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With Laguna Gloria, Clara Driscoll Laid Foundation for Art in Austin BUSINESS, F1 SPORTS, C1 WHAT’S NYQUIST $113 WRONG WINS INCOUPONS WITH TECH KENTUCKY INDUSTRY? DERBY AUSTIN360, D1 TRAVEL, D10 AUSTIN360, D1 ONLYFOR SUBSCRIBERS CHECKOUTOUR Origin of art UNIQUE AUSTIN BBQroadtrip TRAVEL MAGAZINE With Laguna Gloria, Clara Driscoll FACTS ABOUT Matthew Odam hits the road, laid foundation for art in Austin MOTHER’S DAY tastes the best of Texas barbecue $2.50 statesman.com | mystatesman.com TODAY MONDAY TUESDAY 84 / 69 87 / 70 90 / 70 StatesmanWeather Sunday Isolated storms Spotty showers Affternoon App: Live radar,weather May 8, 2016 thunderstorms news and alerts. STTATESMAN IN-DEPTH IMMIGRATION DEPORTED VETERANS ELECTIONS 2016 RIDE HAILING VOTERS GIVE PROPOSITION 1 IMMIGRANTS WHO HAVE SERVED IN THE U.S. MILITARY — SOMETIMES IN COMBAT ROLES — FIND THEMSELVES THUMBS-DOWN STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE IN MEXICAN BORDER TOWNS. 1 WHAT HAPPENED Proposition 1was losingat presstime,with 56 percentof the voters opposingthe ballot measure affterthree quarters ofthe pollingplaces postedresults.More than 54,750Austinites votedearlyy,and election daayturnoutwasexpectedtobe below40,000. 2 WHAT IT MEANS Defeat of Proposition 1 would keep in place the law passed by the Austin City Council in December that requires fingerprint-based background checks of ride-hailing service drivers. It would likely signal the exit of Uber and Lyft,which have said they wouldn’t operate in AustinifProp 1 failed. 3 WHAT’S NEXT Lyft previouslytold its drivers that ifProp1failed,itwould shut down its app at 5 a.m.Mondaay. Uberannounceditwould do thesame at 8a.m. Mondaay. Austin has authorizedthreesmallercompanies toprovide ride- hailingservices,and theywould trytoexpandtofill thevoid.The Uber appwouldstill be on inAustin suburbs,an official with the companies said;Lyftdidn’tcomment on that aspect.ExpecttheLegislatureto considerastatewide ride-hailingregulation bill inJanuary. Carlos Torres, 61,adeported Army veteran, puts on his “seguridad” (security) uniform before going to work at a factory in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, in February. It wasn’t easy getting the job; he would go months MOREONLINE COMINGMONDAY without work, and now earns just over 80 cents an hour. PHOTOS BY RODOLFO GONZALEZ / AMERICAN-STAATESMAN More coverageofProp 1 and In the wake ofAustin’s decisivevote resultsof other local elections on ride-hailing rules,what’s next for ByJeremy Schwartz | [email protected] atstatesman.com. Uberr,Lyft and the city? REYNOSA,TAMAULIPAS — Justbefore dusk, Carlos Torres gets readdy for work on the night shift. Thememories ofhis former life hang allaround hisconcrete box of a home in the AquilesSerdansection of Reynosa, oneof the poorest neighborhoods in oneof the ELECTION 2016 REPUBLICANS hemisphere’s most dangerous cities. Ablack POW/MIA flag hangs over the bed in a crampedbedroom; yellowed photos of Fort Braggg, N.C., sit on adresser; an Army jacket rests on a makeshift clothes rack. Thesedays, Torres,61, puts on pressors don’t pocket theparts. to Mexico over thepast decade a differentkind ofuniform: He Forty-four years after he volun- after arrests or prison sentences. Ties between party’s Republican tucks a blue button-down shirt, teered for the U.S. Army during In cities and towns up and down elites and voters have presidential emblazoned with “Seguridad,” the Vietnam War, Torres is among the Mexico-TTexas border, former candidate into crisp black jeans, addjusts an untold number of U.S. military been fraying for years. Donald Trump his black baseball capand makes veterans whohave been deported Deported continuedonA21 has exposed sure hisID card is clipped on Patrick Healy GOP fault lines. tight. Every afternoon, he gets in andJonathan Martin hisused Ford sedan, the suspen- An old ©2016 The New York Times sion shot to hell,and navigates photograph drew a forceful rebuke from the the ruttedstreets of thisborder of Carlos By seizing the Republican pres- single most powerful andpopu- cityy, whichhas been locked in a Torres idential nomination last week, lar rivalleft onthe Republican cycleofdrug cartel violence for shows him Donald Trump completed what landscape: the House speaker, half a dozen years. He points posing with a hadseemedunimaginable: ahos- Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. the car toward a drabindustrial machine gun tile takeover of one ofAmerica’s Rarely, if ever,has a party park on theedgeof town where while he was two major political parties. seemed to come apartsovisi- he earns a little over 80 cents an in the U.S. Just as stunning washow bly. Rarelyy, too, hasthe nation hour making sure employees who Army. quickly the host tried to reeject been so on edge aboutits politics. earn even less building aircom- him. Theparty’s twoliving for- Many Americansstill cannot merpresidents spurned Trump, a believe thatthebombasticTrump, number of sitting governors and best known as a reality televi- HEAR FROM JOSÉ MARÍA MARTÍNEZ,AVIETNAM VETERAN WHO WAS senators expressedoppositionor ONLINE DEPORTED, IN A VIDEO WITH THIS STORY AT