Homestead Exemption Puts Sobriety Center at Risk

City Council will weigh the cost of sobriety

"...The city and county have looked at establishing a sobriety center to help curb rising public intoxication arrests since..."

July 22, 2016 News Feature by Annamarya Scaccia

Narcan Vending Machine Lands Outside Sunrise Navigation Center

The lifesaving medication is free and in high demand

"...a small vending machine outside the Sunrise Homeless Navigation Center at 4430 Menchaca Rd. The machine is the culmination..."

Sept. 2, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

The New Sobriety

SXSW Interactive Conference photos and panel reviews

"...Austin Convention Center..."

March 22, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Public Notice: Inconvenient Details

Council aims for the stars, stuck in the dirt

"...because it's not on a mobility corridor or activity center. But, if that plan can be disregarded, and those..."

Aug. 12, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

28 Days

"...is to be admired for its reluctance to assign sobriety the story's moral upper hand. Its determination to find..."

April 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Public Notice: Sunrise, Moonset

Darkness at midday, bright lights at night

"...the direct path of the eclipse. Closer to the center, preparations are being made. As I noted a couple..."

Aug. 18, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Naked City

"...overruns in the construction of the Blackwell-Thurman Criminal Justice Center, and ordered Travis County to pay Fluor Daniel $2.8..."

Feb. 8, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

For Patients With Opioid Use Disorders, the B-Team Offers Help

Dell Seton Medical Center’s “Buprenorphine Team” and its innovative approach to addiction

"...did not have to spend at Dell Seton Medical Center, she thought. She was homeless, and she had been..."

Nov. 29, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Place Vendome

"...a widow whose booze-soaked peepers are seeing things with sobriety for the first time in a very long while...."

March 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Brown and Eckhardt Face Off in Circle C

Circle C Area Dems host Travis County Judge candidates

"...as a criminal justice reform the creation of a “sobriety center” that would divert many public intoxication and mental..."

Jan. 14, 2014 News Post by Michael King

Naked City

Council hears supporters and those in opposition to the city's proposed central booking facility, which would be moved from 7th and I-35 to a residential neighborhood west of downtown.

"...point out that the new Travis County Criminal Justice Center is situated across the street from an apartment building..."

Oct. 13, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Austin: “Strong, Unique, and Special”

“State of the City” emphasizes change, permanence, independence

"...hiring ordinance (under threat at Legislature), tenant relocation support, sobriety center, APD body cameras...."

Jan. 30, 2017 News Post by Michael King

Headlines

"...Sober Up Here: The Austin Sobering Center opens Downtown today, at 1213 Sabine, as an alternative..."

Aug. 24, 2018 News Feature

City Council Clashes Over 2017 Budget

Competing ideas on how to spend $969 million

"...Water, but also the airport (Aviation) and the Convention Center. Although Council does annually review the All Funds budget,..."

Aug. 19, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

The Devil in the Details

Council faces a daunting slate of work sessions

"...for Health & Human Services, establishment of the Downtown sobriety center to decriminalize public intoxication, and implementation of the..."

Aug. 5, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Headlines

"...legislative change to confirm the city's use of a sobriety center in lieu of arrest, and approval of the..."

Oct. 5, 2018 News Feature

Headlines

"...will have Tegrity Contractors build the $770,000 Austin Sobering Center at 1213 Sabine St., site of the old county..."

Jan. 26, 2018 News Feature

Council: No Marxism Around Here

City Council pushes homestead exemption by thinnest of margins

"...– eastern district members 1 through 4, joined by center city D9 Mayor Pro Tem Kathie Tovo (who noted..."

July 8, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Council: Escape From City Hall!

Members navigate homestead exemption politics en route to vacation

"...• Took steps to establish a "sobriety center" to decriminalize public intoxication cases, via a partnership..."

July 1, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Council Budget Afterthoughts

Council members offer post-approval thoughts on FY 2016 budget

"...programming at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, raise our living wage, provide health insurance for temporary..."

Sept. 18, 2015 News Post by Michael King

Council: So Nice They'll Hold It Twice?

Council prepares for a marathon session

"...Austin Pets Alive! to the former Town Lake Animal Center (surely somebody will suggest a bait-and-switch)...."

Nov. 21, 2014 News Feature by Michael King

Strand of Oaks and the Cadence of Joy

Overcoming grief and exploring sobriety, Tim Showalter finds himself In Heaven

"...life. I said, 'I have to not be the center of this.' There is no 'me' in this talk...."

Sept. 24, 2021 Music Feature by E. Ryan Ellis

County Courts-at-Law Nos. 3 & 5: Now We’ve Got Bad Blood

Defense attorneys eye Hohengarten, Lipscombe on county benches

"...She played an integral role in developing the county sobriety center, and works hand-in-hand with the sheriff's office on..."

Feb. 16, 2018 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Community-Built, Community-Driven Oversight?

Austin's activists have got a plan

"...created with public input, similar to the Austin/Travis County Sobriety Center, could fundamentally change that complaint process, and nothing..."

Feb. 9, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Headlines

"...accepting Board of Director applications for the city's new Sobriety Center. The joint project between Austin and Travis County..."

Aug. 25, 2017 News Feature

Commissioners to Discuss Racial Disparities in County Jail

Thursday work session on heels on Grassroots Leadership's report

"...the next two years, the county will open a Sobriety Center, which will offer intoxicated detainees the option of..."

July 21, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

City Budget: Something's Gotta Give

Cooling economy, rising costs mean tough choices for City Council

"...initiatives: staffing the new Central Lib­rary ($1.9M); the new Sobriety Center ($1.2M); new Onion Creek fire station ($1.2M); APD..."

May 12, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Steve Adler’s Year in Review

A lot of little victories, if the mayor may say so himself

"...• Voted for Sobriety Center..."

Dec. 23, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

District 6: These Guys Again

Zimmerman and Flannigan gear up for rematch

"...an interlocal agreement that would help establish a Downtown sobriety center to partly decriminalize public intoxication and thereby save..."

Aug. 26, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Council: Proposed Budget Takes the Stage

City manager and budget staff lay out FY 2017 budget

"...• Initial contract funding, Sobriety Center: $380,000..."

July 29, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

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