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Jun. 10, 2021 PARD announces that the Our Parks, Our Future Long-Range Plan has won a 2021 National Planning Excellence Award. Austin Parks and Recreation Department (PARD) announces that the Our Parks, Our Future Long-Range Plan has won a 2021 National Planning Excellence Award from the American Planning Association (APA). APA’s National Planning Awards program recognizes outstanding planning efforts that help lead communities forward to a stronger, more equitable, and sustainable future. Award recipients are selected by a jury of planning practitioners and only one award recipient is...

The program’s returns were also unimpressive. If measured by job creation, the program cost the state at least $211,600 per job, according to a calculation by the Houston Chronicle. “No one had really questioned this program,” said Greco, of Central Texas Interfaith. The reauthorization was a once-in-a-decade chance to challenge it. “We knew in our guts that the program was just a blank check, but we also are very sober about the realities of the Texas legislature.” In Texas, the legislative sessions last only five months, every two years. The clock was ticking. An unlikely coalitio...

A proposed solar power plant project in southwest Brown County is still under consideration.  The project has been proposed by IP Radian/Intersect Power of San Francisco, California.  It would cover approximately 3000 acres and produce up to 300 mega-watts of electricity, enough to power up to 50,000 homes.  The project would be solar only, no wind turbines. In January of 2020 the Brookesmith ISD voted to create a “Radian Reinvestment Zone for the 3000 acres of the project, and approved a Texas Chapter 313 Appraised Value Limitation. IP Radian also requested a property tax abatement from...

By Big Frank Texas-based, GRAMMY-nominated La Maquinaria Norteña (pronounced “Lah Ma-kee-NAR-ee-ah Nor-TEN-ya”) and Rolling Stone’s "perpetual live favorite,”Randy Rogers Band, collaborated on a new song called “Chupacabra” that released on May 5 — Cinco de Mayo. “This song is a product of lockdown and division that slapped our world In the face," says Randy Rogers. "Keith and I had a vision of joining forces and cultures to create something to believe in. The common man, humanity, and the gift of music and how it can bring us all together. Chupacabra is real, it’s our wa...

Texas House passes bill seeking to impose voting restrictions across the state We break down the controversial legislation that is being called a bid for election integrity by Republicans, and voter suppression by Democrats. Author: Alan Kozeluh Updated: 9:38 PM CDT May 7, 2021 SAN ANTONIO — The Texas House of Representatives approved Senate Bill 7 by a vote of 81-64 in the early hours of Friday morning, advancing a bill whose authors say will provide election integrity.  “I happen to believe that we don’t need to wait for bad things to happen in order t...