Chelsey Zhu
@chelseyzhu.bsky.social
Digital producer @kutnews.bsky.social
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February 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
If that’s something you can get behind, please consider supporting our work. Donations are truly our livelihood and the reason we’re able to bring you these stories about Austin. donate.kut.org
Of course, we cover serious, not-always-happy news that people in Austin need to know. But overall, local news reminds me over and over that there are good people here doing good things. And I think we really need that now.
February 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Of course, we cover serious, not-always-happy news that people in Austin need to know. But overall, local news reminds me over and over that there are good people here doing good things. And I think we really need that now.
Or how a local bookstore is making sure people have access to banned books (from Elizabeth McQueen): www.kut.org/business/202...
Black-owned Austin bookstore champions banned books and community
“If an entity is going to try to restrict access to a title or a book, we are going to try to figure out how to make sure people have access to that book,” said Eric Brooks, who owns Black Pearl Books...
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February 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Or how a local bookstore is making sure people have access to banned books (from Elizabeth McQueen): www.kut.org/business/202...
Or how UT Austin students banded together to organize a Latinx graduation ceremony after the university cut their funding (from Greta Díaz González Vázquez): www.kut.org/education/20...
UT cut funding for a Latinx grad ceremony. Students raised money to have one anyway.
Latinx students at UT Austin raised more than $8,000 to be able to put on the bilingual graduation ceremony. Families traveled from all over Texas to hear the students' names read in Spanish as they c...
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February 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Or how UT Austin students banded together to organize a Latinx graduation ceremony after the university cut their funding (from Greta Díaz González Vázquez): www.kut.org/education/20...
Or how Austin has its very own edible food forest that provides fresh produce to anyone who stops by (from
Katy McAfee): www.kut.org/energy-envir...
Katy McAfee): www.kut.org/energy-envir...
Austin has an edible food forest open to everyone — and it's getting bigger
Festival Beach Food Forest is in the early stages of expanding its edible garden from less than an acre to 3.5 acres. Organizers hope to plant hundreds more fruit trees, vegetables, herbs and medicina...
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February 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Or how Austin has its very own edible food forest that provides fresh produce to anyone who stops by (from
Katy McAfee): www.kut.org/energy-envir...
Katy McAfee): www.kut.org/energy-envir...
... developers in Austin built a bunch of housing and prices actually came down (from @mcglinchyreports.bsky.social)
www.kut.org/housing/2025...
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Austin is no longer the Texas metro with the highest rent prices
According to data from Zillow, average rents in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro now outpace those in Austin for the first time since at least 2015.
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February 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
... developers in Austin built a bunch of housing and prices actually came down (from @mcglinchyreports.bsky.social)
www.kut.org/housing/2025...
www.kut.org/housing/2025...
I fell in love with Austin by reading @kutnews.bsky.social. Why? Because my colleagues put a TON of work into reporting about the cool/weird/genuinely good things Austinites are doing to make this city a better place to live. Like how, after years of rent increases ....
February 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I fell in love with Austin by reading @kutnews.bsky.social. Why? Because my colleagues put a TON of work into reporting about the cool/weird/genuinely good things Austinites are doing to make this city a better place to live. Like how, after years of rent increases ....