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New MD Anderson Campus and UT hospital scheduled to open in 2030 on the now-demolished Erwin Center site.

If you think this is a stupid idea, I suggest you write your council person.

The city’s automated license plate reader program ended July 1.

The Guadalupe River rose 26 feet in 45 minutes. There are 14 helicopters in the air rescuing those impacted by the floodwaters, as well as nine rescue teams with swimmers, and 400-500 responders on the ground.

Patrick said approximately 20 children were unaccounted for from Camp Mystic,

The fees on my water bill are already over $100 per month. Maybe if we weren’t paying to build multimillion dollar pylons for I-35’s non existent parkland (that we also can’t afford to build or maintain) we wouldn’t have to come up with more new fees.

I left a little after 9. Did anyone wind up getting arrested? Any vandalism? Tear gas, rubber bullets?

Reminder that the protest starts at 5pm on Sat 6/14 at the Texas Capitol.

Looks like Tesla is testing their autonomous vehicles in the neighborhood between Mabel Davis Park and Burleson Rd. Oh wait, Tesla didn't want us to know where this was happening...

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/20805596

Tesla is trying to prevent the city of Austin, Texas, from releasing public records involving self-driving robotaxis

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Watch Athena the owl and her owlets!

Dade Phelan is a spineless SOB

Anyone heard anymore about opening satellite animal shelters around the city? This sounded like a great idea when it was proposed by city council, but I haven’t read anything about it since. Maybe it’s part of the “strategic plan” mentioned in the article.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/19230205

Cedar Park, Texas, is a suburban enclave that most reminds me of Scottsdale, Ariz. Wide, tree-lined boulevards without much crime and with people going about their lives in their neighbourhoods.

For those who think it's not going to happen locally, it likely already has.

Looks like TX Lege is chipping away at height and view restrictions so UT can build baby build.

New to Lemmy, hoping I can post this here. Reddit mods insisted I needed some apolitical post history before they'd allow me to post political events :/

Rolling format ends as fest adapts to life with no convention center

The vote was 11-0

This has to be the biggest batch of bullshit excuses I have ever heard. Gas, water, and sewer are all buried, but somehow burying electrical is “impossible”.

https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2025/03/burying-austins-power-lines-would-cost-50-billion-and-is-pretty-much-impossible/

"Organizers said they were assured by city leaders for months that they would be able to produce the festival "without these impediments." They added that they were ultimately told the bollards would stay intact ... making it impossible to produce without a financial loss."

“One of our employees said she asked for his ID, and he said ‘I’m Dan Patrick.’ And she said, ‘I still need to see your ID."

Happy Cactus for the win