After a week at Stage 4 COVID precaution level, local health leaders remain mum on a drop to Stage 3, showing caution as numbers continue dropping. A third human West Nile virus infection in Travis County is confirmed. The new district map for the Texas Senate is confirmed by that body and draws fire for failing to increase representation for non-white voters. Crazy Austin traffic: a driver is in critical condition after driving their car off a 183 overpass, and another is arrested after a dramatic road rage incident on Ben White. Prop A will require a budget increase for the Austin Police Department, but will not necessarily mean raises for individual officers. Austin's suburbs - Bastrop County in particular - are booming for the film industry. Smash ATX replaces Spin for similar ping pong-centric fun downtown, opening tomorrow. A portion of ACL Fest ticket sales will help fund the new park train, the Zilker Eagle. Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan (who are actually from Dallas) are memorialized by a new art installation in Oak Cliff. And even though it's October, we may not quite be done with summer heat just yet.
