, the toll of which can be counted in the skyrocketing number of overdose deaths. among them: 20-year-old jacob del hierro of colorado. i wake up most days in a state of shock. i cannot believe that i lost a child. reporter: jacob is among the more than 88,000 americans who died from overdoses in the 12 months ending october 2020, up 19,000 from the same period a year before. it will live with me for the rest of my life. my wife had to watch as i screamed and begged for my son to breathe. reporter: border patrol agent jerry galvan knows heartbreak like that often starts here. they cut into it and set it up beforehand so they know where they re going to be coming
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Last Thursday,
Office of the City Auditor over
Austin Energy s $18 million
Customer Assistance Program (CAP) discounts – designed to help lower-income customers with utility bills but in practice, he alleges, still being offered to owners of some very expensive properties.
Robbins has been tracking this issue since 2014, when he began comparing customers who got the CAP discount against the property values assessed by the appraisal districts in Travis and Williamson counties. I found over 1,100 [homes] that had very high appraised values, and appraisal values are usually well below real values, he said. These included homes near Mt. Bonnell and in West Lake Hills with pools, spas, and tennis courts, all receiving the basic CAP discount, which was 10% then and is now 15% due to COVID-19 relief measures. After Robbins first raised the issue, the ratepayer