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Public radio reporter at KUT News among other things. Here's your chance to "get in on the ground floor" of my new account.

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 19h
A great essay from @andrewdessler.com — we can't ignore our way out of climate change. open.substack.com/pub/theclima...
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Texas can’t hide from climate change by stopping students from learning about it
Climate change will shape the future of Texas. Students should be allowed to learn about it.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ICE investigator said driving around and running people's license plates was the “everyday” work of ICE agents in Austin. “They were doing immigration enforcement, random checks on random places," he said. "They’re out there everywhere running license plates." www.kut.org/crime-justic...
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ICE is checking 'random' license plates in Austin and other takeaways from Garces Perez hearing
A hearing over charges alleging that Wilber Garces Perez assaulted and resisted federal officers provided rare insight into ICE operations in Austin.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Impossible to keep up with all the data center reporting. But this piece on what development in Abeline has done to the local housing market is worth your time! The @kutnews.bsky.social reporters working on this series have done a incredible job. www.kut.org/energy-envir...
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Officials say data centers can boost local economies. In Abilene, they have spurred a housing crisis
Abilene was sold on promises that data centers would transform their local economy. But some residents are wondering when the benefits will come.
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 24/08/2026
this is very cool
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Liam Tadeo was planning to start Kindergarten in Austin this year. Instead he will be deported to Mexico along with his father after the two were detained by ICE on their way to a soccer game. www.kut.org/crime-justic...
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Five-year-old boy and his father, detained in Austin on their way to a soccer game, will be deported
Liam Tadeo's father has chosen to return to Mexico with his son rather than risk the child being separated from his family. Liam was due to begin kindergarten in Austin this year.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Join me this Saturday at the Austin Environmental City Council Candidate Forum! I will be moderating panels with most every candidate running for City Council. We're going district by district. Learn where the candidates stand! actionnetwork.org/events/austi...
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Austin Environmental City Council Candidate Forum
Environmental stewardship is a cornerstone of Austin culture. It's a big part of what makes Austin special. The Austin City Council should play a key role in upholding these environmental values. Dist...
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
At today's Public Utility Commission hearing on ultra high voltage transmission projects fot Texas. Again, many landowners speaking in opposition. New podcast title idea: Power, politics and.. property rights?
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I am at a hearing of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission talking to opponents of border wall/barrier construction in the Big Bend region. They just held a demonstration in from of TPWD HQ. This story will be updated as the hearing gets underway. www.kut.org/energy-envir...
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Opponents of Big Bend border construction take protest to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission
Those opposed to the a border barrier throughout the Big Bend region say the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department should be doing more to stop the construction on state lands.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
You have one more evening to catch Austinhenge, the twice annual event when the sunset lines up perfectly with our city's downtown east-west streets. www.kut.org/austin/2026-...
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‘Austinhenge’ is back! How astronomy and urban planning create this twice annual sunset phenomenon
Austinhenge is what people call the days when the sunset aligns perfectly with Austin's east-west downtown streets.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Watching Texas capitol hearing on new high voltage transmission lines. The lines have sparked a lot of opposition. But some lawmakers are sounding like they're against the very idea of a state grid, suggesting electric generation only happen close to where it is consumed.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The state office awarding billions to expand rural broadband changed rules to pay more up front to low earth orbit satellite providers. Only Musk's Starlink currently offers that service at scale. The change came at suggestion of Office of Gov. Abbott. 1/2 www.kut.org/energy-envir...
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Texas governor’s office asked for broadband rules that help Elon Musk’s Starlink
The state office that distributes billions to expand Texas rural broadband is facing allegations of “favoritism” and offering “sweetheart” deals to companies that provide low earth orbit satellite bro...
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 18/06/2026
temperature & dew point forecast for College Station brutal dew points in the upper 70s, the absolute definition of miserable I'm just glad summer is almost over [looks at calendar and starts quietly sobbing]
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
They say there's no accounting for taste. Today Austin Chronicle readers provided a new data point to back that up by naming me "best news reporter" in the Best of Austin poll. But seriously. It is a true honor, especially given the competition. 1/3 calendar.austinchronicle.com/best-of/2026...
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All Politics & Media - Readers Poll 2026
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Saul Elbein @saulelbein.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
46 Texans so far have commented on the state rule allowing treated fracking fluid and produced water to be sprayed on crops and well guys they are mostly not for it.
