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Igel

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35. Austin did a sucky job of trimming its trees.

Reply to lonely bird (Reply #6)

Sun Feb 5, 2023, 02:18 PM

Feb 2023

For over a decade their code was way below industry minimum standards.

That was recently revised, but you don't fix 15-year's of mistake in 2 1/2 years.

That was the local public media station's morning airing of a report made by the Austin, TX, public media station a couple of days ago.

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