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County Rushes to Get Mental Health Diversion Center and Lawyers at Bail Hearings

After a years-long ideation process, plans are finally firming up for a facility that would provide an alternative to jail for people experiencing mental health crises.

3:56PM Tue. Apr. 16, Lina Fisher Read More | Comment »

Judge Recommends Melissa Lucio’s Death Sentence Be Overturned

A South Texas judge is recommending that the death sentence of Melissa Lucio, convicted in 2008 of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Mariah, be overturned.

3:47PM Tue. Apr. 16, Brant Bingamon Read More | Comment »

Austin Pets Alive! Workers File to Become Largest Animal Shelter Union in the U.S.

Back in 2022, when Austin was starting to become aware of its increasingly overcrowded animal shelters, Austin Pets Alive! employees reached out to the Chronicle to detail their dissatisfaction with their jobs.

4:02PM Fri. Apr. 12, Lina Fisher Read More | Comment »

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The Tortured Poets Department Listening and Smoke Sesh

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Blank Hellscape, Water Damage (album release), More Eaze, Fire Boys at Hotel Vegas

Georgetown Spring Art Stroll at Downtown Georgetown

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ACLU Sues Demanding Attorneys Be Present at Initial Bail Hearings

If you’re arrested in Travis County, you’ll soon find yourself before a judge. In that hearing, the judge will decide whether there was enough reason to arrest you in the first place, and if there was, how much you’ll have to pay to get out of jail. One thing you can be certain of: You won’t have a defense attorney at your side.

6:17PM Thu. Apr. 11, Maggie Q. Thompson Read More | Comment »

Legislators, NAACP, and Professors Condemn UT’s Mass Layoffs

At the Texas AFL-CIO headquarters Wednesday evening, legislators, the NAACP, and a university professor united against UT-Austin’s handling of Senate Bill 17’s ban on DEI-related programs at public universities, calling for President Jay Hartzell to reinstate the more than 66 faculty and staff laid off April 2.

3:51PM Thu. Apr. 11, Lina Fisher Read More | Comment »

Kirk Watson Wants Four More Years

The once-again mayor is looking to earn another term. Kirk Watson formally announced today, April 10, his 2024 re-election bid.

12:16PM Wed. Apr. 10, Austin Sanders Read More | Comment »

Second Phase of Major Zoning Changes to Increase Middle-Income Housing Kicks Off

This Thursday at 9am, City Council and the Planning Commission will hold a joint hearing on the second phase of the most significant changes to the Land Development Code in years, known as Home Options for Middle-Income Empowerment (HOME).

12:31PM Tue. Apr. 9, Lina Fisher Read More | Comment »

After DEI Cuts, This Sixth-Gen Austinite Is Losing Access to UT

Nyeka Arnold is a sixth-generation Austinite. Before they came to Austin, her family was enslaved just a few miles east of the city, in the cotton farming town of Webberville. It was her great-great-great grandfather, Rev. John Henry Winn, who founded St. John Freedom Colony in Austin in the early 1870s.

4:56PM Fri. Apr. 5, Maggie Q. Thompson Read More | Comment »

Co-Founder of Local Org That Pushed for Cannabis Decriminalization Abruptly Replaced

No one wants to say exactly what happened, but Julie Oliver, the co-founder and executive director of Ground Game Texas, is out of the organization that has used cannabis decriminalization to mobilize progressives in Texas counties.

1:12PM Fri. Apr. 5, Brant Bingamon Read More | Comment »

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