Fearing State Takeover, Austin ISD Plans to Replace Middle School Teachers

New staff planned for three poor-performance schools

"...we still have jobs – the people with three-year contracts, do we still have jobs here or at another..."

May 16, 2025 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

City Council Contemplates $100 Million Homeless Spending Plan

About half would be to maintain current levels of service

"...300-bed Marshalling Yard Emergency Shelter and $2 million for contracts with organizations that run street outreach initiatives). It would..."

May 2, 2025 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Is Austin’s New Arts Umbrella Organization Just in Time or Too Little, Too Late?

After two decades of treating culture and creativity as an afterthought, the city of Austin finally has a real arts department

"...the Art in Public Places program and the Cultural Contracts Program – a functional precursor to the current grants..."

April 25, 2025 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

The City Budget Deficit Is Finally Here

Rising costs, declining revenues to blame

"...medics and firefighters will also begin negotiating new labor contracts with the city soon, and while they are unlikely..."

April 18, 2025 News Feature by Austin Sanders

DOGEing the Texas Education Agency

Conservatives back Dem bill to shrink agency overseeing schools

"...through the nonsense and the bureaucracy and the vendor contracts, and reprioritize that money to what matters – teacher..."

March 28, 2025 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Texas DOGE Committee Looks to Form $88M State Cybersecurity Agency

Cyber Command would dramatically expand spending on cybersecurity

"...of that money (about $190 million) would go toward contracts to private companies, the Legislative Budget Board found. UT..."

March 28, 2025 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

MAGA Moms and the Republican Resistance to School Vouchers

Make education public again

"...local school officials, to decide which companies get the contracts. They fear they will go to businesses connected to..."

March 21, 2025 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Open Letter to John & Ted

"...name of "efficiency" while himself benefiting from huge government contracts and subsidies. That is corruption, not efficiency. If DOGE..."

Feb. 16, 2025 Postmarks

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Musk’s unconstitutional “Department of Government Efficiency” had terminated 89 contracts and 29 grants at the Education Department that it..."

Feb. 14, 2025 News Feature

Opinion: Fighting for Diversity in the Face of New Challenges

A doctoral student and NIH-funded scholar addresses the devastating implications of Trump’s recent executive order to dismantle DEI initiatives

"...affects Chief Diversity Officer positions, equity-related plans, grants, and contracts within the Department of Health and Human Services, including..."

Feb. 7, 2025 Column by Obi Onyegesi

Point Austin: Death March of the Barbarians

The emperor has no clothes, no wisdom, and no moral center

"...(Those do not include, of course, the enormous federal contracts and subsidies to his own companies.)..."

Feb. 3, 2025 News Post by Michael King

AISD Is Finding More and More Ways to Cut Expenses in Budget Crunch

All the cuts, all the time

"...• Eliminating and rewriting special education contracts. The district has a variety of contracts with third..."

Jan. 10, 2025 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Seeing Downtown Through the Eyes of Austin’s Caretakers

An afternoon with Austin’s ambassadors

"...become a staple of Downtown Austin. The DAA, which contracts with a company called Block by Block for the..."

Dec. 27, 2024 News Feature by Benton Graham

Austin Public Schools May Need to Consolidate. Trustees Aren’t All Ready to Talk About It.

Candid ruminations on the possibility of school closures in AISD

"...routes; eliminating the district’s many portable buildings; and re-negotiating contracts for special education services, among others...."

Dec. 27, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...up, Tribune reporters: Find out which builders got the contracts and if they kicked anything back to Abbott...."

Dec. 27, 2024 News Feature

The 10 Biggest Austin News Stories of 2024

A year of upheaval and settling dust

"...and services, will it have been worth it? Shady Contracts Confirmed as Quite Shady..."

Dec. 13, 2024 News Feature by the News Team

Auditors Find Interim City Manager Mishandled Money With Lucrative City Contracts for Friends

$550,000 in city funds went to consultants with no Council approval

"...Garza violated city ethics rules when he awarded lucrative contracts to two consultants – one a longtime Garza deputy..."

Nov. 15, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders

The Verde Report: An Offseason of Change

Austin FC ends season with a win, and with the hunt for a new head coach at the top of the to-do list

"...on things. The club this week already announced new contracts for wingers Jáder Obrian and Owen Wolff. Obrian, the..."

Oct. 25, 2024 Sports Column by Eric Goodman

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...the narrative, with Border911 players securing lucrative border security contracts for themselves or the companies that employ them. This..."

Oct. 25, 2024 News Feature

Police Oversight Advocates Sue to Stop Council Vote on Police Contract

Equity Action says new contract violates Oversight Act

"...the Oversight Act, which includes a clause requiring police contracts to comply with all portions of the local ordinance...."

Oct. 23, 2024 News Post by Austin Sanders

Possible Police Contract Attacked on Two Fronts

Oversight advocates and city workers say it’ll be costly and weaken police transparency

"...But APA President Michael Bullock disagrees, telling the Statesman..."

Oct. 4, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders

It’s Time for Austin FC to Leave Its Past, and Its Coach, Behind

It’s just not working with Josh Wolff anymore

"...its way out of problems before, buying out the contracts of ineffective players like Emiliano Rigoni and Amro Tarek...."

Sept. 27, 2024 Sports Column by Eric Goodman

Casar Introduces Act to Help Fossil Fuel Workers Transition to Clean Energy Jobs

Bill proposes training, supplementary wages, priority hiring

"...wages,” explains Casar. The hope is that “eventually union contracts guarantee those wages and better. My goal would be..."

Sept. 17, 2024 News Post by Lina Fisher

Money City Could Spend on Community Programs Likely Going to Police Raises

Council set to adopt next year’s budget on Wednesday

"...pay for Fire Department and EMS wages, but their contracts are already negotiated. The police department’s to-be-determined wage package..."

Aug. 13, 2024 News Post by Austin Sanders

Fortune and Glory: How The Spiel Celebrates Steven Spielberg

Eric Vespe discusses new podcast, life after Scott Wampler

"...prepping for South by Southwest and the freelance reporting contracts that came with it. Then the conference was cancelled..."

July 29, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Workers Unionize at Game Studio Blizzard

Diablo team gain recognition in win for gaming workers

"...going back decades, with many game designers on short-term contracts and crunch (when staff and freelancers are worked to..."

July 29, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Why Venues Are Struggling to Stay Open in the Live Music Capital of the World

As Hot Summer Nights descends, Austin’s live music epicenter campaigns for city support

"...to award $85,000 to $150,000 per year, in two-year contracts, to local arts nonprofit organizations. That may be a..."

July 12, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

How to Adult: Advice for New Grads, and Anyone Else Still Trying to Figure This Thing Out

100 things we know now that we wished we knew then

"...making. 86) Read gym membership cancellation details (and all contracts) carefully. 87) Wear sunscreen on your face (and your..."

May 10, 2024 Features Feature by the Editorial Staff

Suburbanites Opt to Leave Austin, While Voters Keep Austin Blue in Weekend Election

Turnout was about 6% for the historic election

"...TCAD is the district that contracts with taxing entities throughout Travis County to appraise residential..."

May 10, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Remembering the Reasons for the Protests

Students call for UT to divest from weapons manufacturers

"...way that “advance[s] social or political purposes.” UTIMCO also contracts out much of its asset management. And there lies..."

May 3, 2024 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

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