Kayak Rental Businesses Hold Earth Day Clean Up

byTerry Gutierrez

AUSTIN, Texas – Rowing Dock hosted an Earth Day Clean Up at Lady Bird Lake on Friday, where volunteers could clear the area on foot or by kayak.  The Earth Day Clean Up marked an expansion of Rowing Dock’s weekly Kayak Clean Up Crew, which launched last year.  Friday’s clean up was conducted in partnership with […]

Fiesta’s Return Proved San Antonio Still Knows How To Celebrate Culture

byTaryn Courville

Bryan Campa doesn’t attend Fiesta for the food or the alcohol, though he doesn’t begrudge people who do. To him, Fiesta is a chance to celebrate his culture. Fiesta, a festival that lasts for 11 days during April, honors the Battle of the Alamo and Battle of San Jacinto and celebrates the Mexican-American and other […]

Lawmakers Press National Guard Leaders after Soldier’s Death

byJill Ament

Texas lawmakers grilled the top brass in charge of the state’s border security operation Wednesday following the death of a National Guardsman who drowned trying to save migrants in the Rio Grande.  Spc. Bishop Evans, a 22-year-old from Arlington, went missing Friday at a border crossing near Eagle Pass, after he attempted to rescue two […]

Reporting Texas TV – April 21, 2022

byReporting Texas TV Staff

Journalism students from Moody College at the University of Texas made their fourth newscast of the semester on April 21, 2022. This week student journalists report on efforts to prevent dating violence and assist victims, the opening of a much-needed new swimming facility, and a UT student’s fundraiser to repair a school in El Salvador.

Addressing Dating Violence in High School and College

byEniola Longe

AUSTIN, Texas — Finnley Willms, president of the Texas Advocacy Project’s Teen Ambassadors of Hope, had no idea teen dating violence was such a common issue until she volunteered. With a mission to end dating and domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking in the state, Texas Advocacy Project (TAP) provides free legal services to survivors […]

Acclaim for ‘CODA’ a Sign that Times Are Changing for the Deaf Community

byMarina Garcia

Students at the Texas School for the Deaf in Austin, hope acclaim for “CODA” is just the beginning for better representation of the deaf community and opens the door for more opportunities for deaf individuals in the film industry.

Austinites Dance With Dogs To Encourage Adoptions From Animal Center

byVeronica Apodaca

Dances for Dogs and People Who Walk Them, an event held in cooperation with Forklift Danceworks, aimed to encourage adoptions from the Austin Animal Center, the largest no-kill animal shelter in the nation.

With White Tablecloths and a Storied History, Headliners Club Seeks to Maintain Relevance in Changing Austin

byAndrew Logan

Founded in 1954, the Headliners Club has remained a powerful institution in Austin for almost 70 years despite the many changes in the city’s demographics, and its leadership is confident it can sustain that relevance as Austin experiences rapid growth led by the tech industry. 

Members include the state’s most prominent leaders in government, business, higher education and journalism. While critics say such organizations can reinforce class privilege and in practice often exclude people of color, the Headliners Club has maintained its reputation as an exclusive stronghold of the elite in Texas’ politically progressive state capital.

New Pool Creates New Opportunity

byKevin Malcolm, Jr.

AUSTIN – In his final months before becoming a collegiate swimmer, Dietrich Hagenau will train at the new Eanes Aquatic Center at Westlake High School. Ever since Hagenau moved to Austin from California, he has been fighting to get a new pool built for himself and his teammates. “It’s very rewarding to hear that we […]

UT Student Raises Money for a School in El Salvador

byStephanie Molina

AUSTIN, Texas – Students at the University of Texas are joining together to raise money to repair a school in El Salvador Antony Efrain Rodriguez, a senior nutrition major, visited the Complejo Educativo De San Fernando in Morazan last summer. The United States built the school in the 1970s. He saw a need for new […]

From Lake to Tap: How Austin’s Water Becomes Safe to Drink

byVeronica Apodaca

The water that is used by the Ullrich Water Treatment Plant, one of three water-purification plants for Austin, begins its journey in Lake Austin, along with the multitude of debris that makes it undrinkable. 

Will Texas A&M’s The Battalion Survive if it Loses its Independence?

byCristela Jones

Advocates for independent student journalism worry that greater university oversight opens the door to censorship by administrators unhappy with student newspapers’ in-depth reporting.

Diversify or Die: Texas Olive Oil Industry on its Knees after 2021 Freeze

byPaula Levihn-Coon

Since the first olive orchards were planted in Texas in the 1990s, they have been damaged by hurricanes, drought and cold weather. Confused by mad temperature swings, trees have not set fruit. These events have compelled some olive growers to leave the business.

Most growers, however, are reevaluating their business models with an eye toward reducing the negative impact of Texas weather. They are embracing diversification — selling oil imported from other states or countries or finding new ways to use and market their orchards.

With New Funding, Future Looks Bright for Austin’s Art in Public Places

byPamela Hall Vance  

The public art installation Tau Ceti is the tallest of the more than 325 art pieces in the archive of the City of Austin. Eight more public art projects soon will be added to the collection after the city announced $700,000 in additional funding.

Protesters Decry San Antonio’s Horse-Drawn Carriages as Animal Abuse

byMarina Garcia

Protesters Saturday in downtown San Antonio criticized the use of horse-drawn carriages as animal mistreatment. 

Reporting Texas TV – April 14, 2022

byReporting Texas TV Staff

Journalism students from Moody College at the University of Texas made their third newscast of the semester on April 14, 2022. This week student journalists report on Austin residents opening their homes to Ukrainian refugees, the Transgender Day of Visibility rally at the Texas State Capitol, and the new home for the Waterloo Greenway Conservancy’s annual […]

A New Home for Waterloo Greenway Conservancy’s Annual Pop-Up Picnic

byTerry Gutierrez

AUSTIN, Texas — Waterloo Greenway Conservancy’s 10th Annual Pop-Up Picnic made a comeback on April 9 after a two year hiatus due to the pandemic. For the first time, the Pop-Up Picnic was held at Waterloo Park, which closed for flood-control construction in 2011. The newly designed park reopened last August, introducing Moody Amphitheater, a […]

Hundreds Rally to Celebrate the Texas Transgender Community

bySamuel Stark

AUSTIN, Texas — Hundreds of transgender folks and allies went to the Texas State Capitol on April 2 to celebrate and rally for the annual Transgender Day of Visibility. Many in the crowd felt this celebration was exceedingly important due to Gov. Greg Abbott’s recent order to prosecute health care facilitators providing gender-affirming care for […]

Austinites Open Their Homes to Help Ukrainian Refugees

byMadeline Salinas

AUSTIN, Texas — When Kseniia Mykhailova returned home from a February vacation, she was greeted with blue and yellow flags, posters, and flowers on her doorstep. It was a reminder to the native Ukrainian that she and her family weren’t alone. “It definitely means a lot,” Mykhailova said. “I feel a lot of support from our […]

Gender Gap Among STEM Faculty at UT Proves Difficult to Eradicate

byEniola Longe

At UT-Austin, women make up 45% of the total faculty, but a much smaller percentage in STEM majors. The departments of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics, electrical and computer engineering, geosciences, mechanical engineering and physics all have less than 20% female faculty.