At the Texas AFL-CIO headquarters Wednesday evening, legislators, the NAACP, and a university professor united against UT-Austin’s handling of Senate Bill 17’s ban on DEI-related programs at public universities, calling for President Jay Hartzell to reinstate the more than 66 faculty and staff laid off April 2.

The once-again mayor is looking to earn another term. Kirk Watson formally announced today, April 10, his 2024 re-election bid.

This Thursday at 9am, City Council and the Planning Commission will hold a joint hearing on the second phase of the most significant changes to the Land Development Code in years, known as Home Options for Middle-Income Empowerment (HOME).

Nyeka Arnold is a sixth-generation Austinite. Before they came to Austin, her family was enslaved just a few miles east of the city, in the cotton farming town of Webberville. It was her great-great-great grandfather, Rev. John Henry Winn, who founded St. John Freedom Colony in Austin in the early 1870s.

No one wants to say exactly what happened, but Julie Oliver, the co-founder and executive director of Ground Game Texas, is out of the organization that has used cannabis decriminalization to mobilize progressives in Texas counties.

Hundreds of students filled UT’s Gregory Gym Plaza Tuesday afternoon to celebrate Israeli culture and innovation in the largest pro-Israel event on a college campus in North America. Down the street, others wore keffiyehs, held handheld signs spelling “Ceasefire now!” and chanted in protest of the event.

At least 60 people have lost their jobs at UT-Austin as a direct result of the university’s implementation of Senate Bill 17, which bans initiatives around diversity, equity, and inclusion in institutions of higher education, according to the Austin American-Statesman.

A new report reveals that in Austin, the median Black household earned 54 cents for every dollar earned by the median white household in 2019.

Law enforcement consultants Kroll Associates have released what may be their final report – unless City Council authorizes more – with recommended changes to APD’s training academy, and the main takeaway is that APD has done a shoddy job of implementing recommendations, on a much longer timeline than necessary.