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How Carole Keeton Strayhorn and the state destroyed a healing camp for kids

Former comptroller defends her actions on foster care

A green-skills program caters to children who have aged out of the foster-care system

Bebe Gaines talks about the day the state closed down her therapeutic camp for troubled foster kids.

• City Council meets today (Thursday); among the tasks, reconsidering the design teams for the new central library. See "City...

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

Your do-good guide for Nov. 20-27

Think globally, shop locally, and we'll all be better for it

Wounds still fresh from Cap Metro / ATU conflict

There's the 15-member task force, which makes its recommendations to council this week, and then there's you – what are your plans for saving Austin music?

Texas Dems held the final hearing last week gathering testimony opposed and in favor of the Texas Two-Step

City staff's landfill-expansion decision has violated – at least in the spirit – a resolution passed by council. Now everybody wants to know why.

A front-runner has yet to emerge to defeat Craddick

The Sunset Advisory Commission recommends drastic action to remedy the problems plaguing the Texas Youth Commission: dissolve the agency

Scientists overwhelmingly reject "creation science" and "intelligent design"

Water shortage forces family farms into survival mode

Jacob's Well runs dry, leaving water experts wondering how to curb pumping limits

• At press time, Capital Metro drivers and mechanics voted to accept the latest contract offer from StarTran, after intervention...

News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond

Your good citizen guide for Nov. 13-20