I needn’t remind you about the horrid state of Austin traffic — but are our leaders working to get our city moving again? Based on the so-called solutions they pursue, not so much.
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The biggest national news story of the past week concerned something President Donald Trump didn’t do: He and his party failed to pass a bill repealing and replacing Obamacare. The health care debacle...
The Texas Legislature has a long history of wasting their time on education bills that do nothing to alleviate the actual issues within the Texas education system. Instead they focus their energy on bills...
City council has produced a tentative resolution to transform the Aldridge Place neighborhood of North Campus into a historic district. The district would span from Guadalupe Street to Speedway and from...
Last week, U.S. government officials informed airlines that they must require passengers flying in from 10 airports to check certain personal electronic items, and must not allow them to take these items...
The Cultivating Learning and Safe Environments survey, which examined the prevalence of sexual violence, relationship violence, stalking and harassment at UT, was just released. And while the numbers reported...
When it comes to being environmentally friendly, everyone knows those three overused words: reduce, reuse and recycle. This method of environmentalism tends to focus on the individual. It doesn’t...
Last Friday marked the first major denial of Trump’s legislative agenda when moderate and conservative Republicans refused to support the American Health Care Act. This blow to President Donald Trump...
Last week, President Gregory Fenves released the results of a study on the prevalence of sexual misconduct at the University. In this report, the administration reasserted its commitment to preventing...
CodeNext sounds like a business major’s presentation on innovative language in the workplace, but it’s actually Austin’s shiny new “initiative to rewrite our outdated and complicated...
Last week, my eyes feasted upon a spectacle nearly too grotesque for words. Sitting in the Oval Office was President Donald Trump, a sight with which I am still not comfortable, and flanked on either side...
The 2017 edition of South by Southwest featured a “Startup Village” boasting an impressive set of speakers ranging from established tech companies, Beth Comstock vice chair of GE, to the nouveau...
