Cheap Dining Till Thursday For Bike-to-Eat Week
Biking this week will save you more than just gas money. Bike-to-Eat Week (BTEW) is a project giving cyclists discounts at certain locally owned restaurants in Austin. All you have to do is show up on...
View ArticleiPhone App Might Make It Easier To Find Parking
On some days, you might have more success finding buried pirate treasure than a parking spot in downtown Austin. Enter: iPhones.
View ArticleNewest Downtown Tenant: A Tech Start-Up Space
The 16th floor of the Omni Hotel will now be a shared workspace for start-up technology companies.The Austin Chamber of Commerce announced the initiative today. They’re calling it Austin TechLive.The...
View ArticleRed-Light Cameras Reducing Accidents While Revenue Shrinks
The city of Austin has cut the number of car crashes at ten of its most dangerous intersections in half. But how? Red-light cameras that electronically photograph cars running red lights have been set...
View ArticleAre the Wood Ridge Apartments Safe? Commission Decides Tonight
A city commission may determine the fate of over 150 residents of a dilapidated apartment building tonight – and issue orders to “vacate, repair, demolish or secure” the complex.After the collapse of a...
View ArticleBridging the Digital Divide: Conference Aims to Bring Broadband Internet to...
In Texas, nearly one million households still are not using the Internet. More than 38 percent of Texans are still not connected to high-speed Internet at home, even though they could be. And with 11...
View ArticleERCOT Predicts No Power Outages This Summer
Since its creation in 1970, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has experienced blackouts (or in its vocabulary, rolling outages,) only three times. With the majority of that burden...
View ArticleBusiness Offers Shared Office Space, Childcare Under One Roof
One problem many freelancers, the self-employed and would-be entrepreneurs face is the challenge of balancing child care and a productive work life.When Amy Braden had her son three years ago, she...
View ArticleTexas Helping Out with New Mexico Wildfires
A little more than nine months after wildfires devastated parts of Central Texas, new fires are spreading through New Mexico, burning over 278,000 acres of forest. Twenty-five states, including Texas,...
View ArticleHow the Homeless Deal With the Heat in Austin
As the Texas heat rolls in, some local organizations are trying to figure out how to help the elderly and homeless weather extreme temperatures. “Water shouldn’t be a luxury,” says Steve Luteran,...
View ArticleWal-Mart Employees Honored for Conduct During Padron Shooting
Today, family members of Austin Police Officer Jaime Padron joined Police Chief Art Acevedo in paying tribute to Wal-Mart employees whose quick reaction likely prevented further bloodshed in the...
View ArticleWill Crime Rates Continue to Go Down?
Crime rates in Texas, and particularly in Austin, have been in decline over the past few years.Most Texas jurisdictions saw declines in reported violent and property crime in the first six months of...
View ArticleUT Athletic Director Dodds on College Football Playoffs
A committee of university presidents, including University of Texas President Bill Powers, stood together on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. and said ‘No more.’ The committee approved a plan from Bowl...
View ArticleMeeting Tonight on Wood Ridge Apartments' Repairs
After the collapse of a second-floor walkway at the Wood Ridge Apartments on Burton Drive in Southeast Austin, the city ordered several residents to evacuate. Residents say apartment management failed...
View ArticleWill ACL Go To Two Weekends Next Year?
The release of the 2012 Austin City Limits Music Festival’s schedule grid wasn’t the only big Austin City Limits news today: Music festival producers are in talks with Austin officials to extend the...
View ArticleCheap Dining Till Thursday For Bike-to-Eat Week
Biking this week will save you more than just gas money. Bike-to-Eat Week (BTEW) is a project giving cyclists discounts at certain locally owned restaurants in Austin. All you have to do is show up on...
View ArticleiPhone App Might Make It Easier To Find Parking
On some days, you might have more success finding buried pirate treasure than a parking spot in downtown Austin. Enter: iPhones.
View ArticleNewest Downtown Tenant: A Tech Start-Up Space
The 16th floor of the Omni Hotel will now be a shared workspace for start-up technology companies.The Austin Chamber of Commerce announced the initiative today. They’re calling it Austin TechLive.The...
View ArticleRed-Light Cameras Reducing Accidents While Revenue Shrinks
The city of Austin has cut the number of car crashes at ten of its most dangerous intersections in half. But how? Red-light cameras that electronically photograph cars running red lights have been set...
View ArticleAre the Wood Ridge Apartments Safe? Commission Decides Tonight
A city commission may determine the fate of over 150 residents of a dilapidated apartment building tonight – and issue orders to “vacate, repair, demolish or secure” the complex.After the collapse of a...
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