Hard Times in the Land of Plenty

Service nonprofits and their funders face the economic gale

"...It's another busy day at the Capital Area Food Bank of..."

Oct. 23, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Council Recap: COVID Relief Funds Begin to Flow in Austin

Artists and nonprofits at the front of the line for assistance

"...City Council approved a new $1.5 million Austin Artist Disaster Relief Fund..."

May 1, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Council Preview: The City Will RISE Again

$15 million fund proposed to help deliver quick cash relief

"...City Council is set to allocate $15 million from the city’s emergency reserves for direct..."

April 8, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

Council Recap: (A Little More) Help Is On Its Way

Relief to include direct cash aid to struggling Austinites

"...At its meeting Thursday, April 9, City Council approved unanimously..."

April 10, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

City Plans to Spend $270 Million in COVID-19 Relief

Clock is ticking to allocate anticipated federal funding

"...Public health, economic support, and emergency response are the broad priorities..."

May 22, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Ten Key Moments in Austin's Year With the Coronavirus

The Plague Year

"...1) March 6: SXSW Canceled For the first time in 34..."

Dec. 18, 2020 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Public Notice: Which CAMP Are You In?

Privatizers launch new strategy for school board elections

"...In public education today, there are basically two camps. One..."

Sept. 11, 2020 News Column by Nick Barbaro

First Nonprofits Receive RISE Funds

$5.6 million in grants to aid Austinites during COVID crisis

"...The $15 million Relief in a State of Emergency (RISE) fund, created to help..."

April 21, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...RISE Funds 2.0: Austin is offering a second round of..."

Sept. 11, 2020 News Feature

Q&A: Austin’s Coastal Neighbors

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

"...Austin has an established agreement with the city of Galveston..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Will Border Crisis Spur a Special Session?

Perry, Dewhurst, Straus instruct DPS to increase border presence

"...Spurred by an online petition voicing concerns about a recent rise in..."

June 27, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Amid Coronavirus, Labor Advocates Call on State to End Attack on Paid Sick Leave

Abbott fails to account for millions who can’t just “work from home”

"...Despite a declared global pandemic and now-dozens of confirmed cases of..."

March 13, 2020 News Post by Mary Tuma

Hundreds of Thousands Denied Medicaid and Food Assistance in Texas

It's a department of dysfunction, and it isn’t getting better

"...Impoverished Texans, the vast majority of them children, could go hungry..."

Dec. 1, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Medicaid Patients Face a Future Without Planned Parenthood

“I don’t know where I would go”

"...J.D. grew up in Texas foster care and transferred to a group home..."

Feb. 17, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Finding a Way Back Home

Who's looking out for Austin's returning veterans?

"...Whether the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan end tomorrow or continue for..."

Dec. 26, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Graduations Presage AISD's Return to In-Person Learning

As COVID-19 case counts drop and vaccination rates rise, the district looks to the fall

"...The school year is over, and thousands of Austin ISD students celebrated..."

June 11, 2021 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

Point Austin: The Costs of Community

While the Lege shows what not to do, the city has a chance to do better

"...Much of the inherent futility of the now-collapsing legislative special session..."

July 22, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Riding to the End of the Line

Can Cap Metro weather the recession, balance its books ... and run the buses and trains on time?

"..."Charging you more while giving you less" – how's that..."

Sept. 18, 2009 News Feature by Lee Nichols

A Back Door Ban on Abortion?

Senator would regulate clinics as surgical centers

"...To Sen. Robert Deuell, requiring abortion clinics to be ambulatory surgical centers would ensure..."

March 20, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

The Making of an Endorsement

"...Positions..."

Oct. 24, 2008 News Feature

Out of Reach

Living Wage Eludes the Average Austinite

"...illustration by Doug Potter Does anyone remember the last time..."

March 20, 1998 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

Austin Returns to Stage 4 of COVID Risk Guidelines

Amid spike in community transmission, officials urge all to mask up

"...Austin Public Health announced Wednesday morning that Austin and Travis..."

Dec. 29, 2021 News Post by Beth Sullivan

Is the D.A. Hiding Evidence?

Judge Baird wants some answers from an assistant district attorney

"...Did Travis County Assistant District Attorney Stephanie McFarland try to conceal..."

July 24, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

A New Jail for Travis County?

County moves forward with new women's building despite vote to delay and community outcry

"...Lauren Johnson knows what it's like to be booked into..."

Sept. 7, 2018 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader

A Budget Forged in Crisis Looks Toward Long-Term Opportunities

Resilience, rethinking, recovery

"...The community's firm pushback on the public safety status quo, fueled by protest..."

July 24, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Our Bout With Drought: In good news, our historically severe drought conditions seem to..."

Feb. 16, 2024 News Feature

Stage 4 Risk of COVID-19 Shapes Austin's Holiday

No-virus November

"...Just in time for Thanksgiving, Austin Public Health announced last week..."

Nov. 27, 2020 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Pearl Moen: Out of Jail Already?

Your parole hearing hardly means you’re out on parole

"...Pearl Moen is up for parole Nov. 8, and nobody's..."

Oct. 13, 2017 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

East Austin Nonprofit Mired in Controversy CEACO Sinking

"...Ginger Eways, executive director of CEACO, declined to sit for..."

March 5, 1999 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Reefer Madness: Opiate Overdoses on the Rise

Heroin and prescription drugs claiming lives

"...There is little doubt that dying of an opiate overdose is excruciating: The drug..."

Dec. 17, 2010 News Column by Jordan Smith

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