• Early voting begins Monday, Oct. 20. For early-voting info and Chronicle endorsements, and for election coverage, see “Campaign Trail.” And vote!

• The stock market rallied Monday after the U.S. and European nations announced plans to inject capital directly into major banks – a plan favored by several economists, including Paul Krugman. The New York Times columnist won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday.

• The City Council meets today (Thursday) and will consider making a proposal to buy Lions Municipal Golf Course, scheduled for potential redevelopment, from UT. It’s not clear if UT is taking the council’s calls. See “City Hall Hustle.”

• They do do windows: Embarrassed by bad national publicity and the likelihood of free-speech lawsuits, University of Texas officials backed down on banning political signs in dorm windows.

Quote of the Week

“A funny thing happened to me this morning …” – What Paul Krugman wrote on his blog the day it was announced that the liberal international financial theorist had won the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences – the Nobel Prize for economics.


This article appears in October 17 • 2008.

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