The MNA is an all-volunteer, non-profit, non-partisan organization that advocates for the Mueller neighborhood and focuses on building community. Playing a vital role in representing the interests of the neighborhood, the MNA strives for diversity and inclusion of all members of our community, residents and visitors alike. Being a member is a good way to learn about what is happening …

By Saamiya Seraj “By the way, Eid Mubarak!” my neighbor waved at me as we finished our conversation and were going our respective ways.  I paused for a second, taken aback by the fact that he knew it was Eid. I’m not sure what my expression looked like at the time, but I must have had the biggest grin on …

Provided by Karen Sharp, Chair of the POA Transition Committee The Mueller POA is the legal entity that owns and maintains the common elements in the Mueller development, such as the parks, the pools, the row home exteriors, and the POA also makes and enforces the rules that apply to all properties in Mueller. Since Mueller is a neighborhood with …

By Ted Herr What if you could have all three at the same time? Several times a week, a group of Mueller residents and their friends choose all three whenever they gather for a game of pétanque (pronounced “pay tonk”) at the Mueller Browning Hangar.   I had the opportunity to meet with four of them, including Mueller resident Gayla Slikas, …

By Shawn Collins Austin FC, the new Major League Soccer club in Austin, is finally playing at home at the soccer-specific Q2 Stadium near the Domain. The season started with eight games on the road as they completed the stadium, and now we’re in for a summer and fall of matches in Austin. In late May, Austin FC and Austin …

By Taylor Youngblood, Mueller Zero Waste Block Leader The Buy Nothing Project Mission: We offer people a way to give and receive, share, lend, and express gratitude through a worldwide network of hyper-local gift economies in which the true wealth is the web of connections formed between people who are real-life neighbors. ~From buynothingproject.org/about/mission-and-principles The Buy Nothing Project is a …

By Bill Kirwin, originally published in the August 2020 Front Porch Flyer print edition “Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got Till it’s gone? They paved paradise And put up a parking lot” -Joni Mitchell Joni’s 1970 description of impervious cover in the song “Big Yellow Taxi” is much more eloquent than the following …

By Koreena Malone , Chair, MNA Engagement and Inclusion Committee From the April 2021 Front Porch Flyer print edition Creating a loving and just neighborhood means that, as neighbors and leaders, we need to understand the differences between anti-racism, diversity, inclusion, and implicit-bias training and use language consistent with anti-racism work.  Anti-racism is a personal and societal standpoint that opposes racism …