If you consider the greater Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown area, there are at least 17 different internet service providers available to the more than 2 million people living in the ATX metro.

In April 1997, she dropped $575,000 on a three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom home in Austin overlooking Barton Creek. In a May 1998 story for Texas Monthly, the star said she feels “a ...