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Tearing down the social safety net will be a lot easier than building it back again when it is realized how necessary it is

Police union blames prosecutors

Homelessness response anchors $263.5 million spending plan

The politics of Austin animal welfare

Chillin' with a trio of Austin's hippest emergency-services personnel

Homelessness response anchors $263.5 million spending plan

Safe on the bus

“We want everything that can be done outside of the police, to be done outside of the police.”

Rep. Carl Isett discusses why lawmakers are only rescheduling the Sunset bills

Austin Wranglers win season opener

A small win for the good guys, followed by a huge loss.

As D.C. dollars dry up, millions of uninsured Texans see no signs of improvement

AMA winner raises funds for Conspire Theatre

Perry says he has no immediate plans to call legislators back to Austin

A medical school, a teaching hospital, and a new health care system?

City moves to reprioritize social service programs in the new year

A position checklist of pragmatic politics

Paying taxes adequate to meet social needs is a necessary hedge against a frightening future

The mental health care system for Austin and Travis County is increasingly overwhelmed, with no relief in sight.

Mayor's Homeless Package Leaves Some People Cold

Monks Jazz Club improvs a hit for the pop-up pianist/promoter

As GOP postures with SB 22, women’s health care pays the price

Consequences of perception

The Planned Parenthood boycott is about moral bullying, not a commitment to preserving life.

Seton's sabotage, unintentional or not, of the ongoing planning for a hospital district is barely a street sign on the road of potential social deterioration. The problem is that, though it's a tiny step, it's another one in the wrong direction, and those steps have become strides.

During Gov. Bush's campaign for his party's presidential nomination last fall, reporters asked the candidate to comment on a federal government report asserting that many Texans, including large numbers of children, were going to bed hungry. "I saw the report that children in Texas are going hungry. Where?" he demanded, going on to say, "You'd think the governor would have heard if there are pockets of hunger in Texas." Indeed, you would, especially if one of those pockets is just a few miles from his front door, Virginia B. Wood explains as she explores the very pockets of hunger in Austin Bush has difficulty fathoming.

Seeking shelter when home isn't safe