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AISD: And Then There Were Eight

Two days ago, there were five Austin ISD Board of Trustee seats on the November 4 ballot, but only two filed candidates. What a difference one busy Monday can make, with candidates filed and announced in four of the five seats.

2:25PM Tue. Aug. 12, 2014, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Undercover Audio Reveals Anti-Abortion Tactics

Anti-abortion activists in Texas employ strategies to identify and monitor abortion patients, investigate abortion providers and clinic staff, and search tax records to find locations of abortion providers, according to newly released undercover audio.

10:00AM Tue. Aug. 12, 2014, Mary Tuma Read More | Comment »

Austin ISD: Cowan Returns to Ballot

2010: Tamala Barskdale beats Julie Cowan to become Austin ISD's Place 9 At-Large Trustee. 2014: Barksdale announces she is stepping down this fall, and Cowan announces she will run again – this time, in District 4, to replace retiring board president Vince Torres.

6:20PM Mon. Aug. 11, 2014, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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AISD: Barksdale Will Not Run Again

Major news from Austin ISD Trustee Tamala Barksdale. In a phone call moments ago, she told the Chronicle, "I will not be seeking re-election this fall."

5:27PM Mon. Aug. 11, 2014, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

The Road to 10-1: Filling the Ballot

As of Monday morning, Aug. 11, 29 citizens had filed formal ballot applications for the Nov. 4 municipal election: four for mayor, and 25 spread through the 10 City Council districts. That represents just over 40% of the 72(net) folks who have previously filed campaign treasurer designations.

1:21PM Mon. Aug. 11, 2014, Michael King Read More | Comment »

Sun to Set on Severely Disabled Patients

In June, the Wallaces were “blindsided” when they received a letter from the Austin State Supported Living Center notifying them that their son Justin, who suffers from severe autism, and roughly 70 other people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, would be forced out by as early as September.

9:00AM Mon. Aug. 11, 2014, Mary Tuma Read More | Comment »

Abbott Leads, but Davis Catching Up

Two weeks ago, Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, seemed to be bleeding out in her fight for the governor's mansion with Attorney General Greg Abbott. Now a new poll – one from a historically right-leaning pollster – puts her out of the double-digit death zone, and has Texas shifting from the "safe Republican" category to only "leans Republican."

9:36PM Fri. Aug. 8, 2014, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Battle of the Bullhorns

Earlier this summer, Murrieta, Calif., gained notoriety after protests caused three buses carrying immigrant mothers and children to turn and leave, officials deciding it would be safer to send the immigrants to a different, more welcoming town.

9:00AM Fri. Aug. 8, 2014, Amy Kamp Read More | Comment »

State Witnesses Continue to Show AG's Influence on HB 2 Testimony

In the fourth day of trial in the suit to block sections of Texas’ abortion law, House Bill 2, the state continued to offer witness testimony in U.S. Judge Lee Yeakel’s Austin federal courtroom on Thursday that has been aided and edited by national anti-abortion figure, Dr. Vincent Rue, a hired representative of the Attorney General’s office.

7:00PM Thu. Aug. 7, 2014, Mary Tuma Read More | Comment »

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