What is Deep Roots Garden?

Deep Roots Garden is a community garden located adjacent at West 9th Street and Henderson Street in Austin, Texas. This community garden operates year round and is privately owned. Many people come here for social gatherings and cooking events. Deep Roots Garden grows vegetables and fruit such as kale, spinach, cabbage, bell peppers, oranges, and lemon. Deep Roots Garden has been serving the Austin Community for many years. Many events have been held here at this location year round. The food plants are sprayed with a non-GMO chemicals substance. Making it safe to eat the food.

There is lead in Flint’s water! (As reported by Mixerr Reviews.)

There is lead in Flint’s water! Governor Robert Snyder shined light on this important health issues about the dangers of lead in drinking water in the city of Flint, Michigan this year in 2016. The city of Flint had failed to add the federally mandated chemicals used to control corrosion into drinking water source.

The amount of lead found in Flint water is hazardously astronomical. Studies showed that 10% percent of samples containing 27 parts per billion of lead in the Flint River water. Additional tests revealed astronomical lead levels. Citizens whom drank this water have seen an increase risen in their blood level. Lead typically gets into drinking water when pipes and fixtures that contain lead corrosion or lead paint fixtures. EPA considers lead “hazardous waste.”. Some levels of lead are considered by the EPA to be undetectable. The EPA reports that lead pipes and fixtures are more likely to be found in homes and businesses built before 1986.

Although lead in Flint’s water was reported by Robert Snyder last year, much of this have been ignored by the Government of Michigan. No fluoridation chemicals or harsh disinfectants have been used in the Flint water source whatsoever. Some areas of Flint worsened due to the elevated lead levels in the river. As a result, the city switched its water resources from the Detroit water system to the more corrosive Flint River in 2016.

How standardized testing has effected students health!

In some cases student's health is effected by standardized testing. Some students commit suicide. Most students feel depressed and anxious. Students fall into a state of depression and anxiety. These students brains are often exhausted after finishing their individual standardized tests. The stress, depression, anxiety, and pressure from standardized tests is too much for students to handle. Standardized tests do put pressure on students attending in schools. Some students even drop out of school to avoid standardized testing from education laws. 

Standardized tests have taken a grave toll on students. Standardized testing has failed tremendously inside the education system. A lot of these standardized tests need to be looked upon and reviewed by the senate and house representatives. The senate needs to examine and re-review these standardized tests that are being enforced for teachers to teach in these educational institutions because politicians don't understand the stress standardized testing causes students.

How our natural resources are disappearing!

Our natural resources are disappearing. The reason why our natural resources are disappearing is due to wasteful mismanagement. The fight to save our precious natural resources is a constant fight leading it to be a constant challenge. Our air, our water, and the ecology is constantly threatened by pollution and greed. We need these resources in our life. People depend on natural resources in life. We need alternatives looking for non-destructive of our environment and life. These alternatives are what the environment needs. The fight to save our worlds resources continues. 

News behind Deep Roots Garden.

Deep Roots Garden is a community garden located adjacent at West 9th Street and Henderson Street in Austin, Texas. This community garden operates year round and is privately owned. Many people come here for social gatherings and cooking events. Deep Roots Garden grows vegetables and fruit such as kale, spinach, cabbage, bell peppers, oranges, and lemon. Deep Roots Garden has been serving the Austin Community for many years. Many events have been held here at this location year round. The food plants are sprayed with a non-GMO chemicals substance. Making it safe to eat the food.

The health benefits of mushrooms and the reality of them.

Mushrooms are a great source of energy! Some do have a nutritional value to every meal while most do usually not. Some yellow mushrooms are safe to eat. Like the ones at HEB or any other local supermarket. So are cut up mushrooms.

Never eat purple mushrooms because they contain acid! Never pick wild mushrooms that bright yellow or purple that have a ring around them in the middle. In other words don't eat mushrooms to have a ring around them. They are the ones that are poisonous! Especially the ones off of wild poison oak tree logs! Ones near cow manure are not safe to eat. Neither are the mushrooms that come from the Amazon rain forest. Do not eat mushrooms fresh from the front lawn either.

Mushrooms are not always safe to eat especially if they are from the wild forest wilderness. Mushrooms that are striped or that have brown spots are poisonous and do not want to be eaten. Mushrooms usually do not want to be eaten. Also mushrooms that have a red or pink ring are very poisonous! Those rings are sometimes short and sometimes long. A lot of those ring are very short around the middle.

Portobello mushrooms are the best! Add mozzarella cheese to a portobello mushroom and results will be the best combination. So are the Japanese shiitake mushrooms. Both portobello and shiitake mushrooms are the best! If you cook sautéed mushrooms in a pot or a frying pan, the results will be great!

