Sony buys Alamo Drafthouse ( variety.com )
Wonder how much worse it can get?
Growing corn?
Any tips on growing corn in central Texas? Is it even practical? I sowed some corn in February, and they only grew 3ft. and looks like I might have a few very small corn cobs. The last time I tried to grow corn was in Ohio, and used the 3 sisters method, which worked pretty well. But idk wtf to do in central Texas.
Amplify Credit Union - problems with ACH transactions?
DAE have problems with ACH transactions at Amplify Credit Union?...
Reel mower sharpening?
Anyone know of a place around town that does reel mower sharpening? Austin Outdoor Power website says they no longer offer it. I have a kit but I don’t want to deal with doing it myself if I don’t have to. Thanks for any leads.
APD gets around ban on facial recognition by asking other cities to run it for them ( www.yahoo.com )
so true ( xkcd.com )
Bad things have happened to me and next to me and behind me because of niceholes wanting to control the traffic flow.
ACL fest brings almost a half billion dollars to Austin economy.
Also $8 mil in park improvements....
UT wants to throw $13.5 mil at I-35 caps
This whole project is such a waste of money....
With Austin office buildings 20 percent vacant, conversion to housing remains out of reach ( www.austinmonitor.com )
Two years ago, with the office real estate market in Austin stuck at a 20 percent vacancy rate, Brad Stein took the first of two trips to other markets to see if some of the hundreds of thousands of empty spaces in downtown Austin and areas beyond could be converted into badly needed housing stock. What Stein saw in a 2022 visit...
Charges dropped against all 57 pro-Palestinian demonstrators arrested on UT campus ( www.kut.org )
34 arrested during pro-Palestine protest at UT Austin ( www.kxan.com )
Cool Convenience Store Chain Foxtrot Closes All Austin Locations ( austin.eater.com )
Official Statement:...
Tesla skirts Austin's environmental rules at Texas gigafactory
https://electrek.co/2024/04/22/tesla-skirts-austins-environmental-rules-at-texas-gigafactory/
Why is someone suing to get Travis County DA José Garza out of office – and what comes next? - Austin Monitor ( www.austinmonitor.com )
A Travis County resident is trying to remove District Attorney José Garza from office....
Downtown Commission suggests tweaks to 'agent of change' noise requirements - Austin Monitor ( www.austinmonitor.com )
The Downtown Commission wants the city to take a more proactive role in a proposed new measure that seeks to address friction over noise levels between new residential developments and existing music venues....
New EV station will not charge forward in East Austin - Austin Monitor ( www.austinmonitor.com )
Plans for an electric-vehicle charging lot spanning Pleasant Valley Road were thwarted by Planning Commission members who objected to its auto-centric nature at their last meeting....
Travis County DA faces removal attempt under Texas law targeting 'rogue' prosecutors - Austin Monitor ( www.austinmonitor.com )
A Travis County resident is seeking to remove progressive District Attorney José Garza from office using a 2023 Texas law aimed at limiting the discretion of locally elected prosecutors. A state district judge in Comal County on Friday appointed an attorney to represent Texas and pursue the case....
New Report Quantifies How Racism Impacts Black Austinites ( www.austinchronicle.com )
A new report reveals that in Austin, the median Black household earned 54 cents for every dollar earned by the median white household in 2019....
Report offers city, developers strategies to reduce parking downtown - Austin Monitor ( www.austinmonitor.com )
A new report from public policy and real estate leaders in Austin recommends a variety of approaches the city can take to reduce the presence and impact of multilevel parking decks in new developments in the downtown core and beyond....
TipSheet: Austin City Council, 3.21.24 - Austin Monitor ( www.austinmonitor.com )
Today, City Council will convene again for a regular meeting. We’ve taken a look at the reasonably sized agenda and picked a few things that might be of interest. As usual, the entire agenda is also online and can be read in its entirety here....
