Central Health Faces Questions Over Budget Transparency

Commissioners to vote on the health district's FY 2017 budget on Sept. 20

"...Ahead of adopting its 2017 fiscal year budget, Central Health is fielding questions related to transparency and accountability...."

Sept. 16, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Foundation Communities Pushing to Complete 1,000 Units in 5 Years

Housing nonprofit working on eight new properties throughout town

"...Foundation Communities is making a concerted push to close a..."

May 24, 2022 News Post by Austin Sanders

How Austin Handles Mental Health Emergencies

Police, EMS, and Integral Care work together to serve people in psychiatric crisis

"...someone to the Judge Guy Herman Center for Mental Health Crisis Care, they're greeted in a clean, white, and..."

Dec. 15, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Health Care Equality

Obamacare and the LGBTQ community

"...The closing deadline (Feb. 15) to enroll in a health insurance plan using the HealthCare.gov Marketplace once again looms..."

Jan. 30, 2015 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Under Not So Healthy Texas Skies

Report on Texas health comes up mostly snake eyes

"...Everything's bigger in Texas – except health care, which is puny. That's according to the United..."

Nov. 26, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

On the Lege

Pro-gambling interests try their luck again; and other Lege news

"...a respective 49th and 50th in the 2006 annual health report put out by the nonprofit United Health Foundation...."

March 16, 2007 News Column by Amy Smith

How and Why the City and County Chose to Cancel SXSW

Striking precarious, if unachievable, balance between protecting public health and avoiding economic calamity

"...and Eckhardt were receiving from the panel of local health advisors tasked with tracking the growth of the virus..."

March 13, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Questions of Church-State Separation at Dell Seton Medical Center

Do the hospital’s ties to the Catholic church and limits on women’s reproductive health care compromise Dell Med students' training?

"...the way to a local partnership between Catholic-based Seton Health­care Family and Travis County's Central Health. The two entities..."

Jan. 20, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...City Limits Festival.) As a result, the Austin Parks Foundation received $300,000. The city will use half of that..."

Feb. 23, 2007 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...study done by the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations:..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Column

After Long Labor, an Integral Care Union Is Born

County's largest mental health provider comes to terms with workers

"...After a yearlong campaign, the United Workers of Integral Care succeeded in their effort to..."

June 3, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Happenings

May 17-23

"...PEOPLE UNITED features Megan Headley of The Texas Observer, Laurie Felker..."

May 18, 2007 News Feature

Faster Than Sound: Tameca Jones Is Wide Awake

Soul singer Tameca Jones finds clarity with help from the SIMS Foundation, synchronized punk duo Being Dead baptizes a debut EP, and more

"...by music shutterbugs White Light Exposure to benefit mental health provider the SIMS Foundation – Jones revealed another big..."

April 5, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Qwell Hosts Design Competition for LGBTQ Community Hub

Idea generation has begun for pop-up qmmunity center Austin Outpost

"...home for the third largest LGBTQ community in the United States. And by home, we mean a pop-up, traveling..."

June 27, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Savana Dunning

Res Publica

Voter registration's only the top of the iceberg – here's the rest of your civic agenda for the week, Oct. 2-9

"...TRACK explores alternatives to the TAKS test. 1-4pm. First United Method­ist Church, 1201 Lavaca, 478-5684...."

Oct. 3, 2008 News Feature

Home From Home

Austin opens arms to New Orleans 'guests,' longing to return

"...in Texas, large numbers of Louisiana residents have no health insurance, so a fair number of evacuees arrived in..."

Sept. 9, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Lizzo, Beck Announced as SXSW Keynotes

Festival also adds cyberpunk pioneer Neil Stephenson

"...Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff, Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Vivek Murthy, and United States Secretary of..."

Feb. 15, 2022 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

A DIY Approach to Helping the Unhoused Pays Off at Camp Esperanza

No funding? No resources? No problem.

"...presence – an effective spokesperson for The Other Ones Foundation, the improvisational, DIY nonprofit that has been working alongside..."

July 23, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Judge is, technically, a Senior United States District Judge. A federal judge over 70 years..."

April 19, 2002 Column

SXSW Adds Iron Man, Captain Kirk, New Order to Speaker List

Robert Downey Jr., William Shatner, Deepak Chopra headed to Austin

"...CEO of Dot Dot Dot Media Laurie Segall ● United States Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm ● General..."

Feb. 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Wallet and Spirit

Sickbed Fortune

"...and marketing the beds while he was running Baptist Health System's emergency department in the 1970s. Earlier, he had..."

Jan. 29, 1999 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

Capitol Chronicle

The State Policy Committee Politically Purges the State Employees' Charitable Campaign

"...employees contribute to hundreds of groups represented through the United Way and a half-dozen other fundraising federations -- America's..."

April 13, 2001 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

"...the gap in funding created by the Capital Area United Way's new community investment strategy. Maj. Stephen Ellis said..."

Jan. 4, 2008 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...The SIMS Foundation was established in 1995 with the vision of helping..."

April 5, 2002 Column

Naked City

"...Plant. In giving the site a clean bill of health, the groups expedited Sealholm's ambitious redevelopment, which will begin..."

Jan. 20, 2006 News Feature

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...soothing supporters' wounds and promoting his federal program of health care for children. See "Kerry Visits Purple Austin."..."

April 22, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Public Notice

"Public Notice" is the sassy yet totally sincere public service column of the Austin Chronicle. This week is Part Two of a list of community groups that need YOU! (Part One ran last week.)

"...International Dyslexia Foundation Work to educate folks about dyslexia. 452-7658...."

March 31, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer

Letters at 3AM

No concept lies more firmly embedded in our national character than the notion that the U.S.A. is No. 1,' the greatest.' A number of facts reveal that we can no longer even consider ourselves among the Top 10 nations in the world.

"...• The United States is 49th in the world in literacy (The..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

All Together ATX Fund Will Support Vulnerable Populations Hit by COVID-19

New philanthropic effort bolsters Austin nonprofits

"...There are so many people in need right now,..."

April 3, 2020 Emergency Post by Kimberley Jones

The History of the LGBTQ Movement in Austin

From Stonewall to today, how Pride has progressed in our city

"...orientation. In opposition, ALGPC helped form Citizens for a United Austin. "One of the major lessons we had learned..."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

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