Health Care Equality

Obamacare and the LGBTQ community

"...plan using the HealthCare.gov Marketplace once again looms over uninsured Americans. For many, navigating the online marketplace is no..."

Jan. 30, 2015 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Amplify Austin 2015: Planned Parenthood Does It All

Another in our series of first-person endorsements to Amplify

"...much do you know about Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas's involvement in the local community?..."

March 4, 2015 News Post by Casey Rochester

Obamacare Lives!

Navigating ACA open enrollment after the Trump-ocalypse

"...this guide to 2018 Health Insurance Marketplace sign-ups in Central Texas, which began Nov. 1 and will run through..."

Nov. 17, 2017 News Feature by Michael Agresta

ACA Deadline Monday: Getting 'Out of the Box'

Advocacy organizations address lack of education

"...As of March 1, out of Texas' population of more than 26 million people – a..."

March 28, 2014 News Feature by Lizzie Jespersen

Obamacare, Take Two

Get ready to get health care

"...enrollment period is a chance for people who are uninsured to buy new plans, as well as a chance..."

Nov. 14, 2014 News Feature by Amy Kamp

Obamacare After the Mandate

Making the most of ACA enrollment for 2019

"...individual mandate to purchase insurance and some limits on insurers' ability to sell bare-bones plans. Both changes have the..."

Nov. 2, 2018 News Feature by Michael Agresta

Obamacare 101

The Affordable Care Act rolls out October 1 – here's your first day's syllabus

"...In Texas, for example – where Gov. Rick Perry has done..."

Sept. 27, 2013 News Feature by Michael King

News Roundup: Endings and Beginnings

Out with the old City Council, in with the new

"...can get free help with your enrollment application at Insure Central Texas, among other places...."

Dec. 15, 2014 News Post by the News Staff

Farmgrass Fest '14

Bluegrass Festival this Sunday at Simmons Family Farms

"...Terry Levan, like most small farmers and ranchers in Texas, could not afford individual health insurance policies...."

April 3, 2014 Food Post by Kate Thornberry

Civics 101

"...Texas Inmate Families Assoc. Meet­ing Get your questions about the..."

Oct. 3, 2014 News Column

Nancy Pelosi Visits the New Seton

Dem leader and Lloyd Doggett lead roundtable on Obamacare

"...law has meant to many people who previously were uninsured and without access to regular medical care, the current..."

April 20, 2017 News Post by Michael King

Season of Risk

What can be done to stop the rising rate of HIV in Austin?

"...1981. Today, the CDC, FDA, and, more locally, the Texas Department of State Health Services recommend PrEP in the..."

May 22, 2015 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Headlines

"...announced on Tuesday the creation of a new program, Insure Central Texas. The service will provide free health insurance..."

Aug. 30, 2013 News Feature

Quote of the Week: Elizabeth Colvin

Open enrollment for the ACA runs through Dec. 15

"...– Elizabeth Colvin, director of Insure Central Texas, encouraging Austinites needing health insurance to enroll..."

Nov. 3, 2017 News Column

“Get Signed Up Now!”

Doggett highlights enrollment deadline for Affordable Care Act

"...Elizabeth Colvin, director of Foundation Communities' Insure Central Texas project, first pointed out that President Donald..."

Jan. 30, 2017 News Post by Michael King

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...club, La Bare, began its liquor-permit process with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, the club is still stagnating in..."

Aug. 25, 2006 News Feature

New Plan Aims to Heal Insurance Ills of Small Biz

Nonprofit launches project to help small businesses provide health coverage

"...crisis. It may be news to some, however, that Texas tops all other states in the nation with our..."

Oct. 17, 2008 News Feature by Diana Welch

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. He was our Texas appellate specialist. He successfully spearheaded appeals in the Texas..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...power to minorities, independents, and conservatives. Single-member districts would insure election of black and Hispanic council members who truly..."

April 25, 2003 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...began some 30 years ago as a way to insure minority representation. Since that time Austin has made tremendous..."

March 15, 2002 Column

Public Notice

Ill Winds

"...aftermath of one of the most devastating storms in Central Texas history. Salvation Army has set up a Tornado..."

June 6, 1997 Column by Kate X Messer

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Sierra Club, Texas Campaign for the Environment, Clean Water Action, and NARAL...."

March 11, 2005 Column

On the Lege: TXU Meltdown

TXU says FU, then backs down

"...utility's prospective investors, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Texas Pacific Group, saw an opportunity to play up TXU's..."

April 13, 2007 News Column by Amy Smith

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Thompson, D-Houston, on a bill that would grant the Texas Education Agency power to regulate "sexually suggestive" cheerleading in..."

May 6, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Public Notice

Volunteer opportunites part two: from the Green Corn Project to the YWCA.

"...Legal Aid of Central Texas Free civil legal advocacy service for low-income Central..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer

Public Notice

Volunteer Some More

"...Legal Aid of Central Texas Free civil legal advocacy service for low-income Central..."

March 26, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer

After a Fashion

Stephen 'courts' the United folks and their roadkill, shares his dishy Internet source bookmarks, and finds out which red and which white go with huntin' and fishin'… monarchs and gossip and bears, oh my!

"...keep my home page on my computer set to www.gossipcentral.com, so whenever I sign on, I have a plethora..."

July 9, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Public Notice

This week, "Public Notice" revels in the unconditional luv that is kids and pets … but mostly kids.

"...° Both CEACO (Central East Austin Community Organization) and AISD's Victory Tutorial Project..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Column by Kate X Messer

Poison Little Pills

"...the most powerful of these suburban groups -- the Central Texas Association of Utility Districts (CTAUD) -- is headed..."

Oct. 31, 1997 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

CNN Obama-Clinton Debate: The full transcript

Word for word, the whole shebang

"...on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008, at the University of Texas at Austin. No, I didn't type it up myself...."

Feb. 21, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

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