For some weird reason, mushrooms do not grow in the sun during daylight. Which is weird because most plants need daylight in order to grow and to support their growth. How can mushrooms hate the sun? That is a question by mysterious nature yet to be answered.

The health benefits of fruits.

We all have knowledge that fruit is healthy for you and that fruit is full of nutrition. Fruits are filled full of healthy nutrients and of course vitamins. Two pieces of fruit daily keeps your health up. Fruit helps keep your resistance up. Fruit will help you go through the day. This type of food reduces stress. The fruit sugar helps give you a boost in energy. We all have knowledge that vitamins and minerals are essential health components for our bodies which are vastly much needed for our survival. Those are the benefits of fruits.

News about hydrangea.

Hydrangeas grow on bushes in Shibuya, Japan during September around the time that school starts. The hydrangea flowers are a light blue cerulean color. Hydrangea bushes are 3 feet wide and grow up to 6 feet tall in height. Hydrangeas do grow in the continent of Asia and the Americas. They do start blooming around September and April. Hydrangeas do enjoy their sunlight during the daytime.

However, hydrangea flowers are very poisonous to consume. If consumption of hydrangea occurs, one will die. As a matter of fact, hydrangea leafs are very poisonous as well! If eaten, one will experience a side effect of dizziness and rashes before passing out. This can turn into a medical problem.

How Obamacare will effect those in New Hampshire.

Around about 30,000 people on the Obamacare plan in the US State of New Hampshire would lose a monthly average worth of $264 dollars in tax credits and soak up 218% percent in premium hike as Sahil Kapur and David Knowles of Bloomberg News reported in his news report for Kaiser Report. A premium hike and a tax hike are known key factors in Obamacare. New Hampshire might face a tax hike because of Obamacare. In other words, Obamacare will cost more for New Hampshire residents than it ever has.

The history of Austin State School - Farm Colony!

Austin State School - Farm Colony (Travis State School) was a living center that was operated as a farm colony and educational facility becoming eventually a work facility for the mentally retarded citizens of Texas operating from 1933 to 1996. The institution taught the mentally retarded how to be self-sufficient.


In 1930, Texas Governor Miriam A. Ferguson proposed an idea to the Texas Board of Control along with Texas Mental Health Mental Retardation to create a farm colony, work facility, and educational facility for the mentally retarded citizens of Texas. The Texas Government had purchased 241 acres of land from Greg Wilson and six other residents in the year of 1932. In 1933, the Texas legislature established Travis State School as the Austin State School - Farm Colony as an annex/branch of the Austin State School. (Travis State School was first named Austin State School - Farm Colony in 1933. Austin State School - Farm Colony was changed to Travis State School in 1961.)

The Austin State School - Farm Colony itself was located at FM 969 and Decker Lane 8 miles east of Downtown Austin located near the Colorado River. East Austin, further away from US Highway 183 was all farmland with ranches which resulted in an ideal location for Austin State School - Farm Colony.

The farm colony started as a true farm community in 1933. Texas Government along Texas Mental Health Mental Retardation had felt a need to place mentally retarded citizens in a separate home away from the rest of society. The mindset of society was to place mentally retarded citizens far away from so they wouldn’t ever have a need to come into the metropolis as Austin State School was set up as an autonomous community.
Texas Government along TX MHMR ideology was for the mentally retarded to produce farm products for other ‘State Schools’ and institutions. This taught the mentally retarded how to be self-sufficient.

Austin State School - Farm Colony was intended to provide a home for mentally retarded male patients who could no longer further benefit from training at the Austin State School and who were able to do such farm work such as gardening, farming, dairying, mowing, and such related tasks. The first students were transferred from the Austin State School to the farm colony in October 1934 which at the time had only one building. However, there were female students even in 1934 despite the original intentions of the institutions for males only.

By then, the farm colony moved many of the male patients from the Austin State School to Austin State School - Farm Colony. ‘State School’ facilities were gender segregated due to a prevalent belief from the time period that associated mental retardation with promiscuity, alcoholism, and immoral behavior. At first, Austin State School - Farm Colony was just for men and eventually women. Children came later.

However on January 14, 1941, the Texas Legislature and Texas Government were considering closing down the farm colony due to the fact that the farm colony was a total failure as the farm colony could not produce enough to maintain for the patients at the institutions. However the farm colony remained. By then, the farm colony only admitted male patients only from other state mental health institutions.

By 1945, the farm colony had six buildings with offices. 120 to 368 inmates lived on the institution property.
The farm colony became a separate institution from the Austin State School in 1949 despite having the name ‘Austin State School’ which it was always a part of. The farm colony was always Austin State School despite was others say.
By 1955, TX MHMR had acquired an additional 195 acres from 8 more residents all of which whom owned farmland. The Austin State School - Farming Colony campus eventually grew to encompass 68 buildings that spanned to the 436 acres you see today owned by KIPP Austin.


