An “Awesome First Year” for Austin's Office of Police Oversight

OPO fields more than 800 incoming contacts – comments, complaints, and kudos – in 2019

"...Police Department. Those contacts led to impacts big and small, from reprimands for cops caught smoking in public to..."

Jan. 3, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Travis County to Comply With All ICE Detainers After 5th Circuit Ruling

Panel nixes lower court block on immigrant detention rule

"...5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday (Sept. 25) partially rolled back a ruling that had blocked anti-immigrant Senate..."

Sept. 26, 2017 News Post by Mary Tuma

What's the Fix for Texas' Voter ID Law?

"Time is short" to implement a replacement for discriminatory photo ID requirement

"...Rights Act, and the state must develop new rules before the November election. That was the definitive statement in..."

July 29, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Texas Inmates Strike for Better Conditions

Inmates at seven state prisons have refused to leave their cells

"...inmates have refused to leave their cells in an effort to combat a series of conditions many would consider..."

April 6, 2016 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

All Over Creation: Renewed Faith

On coming back to an appreciation of poetry's remarkable resonance and relevance

"...exactly rank up there with "I was a Communist for the FBI," but I disclose it here as another..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Arts Column by Robert Faires

What's Next for American YouthWorks?

TEA's closing leaves at-risk students adrift

"...August 25 should have been a big day for the 151 high schoolers of American Youth­Works' Service Learning..."

Sept. 12, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Bleak Day at SCOTUS for Women, Unions

Hobby Lobby ruling hits reproductive rights, Illinois wings labor

"...The ever-so-predictable conservative block of Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy,..."

June 30, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Big Hearts for Big Cats

Lion rescue doc screens tonight at Stateside benefit

"...Laws mean little if not enforced, a particularly stark reality in the case of abuse..."

May 25, 2014 Screens Post by Jessi Cape

Court Weighs New Trial For Pitonyak

Gruesome slaying in West Campus revisited by federal jurists

"...Travis County prosecutors have turned over to defense lawyers for Colton Pitonyak evidence that another person claimed responsibility for..."

Aug. 30, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Q&A Hole: What's Your Favorite Book Of All Time? (Part 2)

With Tim Doyle, Amparo Garcia-Crow, Kareem Badr, and more

"...No, we mean: What book has stayed with you,..."

Jan. 14, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Hightower Report: Fruitcake of the Year for 2012

Iowa Supreme Court out-crazies NRA, Santorum, et al.

"...at 2012, who was the nuttiest political fruitcake of all?..."

Jan. 11, 2013 News Column by Jim Hightower

New Direction for New AISD Board?

New members are sworn in Nov. 19

"...in direction will see how much change they can really create...."

Nov. 16, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

All Over Creation: Laugh Lines

A week of unexpected comic relief brought lessons in laugh-making

"...you rather expect shenanigans to shower down in some form. (This paper has been known on more than one..."

April 6, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Top 9 Criminal Justice Stories

"...EASTSIDE SHOOTING In May, Austin Police Officer Leonardo Quintana fatally shot 18-year-old Nathaniel Sanders II in the parking lot..."

Jan. 1, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Legal Battle Over When Prisoner Is Sane Enough for Execution Bounces Back Here

Supremes punt case of death row inmate Scott Panetti to federal district court in Austin

"...strong religious beliefs clearly evidence this fact: He believes forgiveness for his crime is integral to his salvation –..."

Feb. 15, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Sleaze, Camp, and Social Justice

AFS presents On the Border: Films of Rogelio Agras& #225;nchez Sr.

"...of the week, films that provide the most bang for one's buck are the ones that will draw a..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Questions for Tony and Dan

Gubernatorial debate promises much heat, less light

"...and went to work as a highly paid consultant for SBC? Morales replied that the two circumstances were unrelated,..."

March 1, 2002 News Column by Michael King

New Power Structure Could Mean Curtains for KOOP The End is Near

"...response, a large group of programmers and other members formed a group named Friends of KOOP, and began a..."

March 5, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

The New Democratic Fight for the Future in Texas, USA

Documentarian Andrew Morgan on the ground in the 2022 election

"...City Council Member Greg Casar helps to pass protections for workers in city law, only to have the victory..."

Oct. 6, 2023 Screens Feature by Brant Bingamon

APD Has Been Quietly Planning for the City to Run Its Own Bail Hearings for Arrestees

Why? They say for efficiency’s sake

"...While city and county elected officials have been looking for ways early in the booking process to keep people..."

Sept. 28, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

Jonathan Terrell, Too Rock & Roll for Country, Too Country for Rock & Roll

The inward-facing cowboy trims the fat and lets his second solo LP dictate itself

"...Two months earlier, his younger brother Emmanual, a former Marine, had killed himself. Immersed in a Nashville co-writing..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

News Roundup: No Justice, No Peace

Shootings, protests, and politics

"...terrorism, to some of the largest-scale protests since Occupy Wall Street...."

Dec. 1, 2014 News Post by the News Staff

Tears for Texas Women

13 clinics to close if law not blocked

"...any meaningful access to care, Janet Crepps, a lawyer for the Center for Reproductive Rights, argued in federal court..."

Oct. 25, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Reefer Madness: Eye for an Eye, Ounce for an Ounce

Will the Lege downgrade the punishment for pot possession this session?

"...embrace the idea that criminal penalties should be lessened for minor marijuana possession. And it is probably a safe..."

April 24, 2009 News Column by Jordan Smith

Page Two: Living Just Enough for the City

City sound limits and national anti-immigration movements share absolutism and intransigence

"...should earn and not one that it should assume for itself. Since then I've only changed my mind a..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Column by Louis Black

On Leaving Paradise for an Oasis

An Austin foodie falls in love with Marathon and West Texas' other boutique towns

"...Last fall, my husband, Will, and I packed our bags for..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

Top 8 Reasons to Vote for a New Main Library

"...On the Nov. 7 ballot, Proposition 6 provides "$90 million for constructing and equipping..."

Nov. 3, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

The Devil in Us All

Butch Hancock, like Leo Tolstoy and Bob Dylan, takes on this political world

"..."If you still allow yourself to condone all the infamies, all the atrocities,..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Point Austin: Pointed Questions for 2006

When the Lege comes back to school, will they have done their homework?

"...creationism with a college degree) as "part of the effort to teach critical and analytical thinking skills." Along the..."

Jan. 13, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Quality of Life for Blacks in Austin: Going Beyond Midtown

The city's treatment of blacks – both governmentally and culturally – is questioned

"...Fallout from the controversy surrounding the February fire that destroyed..."

April 1, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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