Every year, Texas Architecture professor Juan Miró gives his students an assignment: draw the window in your bedroom. In 2022, several students raise their hands.

They couldn’t do their homework. They didn’t have windows in their bedrooms.

My latest for KUT Austin: kut.org/austin/2024-04…

KUT and the Texas Standard newsrooms won eight Texas Broadcast News Awards from the Texas Association of Broadcasters on Saturday.
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ABIA will be among the first airports in the country to get a new system that helps air traffic controllers monitor where planes are on the ground. The system uses publicly available radio transmissions from planes to show where they are on an airport map.

FAA news release:

NEW: Homeowners have won their case against the City of Austin over a plan to reinvest property tax dollars into a neighborhood just south of Lady Bird Lake. Background here: kut.org/austin/2023-04…

A busy day at ABIA with more than 35,000 departing passengers expected. Here’s a live look inside the Barbara Jordan Terminal at 11:30 am twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

🚨Heads up, travelers! Tomorrow, Monday 4/15 will be another busy day with more than 35,000 people flying out of AUS!

✈️Please arrive early (at least 2.5 hours for domestic & 3 for international!)

👉Find all our travel resources here: austintexas.gov/department/tra…

We’re being force-fed tiny shifts in polling data by the media as if it’s a reflection of reality. Pollster Joshua M. Blank calls it “troubling.”

My frustration with this in 2019 led me to make a 7 MINUTE PSYCHEDELIC AUDIO REPORT. And it’s still true today!
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If you didn't already know, Audrey McGlinchy is a treasure.

She broke down the new proposed Austin land use rules in a way we can ALL understanding — even me. This'll impact housing and transpo. More here: kut.org/austin/2024-04…

y aquí en español:
kut.org/en-espanol/202… #ATX

NEW: The Travis Central Appraisal District says the median appraisal, or market value, of homes has fallen for the 2nd year in a row after a surge in 2022. Property owners will start receiving their appraisals this week.

Graphic courtesy of TCAD.

A top executive at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport has left for a job in San Jose, California. ABIA Business and Finance Chief Mookie Patel was recruited by San José Mineta International Airport (SJC). He had been with ABIA since July 2020.

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My latest for E-N: Maybe you’ve already heard about Boring’s safety issues in Las Vegas at the tunnel sites. But the problems at the Elon start-up began in the Texas test tunnels: Few breaks, chemical burns, malfunctioning equipment, and a plea to OSHA in Austin.

Here’s how I heard about this: A friend of a friend reached out to me this afternoon about one of these positions, asking whether they should apply and whether I recommended working for Austin Statesman.

It’s sad that I had to say no when I otherwise would’ve said yes.

Wish I had started a 'pictures of huge novelty checks' folder when I began my career in journalism.