SwimATX Tackles Lifeguard Shortage

Learn-to-swim program educates Eastside kids on water safety

"...2015, when the Aquatics division of the city's Parks and Recreation Department faced down yet another summer of citywide..."

May 19, 2017 News Feature by Katarina Brown

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Dais: Austin City Council meets today, Thursday, Dec. 9, for its last meeting of the year. Among the 90..."

Dec. 10, 2021 News Feature

Headlines

"...Another election, yet again: Early voting began May 16 for the May 24 primary run-offs, with a total of..."

May 20, 2016 News Feature

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...has concerns about the growing presence of autonomous cars and the city's inability to regulate them due to a..."

Dec. 1, 2023 News Feature

To Your Health

Several years ago I stopped eating alfalfa sprouts when there were reports of bacterial contamination. Are there safe sprouts on the market now?

"...A. In the late 1990s the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began to receive a..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

Naked City

Beyond City Limits

"...Giving Iran, Oman, and Iraq yet another run for their money, Texas was..."

Nov. 8, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

When Bad Movies Attack

James Nguyen's underground oddity Birdemic cries fowl

"...1998, he founded Moviehead.com [sic]. In 2001, he produced and directed Julie & Jack – a romantic thriller about..."

July 2, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Naked City

News Shorts

"...of potential terrorist attacks, Ninth Street, between San Jacinto and Trinity Streets, will remain closed indefinitely, says city Traffic..."

Oct. 19, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

About AIDS

CDC Rearranged To Put Anthrax First

"...focused on terrorism lately, it's amazing how many - and how fast - resources can be marshalled when the..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Column by Sandy Bartlett

Nosferatu Festival Celebrates Count Orlok's Centennial

The other Batman comes to town

"...plague-stricken people should not be seen on the streets and cannot be taken to the hospital. They must remain..."

March 4, 2022 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...The St. Louis Cardinal Sins: A former lieutenant of the Plano Police Department said in court..."

Oct. 28, 2022 News Feature

Closing the COVID Gap at AISD

Post-pandemic, not enough students can read well. How do we get out of this ditch?

"...to behave in class. They’re just learning that stuff and they were having to learn Zoom etiquette, too.”..."

March 22, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Advocates Call on City, County to Protect Most Vulnerable During COVID-19 Outbreak

Education, health, housing, justice addressed by list of demands

"...Advocates from a large group of local social justice and advocacy organizations are calling on city and county leaders..."

March 16, 2020 News Post by Mary Tuma

ALLGO's HIV Funding Fight

New state funding systems leave Austin's largest Latino HIV-prevention program in danger of shutdown.

"...With the state's controversial new distribution process for funding HIV/AIDS prevention programs, Latinos and other communities that..."

Oct. 18, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Just Say No!

Rick Perry's approach to sex education has helped Texas boost its teen pregnancy rate

"...During an interview before a live audience in the KLRU studio in 2010,..."

Oct. 28, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Unstable Element

Are Austin's water fluoridation policies dangerous? It depends who you ask.

"...The reduced form of the highly reactive chemical element fluorine – better..."

Nov. 27, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Big Fish,Small Bowl

On View: Texas Commissioner of Education Mike Moses

"...went home without having met with their education tsar, and Moses got blasted in the press. Those students and..."

Feb. 2, 1996 News Feature by Roseana Auten

When Good Food Goes Bad

"...photograph by John Anderson Let's hope you food sanitation neophytes out there already..."

June 4, 1999 Food Feature by Mick Vann

About AIDS

Heterosexual Women's AIDS Cases Continue Serious Increase

"...For several years, we have seen a seriously rising incidence..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Column

About AIDS

"...chance of infection with HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases." WRONG! And yet, this is one of the most..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Column by Sandy Bartlett

About AIDS

Pushing Testing.

"...The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has launched a new prevention..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Column by Sandy Bartlett

About AIDS

Inaccurate Statistics via the News Media.

"...staggering figures reveal that one-third of all black gay and bisexual male Americans under the age of 30 are..."

June 8, 2001 Column by Sandy Bartlett

Safe Sex is No Sex

"...to mend the sterility that preyed upon women longing for children. But as time went on, his attention shifted..."

May 30, 1997 News Feature

Knowledge Is Power as Nursing Homes Combat COVID-19

There’s a lot we don’t know about the pandemics’s toll in care centers, but what we do know is bad

"...The COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. dawned with the tragic story of..."

May 22, 2020 News Feature by Margaret Nicklas

The War on Women's Health

To attack Planned Parenthood, lawmakers undermine health care ... and promote more abortions

"...intended to fulfill the state's commitment to provide family-planning and reproductive health services for thousands of low-income, uninsured women...."

April 22, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

'Can’t We All Just Get Along?'

"...Dear Editor, My good friend Handsome Joel might be alive today if he had been..."

June 27, 2008 Postmarks

Crisis at the Rape Crisis Center

Has Idealism Become the Victim of Financial Reality?

"...Crisis Center (ARCC). He was rewriting a grant request for funding that the agency had recently lost, when Ginger..."

Dec. 20, 1996 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...In 1997, when I turned 18 years old and got my first voter's registration card, my mother told..."

March 8, 2002 Column

Road to Recovery

A private health care consultant has improved efficiency at the county's primary health care clinics. Looming Medicaid cuts protenda new crisis.

"...in a typical workday now than she ever has before as a family practice physician at the Rosewood-Zaragosa health..."

Sept. 15, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Postmarks

Justice Denied

"...Another election has passed and Austin's Hispanic community, once again, comes out the loser...."

June 6, 1997 Column

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