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Expect the next decade to be dominated by a weak economy and precarious international politics -- the consequences of Bush's successes.

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Austin leaders try to influence the feds' new U.S. courthouse project.

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Lowell Bartholomee has a lot to say, and he says it in plays that blaze like a Klieg instrument throwing gritty metrosphere of modern life into stark relief -- stark comic relief.

The falling Dow throws a spotlight on the president's business career.

Twenty years of The Austin Chronicle: the final chapter and coda

Urban planning and noise in the Hood

Red River, home to Austin's real live music venues

Austin Stories

What's worse, Patrick Roy's twitch, Dikembe Mutombo's stare, or what NBC laughably calls its "halftime show"? Coach gets a midnight call from his old pal, the Whipp.

Is Austin's Sixth Street Entertainment District undergoing an identity crisis? -- and who are the designated shrinks?

The council listens for four hours as proponents and opponents of the doomed motion to change Rosewood Avenue to Dorothy Turner Avenue make their case; the motion failed for lack of a second.

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During Gov. Bush's campaign for his party's presidential nomination last fall, reporters asked the candidate to comment on a federal government report asserting that many Texans, including large numbers of children, were going to bed hungry. "I saw the report that children in Texas are going hungry. Where?" he demanded, going on to say, "You'd think the governor would have heard if there are pockets of hunger in Texas." Indeed, you would, especially if one of those pockets is just a few miles from his front door, Virginia B. Wood explains as she explores the very pockets of hunger in Austin Bush has difficulty fathoming.

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Same Old Story

Letter to Isaac

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Ring Their Bell

Homeless Hearing Stinks Up Council Chambers

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Unnatural Acts, Part 2