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All Downhill From Here
RECEIVED Fri., Sept. 22, 2017
Dear Editor,
No more "News of the Weird." No more "Hightower Report." When Tom Tomorrow and the Luv Doc go, so will I. There will be little left to read but movie reviews and ads. Such a shame to see the Chronicle go downhill. I really cannot remember the last time I read a complete article. I just skim now, as every issue seems to be focused on some band/dance troupe, theatre group, etc. Nice reading for some folks I'm sure, but it's all too much of the same, week after week.
No more "News of the Weird." No more "Hightower Report." When Tom Tomorrow and the Luv Doc go, so will I. There will be little left to read but movie reviews and ads. Such a shame to see the Chronicle go downhill. I really cannot remember the last time I read a complete article. I just skim now, as every issue seems to be focused on some band/dance troupe, theatre group, etc. Nice reading for some folks I'm sure, but it's all too much of the same, week after week.
Brian Wise
[Editor-in-Chief Kim Jones responds: It’s true, we no longer run "News of the Weird" or "Hightower Report," two nationally syndicated columns, in order to devote that space to local news and our own reporting. It’s also true that every week, we focus on some band, dance troupe, theatre group – sometimes all in one issue! – but that’s pretty much what we’ve been doing for the past 36 years.
p.s. Not unlike the clap, the Luv Doc is with us for life.]
p.s. Not unlike the clap, the Luv Doc is with us for life.]
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Not Connected to Petitions
RECEIVED Thu., Sept. 21, 2017
Dear Editor,
Michael King is a hack reporter. ANC is not connected to the INDY Austin petitions for CodeNEXT [“Austin: City of Petitions,” News, Sept. 22]. Verify your bloody facts first before you put them in print.
Michael King is a hack reporter. ANC is not connected to the INDY Austin petitions for CodeNEXT [“Austin: City of Petitions,” News, Sept. 22]. Verify your bloody facts first before you put them in print.
Mary Ingle
President of the Austin Neighborhoods Council
President of the Austin Neighborhoods Council
[Michael King responds: Methinks Mary Ingle doth protest too much. Not only did she and other ANC Executive Committee members attend the initial, small group IndyAustin organizing meeting "to go over the IndyAustin petitions, lay initial plans for a campaign, take suggestions, and call for volunteers and donations" (Austin Bulldog, Sept. 12), she told the Austin Monitor (Sept. 22), with her usual gift for understatement, “I have a feeling the neighborhood people will be very interested in this petition because the code is dreadful and the city staff does all this stuff in secret, and they changed everything in the latest draft creating confusion on purpose.” Verification of facts, bloody or otherwise, is not Ingle's strong suit.]