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Our last update: Everything you need to know

After a long history of covering City Hall, Travis County and the like, the Austin Monitor stopped publishing in October 2025 to pursue a new project: Austin Current. For the foreseeable future, the Monitor will live on as a searchable archive, open to anyone who needs it. We invite our longtime readers and casual fans…

Austin, Monitored: A goodbye for now

Today’s newsletter is supported by Austin Energy and the Value of Public Power 🚨 The new Austin Current newsletter launches Nov. 10 and will be coming from a new email address, so watch out for messages from newsletters@mail.austincurrent.org and thetexastribune@mail.beehiiv.com. You’re already signed up, so just keep an eye out for it in a couple weeks.  …

Austin, Monitored: What’s next

Today’s newsletter is supported by Austin Energy and the Value of Public Power 🚨 The new Austin Current newsletter launches Nov. 10 and will be coming from a new email address, so watch out for messages from newsletters@mail.austincurrent.org and thetexastribune@mail.beehiiv.com. You’re already signed up, so just keep an eye out for it in a couple weeks.  …

A new era: Austin Monitor to become the Austin Current

We have written several exciting new chapters this year, but this one might be the biggest: The Austin Monitor will become the Austin Current.  The Austin Current is a bold, new local newsroom built to keep pace with Austin’s explosive growth. Our mission is simple: deliver journalism that is innovative in approach, uncompromising in standards…

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