Farming operations at the facility slowly ceased in January 1961 due to the fact that the farm colony was a total failure. The farm colony could not produce enough to maintain for the patients at the institutions. The farming operations did not cease due to mental health care reforms in the 1960's due to popular belief. Farming operations ceased due to lack of attention and criminal negligence. The Austin State School - Farm Colony was a dismal failure as the Texas Government put it.
To reflect this change, Austin State School - Farm Colony was renamed to Travis State School in January 1961.

Austin State School - Farm Colony had its highest peak of patient enrollment of 1,800 patients/students in 1968 all of whom had been transferred from other institutions. Later included was a swimming pool, cannery, storerooms, more offices, and a sewing room.

In the year of 1970, Travis State School received a grant from the Hospital Improvement Project which made it possible for the use of a unit system of treatment. A new Vocational Evaluation and Training Center was opened and staffed through a grant from the Texas Rehabilitation Commission. Female students were first admitted in 1973 for the first time since the institution gradually opened in 1934.


By 1981, the farm colony discontinued farming operations due to lack of attention and mental health care reforms.
The farm colony could not produce enough to maintain for the patients at the institutions. So the Texas Government cut funding for the Austin State School - Farm Colony and ended it. Farming operations at the facility ceased for good due to lack of enrollment, lack of maintenance, criminal negligence, and bad results. All what was left in its place was the institution.

The Texas Government and TX MHMR had began changing its focus from institutionalization to integrated placement in local communities as this trend was becoming nationwide in the United States in the 1980s. ‘State Schools’ began to see a decline in enrollment. This was a result from efforts in deinstitutionalization. By then, state officials began following this trend. The Travis State School functioned as an Independent School District (ISD) from 1981 to 1988. After the year of 1988 due to lack of enrollment and federal funding, Travis State School relied on the Manor Independent School District to provide academic instruction through its "mainstreaming" program instead.


In the 1990s, Travis State School was renamed to Austin State School Annex but still kept the name ‘Travis State School’ as many people referred to the institution by such name despite what other say. Texas has always historically been behind most US states to serve people with mental retardation within their own communities along with Alabama, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Illinois.

The 1990s saw an even further decline in ‘State School’ enrollment due to deinstitutionalization and healthcare laws. Effects of deinstitutionalization became statewide. Statistics in newspapers, reports, and books showed otherwise.
In 1992, Travis State School had 604 patients and 1,270 employees with a total of 86 buildings at its 436 acre property. In 1994, only 104 patients remained. They were unharmed.

In 1994, the State of Texas and City of Austin proposed a 1,000 inmate facility for a new state jail to alleviate crowding with the population in state jails. In 1996, the Travis County State Jail/Travis State Jail was built and completed. For a short while, Travis County State Jail/Travis State Jail was privately run by privatized prison industrial complex company Wackenhut Correctional Facilities.
The land where Travis County State Jail/Travis State Jail occupies is where the Farm Colony originally was for Austin State School - Farm Colony.

Due to an abuse case at Travis State School along with lawsuits such as Lelsz vs. Kavanagh and Ruiz vs. Estelle, Travis State School closed down as an agreement in a lawsuit settlement with the state of Texas and US Government in 1996. The lawsuit was both statewide and federal, thus resulting in the federal lawsuit of Lelsz vs. Kavanagh.

By 1996, Travis State School closed for good. By then all remaining 41 patients were relocated to nearby institutions such as the Austin State School (now Austin State Supported Living Center). Construction at Travis State School lasted from 1996 to 1998. Debris was left over from pervious construction teams who relocated nearly everything. Some items and various other objects were left onsite. Buildings fell into various states of decay and disrepair.

In 1996, local real estate developer Peter Barlin had bought the land Travis State School was located on from Texas Board of Control. The idea for Peter Barlin purchasing the Travis State School land and buildings was to create a private version of the public housing agency called Vision Village. His main intention was to create public housing.
Vision Village was supposed to be a neighborhood for low income housing. The City of Austin gave him a $1 million dollar incentive for this land development. Organizers borrowed nearly $4 million from Austin, Travis County and a local bank in 1997.

However plans fell through when Vision Village lacked the management expertise and fund-raising ability to build the housing it promised. Local real estate developer Peter Barlin had been charged criminally with penalties such as embezzlement, conspiracy, money laundering, mismanagement, and fraud. More than $5 million had been poured into the project. Peter Barlin had owned the former Travis State School site that was once set aside for Vision Village, a project that never got off the ground despite more than $1 million from the city. The Vision Village costs had ran deeper than dollars however.

