With federal funding set to end in October, refugees in Austin will be left to navigate on their own
Nonprofits help refugees pay for rent and groceries, land jobs, sign up for medical benefits and enroll in school. The end of federal funding could mean these services disappear.
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Girls point to Selena Quintanilla-Perez as a symbol of empowerment who unflinchingly embraced her culture and identity.
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Voters in the Austin area will decide on city council positions, school board races, money for roads and more.
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The Williamson County Commissioners Court has appointed Steven Snell to serve as county judge. His appointment comes a little more than two weeks after former County Judge Bill Gravell resigned to take a job with the Trump administration.
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Students plan to protest the national conference. UT had no comment on the views of some of the conference speakers.
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Just like the original site, the new gallery will be free and open to the public. The building and its accompanying concrete structures spell “HOPE” from a bird's-eye view, an acronym for Helping Other People Everywhere.
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Saldivar will be eligible for parole again in 2030.
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Keeton was the first female mayor of Austin and the first woman to hold the job of state comptroller.
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The fare collection glitches began in 2023 and culminated in a month-long outage last year. With data missing, no analysis is possible, so the full financial impact of the old payment system's failures may never be known.
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