by Daryl Slusher | Mar 10, 2021 | City Council 2021
As noted a few weeks ago, the Austin Independent had a few stories in the works when the power outages resulting from the Deep Freeze hit. At that point we held off on completing those stories and instead switched to covering the collapse of the state grid, and in...
by Daryl Slusher | Mar 10, 2021 | City Council 2021
Last week featured an official City of Austin apology from the City Council for the City’s “participation in the enslavement of Black people, for its active involvement in segregation and systemic discrimination, for exacerbating racial divides through both active and...
by Daryl Slusher | Mar 3, 2021 | Coronavirus
The Governors of Texas and Mississippi yesterday lifted coronavirus restrictions, including mask requirements and capacity limitations on all businesses. Texas Governor Greg Abbott was the first to make the announcement followed a few hours later by Mississippi...
by Daryl Slusher | Feb 25, 2021 | Texas Deep Freeze
Let’s begin this update with a multiple choice quiz. Please fill in how you think Texas Governor Greg Abbott ended the first paragraph of his statewide speech Wednesday night. Here is the beginning: “My fellow Texans. Good evening from the state emergency operations...
by Daryl Slusher | Feb 23, 2021 | Texas Deep Freeze
The snow and ice are gone, but the tragic impacts linger. At the peak of power outages four million Texans were without power; some, including many Austinites for up to 90 hours, as the state’s coldest temperatures in decades persisted for a week. Bursted pipes...
