Austin Animal Center Strains to Maintain Its No-Kill Status

City shelter struggles with overcrowding and volunteer dissatisfaction

"...At the end of a group tour of the Austin Animal Center late last year, a few of us..."

Feb. 8, 2019 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Neighbors With and Without Homes Collide at Roy Guerrero Park

“But then where?”

"...mood was not joyous in early June, as Southeast Austin residents gathered at the Montopolis Recreation and Community Center..."

July 15, 2022 News Feature by Abe Asher

Budget Stretch Run

City money season at full speed – and the dollars are chasing the needs

"...Aug. 8: Department budget videos and presentations available on city's website..."

Aug. 2, 2013 News Feature by Michael King

The Way of the 'Food Forest'

Locavores planting seeds for the next phase of urban agriculture

"...As green initiatives increase in popularity, the city of Austin maintains a complex relationship with urban agriculture. Many urban..."

Feb. 14, 2014 News Feature by Anna Toon

... Until Your Pool Runs Dry

Austin's swimming pools are leaking – and that may be the least of PARD's problems

"...On April 24, Parks and Recreation Depart­ment Director Sara Hensley issued a foreboding..."

May 15, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

2005 Kids Summer Camps

An annotated list of several places where kids could be going this summer to enjoy physically and mentally invigorating activities

"...Summer is a-comin' in, and the kids are a-goin' out. Here, corralled and updated..."

April 29, 2005 Features Feature

Public Notice: Being a Good Host

SXSW in full bloom

"...Austin is having a pretty good South by Southwest so..."

March 18, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Gimme (Animal) Shelter

Swirling city politics, site selection, and – oh yes – animal welfare

"...even think about moving it?" asks Ryan Clinton of FixAustin.org...."

Aug. 24, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

The Next New Neighborhood

City and residents plan a sustainable Colony Park

"...Dressed in yellow T-shirts and carrying clipboards, three UT students approached the house on..."

April 4, 2014 News Feature by Robyn Ross

YMCA Has Designs on TLAC Site

Oh, so that's why the city wanted to close the Town Lake Animal Center

"...Animal advocates and parks advocates alike were in alarm mode early this..."

Feb. 3, 2012 News Feature by Nick Barbaro

Planting a Place in the Shade

Volunteers help Pease Park turn new leaf

"..."is being loved to death." Heavy use by hikers and runners, disc golf and volleyball players, dog owners in..."

Nov. 12, 2010 News Feature by Michael King

Developing Stories: May's Plan-a-Thon

Public meetings on Downtown plans produce mixed – or uncertain – results

"...On the urban design, master planning, and parks circuit, May has been a public-meetings whirl –..."

May 29, 2009 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Community Advocates Worry Commercial Interests Dominate Zilker Park Vision Plan

Zilker Park or "Park Zilker"?

"...After two years of discussion and stakeholder input, the city's final draft of the Zilker..."

Dec. 16, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

City's Urban Ag Effort Struggles to Take Root

Bureaucracy may be reason for program's stunted growth

"...economist Jon Hockenyos is the guy the city of Austin turns to whenever it needs the guts of a..."

April 12, 2013 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Then There's This: Swimming Upstream

Families' access to city pools depends on where they live

"...that municipal swimming pools – once a neighborhood staple and valued community space in most towns – are always..."

June 21, 2013 News Column by Amy Smith

Council Backs Parkland Preservation in Vote for New Dougherty Arts Center Site

Austin's oldest community arts venue would relocate to new facility in Butler Shores' southeast corner

"...Council approved the DAC's relocation to the nearby city-owned parkland, a high-profile site off of Lady Bird Lake that..."

May 28, 2021 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Poison in the Park

Plants and trees in Stacy Park began to die after a Parks and Rec volunteer sprayed herbicide

"...thing that the neighbors of Stacy Park, in South Austin's Travis Heights, feel they know for sure, it's that..."

Sept. 2, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Council Finds a Compromise on Renaming Pan Am Park

Pan Am still flying

"...controversy about renaming East Aus­tin's Pan Ameri­can Neighborhood Park, Austin City Council voted last week to honor longtime East..."

Sept. 9, 2022 News Feature by Abe Asher

Event Horizon

As festivals, crowds, and expenses proliferate – is Austin approaching major event overload?

"...gig ushered him south into the warm civic embrace Austin offers its South by Southwest guests. Like all major..."

July 12, 2013 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Nature Violates City Code

City's green goals conflict with its ordinances

"...two directions between the city's push to become greener and its long-standing policies on tidy neighborhoods...."

July 1, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Merriment & What-Not

Will Eeyore Be Banished From the Hundred Acre Wood?

"...So, as it usually does in Austin, real life now imitates literary fantasy. For the annual..."

April 11, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Public Notice: Displacement Bad

New task force report finds room to improve

"...The Austin Anti-Displacement Task Force presented its Final Recommendations for Action..."

Nov. 30, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Top 9 Developing Stories

"...course correction for Central Texas' future. The city of Austin is progressing on a comprehensive plan, Strategic Mobility Plan,..."

Jan. 1, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Council: Dem Ol' Railroad Blues

City takes on Project Connect but punts on Auditorium Shores

"...Channel 6 after 10pm.) Neverthe­less, Council will soldier on, and they've got plenty to attack, based on the listed..."

Dec. 13, 2013 News Feature by Michael King

Beside the Point

Duckmobile politics

"...impending departure. "TOBY FUTRELL HAS BEEN PACKING PERSONAL ITEMS AND HER OFFICE," reads one all-capped dispatch. "I WAS THERE..."

Feb. 1, 2008 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Civics 101

"...RALLY AGAINST HIGH STAKES STANDARDIZED TESTING Occupy AISD meets at 11th & Congress at..."

March 2, 2012 News Feature

Day Trips

At the Mineral Wells Fossil Park, visitors are guaranteed to find 300-million-year-old fossils and may keep what they find

"...where visitors are guaranteed to find 300 million-year-old fossils and can keep all they find...."

May 14, 2010 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Public Notice: Epiphany!

A new City Council for the new year

"...(check our club listings to find 12 drummers drumming), and tomorrow, Jan. 6, is the Feast of the Epiphany..."

Jan. 6, 2023 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Public Notice: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Mobility plans on the move; land use boards stay put

"...Project Connect transit plan picks up steam, expect more and more public input opportunities and info sessions...."

Feb. 11, 2022 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Public Notice: Something at Lake Long?

If not golf, what?

"...Council unwilling to mortgage the future of the public parkland at Walter E. Long Metropolitan Park to private developers,..."

Dec. 12, 2014 News Column by Nick Barbaro

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