Central Texas top stories for January 15, 2025. Unhoused people in Austin have a lower life expectancy than people in housing. 6th Street will be open to vehicle traffic this weekend and moving forward. Hays CISD is developing a bond package to build new schools and buy new buses. The Harry Ransom Center announced today that it’s now home to the Lorne Michaels Collection.
Harry Ransom Center
KUT Morning Newscast for December 27, 2024
Central Texas top stories for December 27, 2024. The City of Austin will reopen applications for its rent assistance program on January 1st. How to stay safe around fireworks. The Harry Ransom Center has acquired a collection of materials related to the life of Ethel Waters. Bevo will miss the Peach Bowl against Arizona State due to a lack of space on the sideline.
KUT Morning Newscast for September 26, 2022
Central Texas top stories for September 26, 2022. High wildfire risk. Austin energy worker safety. AISD buses. De Niro UT collection. UT football.
V&B: The Great War and Its Legacy, 100 Years Later
In partnership with the Harry Ransom Center, Views and Brews discussed the recent exhibition “The World at War, 1914–1918.” The exhibit marks the centenary of the start of World War I, and seeks to recover the deeply personal experience of the war.
Listen back as Rabbi Neil Blumofe and Ransom Center curators Elizabeth Garver and Jean Cannon join KUT’s Rebecca McInroy to explore the layered causes, complicated effects and penetrating propaganda of a war that forever changed our relationship to grief, industry, faith and one another.