Austin State School - Farm Colony had moved back to its original location at the “original” Austin State School (now Austin State Supported Living Center) in 1998 after construction and renovation was completed. The work was done fairly slowly.


In 2004, KIPP Schools (KIPP Austin) had purchased the Austin State School - Farm Colony property from Peter Barlin and the State of Texas via TX MHMR from Texas Board of Control. Some buildings however were still abandoned. These buildings were renovated overtime. Only few buildings were demolished. The Travis State School Cemetery had fallen into disrepair. Security had not been set up to protect and secure property on a 24 hour basis yet.

Austin State School - Farm Colony sat abandoned and vacant for a period of time from 1996 to 2004.
This made it easy for scrappers to steal and vandalize the buildings for copper metal in order to gain a profit. One famous example would be local criminal Reginald Dane Parker. Local criminal Reginald Dane Parker had apparently been stealing copper wire there from the location site before for years. The timeframe Reginald Dane Parker had been stealing copper wire from Austin State School - Farm Colony was from 2001 to 2005. Reginald Dane Parker was arrested and jailed by law enforcement officials in 2005.

 By 2011, KIPP Austin had fully settled onto the land of the former Travis State School site. However the 8 dorms that weren’t in use were boarded up and closed off. The 9 warehouses are in various states of disrepair. Austin Police Department had set up their Child Protective Services division there in the year of 2011 as well.

In 2015, KIPP Schools contracted with local business ASC Management to secure the property as an effort in security measures. Closed-Camera surveillance cameras are now present and 24 hour security is actively on sight. Gates now hover over the buildings. Unoccupied buildings that were boarded up or abandoned are now currently in use. These building have been upgraded by being renovated. Currently businesses such as KIPP Austin, Austin Discovery School, KIPP Cafe, Austin Police Department, and Child Protective Services now occupy the land property. A small handful of former warehouses are in various states of disrepair.



[Here is what happened to the farm colony of Austin State School - Farm Colony!]
[Farming operations at the facility slowly ceased in January 1961 due to the fact that the farm colony was a dismal failure as the Texas Government cited. The farm colony could not produce enough to maintain for the patients at the institutions. The farming operations did not cease due to mental health care reforms in the 1960's due to popular belief. Farming operations ceased due to lack of attention and criminal negligence.
To reflect this change, Austin State School - Farm Colony was renamed to Travis State School in January 1961.]

[By 1981, the farm colony discontinued farming operations due to lack of attention and mental health care reforms.
The farm colony could not produce enough to maintain for the patients at the institutions. So the Texas Government cut funding for the Austin State School - Farm Colony and ended it. Farming operations at the facility ceased for good due to lack of enrollment, lack of maintenance, criminal negligence, and bad results. All what was left in its place was the institution.]

[Austin State School - Farm Colony had moved back to its original location at the “original” Austin State School (now Austin State Supported Living Center) in 1998. Austin State School - Farm Colony has now been reduced to a garden to a size of 4 rows as of 2016. The farm colony is a former shill of what it once was. No longer are extreme amounts of tax dollars being poured into the farm colony. As of 2016, Austin State School - Farm Colony no longer exists.]

History of Travis State School.

Travis State School (Austin State School - Farm Colony) was a living center that was operated as a farm colony, work facility, and educational facility a farm colony becoming eventually a work facility and an educational facility for the mentally retarded citizens of Texas operating from 1933 to 1996. The institution taught the mentally retarded how to be self-sufficient. Travis State School itself was located at FM 969 and Decker Lane 8 miles east of Downtown Austin located near the Colorado River.


In 1930, Texas Governor Miriam A. Ferguson proposed an idea to the Texas Board of Control along with Texas Mental Health Mental Retardation to create a farm colony, work facility, and educational facility for the mentally retarded citizens of Texas. The Texas Government had purchased 241 acres of land from Greg Wilson and six other residents in the year of 1932. In 1933, the Texas legislature established Travis State School as the Austin State School - Farm Colony as an annex/branch of the Austin State School. (Travis State School was first named Austin State School - Farm Colony in 1933. Austin State School - Farm Colony was changed to Travis State School in 1961.)

Travis State School itself was located at FM 969 and Decker Lane 8 miles east of Downtown Austin located near the Colorado River. East Austin, further away from US Highway 183 was all farmland with ranches which resulted in an ideal location for Austin State School - Farm Colony.

