Point Austin: Rising to the Defense

Travis County tries to level the courtroom playing field with a public defender's office

"...Tuesday afternoon contemplating a grant proposal to the Texas Indigent Defense Commission that (if approved) would initiate the creation..."

May 10, 2019 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

Lone Star State needs to adopt Illinois reforms, group says

"...In Texas, funding indigent defense, including capital defense, is a constant source of..."

May 20, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Keel changes language to speed up death penalty

"...without any defense experience to be appointed to represent indigent defendants in death cases. (See "Terry's Tantrum," April 1.)..."

May 13, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

The council gives Children's Hospital to Seton before anybody knows what it's worth.

"...largest line item. Everyone who provides health care provides indigent health care. When there aren't enough private providers or..."

June 20, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...If the Indigent Care Work Team (ICWT) has its way, there might..."

Feb. 13, 1998 News Feature

Bad Medicine?

If Austin's Public Clinics Go Private, the Poor Could Suffer

"...currently falls in the "unfunded" category of the medically indigent...."

Nov. 22, 1996 News Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

Free Legal Counsel at Magistration Fizzles Out

County pulls the plug on pilot program thwarted by staffing crises

"...have paid CAPDS attorneys to represent half of the indigent people appearing before judges after being booked into the..."

July 29, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

2019's Big Stories Shaping Austin's Path Into a New Decade

Never a slow news day

"...overall numbers, and send it along to the Texas Indigent Defense Com­mis­sion ... for approval. Presuming the project gets..."

Dec. 20, 2019 News Feature by the News Staff

How the Revenue Cap "Reform" Will Affect Austin and Travis County

Senate Bill 2, explained

"...tax rolls. The final bill includes carve-outs for both indigent health care and indigent defense. The former costs, in..."

June 7, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Justice for All

"...this article that the outcome gap between retained and indigent defense is the result of a defendant’s socioeconomic status...."

May 24, 2019 Postmarks

Sarah Eckhardt's State of the County Address Features Brags and Worries

The state of Travis County is strong, but challenges remain

"...by the Commissioners Court. On the current gridlock over indigent defense – including a public defender's office – she..."

March 15, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Supremes Rule on Lawyers, Sex, and Guns

Court's rulings hit home

"...in three cases that touch on the rights of indigent defendants, the death penalty, and the right to bear..."

July 4, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Keel's Firestorm

A bill that critics charged would have increased the pace of Texas executions dies and takes a judicial pay raise bill down with it

"...legislative pensions, and millions in additional state funding for indigent defense...."

June 10, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Keel-Hauling Death Row Defendants

Austin Rep. wants to fast-track federal appeals, speed up executions

"...state in the nation to fast-track federal appeals for indigent death row defendants – clearing the way for the..."

April 8, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Terry Keel is qualified to comment on the death penalty, and you're not

"...of standards required of attorneys seeking appointment to represent indigent defendants facing the death penalty...."

April 1, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The City, the New Women's Hospital, and UTMB

"...plan to continue providing this type of care to indigent women by creating a separately licensed "hospital within a..."

Nov. 14, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

Forward Into the Past

"...equal treatment under the law -- a coalition of indigent defense advocates gathered at the Capitol March 20 to..."

March 28, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Travis County Aims to Allow Defenders at Bail Hearings

The defunct program has faced a two-year uphill battle

"...officials suspended a program that offered legal representation to indigent defendants at their first bail hearing after arrest, the..."

March 29, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Unionized Nurses Say Ascension Is Cutting Corners in Labor and Delivery

They say hospital chain exploiting market dominance

"...Indigent patients who can’t afford health insurance or to pay..."

March 1, 2024 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Judges Not Ready to Endorse Public Defender Plan

Proposed office's future even more uncertain

"...Lawyers Association pulled its two appointees from the county's Indigent Legal Defense Working Group that's working out the details...."

March 1, 2019 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

A Public Defender's Office in Travis County?

Commissioners to consider concept of split system

"...spring that a "major shift" could be coming to indigent defense...."

Oct. 12, 2018 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Health Care Elephants Battle Over Med School Prop. 1

St. David's formally opposes the proposition to build a med school in Austin

"...Central Health to meet their primary obligation of providing indigent care in Central Texas. ... This is not an..."

Nov. 2, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

The Doctor Is In – Then Out

Physician says she was fired for speaking out against bad management

"...better working conditions – a Norma Rae for the indigent-care set. (She has also been active in supporting a..."

Aug. 19, 2011 News Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

The Topless Tax Sequel, Part III

The Lege's Titty Tax refuses to die

"...a social-service panacea: paying for sexual-assault survivor programs and indigent health care by charging $5 every time someone goes..."

Feb. 20, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Death and the Unpatriotic Act

Among amendments tacked onto newest version of the PATRIOT Act is a section allowing U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to grant legal fast-track for death-penalty appeals in states that have enacted standards for attorney appointments to indigent death row inmates

"...states that have enacted standards for appointing attorneys to indigent death row inmates. The amendment was reportedly crafted in..."

March 24, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The New Texas Family Planning

Slashed budgets and anti-abortion politics undermine women's health care

"...to provide a host of primary care services to indigent clients – before awarding the money to other providers...."

Jan. 27, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Managing Disease – or Money?

State's latest strategy for mental health care looks like rationing

"...they may never reach the waiting list, and the indigent consumers on it. "I think there's a good possibility..."

Nov. 12, 2004 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Against Hospital District

"...County residents is because the vast majority of uncompensated indigent care is incurred by Austin residents and not Travis..."

May 13, 2004 Postmarks

High Tech vs. High Touch

The midwifery debate is not new in Austin -- a Chronicle reprint from June 18, 1993

"...shortage of health providers willing to take care of indigent women and infants. This lack of adequate health care..."

Nov. 14, 2003 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Where Has All The Money Gone?

Most of the city's General Fund is spent on things City Hall doesn't want to cut.

"...up less than 2%, despite a 13% jump in indigent-care costs; HHS cut 40 jobs and several million dollars..."

May 30, 2003 News Feature

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