Austin Transit Partnership Needs Your Input as Project Connect Enters Its Trade-Offs Era

Turn this train around

"...But it's a stark change in approach for the Austin Transit Partnership, which Can­nally has headed since May 2022...."

April 7, 2023 News Feature by Benton Graham

Austin Police Consider Community Reforms

After a year spent making headlines APD prioritizes policing equity

"..."The Science of Policing Equity: Measuring Fairness in the Austin Police Department." Most of the findings already appeared in..."

Nov. 4, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Point Austin: Questions for Visa

A few things we might ask before we provide corporate welfare

"...the next 10 years) to Visa Inc. The "economic development grant," of course, is not exactly charity. Under the..."

Nov. 30, 2012 News Column by Michael King

Homelessness on the Rise in Austin

Annual count reveals a 20% increase in homelessness

"...In late January, hundreds of volunteers dispersed across Austin to find and survey people experiencing homelessness. Led by..."

March 18, 2016 News Feature by Makeda Easter

Governing Post-Boom Austin

Now that the lawsuits are over, we hope the council campaigns will turn to issues.

"...far, you'd think that the most important issue facing Austin is the proper valuation of a signature as a..."

April 12, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Another Big Year for Austin’s Transit Overhaul

Project Connect will hit milestones and legal battles in 2025

"...to be an eventful one for Project Connect – Austin’s $7.1 billion public transit overhaul. The program will likely..."

Dec. 20, 2024 News Feature by Benton Graham

Point Austin: A Green and Democratic Place

Local activists kick off co-op project with a visit from Omar Freilla

"...New York-based Green Worker Cooperatives, will be speaking in Austin, and thereby helping to launch a similar local effort:..."

Oct. 2, 2009 News Column by Michael King

How Austin's Performing Artists Are Reopening Their Spaces

After months behind screens, the folks who run the city's theatres, concert halls, and comedy clubs are welcoming audiences back inside

"...and widespread vaccination among the populace – more of Austin's performing artists began to welcome audiences back indoors to..."

July 16, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Contemplates How to Make I-35 Suck Less

The past, present, and future of the man-made barrier through the heart of our town

"...Chronicle's queries because the longtime TxDOT district engineer for Austin, Terry McCoy, has recently retired, just in time to..."

June 21, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Rude Mechanicals: Grrl Action impacts Austin

The Rude Mechs' greatest achievement? Maybe scoring funding for Grrl Action from nonprofit heavyweight Impact Austin.

"...Rude Mechanicals, Austin's best-known theatre collective, has received extensive recognition for artistic..."

July 20, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Muralist Mila Sketch Celebrates a Decade of Creativity in Austin

Innovative immigrant artist on her approach, future, and love affair with the city

"...You’ve likely seen Mila Sketch’s artwork all throughout Austin without noticing it. A colorful cityscape, which she painted..."

April 4, 2025 Arts Feature by Julie Royce

Whurley, Physics, and the Strange Work of Quantum Computing in Austin

Is the world ready to take a quantum leap?

"...behind a series of recognizable startups, such as creative development firm Chaotic Moon, small-business retirement savings planner Honest Dollar,..."

April 19, 2019 Screens Feature by Tom Cheredar

The Top 10 Austin News Milestones of 2018

Days like these

"...The biggest stories of any year in Austin tend to unfold over weeks and months, sometimes fading..."

Dec. 28, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Kitchen's Menu for a Better Austin

Former state rep kicks off District 5 campaign

"...In this South Austin district, few things illustrate the rapid changes better than..."

June 20, 2014 News Post by Amy Smith

Austin CarShare Shares the Road

There's room in this town for two car-sharing programs

"...What does Austin CarShare think of the city of Austin's plan to..."

April 3, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Gifts That Give Back to the Community

Pay it forward with these presents benefiting local nonprofits

"...plastic packaging and gives back to Well Aware, an Austin-based nonprofit that builds lasting clean water systems to drive..."

Dec. 2, 2022 Arts Feature by Sarah K. Wolf

Tom Gimbel Takes Austin City Limits Global

Sky’s the limit for the ACL brand

"...month at Arlyn Studios, representatives from KGSR and the Austin City Limits television franchise officially flipped the switch to..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Point Austin: Strange Bedfellows, Stranger Politics

"Efficiency audit" petition campaign could use an independent audit

"...the petition circulated by the Citizens for an Accountable Austin PAC, endorsing an "independent efficiency audit" for the city,..."

Aug. 10, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: Denver Stakes

What Obama signifies for the rest of us

"...whatever they can to define the terms of our community politics as though most of us are simply onlookers..."

Aug. 29, 2008 News Column by Michael King

Austin Streetcar Proposal: A Play in Two Acts?

Plans unveiled for rail transit

"...Here's the latest political drama for the Austin streetcar project: In how many acts should a city..."

Aug. 1, 2008 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Downtown Austin Is Getting a Fresh Coat of Museums

"...In January of this year, the Austin Museum of Art (AMOA) officially scrapped its plans for..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

Economics From the Bottom Up

A profile of Accion Texas, CDC, and other microlenders

"...were riding the crest of the biggest economic swell Austin's ever seen convened their second 360 Summit: a flashy..."

Aug. 10, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Project Connect Draws a Line

Group makes official recommendation to Mayor Leffingwell

"...sub-corridors as the top prospects for initial urban rail development. East Riverside was recommended because of its "high population..."

Nov. 22, 2013 News Feature by Mac McCann

The ARA Faces the Music

For the Austin Revitalization Authority, Eastside renewal proves to be a long, slow dance

"...she was a liberal Democrat and the mayor of Austin, Carole Keeton McClellan (now the conservative GOP state comptroller,..."

Aug. 29, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Growing Pains

Rapidly expanding Austin Green Art works to sustain its mission and identity

"...Last spring, I met Austin Green Art founder Randy Jewart for a one-on-one conversation..."

April 18, 2008 Arts Feature by Nikki Moore

The Long Story of East 11th and 12th Streets Takes a Turn

Austin’s historically black neighborhood continues to stand at the crossroads of growth

"...neighborhood that Urdy knew – the historic home of Austin's African American community – was a city within a..."

Oct. 18, 2019 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Fonte's Inferno

ACC's New Pres Faces the Hot Issues in East Austin

"...new role as the savior of the perennially mixed-up Austin Community College. But if the post of ACC president..."

June 6, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Re-Forming AI$D

What's behind the national involvment in local school board races?

"...when he first ran for District 7 in the Austin Independent School District, "It was the PTA folks who..."

Nov. 28, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

'Nothing Is Done Alone' Extended Interview

The TxCC and their role in Bastrop's recovery after the fires

"...of Texas Conservation Corps at American YouthWorks, here in Austin. I wanted to learn about the corps and how..."

Dec. 2, 2013 Chronolog Post by Kate X Messer

Making Room to Play

Create Space Austin kicks off the drive to secure more performing venues in the city

"...Two things happen when a roomful of Austin theatre artists gather with no audience present: They start..."

April 15, 2016 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

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