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Search ArticlesThe Cost of Cool: Austin’s Tech Growth and the People Left Behind with Tracye McDaniel
On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. presents part one of a two-part discussion with Tracye McDaniel, founder and CEO of McDaniel Strategy Ecosystems, president of TIP Strategies, Inc., and co-author of ‘The Cost of Cool: Austin’s Tech Growth and the People Left Behind.’ TIP Strategies is an Austin-based economic development and workforce consulting firm.
Austin opens applications for public art projects across the city Original
The city is accepting applications for four different Art in Public Places opportunities — an initiative that commissions artists to create artwork for public sites around Austin. Selected artists will receive budgets ranging from $90,000 to $300,000 to complete their projects, according to Melissa Alvarado, cultural heritage tourism division manager at Austin Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment. Alvarado said she encourages all artists — regardless of expertise — to apply.
Flash flood warnings issued across Texas Hill Country as heavy rain moves through region
Several areas throughout the Texas Hill Country are under flash flood warnings as heavy rain raises the threat of life-threatening flooding across the region. The National Weather Service issued the flood warnings Tuesday as rounds of rain moved across South and Central Texas. Flash flood warnings are issued when dangerous flooding is either very likely or already occurring.
Documentary on the fight against a bat-killing plague flies into Austin Original
Director Kristin Tièche says the seed for her new documentary, The Invisible Mammal, was planted back in 1999, when she was a film student in upstate New York. “I was sitting at this pub on campus, and I looked up and the sky was just filled with bats,” said Tieche, a native Californian who had never seen a bat before. “I just thought it was the coolest thing ever," she said. These days, such a sight is all but impossible to behold in New York and many other states.
Flood risk increases for the Austin area this week with up to 6 inches of rain possible in spots
The Austin area is under a flood watch from 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday evening. A wide area of Texas is under the threat of heavy rain, leading Gov. Greg Abbott to activate state emergency response resources, including rescue boats and Black Hawk helicopters, according to the governor’s press office. “The State of Texas will deploy all necessary resources to help local officials respond to potential severe weather and flash flooding across the state,” Abbott said in a press release.
Austin ISD charged thousands for public records as critics warn fees limit access
The Austin school district has charged dozens of parents, policy experts, journalists and other members of the public thousands of dollars in the past year for access to government records, raising concerns that the cost of obtaining information could keep residents from understanding how the district makes some of its most consequential decisions.
Corpus Christi gave $100M in water discounts to industry giants. Locals picked up the bill
For at least a decade, Corpus Christi sold water to a handful of large industrial plants at a steeply discounted rate, according to documents and interviews with city officials. Residents and businesses paid more than $100 million to subsidize water for some of the world’s richest energy companies, the city’s rate models show. Three years ago, Corpus Christi doubled the companies’ water rates in an effort to correct the imbalance.
With a CapMetro strike on the table, workers say better training would improve bus service
Brenda Jackson is a second-generation CapMetro bus driver. Her mom drove a bus. So did her aunt. She followed in their footsteps, maneuvering a hulking vehicle through Austin's streets for 25 years. "CapMetro has been a constant in my life," Jackson said. Two years ago, she started training new drivers. She teaches them how to operate 40- and 60-foot long buses while keeping passengers safe and responding to conflicts on board.
'We all deserve to get back home': Austin vigil honors Houston man killed by ICE
About 200 people packed a sweltering South Austin church Saturday evening to mourn Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Houston homebuilder fatally shot by a federal immigration officer. They heard local immigrants describe how detention and deportation have shaped their families. Some carried white flowers into Wildflower Unitarian Universalist Church on East Oltorf Street. People used bilingual programs as fans while late arrivals stood along the walls.
'Papers' collects Bernie Diaz's assemblage and collage work in Georgetown
This summer, artist/educator Bernie Diaz will present the exhibition Papers at Georgetown Art Center. It’ll feature many of his paper-based works, including assemblages and collages he’s worked on over the past several years. “Papers is a body of work that continues a series of objects that have been produced over the last maybe five or six years,” Diaz says. “I started during the pandemic. It was a very productive time for a lot of artists.