Consider 'The Source': Crisis Pregnancy Center Transforms Into Women's Health Program Provider

If Planned Parenthood's out, are CPCs in?

"...As the state rolls out its revised Texas Women's Health Program, a central question remains: how to find enough..."

Sept. 21, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Can TABC Really Lift a Restaurant’s License Over COVID Rules? It’s Complicated.

The experts weigh in on the challenges for both sides

"...at all – went into effect immediately, as an emergency measure, and not on Sept. 1 as is standard..."

Aug. 18, 2021 News Post by Jessi Cape

Austin City Council Wants to Help Workers Put Their Health First

Sick? Stay home.

"...such employees in the workplace, the city doesn't have authority to enforce such rules. Instead, the resolution tasks city..."

May 22, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin Commits to Local Mask Requirement Amid State Rollback on COVID Restrictions

City will enforce masks, public health measures under local health authority emergency rules expiring in April

"...city is enforcing masking and other mandates in local Health Authority Emergency Rules adopted by Interim Health Authority Dr...."

March 12, 2021 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Travis County District Judge Upholds Austin’s Mask Rule

Face masks required until at least April 15; state expected to appeal

"...Paxton’s petition for a temporary injunction against Austin’s public health rules requiring face masks be worn to reduce the..."

March 26, 2021 News Post by Beth Sullivan

Austin Drops to Stage 3 COVID-19 Risk Guidelines

Masks, social distancing still critical, urge health officials

"...Today Austin Public Health announced the city and county have dropped back down..."

March 13, 2021 News Post by Beth Sullivan

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...dropped back down to Stage 3 of Austin Public Health's COVID-19 Risk-Based Guidelines, as of March 13 (exactly one..."

March 19, 2021 News Feature

Judge Declines Paxton's Push To Rip Austin's Masks Off ASAP

AG's latest COVID lawsuit set for trial in two weeks

"...Austin and Travis County to abandon their COVID-19 public health protocols has been set for a March 26 trial,..."

March 12, 2021 News Post by Mike Clark-Madison

WilCo Court Fight

Suit claims commissioners gutted constable's budget after it had already been adopted, in order to transfer mental-health duties from constable's precinct to sheriff's office

"...it had already been adopted, in order to transfer mental-health duties from Griffin's Precinct 1 to the Williamson Co...."

July 14, 2006 News Feature by Patricia J. Ruland

With Community Spread, Austin Enters "Critical Stage" of COVID-19 Pandemic

Keep your distance, take your temperature, more tests coming

"...spreading in the community on its own. Austin Interim Health Authority Dr. Mark Escott told reporters at today's (March..."

March 20, 2020 News Post by Mike Clark-Madison

As Abbott Blows Off COVID, Austin Just Wants to Stay Alive

The unmasking commences and the governor goes after his own constituents yet again

"...grocer's nearly 100,000 Texas employees to demand compliance with rules that too many people, in an open-carry state, consider..."

March 19, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

On the COVID-19 Front Lines, Providers Feel Exposed

Seeking protection

"...For health care workers in Cen­tral Texas, a very different reality..."

April 3, 2020 News Feature by Margaret Nicklas

City, County Extend COVID-19 Orders for the Long Haul

Mask mandate, ban on gatherings through December 15

"...order also extends a local disaster declaration and public health emergency for Travis County; as the order notes, Austin..."

Aug. 21, 2020 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Delta-8 v. Texas: The Court Challenges Begin

State's sudden Delta-8 ban faces legal challenges

"...The Texas Department of State Health Services' surprise announcement that the popular Delta-8 cannabis products..."

Oct. 29, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Nursing-Home Families Want Answers as COVID Comes Back

Still seeking safety as the data remains unclear

"...On June 24, Austin Interim Health Authority Dr. Mark Escott shared with media the bad..."

July 3, 2020 News Feature by Margaret Nicklas

We Have an Issue: Babies on the Brain

In this week's cover story, new dads Kevin Curtin and Black Angels frontman Alex Maas talk about creativity and fatherhood

"...the transmission of this disease, and our hospitals, our health care workers, are at the very brink of being..."

Jan. 1, 2021 Column by Kimberley Jones

Keeping Busy

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

"...and in several of the states, we had large emergency responses like the BP oil spill in 2010 as..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

The Short Unhappy Life of Sophia King

The APD shooting death of Sophia King was a tragedy waiting to happen.

"...frequent flyer in both the criminal justice and mental health systems, predator and prey, she was just 23 years..."

Aug. 2, 2002 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Q&A: Austin’s Coastal Neighbors

How Galveston looks to its past to prepare for its future – and what that means for Austin

"...evacuees by bus during times of crisis, thus the emergency management decisions and plans of both municipalities are intrinsically..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Dr. Robert Van Boven, the Whistleblower

Lakeway neurologist battles hospitals, officials, and the "culture of silence"

"...Turner's wife drove him to the emergency room of the Lakeway Regional Medical Center (near Highway..."

April 20, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

Something Short of Miraculous

Months in the making, the city's plan to maintain reproductive services at Brack still raises questions.

"...opposed the city's contract with the Catholic nonprofit Seton Healthcare Network, which has managed Austin's main public health-care facility..."

Jan. 11, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

High and Dry

LCRA Approves Controversial Pipeline to Dripping Springs

"...The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) continues to proclaim that it is fulfilling its..."

June 2, 2000 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Nature's Water Clinic

Drought Has San Antonio Over a Pump

"...Brackettville in Kinney County, is a risk to the health and safety of the entire region. And because the..."

July 26, 1996 News Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

Environmental Cage Match

After a history of pulling its punches, is EPA finally forcing TCEQ to clean up the Texas air?

"...organize and take action to protect themselves from the unhealthy air pollutants that a new TCEQ coal-plant permit will..."

May 28, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

All but Illegal

As the final provisions of HB 2 loom, Texas abortion clinics brace for closure

"...didn't care about the truth; didn't care about our health; didn't care if we lived or died – it..."

July 25, 2014 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...by which provide the most energy-efficient, least polluting, and healthy spaces in which to live. Specifically cited were Austin's..."

April 21, 2006 News Feature

Are City Employee Pensions at Risk?

Pension systems in Dallas and Houston have been beat up by bad spending.

"...which seeks a new system to give "equal governing authority" to taxpayers and system beneficiaries. In January, Dallas' City..."

Feb. 24, 2017 News Feature by Margaret Nicklas

Show Them the Need

The great GOP wave breaks on the realities of the actual cost of government

"...of scheduling doom were sown when Perry set his emergency items, a shopping list of conservative red meat: first..."

June 10, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Rodeo 80

The 2007 Legislature in a quick-step roundup

"...means, for example, 100,000 fewer children covered by Children's Health Insurance Program and 7,000 fewer college students eligible for..."

June 8, 2007 News Column

Naked City

"...water treatment plant by the City of Austin Water Authority Tuesday, amid angry opposition, at a meeting of the..."

April 14, 2006 News Feature

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