State Employees Return to the Office, Find Limited Parking, Equipment
A few weeks after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered all state agencies to have employees get back to the offices “as soon as practicable,” host Nikki DaVaughn checks in with KUT reporter Andrew Weber to find o...
28 Apr 202525min
Why Overdose Deaths Are Declining, 1M in Scholarships for HS Senior, and It’s Eeyore’s Birthday
We’re full of positive news this week on the Friday News Roundup — and there’s truly something for us all to celebrate. After years of rising overdose deaths, the Travis County Medical Examiner announ...
25 Apr 202536min
How Austinites Really Feel About the Domain
The Domain tends to invoke a strong feeling in Austinites: We either love it or hate it. Host Nikki DaVaughn is joined by Hey Austin newsletter editor Kelsey Bradshaw and executive producer Eva Ruth M...
24 Apr 202535min
The Hype-Beast for Austin’s Live Music Scene (Sponsored)
Believe it or not, it’s someone’s full-time job to promote Austin as the “Live Music Capital of the World” that we proclaim to be. Host Nikki DaVaughn is joined by Omar Lozano, the Director of Live Mu...
23 Apr 202519min
What’s Wrong With Austin’s Public Art Program?
Why did the City of Austin almost spend millions of dollars to bring out-of-state artists’ work to the airport? And what’s with the awkward wrangling over the public art Austin already paid for that w...
23 Apr 202526min
The Dos and Don'ts of Austin Trash
We don’t want to shame anyone this Earth Day, but Austinites, are you throwing things away correctly? The city has an ambitious goal to drastically reduce the amount of trash we send to landfills by 2...
22 Apr 202526min
The Double-Murder of Two UT Students You’ve Never Heard Of
If the double-murder of Keitha Morris and John White, two University of Texas sweethearts, had taken place today instead of in 1969, you’d probably know all about it. But for decades, it’s been hidden...
21 Apr 202527min
Voucher Bill Passes, KUT Funding Threatened, and Austin’s Best Bar
It finally happened — after years of trying, the Texas House approved a bill to give tax money to Texas parents for private school tuition. The details still have to be worked out, but the $1 billion ...
18 Apr 202527min
