{
  "schema_version": 1,
  "slug": "austin",
  "title": "Austin",
  "canonical_url": "https://signalmeaning.com/signals/austin/",
  "json_url": "https://signalmeaning.com/data/signals/austin.json",
  "summary": "Local incidents and community stories in Austin (food/restaurant profile, traffic accident, local college sports box score) are driving city-level search interest.",
  "why_now": "A serious pedestrian incident and fresh local reporting (food feature and recent box score) create immediate information demand and social sharing within the city, producing a short-term clustered spike in searches for the city name.",
  "evidence_summary": "Multiple local news items about community interest (food story), a serious traffic incident, and a local college sports result are clustered under the city name — a pattern consistent with city-level search spikes for local news and civic events.",
  "caveat": "Signal Type: Local News / Civic Event",
  "collected_at": "Sun, 20 Sep 2026 02:30:00 -0700",
  "signal_type": "Local News / Civic Event",
  "score": 78.0,
  "score_field": "adjusted_score",
  "state": "PUBLISH",
  "evidence": [
    "How an East Austin food truck became the go-to taco joint for the city's Muslim community - KUT",
    "Pedestrian in critical condition after being hit by vehicle in southeast Austin - KXAN Austin"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "How an East Austin food truck became the go-to taco joint for the city's Muslim community - KUT",
      "source": "KUT",
      "url": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMilwFBVV95cUxQcUJwODlKdFRabFZyT0NxN0pySm5rbks5VlFxTlctbWhvZWZmc2hxbEhvc245d3J0SXp3bVBMeDRBWGpxMWRaczlRVzdTNDlHOXg1TUJSTXUwa21TN3lhcFdUQnM2cGJEYnNBNWtqazNvX1VBOVhrc0RJeXU0b21kSmZ2a3VLMVE1bkJrUkZEUUJZWmo5Wk1V?oc=5"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "record_id": "202609201901_signal_Quality-0-austin",
    "batch_id": "202609201901",
    "input_files": {
      "Quality": "202609201901_signal_Quality.txt",
      "Musk": "202609201901_signal_Musk.txt",
      "Kurzweil": "202609201858_signal_Kurzweil.txt",
      "Jobs": "202609201856_signal_Jobs.txt",
      "Buffett": "202609201855_signal_Buffett.txt",
      "Bezos": "202609201855_signal_Bezos.txt"
    }
  }
}