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Future Heist — 43 of 46 Texans Opposed TCEQ's Produced Water Rule
Not one commenter supported the rule outright. See the full breakdown and read every letter.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin has fired KUT Public Media General Manager Debbie Hiott, following a back-and-forth fight with UT over the station's inaugural festival last month. www.kut.org/education/20...
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UT Austin leadership fires KUT General Manager Debbie Hiott
An email to staff at Austin's NPR station, addressed from Anita L. Vangelisti, the interim dean of the Moody College of Communication, said the decision was effective immediately.
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Lance Ellisor @ellisor.net · 11/06/2026
fellow Texans: you've probably heard that chirping sound - especially after rain - and wondered what it was. well, @mosebuchele.bsky.social solved it a couple of years ago. I enjoyed it and hope you do too. especially love that we don't know how they reproduce w/o water. www.kut.org/energy-envir...
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Meet the chirping frogs of Austin. They’re all around, but you never see them.
Chirping frogs fill the night air with strange squeaks and whistles all over Austin, but they are nearly impossible to see.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Researching the history of executive session at Austin City Hall and came across this from 1923.
Newspaper article about a "melon feast" held in executive session.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
They're baaack! The mats of blue-green algea often have a dark greenish hue and a slimy puke-like consistency. They can be toxic to humans and their pets and become entangled in other water vegetation. Stay algae aware when out with your dog! www.kut.org/austin/2026-...
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Dangerous blue-green algae emerging in Austin lakes for another year
Toxic cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, can poison people and has killed several pet dogs since it established itself in Austin lakes in 2019.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Toxic blue-green algae has appeared in Austin lakes for another year. The algae (actually cyanobacteria) can be poisonous to humans and has killed several pet dogs since it arrived in our waterways after flooding in 2019. It thrives in warmer water. www.kut.org/austin/2026-...
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Dangerous blue-green algae emerging in Austin lakes for another year
Toxic cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, can poison people and has killed several pet dogs since it established itself in Austin lakes in 2019.
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Nathan Bernier @kutnathan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Austin's Bikeshare service has been shut down since a May 23 fire inside a battery charging room at a CapMetro facility on Ben White. The same day, a Bikeshare bike caught fire on South Congress. The role of batteries is being investigated in both. www.kut.org/transportati...
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Investigators examine whether batteries sparked fire that shut down Austin's Bikeshare
Almost 500 electric bikes have been pulled from Austin streets since Memorial Day weekend, with no timeline for their return.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
He has called Native Americans “third world savages” and believes that the U.S. should “round up every muslim." Now, Republicans want him to regulate oil and gas and Democrats see an opportunity. www.kut.org/energy-envir...
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GOP leaders shunned Bo French for racist posts. Now they want him to regulate Texas’ oil and gas
After Bo French asked his social media followers whether Jews or Muslims were a “bigger threat to America,” Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called for him to step down from his position at the Tarrant...
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Our ATXplained live show is one week from today! The Austin lore we have gathered.. the depths we have plumbed... Let's just say it will be a night like no other. Join us at the Bass on the 21st! texasperformingarts.org/event/atxpla...
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ATXplained Live
<p>KUT’s award-winning ATXplained project is coming back to the stage with brand new stories based on questions from the Austin comm
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
A couple years ago Austin City Council members were talking openly about ending the city contract with Texas Gas Service over high bills. Today they will consider a proposal to keep partnering with the gas utility for another ten years. What happened? www.kut.org/austin/2026-...
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Despite anger over bills, Austin considers new contract with Texas Gas Service
While Austin City Council has entertained finding an alternative to Texas Gas Service, it now appears ready to award the company another long-term contract.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The Texas Newsroom has obtained videos of an immigration operation last summer in East Austin. It involved the arrests of five workers near a construction site. We wondered what the tapes said about how state police and ICE work together in Texas. 1/ www.kut.org/crime-justic...
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15 minutes from start to finish: How traffic stops turn into ICE busts in Austin
Police recordings of an immigration enforcement operation in East Austin show how quickly and quietly people are taken into federal custody when state police partner with ICE.These videos, obtained th...
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Jorge Pederson was one of the victims of the shooting on West 6th this month. When my editor asked me to write his remembrance, I did not expect to laugh when speaking with his loved. But our talks were full of laughter. It's the kind of guy he was. www.kut.org/austin/2026-...
