Opinion: Coronavirus Is Exposing the Threat the Texas GOP Poses to Public Health

Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez explains why a government that takes care of its people builds a healthier and safer country

"...Republicans, from the likes of Governor Greg Abbott to Senator John Cornyn. Both have supported slashing funding for public..."

March 27, 2020 Column by Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...speak English to be a voter in the United States." – Congressman John Carter, R-Round Rock, quoted in the..."

June 30, 2006 News Feature

Rundberg Reblend

Groups remake North Austin neighborhood one bridge at a time

"...Before the city pushed north of 183, what's now Rundberg Lane was farming country. Now that farming..."

June 3, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: The Gun Cult ... Again

People keep dying; we keep doing nothing to prevent it

"...go again. Another major gun massacre, another session of national hand-wringing, another backlash from gun fetishists (as inevitably happens..."

Oct. 9, 2015 News Column by Michael King

Faster Than Sound: 12 Years of Peligrosa Drives ¡Eso Es!

Local DJ collective sets a mood at Margin Walker’s new fiesta-val of all Latinx talent

"...Rican family consistently threw dinner-turned-dance parties, always with a Latin soundtrack...."

Aug. 30, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Gridlock Lifts on Lamar Bridge

Councilmembers Demand a Second Look at Alternative Routes

"...illustration by Jason Stout In times of prosperity, the politics..."

Nov. 8, 1996 News Column by Alex de Marban

What Now? What Next?

With clinics already closing, Texas' extreme abortion restrictions head to the courts

"...A day before the Texas Senate debated and ultimately passed House Bill 2, the sweeping..."

July 26, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Day Trips: Ten Ways the Pandemic Affected Daytrippers

"...What a long, strange trip 2020 has been. After a..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Checking In: Conjunto Los Pinkys Readies for the New Normal

“Conjunto has survived [here] for decades and will continue to do so”

"...Bradley Jaye Williams remains a one-man folkloric preservation society in Austin, except he’s more than one Eastsider...."

Aug. 31, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Challenges of Going Back to School

Parents, teachers, and students share their anxieties over starting the fall semester while COVID-19 is still rampant

"...semester, now six months into the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's what they told us. When Teachers Are the Ones Being..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Features Feature

Austin City Council Wants to Help Workers Put Their Health First

Sick? Stay home.

"...The City Council wants a strategy to protect workers who feel they cannot stay home..."

May 22, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Pondering Downtown Condos

Frequently Asked Questions

"...The "O" word irritates all of the developers interviewed, Realtors as well. All..."

March 13, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Our Midwife

An experience with a midwife -- a Chronicle reprint from 1993

"...bellies," he said. "I can't tell anything by doing that."..."

Nov. 14, 2003 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Postmarks

"...to "the CAMPO staff proposal to open up funding that it gets annually from the feds and currently reserves..."

June 20, 2003 Column

Country of Exiles?

Country of Exiles: The Destruction of Place in American Life

"...If, as Gertrude Stein once said about her hometown -- "there is no there there," she quipped --..."

July 9, 1999 Books Review

For Texas Prisoners, COVID-19 Shouldn’t Be a Death Sentence

Criminal justice advocates warn of outbreaks behind bars

"...Criminal justice advocates have warned for weeks that it was only a..."

May 15, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Welcome to Austin's Queer Side

Parties, bars, and so much pride: A guide to LGBTQ Austin

"...Let me tell you right now: Austin is a great place for queers – despite the whole Texas thing...."

Sept. 29, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Not So Red

A "blue state" reporter journeys through the multi-colored regions of the Lone Star State

"...midst of a six-month road trip to politically "red states" – Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama, Montana, and Utah. She..."

July 1, 2005 News Feature by Rose Aguilar

Y Not?

The battle over AMD's move to Lantana is a one-tract skirmish in a larger war over the uncertain future of Central Texas

"...heads northwest, toward Lake Travis. Coming off the sleek, elevated 290/71 freeway that leads southwest from Austin, drivers pass..."

June 24, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Reissues

Los Zafiros

"...it seems, will be kids. So little of the boilerplate tensions accompanying the Cuban missile crisis crept into the..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature

A Vision Shared

Sonya Cohen and Dick Connette Last Forever

"...On the road less traveled, fate and chance walk hand in hand. The path of..."

Aug. 15, 1997 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Rock and a Hard Place

Balancing the Austin Music Ledger

"...gray/ getting ripped off/ underpaid/ getting sold second hand/ that's how it goes playing in a band/ it's a..."

Dec. 1, 1995 Music Feature

The Next Man the State of Texas Plans to Execute Says He Never Killed Anyone

Steven Nelson was convicted for murdering a pastor

"...don’t expect these guys to have friends, family, people that care about them,” Jeff Hood said, talking about Steven..."

Jan. 31, 2025 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Checking In: Worm Suicide Blacks Out

Punks put out a 23-years-in-the-making LP in a pandemic

"...“Blacking Out may be the best distillation of Worm Suicide’s yuks-galore hatecore,” opined Chronicle punk Tim..."

July 15, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Whurley, Physics, and the Strange Work of Quantum Computing in Austin

Is the world ready to take a quantum leap?

"...seemingly ripped from an H.P. Love­craft novel, tasked with creating tools that could remake the world...."

April 19, 2019 Screens Feature by Tom Cheredar

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...Congress Avenue -- slouching, actually; it's a sunshiney spring Saturday morning, and the previous night keeps doubling back on..."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Austin ISD Moves To 100% Remote Learning for the Week Following Thanksgiving

On-campus instruction will resume Dec. 7

"...cases to be identified while students and employees are at home, said Elizalde...."

Nov. 26, 2020 News Post by Beth Sullivan

Believe

Moving Panoramas flicker to life in the aftermath of a home invasion

"...we were neighbors until this summer. It's from her home that she and her boyfriend were kidnapped at gunpoint..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Music Feature by Leslie Sisson

A Walk in Austin's Shoes

Curious tidbits and Austin arcana

"...has its idiosyncrasies, and here in Austin, we're especially attached to ours (to the point of codependency, some might..."

March 19, 2010 News Feature by the News Staff

Page Two: How Your South-by High Can Last Through the Rest of the Year

A veteran festival-goer weighs in

"...around to think about the shallow, misguided, and sad nature of many of the blogs and online posts attacking..."

March 21, 2008 Column by Kevin Smokler

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