MYSTTATESMAN.COM ambiivalence toward him, andhe Trump continuedonA19 NAATION & WORLD, A4 NAATION & WORLD, A2 INDEX To subscribe:Call512-445-4040 Austin360 D1 orvisit statesman.com/subscribe ‘ElChapo’isabruptly Wildfirecontinuesto Business F1 © 2016 Austin American-Statesman Deaths B4 Vol. 145 No. 288 movedclosetoborder rageinAlberta,Canada Sports C1 Dry conditions and high winds are Convicted drug lord Joaquin Classifieds G1 helping to fueltheblaze,which Guzmanisnow in a Mexican prison has charred over 385,000 acres. w(h65668*LKLKLr(w across fromEl Paso, officials said. Sunday, May 8, 2016 IN TRAVEL D austin360 MATTHEW ODAM’S TOUR OF TEXAS +TRAVEL &PUZZLES Contact: [email protected]; 512-445-3690 Subscribe: statesman.com/subscribe BARBECUE, D10 HOLIDAY TEXAS HISTORY A numerical look at how Austinites celebrate the occasion. By Nancy Flores nfl[email protected] Mom. Momma. Mami. Each of us maay call her something differ- ent, but on Sunday we’ll all cel- ebrate the mothers and mother figures in our lives. In honor of Mother’s Daay, we’re sharing some uniqquely Austin fun facts and by-the-numbers trivia. Flower power 50: That’s the number of lucky ladies who will receive floowers for being among the first 50 moms Indian Blanket are among the shopping at either of Wheats- 650 plant species at the Lady ville Food Co-op’s two locations. Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. 650: You can see about 650 CONTRIBUTED native Texas plant species if you visit the Lady Bird Johnson Wild- floowerCenter’s gardens,meadowws son. Flower shop co-owner Mike and nature trails with your mom. Martinez saays that although there This yearr, Mother’s Daay also falls isn’t one particular flower asso- on the last daay of National Wild- ciated with Mother’s Daay, many flower Week. Special Mother’s Austinites request peonies this Daay outings on Sunday include time of year. a hike to explore the wildflow- ers at the Blunn Creek Nature Brunch with Mom The 1916 Driscoll Villa combines Italian Revival and Spanish Revival architectural styles. Clara Driscoll, an Preserve and a garden stroll to 73 percent: On Mother’s Daay, early proponent of historical preservation, donated the home to the Texas Fine Arts Association, which learn about the variety of wild- the busiest brunch daay of the yearr, would eventually spawn the Contemporary Austin. RODOLFO GONZALEZ / AUSTIN AMERICAN-STAATESMAN flowers native to Central Texas 73 percent of U.S. diners will make with the center’s plant conser- reservations at restaurants they vationist program manager. Visit haaven’t bookked before, according wildflower.org for more details. to Open Table, an online restau- 600-700: That’s the estimated rant reservation service. Open number of flower arrangement Table recently released its list of deliveries and pick up orders that Ben White Florist on South Mother’s Daay continued on D7 Congress Avenue expects during Mother’sDaayweekkend. Thefloower ALSO INSIDE shop has been preparing for the » A review of Sarah Bird’s“A big daay since the end of March, Love Letter to Texas Women,” D7 when it placed orders for the » Reader photos of their travels busy prom and Mother’s Daay sea- with Mom, D12 Clara Driscoll hoped Clara Driscoll in about MOVIES her home might bring 1900, about the appreciation of the time she art to fellow Texans. returned to Texas after a decade of ByJeanne Claire van Ryzin education [email protected] and travel in New York Clara Driscoll might enjoy the and Europe. 33-ffoot-tall elongated stainless CONTRIBUTED BY steel figure that now stands out- CONTEMPORARY side the Italianate house she built AUSTIN 100 years ago in West Austin. Leaders at the Contemporary Austin acquired the distinctly contemporary sculpture — Tom Friedman’s “Looking Up” — for its permanent collection last yearr, installing it on the formal oval lawn fronting the elegant 1916 villa perched above the shores of the Colorado River. Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton star as Mildred and Richard Loving in But it’s Driscoll’s legacy that Jeff Nichols’ interracial drama “Loving.” CONTRIBUTED BY FOCUS FEATURES blazed thepaath thatacenturrylaater “I tell them I am a cattlewoman,” finds her home — and principally “MATCHBOX:DRISCOLL she reportedly said when asked. its surrounding gardens — a desti- VILLAPROJECTION” In Gilded Agge fashion, Driscoll nation for a growing collection of When: Gates open at 8 used her European travvels to buuy sophisticated contemporary art, p.m., projection 9 to 11 p.m. a wishing well in Tuscanny, a foun- much of it site-specific, inspired May 15 tain and a pair of lion statues in by the very landscape that Driscoll Where: Laguna Gloria, 3809 Rome and, from Venice, statu- thoughtfully designed. W. 35th St. ettes of the four seasons — all Heiress to a South Texas cat- Cost: Free of which she shipped home to tle fortune, world-traaveled and Infformation: place in the gardens surround- Director will premiere educated in Europe, a staunch 512-458-8191, ing her villa, a place she named ‘Loving,’ about landmark ABOUTTHISSTORY and active Texas Democrat and thecontemporaryaustin.org/ Laguna Gloria.
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