Meet the New Man Leading the City of Austin

City Manager Broadnax discusses police, homelessness, and more

"...the Energy Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the power grid throughout most of the state, issued several energy..."

May 31, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders

ERCOT Paid Bitcoin Miner $31 Million to Conserve While Texans Sweat

Bitcoin operations paid by ERCOT to conserve

"...Texas paid bitcoin miner Riot – the most power-intensive bitcoin operation in the country – $31.7 million during..."

Sept. 7, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

The Best Things We Saw at Austin Psych Fest 2023

Toro y Moi, Automatic, and more highlight homegrown festival’s return

"...carefree, conversational responses. Their pretty-goth/sharp-punky contrast spoke volumes live, powering up artsy synthwave selects like “Automaton.” Witnessing such rock..."

May 1, 2023 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Austin at Large: Brightness on the Edge of Town

Samsung’s Taylor expansion lights up needs, opportunities in the Eastern Crescent

"...local industries, local government, or community development. Even the power to grant big incentive packages that Abbott and his..."

Dec. 10, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Audit: Uri Was Bad, City Made It Worse

Report faults shortcomings in disaster preparedness in city’s winter storm response

"...storms highlighted the potential for failures on the Texas power grid and of Austin's utility systems. The report is..."

Nov. 12, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Hitting the Reset Button

Running off the grid with Jackrabbit

"...find there are still corporate forces using information as power...."

Dec. 4, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

ACL Live Shot: Muse

Epic UK trio won’t be shut down

"...bandleader Matt Bellamy hit maybe three chords before stage power shut down like a California grid...."

Oct. 5, 2013 Music Post by Michael Toland

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...all budgeting more closely. ... Reducing demand on the power grid also keeps everyone's utility bills lower [and] helps..."

Oct. 31, 2008 News Feature

Benevento/Russo Duo

"...Duos are the new power trio. Marco Benevento and Joe Russo face each other..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...says it would be physically impossible to deliver wind power directly to all of its facilities, so the energy..."

Jan. 13, 2006 News Feature

Opinion: Force Out Hartzell at Your Own Risk

An incoming UT student urges caution on the recent campaign to force University of Texas President Jay Hartzell to resign. His replacement could be much worse.

"...such as stonewalling Medicaid expansion and deregulating the state’s power grid – by appealing to phantom social anxieties about..."

May 3, 2024 Column by Dash Kostka

The Liminal Lone Star State: Iliana Sosa’s El Paso in God Save Texas

HBO docuseries screens at AFS Cinema this weekend

"...IS: And also we have our own power grid. So when the freeze happened, they were OK,..."

March 1, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Protesters Want Airline Kicked Out of San Marcos for Flying Migrants for DeSantis

California governor says the operation could be kidnapping

"...instead of doing his damn job and fixing the power grid,” said Jennifer Canales of ILDC. “Soon after, the..."

Oct. 18, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

We Sorted Through 150 TribFest Events. These Five Stood Out.

Free events Saturday

"...speakers who will be discussing hot topics like the power grid, immigration, maternal health, and even barbecue. Recording of..."

Sept. 22, 2023 News Feature by Maya Wright

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...safer and avoid social justice topics, and defended the power grid, saying 14 bipartisan bills last session "fixed the..."

Jan. 20, 2023 News Feature

Texas Lege Preview: The Lege Has More Cash Than It Wants

Unprecedented $30 billion (and counting) surplus puts conservatives in a bind

"...go a long way to fix what's broken: the power grid, the foster care system, much of the health..."

Jan. 13, 2023 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Prefiling for the Next Lege: The Good, Bad, and MAGA

It's just a bill …

"...Electric Reliability Council of Texas to interconnect Texas' stand-alone power grid to the rest of the nation...."

Nov. 25, 2022 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

A GOP Halloween

"...represent the souls of the dead slain by COVID, power grid failures, and mass shootings. Over 90,000 Texas have..."

Oct. 27, 2022 Postmarks

Austin at Large: Make a Run From the Border

So, when and how did Texas MAGApublicans decide to be terrified of Mexicans?

"...the many broken parts of state government, from the power grid to foster care, Abbott's basic competence is not..."

Sept. 16, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

The Luv Doc: Already Failing

The Luv Doc's hawt tipz for #backtoskool

"...sweaters at Goodwill, because there's a decent chance the power grid will fail in February...."

Aug. 19, 2022 Column by The Luv Doc

Austin at Large: SXSW, in Four Dimensions

Reporter, presenter, attendee, local: An after-action report on confab’s comeback

"...before the tanks showed up (including knocking out the power grid), as test cases for what Vladimir Putin or..."

March 25, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...– Gov. Greg Abbott promising there won’t be any power grid failures in Texas this winter..."

Dec. 3, 2021 News Feature

"If These Walls Could Talk" at Cloud Tree Studios & Gallery

The artists in this Cloud Tree Studios & Gallery exhibition get the walls not only to talk but to spin some fantastic tales

"...hers). The vibe is very postapocalyptic, like the Texas power grid that failed in February never came back online,..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Luv Doc: Surpisingly Cold

Every summer day under 100 degrees means that a thousand enthusiastic well-meaning folks will move to Austin

"...February when Jesus mistook Austin for Minneapolis and the power grid failed because ... um ... I think it..."

June 11, 2021 Column by The Luv Doc

The Fumbling, Bumbling Letdown of the 87th Legislature

Sine dead

"...their own dirty business effectively, never mind fixing the power grid or helping 5 million uninsured Texans not die..."

June 4, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin at Large: The City That Never Shrinks

“Austin’s rapid growth” has become background noise. We should bring it up front.

"...chance that Texans would freeze to death because the power grid failed. Our most recent data points give them..."

May 14, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

On Watch

"...logic exercise re: the 2021 failure of the Texas power grid that caused death and misery to hundreds of..."

April 12, 2021 Postmarks

It’s National Margarita Day on Monday

Try these local options for some good booze and (finally) fun

"...freezing assault and its effects on the state’s unregulated power grid, and 2) generate enough bile-infused spit with which..."

Feb. 20, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

How ATX Studios Has Quietly Become Valuable Real Estate for TV in Austin

One of the city's big filming facilities is about to undergo a massive expansion

"...had a lot of essential infrastructure, like an industrial-grade power grid and a U.S. Foodservice test kitchen that converted..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Drink to Me Only With Thine Lies

Those classic club tales tantalize, whether you’re sober or besotted

"...And which, as long as the power grid’s intact, never shuts down...."

July 20, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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