Austin city manager Marc Ott surprised everyone when documents released last week revealed he had punished Austin police chief Art Acevedo for “insubordination.” Ott has come under fire from...
In Texas, people don’t like taxes, and any form of tax exemption is good news for everyone. The Emergency Preparation Supplies Sales Tax Holiday, which begins on April 23, exempts emergency supplies...
Despite the fact that one in five Americans faced mental health problems in 2014, only 60 percent of U.S. adults with a mental illness received treatment, and measures to address inadequate services and...
Austin’s heavy traffic problems are hardly addressed well. To ease traffic for President Obama’s visit at the start of South By Southwest, non-essential City employees were allowed to leave...
Editor's note: This column appears in a point-counterpoint regarding Facebook's new "Reactions." Read this column's corresponding counterpoint here.
Facebook has over one...
The City of Austin champions itself as the “Live Music Capital of the World,” touting popular national events such as the two weekends of Austin City Limits or next week’s annual South...
Police brutality is not a recent occurrence. It has been a decades-long problem for minorities — especially black individuals — and has once again captured the attention of the entire country,...
Outside of corn production, Iowa dominates headlines for a brief moment at the beginning of the presidential primaries. That time is coming around again when Iowa caucus-goers mobilize Monday evening to...
When The Center for Medical Progress released heavily edited, misleading videos regarding Planned Parenthood’s alleged selling of aborted baby parts on July 14, Republicans pounced on this controversy,...
For the past few weeks, students at over 100 colleges and universities organized protests calling for racial and social reforms, notably sparked by protests at the University of Missouri. Other nationwide...
Congress passed the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013 that pegs the interest rates of federal student loans to 10-year Treasury note yields, a market-based rate. The interest rate for the duration...
Austin’s roads have seen 81 deaths in 2015. This number is on track to be one of the deadliest years for traffic deaths in the city’s history. More troubling is the number of pedestrian tragedies...
Austin welcomed students from more than 70 countries this semester to UT, strengthening the city’s growing trend of diversity. However, Austin’s growth has created inadequacies in public education...
The 2016 presidential election is going viral. Candidates, vying for the youth vote, are targeting social media sites such as Instagram to reach out to younger voters. But while social media is overwhelmingly...
