The Renewal Series

In our ongoing series Renewal – Beyond COVID-19 we explore how Austin is rising to the inescapable challenge of renewing civic life, culture and institutions toward the other side of the pandemic called COVID-19.

‘We did not choose to live in an interesting time… it chose us’

Janet Miranda - June 22, 2020

There is an old adage, “May you live in interesting times” that gets erroneously...

The unique, universal and slow-moving trauma of a disease that attacks our patience along with our bodies

Robert Brehm - June 1, 2020

Imagine speeding down a busy avenue as the passenger in a vehicle. The driver...

COVID-19 has killed more than 100,000 while racism has killed millions

Susana Almanza - June 1, 2020

Just as the COVID-19 pandemic circulated throughout the world so has the racism pandemic....

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The Renewal Series

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The just society and knowledge economy now towering on the post-pandemic horizon

As the fog at last lifts, the future begins to arrive much sooner than we ever expected

As the pandemic becomes more dire, a fog of sorrow coils around life amid COVID-19

Spotting the new horizon after weeks of ‘Dead Reckoning’ through the pandemic storm

A new flu-like virus distant, abstract and then suddenly… ‘This is real, this is bad’

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How the old ‘all politics is local’ became today’s ‘all local politics are global’

Gentrification is not a byproduct of planned urban growth, it is the plan

Austin’s challenge: a common language of environmental sustainability

Austin may condemn its sordid history — it should condemn its troubled present

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