Women's Health: 'Everybody Loses'

Lege anti-abortion crusade will devastate basic health care

"...April, a move that advocates believe will shutter dozens of small clinics – and leave 200,000 women without access..."

June 3, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

WDP, Labor Department Form Partnership for Workers

New alliance aims to improve working conditions in Texas

"...15, the Workers Defense Project and the U.S. Depart­ment of Labor announced a "strategic alliance" intended to reinforce efforts..."

July 30, 2010 News Feature by Michael King

'The Powerful Odor of Mendacity'

An interview with Molly Ivins and Louis Dubose, authors of Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America.

"...Last month Molly Ivins, the queen of Austin political columnists, and former Austin Chronicle Politics Editor..."

Oct. 3, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

The Spirit of 76th

The Presidential Card

"...Predictably, the governor's all-but-official presidential run cast a long shadow over the Capitol,..."

June 18, 1999 News Column by Erica C. Barnett

Mental Health Diversion Pilot to Begin by August

24 / 7 care instead of jail time

"...Travis County’s mental health diversion pilot – aimed at providing psychiatric care instead..."

June 14, 2024 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Day Trips & Beyond: Out of Town Closures Due to COVID-19

Here are the latest updates

"...travel is not advised. Here is a partial list of travel activities affected by the pandemic announced in the..."

March 24, 2020 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

State Health Care Numbers Plunge Again

Clients served drops 77%

"...According to documents from the Department of State Health Services filed with the State Health..."

Nov. 29, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Funding Travesty Cripples Health Clinics

The state severs its ties with Planned Parenthood

"...After nearly 40 years of partnership, the state has cut its ties to Planned..."

Sept. 9, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...feels like blow after blow, this is – sort of – good news. Texas already has the most extreme..."

May 30, 2025 News Feature

Trapped and the War on Women's Health Care

Doc highlights impact of anti-choice laws in the South

"...nothing I could do to save her,” Marva Sadler of Whole Woman’s Health Center in Ft. Worth says with..."

March 11, 2016 SXSW Post by Mary Tuma

Public Notice: A Tale of Two PUDs

It's not too soon to aim for green space

"...It's a good thing City Council got some time off in July, because they're really putting in overtime this..."

Aug. 28, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Reproductive Health Care: Same Story, New Target

Fallout from the 84th Texas legislative session

"...had anything left to destroy after eviscerating both women's health care funding and abortion access over the past two..."

June 5, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Bill of the Week: HB 2470

Lawmakers try to regulate ammonium nitrate storage

"...explosion? When a poorly documented and unsafely stored supply of fertilizer ammonium nitrate exploded on April 17, 2013, the..."

April 24, 2015 News Column by Richard Whittaker

New Assaults in War on Women's Health Care

New rule places stranglehold on Planned Parenthood

"...On Thursday, June 9, members of the state Health and Human Services Commis­sion's Medical Care..."

June 17, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

More Tragedy in West Texas

While the Legislature starts to tackle the systemic problems at TYC, critical failings at the Department of Aging and Disability Services are new being exposed.

"...words “this is nothing like what happened at the Texas Youth Commission,” Lege watchers should strap in for tragedy...."

April 2, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...two-week trial over the “Trump Train” convoy in Central Texas that surrounded a Joe Biden-Kamala Harris bus on I-35..."

Sept. 27, 2024 News Feature

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...County jury deadlocked last year over whether Austin police officer Christopher Taylor’s killing of Michael Ramos constituted murder, prosecutors..."

June 28, 2024 News Feature

Austin on Forefront of Addressing Excessive Force Used by Police During Protests

Shock and awe at mass indictment in Black Lives Matter protest shootings

"...issued by a grand jury against 19 Austin police officers, each charged with two counts of aggravated assault with..."

Feb. 25, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Making Cents of the Money: On Friday, July 9, City Manager Spencer..."

July 9, 2021 News Feature

A Primer on the Texas Guidelines for Film Production in a Pandemic

The ABCs of lockdown filmmaking

"...Governor's Office: When the state extended the list of businesses to..."

July 3, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Down and Out in Texas

New data puts Texas among states with highest poverty rates

"...This from the pages of "Tell us something we didn't already know": Poverty rates..."

Sept. 24, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

State Health Care Agency Urging 55-Hour Christmas-Themed Work Weeks

The request is an effort to address Medicaid and SNAP backlogs

"...by an asterisk. Corrections are detailed at the bottom of the story...."

Dec. 8, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Border Town Abortion: Whole Woman's Health, the largest abortion provider in Texas, shuttered its four..."

July 8, 2022 News Feature

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 County have..."

Dec. 29, 2021 News Post by Beth Sullivan

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...COVID-Cautious Christmas (Again): Austin Public Health updated the staging threshold of its COVID-19 Risk-Based Guidelines..."

Dec. 24, 2021 News Feature

Deep Divisions in Texas' Powerful Anti-Choice Movement

Battle reflects Lege’s growing extremism

"...When the state health department debated its latest abortion restriction – a law..."

April 6, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Eckhardt: The State of the County Is ...

Thursday address slams Lege, props up local entities

"...Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt’s State of the County address last Thursday evening may well have..."

Feb. 12, 2018 News Post by Austin Sanders

Texas House Advances Anti-Choice Package Bill

SB 8 bans safest type of second trimester abortion

"...Disregarding constitutional concerns and exceptions for survivors of sexual assault, the Texas House tentatively passed a package..."

May 19, 2017 News Post by Mary Tuma

Senate Budget Lesser of Two Evils

Reps from both chambers commence to thrash out final numbers

"...The 82nd session of the Texas Legislature will end as it began: with..."

May 13, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Ken Paxton v. Texas House of Representatives: Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a..."

May 26, 2023 News Feature

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