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He came to Austin for a new chapter. After death in shooting, loved ones mourn his 'bright spirit'
Jorge Pederson was one of three people who were killed in a shooting on West Sixth Street earlier this month. Now, friends and family hope his life can be an example for others.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Interesting! Exxon has its physical headquarters in Texas. But it's been incorporated in New Jersey since 1882 and the days Standard Oil. Company now seeks to shift its legal home to oil-friendly Texas. Says it may "reduce the risk" of future lawsuits. finance.yahoo.com/news/exxon-e...
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Exxon Eyes Texas for Legal Home After 144 Years in New Jersey
In a proxy filing on Tuesday, the oil company said moving would mean operating in a more favorable business environment where officials are more familiar with its operations, provide greater certainty...
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Austin officials hope the new rules will thread the needle between local priorities (city police shouldn't do immigration enforcement) and state law (cities cannot tell cops not to call ICE). www.kut.org/austin/2026-...
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Austin Police release new rules that could reduce officer calls to ICE
The new rules come after protests against APD reporting people to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Police Chief Lisa Davis said the changes may reduce the number of immigration detentions connecte...
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Lauren McGaughy @lmcgaughy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
BREAKING: Dallas police detain man outside of Ken Paxton campaign event. Officers pulled what appeared to be ammunition for several types of weapons from a blue sedan that hotel workers said the man had been driving, according to our reporter on the scene. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...
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Dallas Police Detain Man Outside Ken Paxton Watch Party
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Sen. John Cornyn's election event at the Downtown Marriott in Austin tonight is not the traditional watch party. It's a press availability. They say they're saving the party for the runoff... We're told he'll be out in a while to take some questions.
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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
For Valentine’s Day, a story about what happens when your loved one is drifting away — and the ways we try to hold on. (Recommend the “listen” button on this one) www.kut.org/austin/2026-...
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His memory is fading. This Austin-area woman is trying to keep it alive in a love song.
Nine years into his marriage to Cassandra, Clyde developed dementia. He put down his guitar and quit his job. But music he had recorded still needed lyrics.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Five years ago, all of us in Texas were about to learn how quickly things can fall apart when the power goes out. www.kut.org/energy-envir...
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Five years since the blackout, the anxiety remains and the big test has yet to come
Five years after the Texas blackout, the power grid is now better equipped to handle winter storms, but what has not been fixed is also becoming clearer.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
NEW: The Office of Refugee Resettlement has a new policy of concentrating pregnant minors in its custody into one single South Texas shelter. The move comes over the objections of some even within the agency, who say it’s about denying abortion access. 1/ www.kut.org/politics/202...
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Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to South Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate
Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
A divide has been growing in progressive Austin over how aggresively city leaders should resist the ICE surge in Texas. That disagreement erupted into raucous protest at a meeting with the police chief and city council members on Thursday. www.kut.org/crime-justic...
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Austinites demand police, city leaders do more to resist ICE
Austin city leaders said at a community meeting that it's illegal to tell police they can't call ICE. Many who oppose Trump's immigration crackdown want them to do it anyway.
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Lauren McGaughy @lmcgaughy.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Update on Austin police’s ICE cooperation: At a protest outside city hall this week, council members told @mosebuchele.bsky.social they could not guarantee APD officers wouldn’t call ICE on undocumented people they encounter. APD to release new guidelines soon. kutkutx.studio/austin-signa...
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Cleared off and gently opened our Austin Water hook up in case of a worst case scenario in freeze -always try to cut water at the residential valve first in event of burst pipes- city meter was swarming with what I think are Crazy Ants? Probably not great for new smart meters.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
We were looking at some of the ways local and state law enforcement works, and does not work, with ICE and something interesting came up. The feds appear to alert some local police forces to impending raids, but not others. 1/ www.kut.org/crime-justic...
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Austin police don’t know when ICE is coming. The chief says that could be dangerous.
ICE doesn’t appear to have a consistent policy of how and when to notify local law enforcement about immigration raids.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
"John Jones was out of options and low on cash." So starts this exceptionally well written piece by @England_Weber on the heinous crime that haunted Austin, and brought decades of grief, trauma and wrongful incarceration. Read it, even if you already know the story. www.kut.org/crime-justic...
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Making sense of the 'senseless' after a breakthrough in Austin's yogurt shop murders case
The brutal murder of four teen girls in 1991 shook Austin to its core. Now, families — and the city — can finally move forward.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
City of Taylor Econ. Development Corp. sold land that was "to be held in trust for future use as parkland" to a data center developer. Deed restriction is from 1999, not so long ago. Neighbors outraged. City not commenting. Interesting story from Kailey Hunt! www.kut.org/energy-envir...
