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When the government asks citizens to self-euthanize, a bourgeois family weighs what to do
"...Ashley (Bale), and adopted son and addict Noah (Chacon, Emergency) to dinner and a revelation...."

April 26, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Women Fight for Abortion Access at Texas Supreme Court
What exactly does “life-threatening” mean?
"...all abortions except those made necessary by a medical emergency threatening the life of the mother. The suit, filed..."

Nov. 29, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Final Budget Talks Weigh Police, Rent Help, Guaranteed Income
Something’s gotta budge!
"...by staffing issues resulting in long hold times for emergency calls – has 48 vacancies valued at $2.7 million...."

Aug. 11, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

The Women Left Behind When Salvation Army’s Downtown Shelter Shutters
With no beds for single women, where will they go?
"...an attempt to draw attention to the lack of emergency shelter beds in the community. The latest figures from..."

March 3, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

Wrenching Issues Face First Dobbs-Era Texas Legislature
Pulling the trigger
"...that guidance, though, claimed that law would "transform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic"..."

Sept. 2, 2022 News Feature by Maggie Q. Thompson

Narcan Vending Machine Lands Outside Sunrise Navigation Center
The lifesaving medication is free and in high demand
"...Gray, director of the NICE (Narcan in Case of Emergency) Project, funded by a $2,500 grant from Austin Mutual..."

Sept. 2, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

City Ends Contract With Operator of Austin's Downtown Homeless Shelter
Front Steps has run the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless since 2004
"...annual goal. Another scorecard, which tracks the use of Emergency Solutions Grant dollars distributed by the U.S. Dept. of..."

July 22, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Deep-Pocket Donors Fund Right-Wing School Board Candidates in the Austin Suburbs
Drama outside of town
"...their infrastructure needs and asking for more money for emergency and utility districts, in what's looking like an anti-tax,..."

April 29, 2022 News Feature by Morgan O’Hanlon

An Opioid Epidemic Within a Pandemic
Advocates demand greater county, city support amidst spike in overdose deaths
"...recognize Austin's opioid overdose epidemic as a public health emergency and invest resources in safety and recovery measures for..."

Sept. 10, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Legal Dangers Loom Large for Texas Abortion Care
Unless courts act, six-week ban takes effect Sept. 1
"...for rape or incest, only in cases of medical emergency...."

Aug. 23, 2021 News Post by Mary Tuma

It Wasn't Just ERCOT: Task Force Slams City's Freeze Response
Winter Storm Review Task Force finds fault in city's Uri response
"...and mutual aid groups – not the city's professional emergency management teams – that were most responsive to people..."

Aug. 6, 2021 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Austin Police Funding Restored; Is It Too Much, or Not Enough?
The 2020 city budget finds itself coming full circle
"...it comes from returning civilian-driven departments, particularly Forensics and Emergency Communications (the combined 911 call center), to the APD..."

July 30, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin Looks for Routes Out of Its Homelessness Crisis
Under pressure, the city experiments with fast and sustainable strategies
"...much work done to resolve a guest's homelessness. Temporary emergency shelters like the Salvation Army remain important, but their..."

July 9, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Opinion: A Tragedy, Upon a Tragedy, Upon Another Tragedy; or, the Death and Despair of Jail Inmates
Law professor Ron Beal argues that Gov. Abbott, under the cover of the pandemic, has usurped the power of the judicial branch
"...one year and counting, but it has issued no emergency order to supplant, void, or vacate it and replace..."

April 9, 2021 Column by Ron Beal

ProLodges Saves and Changes Some of Austin's Most Vulnerable Lives
Can the city keep them open?
"...of that outlay will be recouped from the Federal Emergency Man­agement Administration, but that reimbursement is capped at 75%..."

Jan. 1, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Council: Cash on Hand
City's RISE and RENT funds ready to deliver relief
"...assistance through the second round of its Relief of Emergency Needs for Tenants (RENT) and Relief in a State..."

Sept. 11, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Faster Than Sound: Music Industry Workers Face Uncertainty Around Unemployment Benefits
Independent contractors advised: “When in doubt, go ahead and register”
"...will be a triggering qualifier for some of these emergency assistance opportunities coming down the pipe,” adds Atkinson. “In..."

March 27, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Music Industry Workers Face Uncertainty Around Unemployment Benefits
Indie contractors advised: “When in doubt, go ahead and register”
"...will be a triggering qualifier for some of these emergency assistance opportunities coming down the pipe,” adds Atkinson. “In..."

March 24, 2020 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Local Students Face an Open-Ended Spring Break
School's out for ...
"...a computer or wi-fi were directed to contact Student Emergency Services for support...."

March 20, 2020 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

AISD Board Votes to Give Superintendent Broadened Authority
Resolution lets Cruz take "immediate action" on COVID-19 response
"...hour of private discussion in executive session at an emergency meeting on Friday night, March 13, to ensure the..."

March 14, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

Midnight Family
Life in Mexico’s unregulated ambulance industry
"...audiences used to the sanitized and cliched depictions of emergency services that broadcast shows provide, the immediacy of the..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

How Austin Is Tackling Homelessness on the Street and at City Hall
More shelters, more beds, and more fights about ordinances ahead
"...at an appointment with a medic from Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services' Community Health team when the call came..."

Aug. 2, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Questions of Church-State Separation at Dell Seton Medical Center
Do the hospital’s ties to the Catholic church and limits on women’s reproductive health care compromise Dell Med students' training?
"...who have been denied reproductive health services – from emergency tubal ligation to termination of pregnancy due to health..."

Jan. 20, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

New Medical Director for Austin/Travis County
EMS union expresses enthusiasm for Mark E. Escott hire
"...Escott, currently the director of the Divi­sion of the Emergency Medical Services/Disaster Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in..."

June 17, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

A Healthier Workforce
ATCEMS Employees Association head skeptical of EMS chief's budget plan
"...third fatigue-related death changed the state of Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services from "troubled" to "life-threatening." Paramedics contacted by..."

Sept. 4, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Support Your Local Farmer at Farmgrass Fest
Farm-to-table connection only works when farmers are healthy
"...fun, and bluegrass event founded to benefit the farmers' emergency medical fund of the Growers Alliance of Central Texas...."

March 26, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

What Now for SXSW?
A year after tragedy, the city and the Festival look to a sustainable future
"...the time was an eight-year veteran of Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services, was stationed with his partner on a..."

March 13, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

X Games X-Factors: Heat, Booze, and Meth
EMS almost forced to activate disaster plan
"...so dire out at Circuit of the Americas that Emergency Medical Services nearly needed to activate disaster plans that..."

July 4, 2014 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

UDATED: Abortion Regulations Trial Begins in Federal Court
Contested provisions set to take effect Oct. 29
"...abortion would be directed to go to the nearest emergency room – which, given the distances involved in accessing..."

Oct. 21, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

From Hearses to Marital Arguments
"...1976 was tapped to sit on the city's nascent emergency medical oversight committee. The city went from funeral homes..."

Aug. 16, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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