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Investigator of Complaints Against Police Calls Complainant “Protester Dirtbag”

The Office of Police Oversight official tasked with supervising investigations into community complaints against police officers referred to one of those complainants as a “protester dirtbag,” internal emails show.

1:02PM Thu. Oct. 10, 2024, Austin Sanders Read More | Comment »

Point Austin: Trump’s Personal 2025 Project

From 2005-2020, now-retired Austin Chronicle News Editor Michael King wrote about city and state politics from a progressive perspective in his weekly column, “Point Austin.” We’re pleased to bring back his column whenever he’s inspired to tackle the state we’re in.

2:48PM Tue. Oct. 1, 2024, Michael King Read More | Comment »

Texas Prepares to Execute Fifth Inmate This Year

The Texas prison system continues to kill off the prisoners who came to death row in the 1990s, at the height of the death penalty’s popularity among juries. Officials plan to execute 60-year-old Garcia White on Oct. 1. He has been on the row since 1996.

11:16AM Thu. Sep. 26, 2024, Brant Bingamon Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

The Opera, FLAGS, Proun

Hole in the Wall

Carrie Rodriguez's Laboratorio w/ Calexico at Paramount Theatre

Strut! Austin: Sasha Colby Live at Cheer Up Charlies

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Enchanted Rock Gets Bigger

Everyone loves Enchanted Rock, but have you ever wished there was more of it? Well, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will be making that a reality soon, thanks to an acquisition of 630 acres adjacent to the park, announced today.

4:35PM Tue. Sep. 24, 2024, Lina Fisher Read More | Comment »

Death Watch: For Travis Mullis, Tragedy Begets Tragedy

Not all efforts to spare death row inmates are equal.

12:45PM Wed. Sep. 18, 2024, Brant Bingamon Read More | Comment »

Austin ISD Trustees Wonder if Goals Rely Too Much on State Test Results

Austin ISD is finishing up a complex project that the board of trustees will be glad to be done with – the revision of the district’s “scorecard.”

1:28PM Tue. Sep. 17, 2024, Brant Bingamon Read More | Comment »

Casar Introduces Act to Help Fossil Fuel Workers Transition to Clean Energy Jobs

Global demand for oil, though projected to increase in the next few years, is showing a long-term trend of flatlining, and coal jobs are at an all-time low.

1:21PM Tue. Sep. 17, 2024, Lina Fisher Read More | Comment »

Following Court Ruling, City Manager Moves to Eliminate Secret Police File

More than a year after voters approved the Austin Police Oversight Act and supporters sued to force the city of Austin and the Austin Police Department to fully implement it, officials are taking steps to fulfill one of the Oversight Act’s key mandates – elimination of a secret file where some police misconduct records had been kept.

2:20PM Fri. Sep. 13, 2024, Austin Sanders Read More | Comment »

What Are the Hot Topics Being Discussed at This Week’s Texas Cannabis Policy Conference?

When I tell my friends I’m going to a cannabis conference this weekend, they’re probably imagining an expo center with booths giving away free grinders and B-Real From Cypress Hill is signing autographs, but I’m guaranteed to see zero guys in beanies at this event.

10:45AM Thu. Sep. 12, 2024, Kevin Curtin Read More | Comment »

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