Take Two Aspirin and Ping Me in the Morning

Heath care: an oral future

"...and readying a crucial block of President Obama's Affordable Care Act...."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Sounds of Survival: SIMS Marks Three Decades of Supporting Music Professionals

Austin music community celebrates community of care

"...“Ritchie” Wall, told him to call SIMS. After receiving care himself, Amato now serves as SIMS’ community engagement coordinator,..."

May 23, 2025 Music Feature by Caroline Drew

Layoffs at County’s Largest Mental Health Provider Approved by Board of Trustees

Nurse describes “sloppy and dysfunctional” leadership

"...The Integral Care Board of Trustees voted unanimously, Aug. 31, to adopt..."

Sept. 1, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

Austin Energy's Quest to Bring Solar Power to Renters and the Less Wealthy

What can new incentive programs and community solar projects do for the city's most abundant energy source?

"...captured from commercial solar roofs, utility-scale solar facilities, and community solar projects – systems located on public land that..."

Nov. 24, 2017 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Get Out the Bootstraps

Cause Texas Ain't Takin' Care of You No More

"...waiting to receive Medicaid benefits for the kids' health care, she was inspired to come back and share her..."

June 13, 1997 News Feature by Audrey Duff

For Escuelita del Alma, History Prepares to Repeat Itself

Preschool and child care center on the move again?

"...The preschool and child care center Escuelita del Alma has been through a lot...."

July 1, 2022 News Feature by Abe Asher

A Medication-Assisted Therapy to Treat Opioid Abuse

Sponsors unveil new partnership at CommUnityCare clinic

"...parts of the country," says Dr. Nick Yagoda of CommUnityCare, Austin's largest safety-net health provider. "But just from our..."

Aug. 31, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin Homeless Service Organizations That Need Your Help Now

Donate money and materials

"...the new coronavirus spreads through Austin, many in our community are struggling to cope with forced isolation and social..."

March 19, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

Legislative Attack on Eastside Planned Parenthood Closer to Finish Line

House-approved SB 22 jeopardizes basic preventive community care

"...Parenthood on East Seventh Street and Chicon, a vital community resource for more than four decades...."

May 18, 2019 News Post by Mary Tuma

Central Health Lays Out Its FY 2019 Budget

For your health

"...in Travis County are unfamiliar with their voter-created health care district. But if you're a property owner, you may..."

Aug. 17, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Built by Women, for Women

Women's community center provides resources, meeting space

"...group of locals stepped in and formed the Women's Community Center of Central Texas. "Austin is generally perceived to..."

July 24, 2015 News Feature by Jessi Cape

Defund Planned Parenthood ... Jeopardize Lives

Lege contemplates cutting funding for cancer screenings

"...is seeking to strip BCCS funding from the health care provider. The proposed Senate budget establishes a new tiered-system..."

Feb. 13, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Beats Nothing

Women's health gets funding bump

"...provide women's health services under an expanded primary health care program, funded over the biennium with $100 million in..."

Feb. 21, 2014 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Planned Parenthood Slashed Again

While patients lose health care, the state dumps money on unprepared clinics

"...from the Department of State Health Services allotting the health-care organization's funding for this fiscal year. The funding, administered..."

Oct. 6, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Pain and Suffering for Hospital District

City, county spar about money and power over new health care system

"...city's transfer two years ago of $33 million in health-care funding to a new General Fund reserve. The matter..."

Aug. 13, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

Unhealthy Health Care

"...Whenever David Hilgers talks to community groups about the need for a health care district,..."

March 28, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Austin @ Large: Bulletproofing Betty

Despite being a council freshman, Betty Dunkerley has already taken the lead on health care.

"...went further, calling on the city to build an urgent-care clinic at Brackenridge to take the heat off the..."

Aug. 30, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin Mutual Aid Organizations Share Resources During COVID-19 and Beyond

Looking for solidarity, not charity

"...that provide aid at encampments across Austin, including Primrose Community Care, Austin Food Not Bombs, Stop the Sweeps, and..."

Aug. 21, 2020 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Playback: Patio Smoking Ban in Flames

The Central Health Equity Policy Council's efforts to ban smoking on smoking patios meets with community resistance

"...ordinance that prohibited smoking indoors would be of added community benefit or simply prove culturally destructive...."

Aug. 19, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

New Health Clinic Opens to Serve Travis County's "Eastern Crescent"

CommUnityCare brings care closer to thousands at Hornsby Bend site

"...969, next to Hornsby Bend's fire and EMS station, CommUnityCare and Central Health celebrated on Saturday, March 7, the..."

March 9, 2020 News Post by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin City Council Proclaims Oct. 26 Intersex Awareness Day

Activist Alicia Roth Weigel discusses intersex rights, says I eXYst

"...Yesterday, on October 17, 2019 – for the first..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Alicia Roth Weigel

Coffee With a Conscience

Local roasters give consumers a taste of culture and community

"...cutting through the fog, it can be difficult to care if your coffee is transparently sourced or farmers have..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Food Feature by Jessi Devenyns

Central Health Gets “Clean” Audit of Med School Funding

Auditors found Dell Med’s spending to be in accordance with Affiliation Agreement with Central Health

"...Dell Medical School at UT-Austin included in the 2017 "Community Benefit Report" summarizing Dell Med's spending of the annual..."

Sept. 1, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Thinking thinkEAST

How Fusebox has engaged stakeholders in the planning process

"...like this, how has the arts organization engaged the community in designing the development called thinkEAST?..."

April 3, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Ballad of Little Jo

"...out of wedlock. Leaving her child in her sister's care, Josephine heads West to find her future. Quickly she..."

Nov. 5, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Opinion: License Plate Readers Make Us All Less Safe

Austin’s pilot program is ineffective at solving crimes, endangers vulnerable community members, and represents an expansion of police surveillance power under rising authoritarianism

"...I confront daily the struggle for safe reproductive health care access. In a state that has outlawed abortion, countless..."

June 6, 2025 Column by Anna Rupani

Austin’s End-of-Life Doulas

A growing community looks to redefine palliative care

"...so many people who were alone, sick, not being cared for. I always felt like I was leaving the..."

Oct. 11, 2024 Features Feature by Lina Fisher

Debunking Five Anti-Choice Lies This Session

No wonder why repro rights groups are using the mantra “Lies Into Laws”

"...opportunity to restrict your constitutionally protected right to abortion care. Lawmakers are doubling down on outright lies and misinformation..."

April 24, 2019 News Post by Mary Tuma

Austin Struggles to Adjust as SB 4 Takes Its Toll on Immigrants

"We are not safer as a community when victims are running away from us rather than coming to us."

"...Alberto Contreras Ramos' older brother took him under his care. But when his brother was murdered after an altercation..."

April 5, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

One Big Gay Happy Family?

QueerBomb and Austin Pride meet for a roundtable

"...of one big gay happy family for Austin's LGBTQ community? Members from both organizations seem optimistic. But truly, only..."

June 3, 2011 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

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