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City Council Keen to Request 5-Cent Tax Increase Amid Funding Cuts Council votes this week, and everyone else votes in November By Brant Bingamon, Fri., Aug. 15, 2025 ...
BY CARYS ANDERSON, DEREK UDENSI, CAROLINE DREW, KAT MCNEVINS, GENEVIEVE WOOD, ABBY JOHNSTON, DOUG FREEMAN, MICHAEL TOLAND, LINA FISHER, RAOUL HERNANDEZ, TIM STEGALL, KYRA BRUCE AND JAMES RENOVITCH ...
9 Spots for Quality Matcha in Austin Go green with these local tea makers By Dina Barrish, 3:00PM, Mon. Jan. 31, 2022 ...
The stars at night are big and bright (clap, clap, clap, clap), Deep in the heart of Texas. The prairie sky is wide and high (clap, clap, clap, cl ...
The Cross sits on a hill south of Ballinger. From the highway, especially in the summer heat, its massive silver arms seem to hover above the mesquite-tree-covered prairie. Everyone in town knows ...
Opinion: What It Means to Be Pregnant and Homeless in Austin It’s a daily struggle for safety, dignity, and rest By Rebekah Blanchard, Fri., July 25, 2025 ...
This spring, the University of Texas at Austin made national headlines for a racist frat party, and then again for the unlikely success of newly elect ...
By the time beloved Austin restaurateur Harry Akin died in 1976, the story of how he'd founded the very successful Night Hawk restaurant chain had passed into local legend. In the nearly 25 years ...
The Skunks were a band. A loud one.As it turns out, in 1976 a musical revolution was just beginning to change the face of popular music. First engulfing the UK, then spilling over onto American ...
Gary Floyd, the multiformat artist who helped define the Austin punk scene as the outspoken frontman of rowdy punks the Dicks, has died at 71. He was taken off life support after a stay in the ...
Texas Is Still in Drought, and AI Data Centers Are Quietly Guzzling Up Water Texas continues to attract AI giants, despite resource strain By Sammie Seamon, Fri., July 25, 2025 ...
Wrong Place, Wrong Time Texas prosecutors use the 'law of parties' to widen the net for capital punishment By Jordan Smith, Fri., Feb. 11, 2005 ...