The farm colony started as a true farm community in 1933. Texas Government along Texas Mental Health Mental Retardation had felt a need to place mentally retarded citizens in a separate home away from the rest of society. The mindset of society was to place mentally retarded citizens far away from so they wouldn’t ever have a need to come into the metropolis as Austin State School was set up as an autonomous community.
Texas Government along TX MHMR ideology was for the mentally retarded to produce farm products for other ‘State Schools’ and institutions. This taught the mentally retarded how to be self-sufficient.

Austin State School - Farm Colony was intended to provide a home for mentally retarded male patients who could no longer further benefit from training at the Austin State School and who were able to do such farm work such as gardening, farming, dairying, mowing, and such related tasks. The first students were transferred from the Austin State School to the farm colony in October 1934 which at the time had only one building. However, there were female students even in 1934 despite the original intentions of the institutions for males only.

At first, Austin State School - Farm Colony was just for men and eventually women. Children came later.
‘State School’ facilities were gender segregated due to a prevalent belief from the time period that associated mental retardation with promiscuity, alcoholism, and immoral behavior. Travis State School was set up as an autonomous community.

However on January 14, 1941, the Texas Legislature and Texas Government were considering closing down the farm colony due to the fact that the farm colony was a total failure as the farm colony could not produce enough to maintain for the patients at the institutions. However the farm colony remained.

By 1945, the farm colony had six buildings with offices.
The farm colony became a separate institution from the Austin State School in 1949 despite having the name ‘Austin State School’ which it was always a part of. The farm colony was always Austin State School despite was others say.
By 1955, TX MHMR had acquired an additional 195 acres from 8 more residents all of whom owned farmland. The Austin State School - Farming Colony campus eventually grew to encompass 68 buildings that spanned to the 436 acres you see today owned by KIPP Austin.

[Travis State School went under various names over the years such as Austin State School - Farm Colony, Austin State School - Farm Colony for the Feebleminded, Austin State School - Farm Colony for the Mentally Challenged, Travis State School for Boys, Travis State Home, Travis State School for the Mentally Gifted, Travis State School for the Mentally Challenged, Austin State School Annex, and Travis State School Annex. (Travis State School was first named Austin State School - Farm Colony in 1933.)]


Farming operations at the facility slowly ceased in January 1961 due to the fact that the farm colony was a total failure. The farm colony could not produce enough to maintain for the patients at the institutions. The farming operations did not cease due to mental health care reforms in the 1960's due to popular belief. Farming operations ceased due to lack of attention and criminal negligence.
To reflect this change, Austin State School - Farm Colony was renamed to Travis State School in January 1961.

Travis State School had its highest peak of patient enrollment of 1,800 patients/students in 1968 all of whom had been transferred from other institutions. Later included was a swimming pool, cannery, storerooms, more offices, and a sewing room.

In the year of 1970, Travis State School received a grant from the Hospital Improvement Project which made it possible for the use of a unit system of treatment. A new Vocational Evaluation and Training Center was opened and staffed through a grant from the Texas Rehabilitation Commission. The water tower was constructed over a graveyard.
Female students were first admitted in 1973 for the first time since the institution gradually opened in 1934.

The Texas Government and TX MHMR had began changing its focus from institutionalization to integrated placement in local communities as this trend was becoming nationwide in the United States in the 1980s. ‘State Schools’ began to see a decline in enrollment. This was a result from efforts in deinstitutionalization. By then, state officials began following this trend.

In 1981, farming operations at the facility ceased for good due to lack of enrollment, lack of maintenance, criminal negligence, and bad results. All what was left in its place was the institution.
The Travis State School functioned as an Independent School District (ISD) from 1981 to 1988. After the year of 1988 due to lack of enrollment and federal funding, Travis State School relied on the Manor Independent School District to provide academic instruction through its "mainstreaming" program instead.


In the 1990s, Travis State School was renamed to Austin State School Annex but still kept the name ‘Travis State School’ as many people referred to the institution by such name despite what other say. Texas has always historically been behind most US states to serve people with mental retardation within their own communities along with Alabama, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Illinois.

The 1990s saw an even further decline in ‘State School’ enrollment due to deinstitutionalization and healthcare laws. Effects of deinstitutionalization became statewide. Statistics in newspapers, reports, and books showed otherwise.
In 1992, Travis State School had 604 patients and 1,270 employees with a total of 86 buildings at its 436 acre property. In 1994, only 104 patients remained. They were unharmed.

In 1994, the State of Texas and City of Austin proposed a 1,000 inmate facility for a new state jail to alleviate crowding with the population in state jails. In 1996, the Travis County State Jail/Travis State Jail was built and completed. For a short while, Travis County State Jail/Travis State Jail was privately run by privatized prison industrial complex company Wackenhut Correctional Facilities. The land where Travis County State Jail/Travis State Jail occupies is where the Farm Colony originally was for Austin State School - Farm Colony.

