Animal Shelter Move Howls Again Wednesday

The debate comes to Council chambers.

"...press release reminding everyone that this Wednesday, City Council's Health and Human Services subcommittee will meet in city hall..."

Aug. 6, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

We Don't Need No Stinkin' De-Icer

City trumpets response to the great storm of aught-7

"...from the city trumpets their response to the storm and all its subsequent mayhem. Here's some highlights: "City of..."

Jan. 19, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Wack-Ass Keroack, Part Three

"...- an array including Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the National Organization for Women, along with the Union..."

Nov. 22, 2006 News Post by Jordan Smith

Are Women Being Served?

Preliminary numbers say Texas WHP is doing fine

"...Preliminary numbers from Texas' Health and Human Services Commission show that claims made in..."

March 19, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Hand-to-Mouthville

Health and Legal Services for Musicians

"...Jason Stout On the Saturday of Labor Day Weekend Mandy Mercier collapsed. "I was on my way to Kerrville..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Carona Moves "Life" to New Committee

Not enough votes to move the "Choose Life" vanity plate out of Senate Transportation Committee

"...plate bill (Senate Bill 1098) from the Senate Transportation and Homeland Security Committee on April 8 out of "respect"..."

April 10, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

Title X Money in the Right Hands

Women's Health and Family Planning Association of Texas sole statewide grantee

"...including 6,000 Austinites – access preventive care, cancer screenings, and contraception across 100 clinics. After the state mismanaged the..."

Aug. 10, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Point Austin: The Budget Wrangle Resumes

City Council attempts to spend more, cost less, and ... sustain services

"...the Tuesday work session, Wednesday's all-day budget work session, and Thursday's (Aug. 4) regular agenda, the first of several..."

Aug. 5, 2016 News Column by Michael King

Texas Dems Want Stronger Immigrant Detention Oversight

More than 5,000 immigrant children in detention centers

"...putting in time with immigration experts, youth facility operators, health and child welfare advocates, and state agency officials...."

July 31, 2018 News Post by Mary Tuma

House Approves Abortion Restrictions for Minors

House gives first OK to bill restricting judicial bypass

"...for a Monday morning public hearing at the Senate Health and Human Services Committee...."

May 14, 2015 News Post by Mary Tuma

Follow the Money

City attempts to keep up with growing need for services

"...a concerted effort to convince them to increase social services funding. Two of the most prominent were coalitions One..."

Oct. 23, 2015 News Feature by Amy Kamp

From 'Abstinence-Only' to Plan Z

Reproductive health care for young Texas women is limited, costly ... or nonexistent

"...family. The now 21-year-old's mother was the family's breadwinner, and that money had to stretch to support Tiffany and..."

Oct. 11, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The New Texas Family Planning

Slashed budgets and anti-abortion politics undermine women's health care

"...East Seventh Street clinic, which has offered family planning and reproductive health services to low-income and uninsured women since..."

Jan. 27, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Who's Minding the Clinics?

City/County Divided on Public Health

"...Milwee examines client Maria Miles at the South Rural Health Clinic. photograph by Jana Birchum There's no room anywhere...."

May 1, 1998 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Money for Nothing

Despite unprecedented taxpayer investment, state-funded CPCs deliver few services

"...That was one of the misleading and deceptive messages imparted to Laura Gor­sky and Breanne Wenke..."

July 20, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

From 'Abstinence-Only' to Plan Z

Reproductive health care for young Texas women is limited, costly ... or nonexistent

"...family. The now 21-year-old's mother was the family's breadwinner, and that money had to stretch to support Tiffany and..."

Oct. 4, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

You Can't Touch This

The budget battles, Round 2: Citizens rally to save community services

"...her proposed fiscal 2004 Austin city budget. By this standard, the Aug. 14 budget hearing on community services --..."

Aug. 22, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin's Next Shot at Ending Homelessness

Thanks to an infusion of philanthropic cash, the city and its iTeam embark on a new effort

"...street back in the Eighties. "I was having a grand adventure being homeless, and I was having fun and..."

Aug. 24, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Beats Nothing

Women's health gets funding bump

"...The Department of State Health Ser­vices announced last week that it has initiated contracts..."

Feb. 21, 2014 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Dr. Perry vs. Obamacare

Whatever Gov. Tough Guy says, Texas health care is about to get a federal upgrade

"...Gov. Rick Perry unilaterally declared that he would not expand Medicaid coverage, nor would he instruct the state Health..."

July 27, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Chips Are Down

Budget balancing picks up speed – and it's anything but fun and games

"...Ott's recently released "menu" of some 240 proposed cuts and fee increases to the city's fiscal year 2010 budget...."

June 26, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

No Real Alternative

In the name of "promoting childbirth," the state finds yet another way to deny health care to thousands of Texas women

"...R-Bryan, called for consideration a rider attached to the health and human services appropriations bill by Republican Tommy Williams..."

Jan. 26, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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?

"...passersby have grown accustomed to the parking cones, forklifts, and sounds of rapid construction. But in Feb­ru­ary, that clatter..."

Jan. 20, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Point Austin: Jobs to Go

The sunny side of the state's assault on social services

"...another new wrinkle in the state's plan to privatize and mechanize the eligibility review system for health and human..."

Oct. 21, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Road to Recovery

A private health care consultant has improved efficiency at the county's primary health care clinics. Looming Medicaid cuts protenda new crisis.

"...before as a family practice physician at the Rosewood-Zaragosa health clinic. She's happy about that -- kind of. Three..."

Sept. 15, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Dr. Robert Van Boven, the Whistleblower

Lakeway neurologist battles hospitals, officials, and the "culture of silence"

"...November of 2014, he noticed numbness in his arms and legs – from his elbows to his fingertips, from..."

April 20, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

Pro-Choice Activists Deliver Petitions Against Fetal Burial Rule

Public comment period on rule ends Monday, Oct. 31

"...Reproductive health advocates marched two full boxes of petition signatures against..."

Oct. 27, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma

Council Budget Afterthoughts

Council members offer post-approval thoughts on FY 2016 budget

"...had any brief post-mortem thoughts on the new budget, and if their own priorities had been fulfilled/partially fulfilled/not fulfilled...."

Sept. 18, 2015 News Post by Michael King

The Premature Death of the WHAC

How Gov. Greg Abbott killed vital oversight for women’s health

"...already tattered family planning safety net, ideologically motivated reproductive health policies, and the highest rate of uninsured individuals didn't..."

Jan. 19, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Proceed With Caution

Sunset Commission looks to combine five health care agencies into one

"...In a once-in-a-decade review, the state's Health and Human Services Commission has come under the microscope..."

Nov. 21, 2014 News Feature by Mary Tuma

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