Austin-Travis County health officials have scaled back their Covid-19 risk-based guidelines to Stage 4 as cases and hospitalizations have steadily decreased. Dr. Desmar Walkes, Austin-Travis County health authority, credits mitigation efforts such as masking and vaccinations for the improvements. “The behaviors that have been undertaken by our community to get our numbers of cases down have been […]
Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera, KUT
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Austin narrows down police chief candidates to seven finalists
The city of Austin has narrowed the pool of candidates for police chief down to seven. The finalists are: Joseph Chacon, interim Austin police chief since former Chief Brian Manley retired in March Anne Kirkpatrick, former police chief, Oakland, Calif. Avery Moore, assistant police chief, Dallas Celeste Murphy, deputy police chief, Atlanta Mirtha Ramos, police chief, […]