Due to an abuse case at Travis State School along with lawsuits such as Lelsz vs. Kavanagh and Ruiz vs. Estelle, Travis State School closed down as an agreement in a lawsuit settlement with the state of Texas and US Government in 1996. The lawsuit was both statewide and federal, thus resulting in the federal lawsuit of Lelsz vs. Kavanagh.

By 1996, Travis State School closed for good. By then all remaining 41 patients were relocated to nearby institutions such as the Austin State School (now Austin State Supported Living Center). Construction at Travis State School lasted from 1996 to 1998. Debris was left over from pervious construction teams who relocated nearly everything. Some items and various other objects were left onsite. Buildings fell into various states of decay and disrepair.

In 1996, local real estate developer Peter Barlin had bought the land Travis State School was located on from Texas Board of Control. The idea for Peter Barlin purchasing the Travis State School land and buildings was to create a private version of the public housing agency called Vision Village. His main intention was to create public housing.
Vision Village was supposed to be a neighborhood for low income housing. The City of Austin gave him a $1 million dollar incentive for this land development. Organizers borrowed nearly $4 million from Austin, Travis County and a local bank in 1997.

However plans fell through when Vision Village lacked the management expertise and fund-raising ability to build the housing it promised. Local real estate developer Peter Barlin had been charged criminally with penalties such as embezzlement, conspiracy, money laundering, mismanagement, and fraud. More than $5 million had been poured into the project. Peter Barlin had owned the former Travis State School site that was once set aside for Vision Village, a project that never got off the ground despite more than $1 million from the city. The Vision Village costs had ran deeper than dollars however.


In 2004, KIPP Schools (KIPP Austin) had purchased the property from Peter Barlin and the State of Texas via TX MHMR from Texas Board of Control. Some buildings however were still abandoned. These buildings were renovated overtime. Only few buildings were demolished. The Travis State School Cemetery had fallen into disrepair. Security had not been set up to protect and secure property on a 24 hour basis yet.

Travis State School sat abandoned and vacant for a period of time from 1996 to 2004.
This made it easy for scrappers to steal and vandalize the buildings for copper metal in order to gain a profit. One famous example would be local criminal Reginald Dane Parker. Local criminal Reginald Dane Parker had apparently been stealing copper wire there from the location site before for years. The timeframe Reginald Dane Parker had been stealing copper wire from Travis State School was from 2001 to 2005. Reginald Dane Parker was arrested and jailed by law enforcement officials in 2005.

By 2011, KIPP Austin had fully settled onto the land of the former Travis State School site. However the 8 dorms that weren’t in use were boarded up and closed off. The 9 warehouses are in various states of disrepair. Austin Police Department had set up their Child Protective Services division there in the year of 2011 as well.

In 2015, KIPP Schools contracted with local business ASC Management to secure the property as an effort in security measures. Closed-Camera surveillance cameras are now present and 24 hour security is actively on sight. Gates now hover over the buildings. Unoccupied buildings that were boarded up or abandoned are now currently in use. These building have been upgraded by being renovated. Currently businesses such as KIPP Austin, Austin Discovery School, KIPP Cafe, Austin Police Department, and Child Protective Services now occupy the land property. A small handful of former warehouses are in various states of disrepair.



[Here’s why Travis State School really closed!]
[John Lelsz Sr. with his wife, Rith Lelsz, had filed a lawsuit that claimed Texas ‘State Schools’ along with other institutions of this kind violated the constitutional rights of their residents in 1974. Abuse was rampant in these institutions. criminal negligence, Patients were living in unsanitary condition provided by extremely inadequate living conditions. The lawsuit was Lelsz vs. Kavanagh. The lawsuit was eventually settled in 1991.

Travis State School closed down due a federal lawsuit called Lelsz vs. Kavanagh. Complainant John Lelsz Sr. and his wife Ruth Lelsz alleged their son, John Lelsz Jr. was physically abused and overtly medicated. John Lelsz Jr. was housed at Travis State School and Austin State School. John Lelsz Jr. was a blind and retarded patient who was physically aggressive with others and prone to violent outbursts. As a result he was overmedicated by Travis State School and Austin State School staff and the medical faculty.

When his parents went to visit him at Travis State School and Austin State School, they notices bruises, scars, and various other lacerations on his body.John Lelsz Jr. had acquired a head gash requiring six stitches, a black eye and swollen face while at Austin State School. Austin State School staff had used cattle prods to administer electroshock therapy on John Lelsz Jr. was a very difficult patient. Both parents filed a lawsuit against the state of Texas. Such said lawsuit eventually reached Federal Court. This led to the closure of the Travis State School in 1996.

