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On most mornings, Hungry Hill Foundation is vibrant and bustling. Serving free hot meals from its food truck or cold sandwiches out of the multipurpose room fridge is the first priority for founder Chase Wright.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
On most mornings, Hungry Hill Foundation is vibrant and bustling. Serving free hot meals from its food truck or cold sandwiches out of the multipurpose room fridge is the first priority for founder Chase Wright.
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“Every dollar ensures all Austinites have access to well-kept parks, trails, and green spaces,” the Austin Parks Foundation says. Austin’s iconic Zilker Park has played host to the ACL Fest for decades, drawing hundreds of thousands of spectators a year.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“Every dollar ensures all Austinites have access to well-kept parks, trails, and green spaces,” the Austin Parks Foundation says. Austin’s iconic Zilker Park has played host to the ACL Fest for decades, drawing hundreds of thousands of spectators a year.
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The Austin City Council this week will decide the future of one of East Austin’s most historic school sites, as a proposal to rezone the former Rosewood Elementary School property at 2406 Rosewood Avenue heads to a final vote.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The Austin City Council this week will decide the future of one of East Austin’s most historic school sites, as a proposal to rezone the former Rosewood Elementary School property at 2406 Rosewood Avenue heads to a final vote.
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The Nov. 4 trouncing of Austin City Council’s Proposition Q tax hike ballot measure has prompted soul searching by some council members as they seek to regain the trust of voters who overwhelmingly rejected higher taxes.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The Nov. 4 trouncing of Austin City Council’s Proposition Q tax hike ballot measure has prompted soul searching by some council members as they seek to regain the trust of voters who overwhelmingly rejected higher taxes.
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Two Travis Co. property owners filed suit Wednesday against members of the Travis Co. Commissioners Court, saying the group exceeded their authority when they voted to set the county tax rate in excess of the amount needed to address the July 4 flooding disaster.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Two Travis Co. property owners filed suit Wednesday against members of the Travis Co. Commissioners Court, saying the group exceeded their authority when they voted to set the county tax rate in excess of the amount needed to address the July 4 flooding disaster.
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Austin voters slam-dunked the city council on Tuesday with a resounding rejection of Proposition Q – a proposal that would have permanently raised the city’s property-tax rate to generate roughly $110 million annually.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Austin voters slam-dunked the city council on Tuesday with a resounding rejection of Proposition Q – a proposal that would have permanently raised the city’s property-tax rate to generate roughly $110 million annually.
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A tax increase to aid homelessness also would price some people out of their homes.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
A tax increase to aid homelessness also would price some people out of their homes.
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City of Austin park officials privately signed a new Event Agreement in August with Live Nation-controlled C3 Presents that locks Zilker Park into hosting the Austin City Limits Music Festival through 2040.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
City of Austin park officials privately signed a new Event Agreement in August with Live Nation-controlled C3 Presents that locks Zilker Park into hosting the Austin City Limits Music Festival through 2040.
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More than a decade after Austin became the nation’s largest no-kill city for shelter animals, local leaders voted to revise the city’s no-kill policy, raising the ire of animal welfare advocates across the city.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
More than a decade after Austin became the nation’s largest no-kill city for shelter animals, local leaders voted to revise the city’s no-kill policy, raising the ire of animal welfare advocates across the city.
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Days after AFP published a story last week on local homeless nonprofits funding a PAC promoting the Prop. Q tax-increase on Austin’s Nov. 4 ballot, TX AG Ken Paxton announced a probe of “a potentially illegal fundraising scheme” by those nonprofit PAC donors.
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October 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Days after AFP published a story last week on local homeless nonprofits funding a PAC promoting the Prop. Q tax-increase on Austin’s Nov. 4 ballot, TX AG Ken Paxton announced a probe of “a potentially illegal fundraising scheme” by those nonprofit PAC donors.
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Top contributors to a political committee promoting a city of Austin tax increase on the Nov. 4 ballot overwhelmingly stand to benefit politically or financially from Prop Q funding priorities, such as affordable housing, homelessness, and public safety.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Top contributors to a political committee promoting a city of Austin tax increase on the Nov. 4 ballot overwhelmingly stand to benefit politically or financially from Prop Q funding priorities, such as affordable housing, homelessness, and public safety.
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Austin has a long history of LGBTQ+ activism and active leadership from local groups like allgo, Out Youth, and Austin Pride. Yet Pride in Black ATX is one of the city’s few coalitions creating events that center the Black LGBTQ+ community.
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October 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Austin has a long history of LGBTQ+ activism and active leadership from local groups like allgo, Out Youth, and Austin Pride. Yet Pride in Black ATX is one of the city’s few coalitions creating events that center the Black LGBTQ+ community.
