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The Threat Is Real
Still wonder how Kavanaugh will rule on abortion? Look no further than his record in Texas
"...law that bars abortion if the fetus might be disabled. Mean­while in Texas, the People's Lawsuit, filed earlier this..."

Oct. 26, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Death Watch: Rockwell Schizophrenic or Faker?
One execution stayed, another set for Oct. 24
"...Like Bobby Moore, Segundo asserts that he is intellectually disabled and, therefore, ineligible for execution. Further orders from the..."

Oct. 19, 2018 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Mark Deutrom Questions Happiness
Ex-Melvins local previews new LP
"...had been in some kind of hideous accident that disabled your upper thinking.”..."

Oct. 17, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Fantastic Fest Wave Three Crashes Down
Music and madness fill festival lineup
"...an old house in the countryside with his severely disabled sister. He takes care of her day after day,..."

Sept. 13, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: In the Shadow of the Capitol
Council approves its latest budget with the Lege over its shoulder
"...But the final expenditures – to bump up the senior/disabled homestead exemption, to address homelessness and mental health emergencies,..."

Sept. 14, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Settling the FY 2019 Budget
Council sorts out tax rate, final spending
"...additional presumed $5 million for various initiatives: raising the senior/disabled homestead exemption from $85,500 to $88,000; homelessness programs ($1..."

Sept. 14, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

City Budget: Room to Move
Council nears final decisions on 2019 budget
"...increases. Tentative discussions suggested they would simultaneously increase the senior/disabled homestead exemption (currently $85,500), in order to hold harmless..."

Sept. 7, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

Public Notice: Major League
Pushed by mayor, City Council takes the leap
"...East Austin community providing housing and support for the disabled and chronically homeless. They'll even have a tiny dental..."

Aug. 17, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Death Watch: Intellectually Disabled or Mentally Ill?
Three cases raise the question
"...his attorneys filed an appeal contending Williams is "intellectually disabled" and therefore not subject to execution...."

June 15, 2018 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

The Rider
Powerful docudrama of life on the range.
"...himself, a celebrated rodeo rider who is now permanently disabled from a horse toss and spending his remaining years..."

April 27, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Strategizing a City Budget
Finance staff delivers tentative 2019 forecast
"...token, regressive tax breaks by raising the homestead or senior/disabled exemptions...."

April 13, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

God’s Blessings Owner Indicted
Renee Segura-Livingston faces 30 years in prison for crimes committed while operating unlicensed group home
"...on four counts of injury to an elderly or disabled person, and two counts of theft and securing execution..."

March 23, 2018 News Feature by Annamarya Scaccia

Point Austin: “Austin Will Still Be Austin”
Adler’s “state of the city” imagines a bulwark against “a giant honking mess”
"...• Senior/disabled property tax cuts; various programs to assist creative artists;..."

Feb. 23, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Into The Black Hole at Other Worlds Austin
Director Gary Nelson on Disney's sci-fi epic, returning this weekend
"...movie. A colony aboard a space craft that was disabled, and a rescue mission to take this people off..."

Dec. 7, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Chronicle Endorsements
Our endorsements on local bond packages and state constitutional amendments
"...YES?: Prop. 1 (Allow partial tax exemption for disabled veterans). This fixes a loophole in an earlier amendment,..."

Nov. 3, 2017 News Feature by The Chronicle Editorial Board

Ex Libris: New York Public Library
An intimate look inside the venerable institution
"...seminar on how to find housing if you are disabled. There are so many wonderful activities of compassion that..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Chronicle Endorsements
Our endorsements on local bond packages and state constitutional amendments
"...Proposition 1 (Allow partial tax exemption for disabled veterans): Yes This is a cleanup amendment of an..."

Oct. 27, 2017 News Feature by The Chronicle Editorial Board

Breathe
Andrew Garfield stars in this biopic of a British responaut and advocate for the disabled
"...British responaut, medical aid pioneer, and advocate for the disabled. In the mid-Fifties, Cavendish, played by a game Garfield..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

Chronicle Endorsements
Our endorsements on local bond packages and state constitutional amendments
"...Proposition 1 (Allow partial tax exemption for disabled veterans): Yes This is a cleanup amendment of an..."

Oct. 20, 2017 News Feature by The Chronicle Editorial Board

Sounding the Alarm on Texas' Nursing Home System
25% of the state's 1,200 long-term care centers have been cited for serious standard deficiencies
"...for wetting the bed, the employee would flip the disabled woman over and strike her repeatedly on her backside...."

Oct. 20, 2017 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

New Laws From the Lege Set to Go Into Effect
Get to know Texas’ new rules
"...break into a car to save a child or disabled person. (Texas already makes an exception for criminal charges.) –..."

Sept. 1, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Council: Downtown Puzzle or Rubik’s Cube?
Dais division brewing over hotel tax spending, tourism industry
"...well as how to preserve equity for seniors and disabled taxpayers (who enjoy an AISD tax freeze, but not..."

Aug. 28, 2017 News Post by Michael King

Death Watch: Steven Long Spared Execution
SCOTUS’ ruling in Bobby James Moore case spares inmate’s life, for now
"...he is unfit for execution because he is "intellectually disabled." (Atkins v. Virginia ruled in 2002 that executing folks..."

Aug. 25, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Point Austin: Priority Problems
While the world burns, City Council does what it can
"...not one from the city – and the city's senior/disabled exemption would therefore have to be adjusted if most..."

Aug. 11, 2017 News Column by Michael King

False Premise
"...false premise that – absent unfettered physical access – disabled persons are "barred from affecting policy" ["Access Denied," News,..."

July 31, 2017 Postmarks

Texans With Disabilities Physically Barred From Policymakers
The inaccessibility at the Capitol is emblematic of the city at large
"...Historically, to be disabled is to be excluded. However, when possible, people with..."

July 28, 2017 News Feature by Taylor Jackson Buchanan

Lege Lines: Elsewhere Under the Dome
What happened during the wild week before sine die?
"...registration fees, while slashing the funding we restored for disabled children's acute therapy services."... The Texas Moving Image Incentive..."

June 2, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

Mastrogeorge Theatre's Good People
This production of David Lindsay-Abaire's play gives us a close look at the folks inside Southie – and why some never leave
"...in middle age, caring for an adult daughter who's disabled and desperately seeking employment, having just been sacked from..."

June 2, 2017 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Hightower Report: Where Does Inequality Come From?
By taking from the needy and giving to the rich
"...health care for the poor, the elderly, and the disabled. That's not just a cut in dollars, but in..."

June 2, 2017 News Column by Jim Hightower

Last Day at the Lege
Sine die arrives as threat of a special session looms
"...freezes many essential social programs (including devastating funding for disabled children’s acute therapy service), while upping border spending (even..."

May 29, 2017 News Post by Richard Whittaker

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