Capital Metro’s Zero-Emission Buses Pass First Tests

Austin slowly rocks down to electric avenues

"...fully electrifying Capital Metro's fleet. Both suppliers acknowledged that inflation in the price of components has driven up costs...."

Sept. 30, 2022 News Feature by Benton Graham

Crema Bakery & Cafe Announces Closure

Award-winning, LBGTQ-owned operation throws in the towel

"...Struggling through inflation and staffing issues while swatting away the ever-growing online..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Food Post by A. Richmond

City Base Wage Jumps to $20/Hour for Next Fiscal Year

Council approves increase for city workers

Aug. 26, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Eastside Trailer's Giant Spud Creations Are a Force to Be Reckoned With

The Southern fusion cuisine of Anything’s Baked Potato has earned its cult following

"...local restaurant isn't going to solve gentrification-fueled displacement, worldwide inflation, or Austin's housing and affordability crisis, the shining example..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Food Feature by Haris Qureshi

Faster Than Sound: 10 New Things to See at Hot Summer Nights

New bands, new names, and new releases among the hundred-plus free-entry acts

"...consistently sweltering heat, or diminished going-out crowds hurting from inflation, the Chronicle Music team has heard reports of remarkably..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

City Council Gets Some Breathing Room on the Budget

Austin bounced back from COVID with what City Manager Spencer Cronk called “spectacular economic growth.” How spectacular?

"...was lawmakers' best guess of the statewide rate of inflation. Austin, you may have noticed, costs more than other..."

July 22, 2022 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Public Notice: Market Forces vs. Residents – No Surprise Who's Ahead

Corporate investors, short-term rentals squeeze the market

"...And of course, the extreme inflation in real estate over the last year has been..."

July 22, 2022 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Opinion: Congress – Pass Federal Privacy Legislation to Support Texas Small Businesses

Opinion: The co-founder of Tiny House Coffee Roasters offers a solution to the patchwork system of privacy laws that is crushing small businesses

"...without inevitably raising prices for their customers. Considering soaring inflation, this is the last thing Texans need...."

July 8, 2022 Column by Blake Thomas

Six Meals in Austin Under $10

Tip and tax included, you can still eat for cheap

"...is not a piece complaining about food prices or inflation, but the tough reality is that everything is more..."

July 1, 2022 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Sunset Advisory Commission Takes Aim at Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

State commission looks into concerns of transparency

"...missing for her is "tying the fee amounts to inflation, so the penalties for polluting don't effectively decrease over..."

June 17, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Austin Desperately Needs Lifeguards but Has Resisted Calls for a Wage Increase

Lifeguards in limbo

"...but it has nevertheless failed to keep up with inflation and cost-of-living increases since the onset of the pandemic...."

June 3, 2022 News Feature by Abe Asher

Nobody Wants to Stop Voters From Approving Prop A

Pro-legalization and pro-freedom folks see eye to eye on the May 7 ballot

"...what lawmakers would like to be Texas' rate of inflation.") State Sen. Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston, the Lege's go-to expert..."

April 29, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin at Large: We Can Survive the New Boom

But we need to throw our entire weight into increasing our power as Texans

"...year before – that being the ballpark rate of inflation for the years prior to the 2019 session at..."

April 22, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

City Offers Pennies, Not Dollars, to Austin EMS

Medics find proposal insulting and inadequate amid enormous staffing crunch

"...in the Austin-Round Rock Metropolitan Statistical Area. Also, the inflation rate over the past year was 8.5%.)..."

April 15, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Grassroots Organizers Take on Erin Zwiener in Redrawn HD 45

Shades of blue, red, and brown

"...increase TCEQ's maximum fines and permanently tie them to inflation. She also plans to cultivate resilience in the face..."

Feb. 11, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

We Have an Issue: In the Artist’s Thrall

In this week's issue, Darla Teagarden's otherworldly tableaux

"...COVID-19 pandemic, specifically citing supply chain issues and related inflation, low sales, and a partner exit...."

Feb. 4, 2022 Column by Kimberley Jones

Vegan Ice Cream Shop Sweet Ritual Suspends Operations

Pandemic takes its toll on popular scoop shop

"...COVID-19 pandemic, specifically citing supply chain issues and related inflation, low sales, and a partner exit...."

Jan. 31, 2022 Food Post by Melanie Haupt

Even the Winter Storm Disaster Couldn't Budge the Texas Lege on Climate Change

Maybe when hell freezes over?

"...to increase TCEQ's maximum penalties (and index them to inflation) with her House Bill 1820, which moved forward but..."

June 4, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Solar-Powered Suds

Texas breweries reducing beer's carbon footprint

"...example, the panels on Jester King's roof "added an inflation barrier, an air gap. So now the sun hits..."

April 23, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

In a Previously Unpublished Interview Late Power Trip Frontman Riley Gale Talks SXSW, COVID, & American Health Care

“I’m having nightmares about what [COVID] is going to do to the status quo”

"...The people who couldn't handle a new wave of inflation sink to the bottom, and now it's their time..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Rates Hike Irregularity

"...company’s increase in residential rates has totaled 80%, while inflation was just 27% in the same time period. The..."

June 12, 2020 Postmarks

Council Poised to Enact First APD Reforms and Budget Cuts

Change begins now

"...the cost of police funding in Austin, adjusted for inflation, was about $360 per person (APD's approved budget was..."

June 12, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Public Notice: Consensus? Conschmensus.

Majority rules ... absolutely

"...current mapping draft, without the disruption, displacement, and cost inflation that they see happening under that draft. After years..."

Feb. 21, 2020 News Column by Nick Barbaro

2019's Big Stories Shaping Austin's Path Into a New Decade

Never a slow news day

"...budgets that will be hard-pressed to keep up with inflation, let alone Texas' nonstop population growth, most of it..."

Dec. 20, 2019 News Feature by the News Staff

Scare Tactics

"...rate, so we can stop the root cause of inflation – the idea that city, county, state, and federal..."

Aug. 27, 2019 Postmarks

County Pushes Public Defender Plan Forward

Commissioners Court votes to proceed with indigent defense office – but not everybody's happy about it

"...(or annual tax-rate elections) just to keep up with inflation. That makes new programs such as a public defenders'..."

May 10, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Day Trips & Beyond: May Events Roundup

Get ready for baby sea turtles, balloon launches, and more

"...turned loose. The public is invited to watch the inflation and release of the balloons and payload at the..."

April 30, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Robert Rodriguez Returns to His DIY Roots With Red 11

The film the Austin director shot while filming blockbuster Alita: Battle Angel debuts at SXSW

"...filmmakers $7,000 (his El Mariachi budget, no adjustment for inflation), and they would make their own features. However, this..."

March 8, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin at Large: Put on Your Shrinking Caps

So why – let alone how – do we "need" to "reform" Texas property taxes?

"...on growth in overall revenue is well below the population-plus-inflation mantra that used to be the greed caucus' gold..."

Feb. 8, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Simply Amazing

"...collected and keep going up at a unsustainable, above inflation rate ... the real reason is that the state..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Postmarks

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