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It was supposed to be a park. Instead, this property in Taylor is being turned into a data center.
Neighbors that live near a proposed data center project in Taylor have filed a lawsuit aiming to stop all commercial development and construction on the site.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Notable comment from head of Austin Resource Recovery in recent city audit. He says only 65% landfill diversion rate is acheivable "Even with perfect recycling behavior." City goal is 90 percent. www.austintexas.gov/sites/defaul...
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Austinite Corey Pudhorodsky is about halfway into a 50 hour stay on the Texas state capitol grounds, sharing 50 facts about climate change. He's doing it for his 50th birthday!
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
First Monarch I've seen in Austin since early summer.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 03/09/2025
Breaking | GHF whistleblower Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar says he has been interviewed by the International Criminal Court, which is probing alleged violations of the Geneva Conventions at Gaza aid sites.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Last year Austin's water utility lost 9.3 billion gallons of water because of a leaky distribution system. That's enough to fill Lady Bird Lake about four times over and 31 percent rise from the previous year. Why the big jump? Some of it might be improved monitoring. www.kut.org/energy-envir...
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Austin is losing even more water to leaky city pipes than previously thought
Austin Water said improvements in how it monitors the system and an increase in water line breaks pushed up estimates from last year.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Saharan dust is back! It will hurt air quality this weekend, so stay safe. But also, take a moment to marvel at this natural phenonenon. This stuff rides winds all the way from Africa to get here. And that's just the start of what make it soo fascinating. www.kut.org/energy-envir...
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Hazed and confused? That smog you're noticing over Austin is dust from the Sahara
The dust can be dangerous, especially for people with lung conditions or otherwise compromised health. But it can also quell hurricane activity in the Atlantic, fertilize depleted soils and bring stri...
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"You all spoke so passionately and you burned valuable time of your life. " Hays County Judge Ruben Becerra said. “We can do absolutely nothing about it." Great piece from @mayafawaz.bsky.social on what happens when a data center wants to move next door. www.kut.org/energy-envir...
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Hays County residents aren't happy about a new neighbor moving in: a data center
CloudBurst Data Centers is planning to build a facility south of San Marcos that could be leased to an AI firm or other tech company. Residents are concerned about the potential health and environment...
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
May was our first month with above average rainfall since last July, all thanks to last week's storms. Still, it was not enough to bring us out of a longterm rain deficit. This spring was also the hottest ever recorded at Austin's Camp Mabry. www.kut.org/energy-envir...
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Late May storms flip the script on what was about to be a very dry spring in Austin
The Camp Mabry weather station recorded 5 inches of rain from last week's storms. The precipitation “tipped us over the scale for the month of May,” one meteorologist said.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
May was our first month with above average rainfall since last July, all thanks to last week's storms. Still, it was not enough to bring us out of a longterm rain deficit. This spring was also the hottest ever recorded at Austin's Camp Mabry. www.kut.org/energy-envir...
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Late May storms flip the script on what was about to be a very dry spring in Austin
The Camp Mabry weather station recorded 5 inches of rain from last week's storms. The precipitation “tipped us over the scale for the month of May,” one meteorologist said.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Gas utility stories are tough to find visuals for. Everyone's done the meter, the stovetop flame. Looking for something new, KUT's Michael Minasi took a gag reference I put in the audio for this story and came up with this great illustration. More please! www.kut.org/energy-envir...
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Austin gas rates are up and they're set to go higher. Here's why.
Texas Gas Service customers have noticed different fees and charges on their bills have jumped in cost since the beginning of the year.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Starting last January people in Austin started noticing major hikes in their gas bills. In some cases, they report bills doubling, even when they used less gas than they had the same month of the previous year. 1/ www.kut.org/energy-envir...
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Austin gas rates are up and they're set to go higher. Here's why.
Texas Gas Service customers have noticed different fees and charges on their bills have jumped in cost since the beginning of the year.
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Mose Buchele @mosebuchele.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
City staff suggested "instead of building 26.6 acres of caps [...] Austin could construct fewer than 8 acres, covering just Cesar Chavez to Fourth Street and 11th to 12th Street. This [..] would reduce the total price tag to $360 million." from @kutnathan.bsky.social www.kut.org/transportati...
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Plans for parks over I-35 collide with Austin's cash crunch
Austin City Council members are divided over whether to fund highway parks as financial warnings mount, but they must make a decision before the end of the month.
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