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1 week ago | 
austinmonitor.com | Lina Fisher
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 by Lina Fisher The city’s parks department has backed away from a plan to close Barton Springs Pool an hour earlier this summer. The change would have eliminated the free daily night swims — full moon or not.
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2 weeks ago | 
austinmonitor.com | Lina Fisher
Monday, May 19, 2025 by Lina Fisher The first meeting of Austin’s long-awaited Community Police Review Commission (CPRC) was marked by urgency and undergirded by a strong sense of duty to a community that has been expecting this meeting for years. The formation of a civilian body to oversee and hold the Austin Police Department accountable should have happened in 2023, after voters approved the Austin Police Oversight Act that mandated it.
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3 weeks ago | 
austinmonitor.com | Lina Fisher
Thursday, May 15, 2025 by Lina Fisher Only a few weeks after Austin City Council passed a resolution requiring various regulations on artificial intelligence operations, a new 2GW data center is coming to Lockhart. Tract, a Colorado-based developer, has secured 1,500 acres for a “megasite” in Caldwell County, only about six miles away from famous barbecue joints Smitty’s Market, Kreuz Market, and Black’s. It has received enthusiastic support from Gov.
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4 weeks ago | 
austinmonitor.com | Lina Fisher
Friday, May 9, 2025 by Lina Fisher Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) continued slashing of federal funding for critical services is coinciding with and compounding an already dire budget crunch for Austin, which will force Council to make tough decisions on where to tighten the purse strings.
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1 month ago | 
austinchronicle.com | James Scott |Katherine McNevins |Lina Fisher |Richard Whittaker
Recommended happenings for you calendar consideration "Peek A Boo" by Autumn Mae Through May 3, Bolm ArtsIndeed a reference to Aldous Huxley’s renowned 1931 dystopian novel, Bolm Arts’ latest multi-artist exhibit tackles the ever-evolving questions of naturalism, commercialism, and personal and national identity reflected in the contemporary fiber world.
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1 month ago | 
austinmonitor.com | Lina Fisher
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 by Lina Fisher The embattled Violet Crown Amphitheater – a planned development including condos and offices off Highway 71 in Southwest Austin that was successfully beaten down in 2022 by angry neighbors – looks to be back, now under a new name: White Rocks Austin. A few years ago, Violet Crown was dubbed “Austin’s answer to Red Rocks” by its developers, International Development Management Co., and included plans for a 20,000-plus-capacity music venue.
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1 month ago | 
texashighways.com | Lina Fisher |Tyson Bird
The drive into Cuero through its farm-to-market roads is carpeted with Texas’ best treasures: wildflowers. Bluebonnets and Indian paintbrushes are the most prevalent, but soft pink evening primrose and fuchsia winecups spill over fence lines and into roadsides. Looking out over the fields of color, it’s difficult to imagine that just years before, the flowers were at risk of disappearing. The seat of largely rural DeWitt County, population 20,000, is many things.
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2 months ago | 
austinmonitor.com | Lina Fisher
Monday, March 31, 2025 by Lina Fisher At the beginning of the year, Travis County finally began offering a guaranteed lawyer to individuals who are arrested and can’t afford legal representation – a constitutional right known as counsel at first appearance, or CAFA. It took an ACLU lawsuit to urge the county to rectify its failure to offer CAFA to indigent constituents, but the program is now finally up and running, if only partially.
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2 months ago | 
austinmonitor.com | Lina Fisher
Thursday, March 20, 2025 by Lina Fisher Last week, Central Health announced at a Travis County Commissioners Court meeting that it has finally opened its Del Valle Health Center, the long-awaited collaboration with CommUnityCare that will expand access to health care for low-income Eastern Travis County residents.
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2 months ago | 
austinchronicle.com | James Scott |Katherine McNevins |Kimberley Jones |Lina Fisher
Pack your weekend with the best happenings around town Texas Sake Co. Thursday 20 - Sunday 23, multiple locationsSo you’ve decided to take an interest in this boozy fermented rice bev but don’t want to travel overseas for a sip? Well, well: You’re in luck, Chronicle reader, as this week kicks off Sake Week here in Austin and in Dallas.
