Nina Hernandez

The Colorado Land Trust announced Thursday that it has received a $1 million grant that will allow it to purchase and “conserve 600 acres of coastal wetlands along East Matagorda Bay.” The group said the grant, awarded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, will allow it to preserve the land for education, recreation and […]

Over the weekend, the Central Texas Food Bank, the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Whole Foods Market hope to take in enough donations to feed 50,000 people in need this holiday season. The fifth annual Stuff the Bus food drive runs Dec. 9-11. Drop off nonperishable food items (like canned meats or vegetables and pasta) […]

The city’s Animal Services department announced Wednesday its plans to kick off a two-year pilot program focused on neighborhoods in Central and East Austin. The neighborhoods in question – covering ZIP codes 78702, 78724 and 78617 – average three times as many animal services calls as other places in Austin. To fund the program, the […]

Nearly 50 local writers took part in the Austin Public Library’s Aural Literature program in the last two years, connecting on the last Wednesday of the month to share their work. Those efforts are now available in the Aural Literature anthology book, which is available at most APL locations. Note that they printed a mere […]

Prospective Austin Police Department officers no longer have to mail in a nearly 40-page application in order to be considered for a job, the city announced Tuesday. The new electronic application lives at www.apdrecruiting.org, where applicants will fill out a questionnaire and submit a current Experian credit report. The department explained that before now, some […]

Geoffrey Freeman, the former Austin Police Department officer who shot and killed 17-year-old David Joseph in February, settled with the city on Friday, Dec. 2. The $35,000 payout guarantees that Freeman will never work for APD again and allowed the city to cancel an arbitration meeting originally scheduled for today. Interim City Manager Elaine Hart […]

Help further Austin’s zero-waste goals by attending the city’s second annual [Re]Verse Pitch competition, where local companies come up with ideas for recycling each other’s unwanted items into a new product or service. The business or nonprofit with the best idea wins the $10,000 Innovation Prize. Here’s a taste of some of the proposals: ACL […]

The city’s public health department has made a long-overdue name change in the interest of clarity. The Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department will now be known as Austin Public Health. In a Thursday press release, the department said it hopes the change will make it easier for people to remember its name. The […]

The Austin Monitor and Glasshouse Policy invite state and local leaders to the third annual City Summit, a two-day policy extravaganza that runs Dec. 2-3 at Google Fiber Space, 201 Colorado St. The two days feature panels on broadband access in rural areas, the future of ride-sharing and our ever-controversial public school finance system. One […]