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It’s another La Niña year, which means Texans are having a warmer and drier winter than normal. But warmer temperatures don’t necessarily mean that we’ll get through the season without seeing a winter weather storm or power outages in Austin.
“It’s actually looking like a fairly warm Christmas here, but typically in this area of Back in the early days of the COVID pandemic, the courthouses closed. Court hearings were suddenly being held over Zoom, a service plenty of people still didn’t know how to use, if they even had a computer. “They didn’t know how to unmute themselves, or how to scan evidence in,” said Karen Miller, executive director Mapping Chaos Six months into his second term as president, Donald Trump was nervous about the chances for keeping a Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives after the 2026 elections. So in July, Trump demanded that Texas Republicans discard decades of precedent and redistrict the state’s congressional districts in the middle of the The city of Austin is surrounded by miles and miles of rolling Hill Country, dotted with Ashe juniper trees and blanketed with long native grasses. Most Austinites are probably not aware of it, but that means that our city is basically nestled in a high-risk wildfire zone, with our Central Texas flora being relatively dry On Saturday, Dec. 6, at 2 o’clock, about 15 people went to pee at the Capitol using the restroom aligned with their gender identity. Nothing happened that first trip. But after rallying at the rotunda, the group went to the bathroom a second time, and this time were met with at least six Texas Department For Gracie Willis, an Austin-based raids response attorney for the National Immigration Project, to practice immigration law today is not the same as it was 10 years ago. “A case that I would have taken when I first started my career in 2014, that case, that same set of facts, is going to be harder At close to 2 o’clock in the morning on Friday, Nov. 21, after hours of debate, the Austin ISD Board of Trustees voted to close eight elementary schools, two middle schools, and International High School. The voting meeting opened with nearly two hours of public comment, almost all AISD parents and teachers asking trustees to Five weeks into the school year, on a Monday morning at Lively Middle School, English teachers were called in for an unexpected training session with Austin ISD officials. They were soon informed that, starting that Wednesday, they had to trash the syllabi they were already teaching – Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills-compliant lesson plans that Public comment was full at the Austin ISD Board of Trustees meeting two days after the district announced that they’re not closing Palm, Maplewood, and Bryker Woods elementaries next school year, and will delay the school boundary changes to the following school year. “We feel relief for our students and staff,” Adam Sparks, a parent “we must have talked/ about flowers, Mrs Adams, because one day you made me a gift of/ daffodil bulbs,” ire’ne lara silva writes for the kind, elderly woman who drove her every day to kindergarten in South Texas. “Praisesong for Mrs Adams” is one of many poems included in the anthology Praisesong for the People: While the city of Austin’s defeated tax hike, Prop Q, took the forefront in conversations and lawn signs across our city this election cycle, statewide the focus was on 17 proposed amendments to the state constitution, which all passed on Tuesday. The green light down the ballot isn’t unusual; Texas voters have historically signed off On the evening of Nov. 4, Austin ISD sent an unexpected email out to all families in the district announcing that Palm, Bryker Woods, and Maplewood elementaries are being taken off the closure list next year. Additionally, the AISD Board of Trustees’ vote on new school boundary lines across the district is being postponed to
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