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ATX United PAC leaders told AFP that they will deliver petition signatures to the city clerk Monday, requiring the city council to put a measure on the ballot asking voters if they want to delay the city’s $1.6 billion replacement plan for the Convention Center.
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October 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
ATX United PAC leaders told AFP that they will deliver petition signatures to the city clerk Monday, requiring the city council to put a measure on the ballot asking voters if they want to delay the city’s $1.6 billion replacement plan for the Convention Center.
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Locals wouldn’t know it hiking around Town Lake or shopping at Whole Foods, but Black people have always existed in Austin.
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September 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Locals wouldn’t know it hiking around Town Lake or shopping at Whole Foods, but Black people have always existed in Austin.
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OPINION | Thursday the Austin City Council is scheduled to consider saving animal shelter money by revising city reporting of the spaying of visibly pregnant animals and by adjusting how it calculates live-release rates (agenda item 3).
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September 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
OPINION | Thursday the Austin City Council is scheduled to consider saving animal shelter money by revising city reporting of the spaying of visibly pregnant animals and by adjusting how it calculates live-release rates (agenda item 3).
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The July floods that hit Central Texas were catastrophic, killing more than 135 people, including 27 campers and counselors at Kerr County’s Camp Mystic and 10 people near Leander in Travis County. Estimated damages are approximately $20 billion.
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September 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The July floods that hit Central Texas were catastrophic, killing more than 135 people, including 27 campers and counselors at Kerr County’s Camp Mystic and 10 people near Leander in Travis County. Estimated damages are approximately $20 billion.
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Almost a year after the Austin City Council voted to demolish the downtown convention center and sink $1.6 billion into a larger replacement, the future of that new downtown convention center might be left up to voters.
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September 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Almost a year after the Austin City Council voted to demolish the downtown convention center and sink $1.6 billion into a larger replacement, the future of that new downtown convention center might be left up to voters.
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As Austin continues to struggle with an affordable housing crunch, the Austin City Council passed a resolution Thursday that aims to fund the preservation of the city’s older naturally occurring affordable housing (NOAH).
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September 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
As Austin continues to struggle with an affordable housing crunch, the Austin City Council passed a resolution Thursday that aims to fund the preservation of the city’s older naturally occurring affordable housing (NOAH).
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The Austin City Council today is scheduled to consider a resolution that would direct city staff to study ways to inventory, fund, and protect the city’s endangered stock of existing affordable housing.
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September 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The Austin City Council today is scheduled to consider a resolution that would direct city staff to study ways to inventory, fund, and protect the city’s endangered stock of existing affordable housing.
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Since 2009, Recycled Reads has proven to be as weird and engaging as the city that owns it.
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September 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Since 2009, Recycled Reads has proven to be as weird and engaging as the city that owns it.
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With the number of unhoused people in Austin rising significantly, city officials have released a new online app tool to better connect people experiencing homelessness to support services.
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September 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
With the number of unhoused people in Austin rising significantly, city officials have released a new online app tool to better connect people experiencing homelessness to support services.
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D10 Council Member Marc Duchen was the sole dissenter in the Austin City Council’s 10-1 vote to approve an unprecedented $6.3 billion budget on August 14. Afterwards, Duchen discussed the city budget and taxes with Austin Free Press.
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September 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
D10 Council Member Marc Duchen was the sole dissenter in the Austin City Council’s 10-1 vote to approve an unprecedented $6.3 billion budget on August 14. Afterwards, Duchen discussed the city budget and taxes with Austin Free Press.
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Austin City Council members are tackling the city’s rising number of reported hate incidents by restructuring Austin’s Hate Crimes Task Force to make it a city-led initiative that does a better job of tracking and responding to crimes and building public trust.
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August 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Austin City Council members are tackling the city’s rising number of reported hate incidents by restructuring Austin’s Hate Crimes Task Force to make it a city-led initiative that does a better job of tracking and responding to crimes and building public trust.
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Looming over AISD are stark disparities between campuses revealed in an independent analysis presented to trustees in December but largely hidden from the school community.
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August 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Looming over AISD are stark disparities between campuses revealed in an independent analysis presented to trustees in December but largely hidden from the school community.
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Former mayoral candidate Jeff Bowen filed a legal petition today asking a local appeals court to correct “intentionally misleading” language that the Austin City Council recently approved for a November ballot measure to increase city property taxes.
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August 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Former mayoral candidate Jeff Bowen filed a legal petition today asking a local appeals court to correct “intentionally misleading” language that the Austin City Council recently approved for a November ballot measure to increase city property taxes.
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