Climbing Mount Compost

Austin's next big zero-waste project is feeding nature's recycling program

"...The 10 pilot neighborhoods are effectively the first phase of ARR's organics collection..."

April 24, 2015 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Council: If You Come to a Fork ... Take It

Council faces choices on land use – and land use

"...PGA event as well as economic development for Northeast neighborhoods). The two sides also seem dug in on that..."

April 24, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Eastward Expansion

Surfing the wave of gentrification on the Eastside

"...positive impact of renewal and the rebuilding of deteriorating neighborhoods is having a corrosive side effect on longtime, lower-income..."

April 10, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú

Grimm Guignol

Ryan Gosling's directorial debut melds fantasy and realism

"...abandoned houses. "There are miles and miles of abandoned neighborhoods," Gosling said. "Within those neighborhoods there are pockets where..."

April 10, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Short-Term Rentals: The Basics

"...up real estate prices – especially in central city neighborhoods. For that reason, when City Council created the licensing..."

April 10, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Can AISD Enable "Equity"?

School board makes another attempt to define and create equitable schools

"...on endowments and parental volunteerism that again benefit wealthier neighborhoods, calling on the district to rebalance that equation through..."

April 10, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Council: More Brisket, More Staff

Talking around barbecue smoke, staffing up, and more

"...solution in some undefined future. In the meantime, the neighborhoods (and restaurants) with the specific problems will return to..."

April 10, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Thinking thinkEAST

How Fusebox has engaged stakeholders in the planning process

"...(Meetings for residents of the Govalle and Johnston Terrace neighborhoods had been held during the fall.)..."

April 3, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Food-o-File

Where there's smoke ...

"...fires. There have been complaints in some central city neighborhoods about barbecue smoke regularly being carried into homes, but..."

April 3, 2015 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Council: Where There's Smoke, There's Barbecue

Council takes on barbecue smokers, and smoke gets in their eyes

"...issue (reportedly mostly resolved) has now spread to other neighborhoods and vendors, including Eastside trailers that have set up..."

April 3, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Border Violations

What happened to the thousands of unaccompanied children who crossed the U.S. border last year?

"...that gang's rival. The control gangs have over certain neighborhoods in Mexico and Central America lead many children to..."

April 3, 2015 News Feature by Dina Samir Shehata

Hays County Water War

Private drilling threatens local water supplies

"...a day from the Aquifer to sell to fast-growing neighborhoods and new developments along I-35. The partners in the..."

April 3, 2015 News Feature by Vicki Wolf

Council: Committed to Committees

AFD and Libraries grilled and postponed

"...“smoke emissions” near residential areas. Translation: a couple of neighborhoods are complaining about nearby bbq smokers, and Council wants..."

March 31, 2015 News Post by Michael King

Point Austin: Firestarter

If you want to protest institutional racism, pick an actual target

"...(several minority-owned) in one of Austin's most racially integrated neighborhoods, and complain ("satirically," of course) that there are too..."

March 27, 2015 News Column by Michael King

Contested Territory

Fallout continues after Eastside businesses tagged with racist stickers

"...staff that represents inclusion and we serve two unique neighborhoods that have been shaped and characterized by their distinctive..."

March 27, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

SXSW Keynote: Snoop Dogg

D-O-double-G Keynizzle

"...influx of drugs and gun violence in Los Angeles neighborhoods in the Eighties. Producer Allen Hughes (Menace II Society)..."

March 21, 2015 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Point Austin: Austin's Ruination

We've identified the trouble with Austin. It's Austinites.

"...arrivals keep coming but the city (or its established neighborhoods/homeowners) reflexively resists the varieties of infill development that could..."

March 20, 2015 News Column by Michael King

What Now for SXSW?

A year after tragedy, the city and the Festival look to a sustainable future

"...work overtime, police officers are spread thin across the neighborhoods, and firefighters scramble to check safety code compliances. Overtime..."

March 13, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Jumpolin & Gentrification Backlash

Jumpolin owners fight back against landlord demolition

"...on ever-rising property values at the expense of established neighborhoods...."

March 13, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú

Showing Black Lives Matter

Facing race then and now onstage in Pretty Fire and Hands Up Hoodies Down

"...year in five sections, spinning tales of sisterhood and neighborhoods, schoolyards and church choir lofts, and visiting her grandparents..."

March 13, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Simple Sundries

Glass Half Full's simple bird-meets-girl story is more complex than it appears

"...boom to land in one of the most desirable neighborhoods in town and cash in on its current popularity,..."

March 13, 2015 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Council Defers on Decker, Approves Onion Creek Buyout

Golf project goes to committee, and Garza Ranch put to bed

"...in a wide swath of north, east, and southeast neighborhoods, under a pending federal designation by the U.S. Department..."

March 10, 2015 News Post by Michael King

News Roundup: Use of Force, Apartments, & TNCs

Jury awards $1M in civil rights suit; SOI ordinance halted

"...nine industry-related groups, four meetings with many groups of neighborhoods, and one special interest group” (various advocacy organizations) –..."

March 9, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Council: Not Enough Hours in the Day

How about a meeting about the meeting?

"...CM Ora Houston was equally adamant that the nearby neighborhoods have waited long enough for economic development, that this..."

March 6, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Sparks Upholds Fair Housing Ordinance

Judge rules against landlords on discrimination

"...affordable housing (and thus to better schools and safer neighborhoods) throughout the City of Austin." The record, wrote Sparks,..."

March 6, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Bill of the Week

Bill by Rep. Eddie Rodriguez would support community schools

"...want and need, without dropping an educational bombshell in neighborhoods, or backdoor privatizing campuses? There is, and it's called..."

March 6, 2015 News Column by Richard Whittaker

Housing Heartburn or Marijuana?

Short-term rentals remain contentious

"...affordability, quality of life, and the "commercialization" of their neighborhoods...."

Feb. 27, 2015 News Feature by Natalia Ciolko

Point Austin: Desegregating Austin

New report on economic inequality should galvanize action

"...(of all types) throughout the city at a rate neighborhoods have been disinclined to allow, we can expect that..."

Feb. 27, 2015 News Column by Michael King

First Look: Sala & Betty

Fine-dining chef brings family fare

"...situated on an emerging restaurant row that runs through neighborhoods filled with working families. The concrete and rock building..."

Feb. 25, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

First Look: Stay Gold

Hitting pay dirt on East Cesar Chavez

"...pace in recent years. Drinking establishments have spilled into neighborhoods and found their ways into nooks and crannies, from..."

Feb. 24, 2015 Food Post by Amira Jensen

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