By 1998, Travis State School closed for good. By then all remaining 41 patients were relocated to nearby institutions such as the Austin State School (now Austin State Supported Living Center). By 1999, lawsuits of Lelsz vs. Kavanagh and Ruiz vs. Estelle were mostly settled with the fact most of the complainants, plaintiffs, defendants, defenders, lawyers, and attorneys, were somewhat not satisfied with the Texas Governments’ actions with some justice being unserved to the victims and those whom were harmed.

As a result of delayed justice, John Lelsz Jr. was removed from Austin State School to a psychiatric institution in Arkansas in 1997. Since then his family relocated him back to Texas. His parents have since passed away. John Lelsz Sr. passed away in June 1995.]


[As for the government properties of Austin State School and Travis State School…]

[The Travis State School Cemetery still remains onsite hidden away from KIPP Austin campus. The cemetery has fallen into disrepair. Many graves, tombstones, and other identifiers such as markers remain untouched despite the future plans from the Texas Government to remove such graves. The Texas Government decided to leave the graves untouched. The Travis State School Cemetery has fallen into disrepair.]

[Austin State School - Farm Colony had moved back to its original location at the “original” Austin State School (now Austin State Supported Living Center) in 1998. Austin State School - Farm Colony has now been reduced to a garden to a size of 4 rows as of 2016. The farm colony is a former shill of what it once was. No longer are extreme amounts of tax dollars being poured into the farm colony. As of 2016, the farm colony no longer exists.]

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GOP in the 2010s gains more power.

Ever since the 2010s era and the beginning to the Tea Party Movement in the United States, the US GOP that has been making controversial news on many political news stations across the United States in the most recent years. The elected politicians and members of the GOP have been getting more nuttier and have been using more drastic measures to take away even more human rights from US citizens whilst nothing is being done to prevent such measures from happening. The GOP has been getting more nuttier and nuttier every year everywhere in the United States since they have gained both political power and economic power into politics with the US Government

The GOP has been getting away with raping the United States of its resources from the people for the people. Lobbyists have been giving money to GOP campaigns for quite some years now. The GOP never admits responsibility for their actions in their political decisions either. They think they are always right when in reality they're inconclusive thus being wrong.

The GOP has not only gained both political power and economic power from the left & right after they bought out the Republican Party and the Democratic Party unsurprisingly, but from corrupt business organizations such as Shell Company, Halliburton, NRA, and of course let's not forget British Petroleum that the politicians along with GOP did nothing to fix! Our GOP also gained political power and economic power from big business and international corporations, but to the US court systems, religious organizations, real estate firms, lawyer firms, lobbyists, and from bankers of course!

What the GOP has done is used the Republican Party and the Democratic Party to raise money for their campaigns, advertisements, posters, flyers, and fundraisers that don't actually help anyone but themselves, secret societies, hate groups, the elite, and the citizens from the upper class society. The GOP could care less about you and me along with the other citizens in American society. Some members of the GOP only care about business. GOP has opposed healthcare too!

Horrors of acid rain!

Acid rain comes from pollution that is from power stations and motor vehicles. Acid rain has well been around for over a century. The acid rain is around the world that harmfully effects the weather in our environment. Acid rain does result from oil. Killing wildlife is what acid rain does exactly. Pollution is the leading cause to acid rain. Besides that, more than 2/5's of the world's population breathes polluted air from the direct weather effects of acid rain. We need a solution to stop acid rain!

Of The Lion Fitness exercise workout routines considered extreme.

Of The Lion Fitness pushes its members beyond their limits!
Of The Lion Fitness consists of extreme workouts and rigorous exercise routines along with various other hardcore gymnasium exercises. Runners run around the compact square parking lot as a part of David Dee's exercise routine plan. The runners run an average of 2 to 3 laps every day on a daily basis when working out at David Dee's gymnasium. Some members even lift heavyset weights. They do curls and whatnot. Of legs and arms that is. Leg lunges are usually included in the exercise set. Many exercise sets include running, weight lifting, bicep crunches, leg warmups, bench presses, and well dumbbell throws.

Of The Lion Fitness is the hidden gym of Austin, Texas.

Of The Lion Fitness consists of extreme workouts and rigorous exercise routines along with various other hardcore gymnasium exercises. Of The Lion Fitness pushes its members beyond their limits during David Dee's rigorous exercises and workout routines. Physically, Of The Lion Fitness gymnasium is quite similar to Synergy Fitness in terms of exercise, drills, routine, and of course workouts. Runners run around the compact square parking lot as a part of David Dee's exercise routine plan. The runners run an average of 2 to 3 laps every day on a daily basis when working out at David Dee's gymnasium. Some members even lift heavyset weights. They do curls and whatnot. Leg lunges are usually included in the exercise set. 

