The Newscast is back with another awesome installment, previewing the pages of this week’s Chronicle.

We begin by discussing potential plans to preserve the character of Downtown’s warehouse district, a preview of the Hustle’s think-piece leading into next week’s adoption of the city budget, and local fallout from Barack Obama‘s school speech, with commentary from AISD maven Richard Whittaker. Jordan Smith and Wells Dunbar are your totally awesome hosts.

This article appears in September 4 • 2009.

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