AISD Master Plan Ending

Save Austin Schools calling for board to reject study

"...scheduled to receive the final draft of the controversial Facilities Task Force Master Plan at its board meeting tonight...."

March 28, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Saturdays With the Superintendent

AISD Task Force gets called in after school

"...There was an unexpected gathering of the AISD Facilities Master Plan Task Force at district headquarters yesterday. Even..."

Jan. 23, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Senators Weigh in on Sunsetting TYC

Whitmire backs closing agency, Hinojosa wants more time

"...two out of three kids in Texas Youth Commission facilities go straight back?). That's why the Sunset Advisory Commission..."

Nov. 14, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

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

"...information is available, nursing homes and other long-term care facilities are estimated to account for up to 80% of..."

May 22, 2020 News Feature by Margaret Nicklas

Courting Change

Travis County needs a new civil and family courthouse – and a new way of doing business

"...represents a happy solution for the county's most pressing facilities problem. But, with a twist of internal politics, the..."

May 4, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Nursing-Home Families Want Answers as COVID Comes Back

Still seeking safety as the data remains unclear

"...as long since the federal government began requiring these facilities to report their COVID-19 cases and deaths. Yet clear..."

July 3, 2020 News Feature by Margaret Nicklas

Sounding the Alarm on Texas' Nursing Home System

25% of the state's 1,200 long-term care centers have been cited for serious standard deficiencies

"...the Texas Department of Health and Human Services. (Texas facilities on average incur only three.)..."

Oct. 20, 2017 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Plans in Play

The Big Eight

"...waste, energy, utilities conservation and environmental resources, public buildings, facilities, services, expenditures, recreation and open space, economic development, housing,..."

July 16, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Campfire Horror Story

How Carole Keeton Strayhorn and the state destroyed a healing camp for kids

"...and hand-holding were common – something that in other facilities is discouraged, if not forbidden...."

Nov. 21, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The South Bank

"...to have inspired little else. No significant new arts facilities sprouted in South Austin in its wake, and few..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Debate Over How and Whether to Jail Kids in Austin Is Just Getting Started

Travis County proposes a new facility to hold kids accused of crimes

"...and the ISC. But that doesn’t mean the detention facilities aren’t frightening places for kids, especially those locked up..."

Jan. 26, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Why AISD Wants and Needs a $2.4 Billion Bond Program

Equity is not cheap

"...and that includes investments in nearly 120 campuses and facilities (which is to say, all of them), plus districtwide..."

Oct. 7, 2022 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Meet the AISD Bonds

A thumbnail introduction to the $890 million bond package on the May 11 ballot

"...the meeting, the specific dispute was over the next "Facilities Master Plan" – AISD's periodic blueprint for how best..."

April 12, 2013 News Feature by Michael King

Sara Hensley Turns Over a New Leaf

The new PARD director has big ideas – to realize them, she'll have to raise big bucks

"..."The good news is people love their parks and facilities in Austin," said Hensley recently. "And the bad news..."

July 24, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Advocates Overwhelmingly Oppose Expanding Juvenile Jail Campus

They say services shouldn’t be tied to incarceration

"...Juvenile Probation presented their proposal, known as the Comprehensive Facilities Plan, at a Commissioners Court meeting on June 27...."

July 5, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Fighting Family Detention

On June 1, a judge will consider whether to allow detention centers to be licensed as child-care facilities

"...Protective Services approved licensing family detention centers as child-care facilities, allowing them to remain open in the face of..."

May 27, 2016 News Feature by Dina Samir Shehata

Keeping Busy

Armendariz moves from the EPA to the Sierra Club, still defending the environment

"...greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles, power plants, other industrial facilities. And it's long overdue, but it's a fantastic step..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Election Info

Dates, voting locations, and ballots

"...reconstructing roads and streets; constructing, reconstructing, and improving drainage facilities related to the roads and streets; constructing, reconstructing, and..."

Oct. 20, 2006 News Feature

The Greening of George W. Bush

An industry pollution control program started backed by Gov. George W. Bush has cleaned less than 3% of the industrial toxic emissions it aimed to clean up.

"...still working on its study. Pollution from the grandfathered facilities accounts for roughly 30% of the total air pollution..."

Oct. 27, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose

As Nursing Homes Reopen to Visitors, Will They Stay Safe?

Caring, with caution

"...new guidance. Nationally, indoor visits are now allowed at facilities without recent COVID-19 cases and in counties where the..."

Nov. 20, 2020 News Feature by Margaret Nicklas

Child Care Center or Baby Jail?

State allows family detention centers to skirt the rules and become child care centers

"...month approved licensing family detention centers as child care facilities...."

March 18, 2016 News Feature by Dina Samir Shehata

What Now? What Next?

With clinics already closing, Texas' extreme abortion restrictions head to the courts

"...state – even potentially some of the six abortion facilities currently licensed as ASCs, she says...."

July 26, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

AISD: Matching Buildings to Kids, or Vice Versa?

AISD aims to resolve under- and overcrowding issues with its facilities master plan

"...time, Austin Independent School District is working on a facilities master plan, intended to take stock of both the..."

Sept. 24, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Could City Living Save the Texas Youth Commission?

"...most of what happened is because of where the facilities are," said Whitmire, who chairs the Senate Criminal Justice..."

April 11, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

TYC: Will the Lege Drain the Gulag?

State government starts long, protracted, and expensive era of oversight, litigation, and structural changes to discredited agency

"...changes planned. According to Hinojosa, "We have too many facilities that are isolated and not well run. We want..."

May 11, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Greenbacks for Green Space

City moves to make development pay more for parks

"...chronically short on funds to improve the parks and facilities that the city already owns, and it struggles to..."

May 4, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Cash Cows

The Huddled Masses

"...system came on line in the 1990s, many local facilities depended on renting space to the state. And jails..."

Dec. 18, 1998 News Feature by Lisa Tozzi

Downtown Austin Is Getting a Fresh Coat of Museums

"...high-profile exhibitions at a number of the city's art facilities. At last, the seeds that were planted over 15..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

The Outsiders

Outsourcing Bond Work Is Expensive; Is It Necessary?

"...so that all children get the same level of facilities...."

Oct. 10, 1997 News Feature by Roseana Auten

Postmarks

Run, Max, Run

"..."Schools in Session" is the financing of public school facilities in Texas. This is one aspect of the school..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Column

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