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Fallout From DWI Crash Follows Hays County Commissioner

Beginning Oct. 16, if Hays County Commissioner Walt Smith wants to drive anywhere for the next five months, he first must exhale into a device linked to his ignition.

10:35AM Mon. Oct. 10, 2022, Jordan Buckley Read More | Comment »

Ken Paxton’s Lawyers Keep Flubbing, but He Might Not Appear Anyway

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who literally ran away to avoid being served a subpoena earlier this week, may have to show up in court after all.

4:00PM Thu. Sep. 29, 2022, Maggie Q. Thompson Read More | Comment »

TribFest Recap: Can Texas Plan Properly for Droughts and Floods to Come?

“Is this the new normal?” That was the first question from Kiah Collier, reporter for The Texas Tribune and ProPublica and moderator of the “Parched” panel on Texas’s water woes at the Texas Tribune Festival.

11:41AM Sun. Sep. 25, 2022, Lina Fisher Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

The Linda Lindas, Ghost Wolves [outside]

Mohawk

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan at Long Center for the Performing Arts

KUTX 10th birthday concert series w/ Why Bonnie, Sun June, Redbud at Antone's Nightclub

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

TribFest Recap: Red and Blue Teams Find Common Ground Before the 88th

The 88th Texas Legislature, to be elected Nov. 8 and to convene on Jan. 10, faces the Herculean task of lawmaking in a sharply divided country and state with rapidly developing life-or-death issues on the agenda.

11:36AM Sun. Sep. 25, 2022, Maggie Q. Thompson Read More | Comment »

TribFest Recap: Liz Cheney Chooses To Go Out the Hard Way

Liz Cheney has, or had, a political career because her father had one, but she didn’t get elected to office until she was nearly 50, and that was just six years ago.

11:28AM Sun. Sep. 25, 2022, Mike Clark-Madison Read More | Comment »

TribFest: Oil Terminal Protest Interrupts Buttigieg’s Q&A (But He Doesn’t Mind)

Near the end of the Texas Tribune Festival’s opening-night keynote with U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, a murmur rolled through the Paramount Theatre and heads craned to house left. From the balcony, a bright yellow banner unfurled that read “Please Pete, Stop S.P.O.T. No Fossil Fuel Exports.”

9:29AM Fri. Sep. 23, 2022, Lina Fisher and Mike Clark-Madison Read More | Comment »

A Pair of Porcupines in Zilker

There's a snuffling, and chewing. The newest resident at the Austin Nature & Science Center, a four-month-old male porcupine, is gnawing on on some treats: fresh fruit, veggies, and especially his favorite, sweet potatoes.

6:00AM Sun. Sep. 18, 2022, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Council Recap: Chacon Still Can’t Seal the Deal for License Plate Readers

City Council decided Thursday night (Sept. 1) to, once again, postpone a vote on allowing the Austin Police Department to reinstate use of its Automated License Plate Reader program.

9:00AM Sat. Sep. 3, 2022, Austin Sanders Read More | Comment »

A Conversation With Liz Cheney Will Close Out This Year's Texas Tribune Festival

Three weeks shy of the Texas Tribune Festival’s 2022 starter gun, the fest has announced a closing night speaker sure to court complaints and cheers alike: outgoing Congresswoman and Vice Chair of the Jan. 6 Commission, Liz Cheney.

4:15AM Thu. Sep. 1, 2022, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

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Opening Day of the 88th Texas Legislature

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