Of The Lion Fitness is quite similar to Synergy Fitness. The gym itself is located at a former warehouse behind Lamar Boulevard that was next to a once junkyard. In fact, the land plot was already set up to be zoned for a junkyard.
Subplot land for the warehouse is managed by Darren Kunik. Of The Lion Fitness is owned by David Dee.
Of The Lion Fitness is located on 5540B North Lamar Boulevard, Austin, Texas, US 78751.

How news reporters are attacked by law enforcement.

These days, many news reporters are being attacked by officers in law enforcement in the United States and Canada.

The reason news reporters are getting harassed by various law enforcement agencies is because the United States Government does not want the news media to expose the police brutality and political corruption going on in the country. Nor does the Canadian Parliament. The local police are harassing and arresting news reporters.

News reporters have a right to film civil disobedience from the riots that had occurred as news coverage for free speech that is covered by the First Amendment under the United States Constitution. Prevention of free speech caused by police, other law enforcement, and the supreme courts are not allowed in this country and Canada.

The government is trying to cover up the shooting incident and sweep it under the rug as our government does with many other scandals, scams, kickbacks, and other incidents that the government wants to conceal from citizens. The government needs to step in and stop this mess.

That is why news reporters are getting attacked and harassed by various law enforcement agencies.

What Mixerr Reviews Blogspot ATXN is about!

Mixerr Reviews Blogspot ATXN is a local business that is an independent news column panel from Austin, Texas, US that often strays away from mainstream news and mainstream media by exposing various news topics such as politics and education. In other words, Mixerr Reviews Blogspot ATXN is basically a news source blog. Mixerr Reviews Blogspot ATXN is a more formal accurate news panel version of Mixerr Reviews. These news reviews about politics, education, music, health, and other topics are more extended and exclusive than the news reviews on Mixerr Reviews. Some of these news reviews have been slightly altered by Michael Mixerr himself.

Mixerr Reviews Blogspot ATXN mission is being a local business while being a well known independent news organization that covers many news topics that corporate news media organizations won't debate on and is too afraid to discuss while they are on the air on live broadcast. Being descriptive and accurate is one of Mixerr Reviews Blogspot ATXN priorities. Mixerr Reviews Blogspot ATXN talks about topics no news organization would ever cover.


The Mixerr Reviews Blogspot ATXN blog was started in 2013 by Michael Mixerr himself after creating the Mixerr Reviews news blog. As many media news outlets, sources, and newspapers influenced him to do so. In him doing so, Michael Mixerr matured his writing style for Mixerr Reviews into a more organized well laid out newspaper format.

At first Mixerr Reviews Blogspot ATXN was sort of a mail order only newspaper through as some thought it would be. It was through email only at one point. Mixerr Reviews Blogspot ATXN was only available to those who knew Michael Mixerr on a personal level and the only way you could get it was through him. Meaning that Mixerr Reviews Blogspot ATXN was available in Austin, Texas, US only. But in September 2013 is when Michael Mixerr made Mixerr Reviews Blogspot ATXN available to the whole world through the Internet and not just locally in Austin only.

Michael Mixerr wanted Mixerr Reviews Blogspot ATXN to be an indie news source blog. As times changed, so did Mixerr Reviews Blogspot ATXN and all the other reviews changed in formatting to along with time. The reviews are useful sources of information to many people around the world.

Arctic drilling effecting various environments.

The environmental effects of Arctic drilling will surely have negative effects on the ozone layer along several of our other continents across the planet Earth. Carbon will be released into the air along with all the machinery and oil drilling equipment used to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean. That equipment will be used to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean. Drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean will effect many sea animals along some mammals nature habitat. Drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean will pollute the ocean as well. Yahoo News has even done an extensive news coverage story about Arctic drilling this month of May 2015.

How Tent Cities are run in Phoenix, Arizona.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio was the first person to set up "Tent City" in Maricopa County during the year of 1993 as an extension of the Maricopa County Jail system. Eventually later on, Sheriff Joe Arpaio would approve more building of these "Tent Cities" around the state of Arizona and not just Phoenix metropolitan area. By 2009, there were more than 15 Tent Cities. These Tent Cities are similar to prison and jail of course. These Tent Cities are run like a prison system obviously. And yes, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has even went to the extent of describing Tent City as a concentration camp. Lawyers and attorneys have questionably wondered and continue to fight over the constitutionality of Tent  Cities. Tent Cities are criticized by human rights groups stating there are violations of human rights and constitutional rights going on there. In 2010 even more tent cities were built.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio runs law enforcement for Phoenix along with the state of Arizona with an iron fist. We all know that Sheriff Joe Arpaio doesn't play around when it comes to law enforcement and politics.