Topic: Austin American-Statesman

Texas takes over hiring at mental health hospitals

The Texas health department has taken over hiring authority of all doctors at its 10 mental health facilities following newspaper reports that...

Austin considers banning disposable bags in 2014

Austin officials are still shuffling effective dates as they work on a proposed ban on disposable paper and plastic bags at the capital city's...

Texas AG asked about 48-hour rule to report abuse

The Texas attorney general's office has been asked to clarify whether health professionals dealing with adults who say they were abused as children ...
An independent review panel has recommended the firing of an Austin police officer who fatally shot a man last May, according to our exclusive news...
The Austin Police Union is demanding an investigation into confidential information leaked concerning a deadly police shooting. It comes after...
Online transport marketplace ranked 12th among Austin's top 40 small business workplaces, according to the Austin American-Statesman 2011 Top...
In my office, Holly and I have a huge whiteboard covered with ideas we want to talk about on PopStuff. Up near the top is the half-formed thought...

Five-time Olympic champion Peirsol retires

Aaron Peirsol, a five-time Olympic swim champion who still owns world records in the 100- and 200-metre backstroke, has retired from competitive swimming.Peirsol told the Austin American-Statesman, his hometown newspaper, that he will not compete at next year's London Olympics ...

Veteran Education

National Public Radio has identified what they call a " Nearly 300,000 American veterans alone have this year applied for tuition benefits, according to an April report in the Austin American-Statesman. But veterans can experience anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol ...
Dischord's been steadily remastering its catalog and reissuing it on vinyl and mp3, but it hasn't yet gotten to Baltimore's gnostic rock weirdos Lungfish. Meanwhile, frontman Daniel Higgs' recent solo record on Thrill Jockey, Say God, offers at least ...