The Four Horsemen of the Deficit

Examining the new House committees on state spending

"...to add focus and so, with the state's structural deficit being amplified by collapsing tax revenues, yesterday House Speaker..."

Jan. 13, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin ISD Reduces Budget Deficit by Half

Meanwhile, special ed students are still struggling

"...ISD is on track to reduce its $52 million deficit by half by the end of the summer. The..."

March 1, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Austin FC Erases 0-2 Deficit for “Entertaining” Draw Against FC Dallas

Late goals from Driussi, Hoesen yield 2-2 finish

"...co-leading ninth goal of the season to halve the deficit...."

June 26, 2022 Sports Post by Eric Goodman

Cash-Flow Deficit Obsession of the Day: We Love Tiny Chairs!

Wearing Iconic Chairs around your neck

Aug. 30, 2010 Design Post by Anne Harris

Futrell to Council: Deficit Shrinks ... a Bit

The city budget report looks a wee bit rosier, but with plenty of thorns

April 23, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

Deficit? What Deficit?

"...during the campaign) key legislators had warned that the deficit would likely be much higher than $5 billion, but..."

Dec. 27, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

The China Hustle

The next global economic meltdown, in terrifying detail.

"...ever happened, and is still happening. Think the trade deficit is a source of economic concern? The China Hustle..."

April 20, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas

Light ’em up for everyone's favorite movie stoners.

"...setting into motion a quest picture with an ingenuity deficit – enter Russian mobsters, a coked-out toddler – and..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Trollhunter

Wayward trolls threaten human life in this delightfully bizarre Norwegian film.

"...Alf Larsen. Fun Fact No. 1: Trolls have a deficit of red blood cells, a physiological anomaly that causes..."

June 17, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dewhurst for Lieutenant Governor (Again)

Lite guv wants another run as senate president

"...his achievements that Texas is "not facing a budget deficit." Which is true as long as everyone ignores the..."

Sept. 9, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Black Balloon

This prize-winning Australian film is a moving, youth-oriented work, featuring lovely performances by Toni Collette and Gemma Ward.

"...strong, too). Seventeen-year-old Charlie has severe autism and attention deficit disorder; he lost the ability of speech years before..."

April 10, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The District!

This animated Hungarian feature is equal parts South Park and Magyar-inflected hip-hop, and an altogether smart, urban riff on Romeo and Juliet.

"...this animated Hungarian feature that if you don't have attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder going in, you may well develop it by..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Da Vinci Code

Faithful adaptation of Dan Brown's bestseller treats the novel as if it were a sacred text even though it's basically a Hardy Boys mystery dressed up in provocative attire.

"...and Jean-Yves Berteloot. God help the moviegoer with attention deficit disorder: The Da Vinci Code comes at you like..."

May 26, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Domino

Attention-deficit filmmaking reaches a new pinnacle in Tony Scott's hyperstylized portrait of a bounty hunter as an iconic bad girl.

"...Austin Green, Ian Ziering, Dabney Coleman and Macy Gray. Attention-deficit filmmaking reaches a new pinnacle in Domino, Tony Scott’s..."

Oct. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Thumbsucker

The plot realistically mimics a teenager’s adriftness and tendency toward hairpin-turn mood shifts as it bounds from the wonderfully affecting to the decidedly idiosyncratic to the occasionally absurd.

"...tries to kick the habit, gets diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, falls for a girl with a peculiar seduction..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Now & Then: From Frosh to Seniors

"...your sepulchral law office, grimly making up the billable-hours deficit you incurred during your biennial vacation. And then it..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation

"...certain connection between a film like this and attention deficit disorder. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is a fascinating phenomenon; it's..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

AISD Sends Signals on Future Budget Cuts

School closures and the redrawing of school boundaries eyed as potential ways to address $29 million deficit

"...among the strategies that could contain Austin ISD's budget deficit. Leaders with the Budget Stabilization Task Force presented a..."

Nov. 16, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

This Way to the Big Top!

From budget disaster to hysterical bloodletting, the legislative circus is back in town

"...to passage any legislation it desires. With a multibillion-dollar deficit opening the door to program slashing, plus the once-a-decade..."

Jan. 14, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

AISD: Thinking Outside the Schoolhouse

Task force schemes new ways to stabilize Austin ISD budget

"...conceiving ways to cut into the district's growing budget deficit met for the second time on Monday. AISD will..."

July 20, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Balance the Budget (In Three Years) in Five (Not-so-Easy) Steps

It will take both unpleasant tax hikes and spending cuts to balance the city budget -- and not until 2006

"...be more than $220 million in the red, a deficit of more than 50%. That will never do, of..."

May 30, 2003 News Feature

Page Two

The war in Iraq has diverted our attention from other important matters, including a truly destructive proposed federal budget, mirrored by Texas' very own fiscal abyss.

"...the Texas Constitution the state can't have a budget deficit. Even the best-intentioned legislators are going to have to..."

April 4, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Cruel to Be Kind

The Sting of Austin's 1996-97 Budget

"...basic city services and administration. During the summer, the deficit was projected at $18 million, but a last-minute boon..."

Aug. 23, 1996 News Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

Making the Math Work on Real School Finance Reform

"Texas Plan" brings new money to Austin and other districts, but nothing's final yet

"...Rock, she has to contend with a ballooning budget deficit. Currently, AISD is facing a $65 million shortfall in..."

April 26, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

AISD Prepares to Slice the Apple

School district battles its budget monsters

"...reform at the state Legis­lat­ure, district accountants project further deficits that within a few years will completely drain AISD's..."

Dec. 7, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Show Your Work

How Texas ended up $27 billion short

"...to the Rainy Day Fund and $4 billion in deficit spending in the current biennium, and calculate the actual..."

March 4, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Buying Time

The federal stimulus money rides to the state's rescue – until the next session

"...that, Pitts and Dunnam agree: There's a structural revenue deficit that has nothing to do with the current economic..."

May 8, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Why Stage Tea Parties Now?

"...parties"? During the eight years of Ronald Reagan, the deficit rose greatly; during the four years of Bush version..."

April 15, 2009 Postmarks

Apocalypse February!

When digital TV arrives next year, you may not notice

"...never about consumers. The deal was included in a deficit reduction bill, approved by the Senate, 51-50, in 2005...."

June 13, 2008 News Feature by Kevin Brass

The Budget's Downhill Slide

"...2005FY 2006 Expenditures$459.39$499.20$494.87$517.23 Minus budget reduction($38.20) Total expenditures$459.39$461.00$494.87$517.23 Revenues$445.96$461.00$465.75$482.98 Deficit($13.43)($0.00)($29.12)($34.25) Beginning Balance$41.33$29.56$29.56$0.44 Ending Balance$29.56$29.56$0.44($33.81) Assumed tax rate0.45970.49280.52690.5269 Nominal EffectiveEffectiveNominal..."

Aug. 8, 2003 News Feature

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