Frequent Fliers

Once they enter the mental health care system, people tend to return

"...incurable burden. Pharmaceutical and therapeutic research has proved that assumption wrong, but the state system has been a long..."

Nov. 12, 2004 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Nonvoting Alleviates This Citizen's Responsibility

"...for Ralph Nader! What's wrong with these people!? The assumption is that if you don't vote for Kerry, you'll..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Postmarks

Confessions of a Romance Virgin

Harlequin heats up a new market with its kickass Bombshell heroines

"...impractical notions of literature, deciding to operate on the assumption, as Janice Radway wrote in her seminal work Reading..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Books Feature by Nora Ankrum

District 50

Mark Strama tries to exploit his opponent's weakest points

"...who had stood up to that pressure." The general assumption was that Stick feared losing a seat on the..."

Oct. 22, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Changing Channel 15: Who's Got the Remote?

The AMN/AMP/ACTV saga goes down to the wire

"...to keep Channel 15 on the air until its assumption, if that should happen, by AMP. "Truly, it's the..."

Oct. 1, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Hospital District Births a Budget

Size of salaries, reserves still at issue in spending plan

"...million reserve fund. That figure is based on the assumption that the board can squeeze more money out of..."

Sept. 3, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

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Our readers talk back.

"...of 30- to 40-year road bonds based on the assumption that people will continue driving more and more just..."

July 23, 2004 Column

Toll Roads Promote Sprawl, Spending

"...of 30- to 40-year road bonds based on the assumption that people will continue driving more and more just..."

July 21, 2004 Postmarks

Letters at 3AM

It takes fierceness to grow old well

"...always be smooth and quick and strong. A silly assumption, but you didn't know better. Smooth, quick, strong, svelte..."

June 25, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Montana Blues

Great-grandmother Marie died of a broken heart in Billings, Mont.

"...Bert was of Swedish stock, from Superior, Wis. The assumption that he had German blood was an understandable error,..."

May 28, 2004 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

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"...a $450 million bond package designed entirely on the assumption that historic growth patterns will continue. Many observers believe..."

May 14, 2004 Column

Where's the Vision?

"...a $450 million bond package designed entirely on the assumption that historic growth patterns will continue. Many observers believe..."

May 12, 2004 Postmarks

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Dresch) and company are ready to burst bubbles of assumption. – Kate X Messer..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

SXSW Film Reviews

"...still proudly and enthusiastically doing it challenge many an assumption about sex in the sunset years...."

March 19, 2004 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

The Rest of the Races

"...in my belly. ... I was running under the assumption that because the current chair is so exclusionary, a..."

Feb. 13, 2004 News Feature

Standiford Offers One Truly Inane Comparison and References One More, but at Least He Gets to Call a Lot of People Names

Jan. 27, 2004 Postmarks

The Fruit of the Pro-Lifers' Labors

What Texas women now need to know before an abortion

"...all these new restrictions, said Wheat, is the mistaken assumption that women aren't capable of making reproductive decisions on..."

Jan. 16, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Page Two

History is speed-racing through this decade; we're queasy and anxious to get to the finish line.

"...a concrete guide to unfolding events. Even accepting that assumption, let's remember that the past, now behind us, appears..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

The very nature of the police's job should earn more consistent praise, but at the same time it demands monitoring.

"...point of view on Smith's story. Nope, just the assumption that information is dangerous, that anything done to wipe..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Closing Open Records

Rick Perry and George W. Bush treat open records law as an obstacle to be gotten around, not a cornerstone of democracy.

"...At the Texas State Library the assumption had long been that once a state document reached..."

Nov. 7, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

A Big Box Full of Big Boxes

The latest on the Wal-Mart, Lowe's, and Eckerd's controversies

"...the property (south of St. Ed's and west of Assumption Cemetery) because it doesn't jibe with the neighborhood plan..."

Nov. 7, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

The Trojan Women: A Love Story

A Chuck Mee play is a veritable playground for young artists, but while they put a lot of thought and effort into the UT Department of Theatre & Dance production of The Trojan Women: A Love Story, the students behind it only scratched the surface of his work.

"...genie lift might be a telling metaphor for his assumption that he is above the fray, but it weakened..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Why Is Doil Lane Still on Death Row?

Despite a Supreme Court ban on the execution of the mentally retarded, those prisoners remain on Texas' death row.

"...penalty in 1976, prosecutors had been acting under the assumption that seeking a death sentence for a person with..."

Oct. 17, 2003 News Feature by Rita Radostitz

Growing Pains and Great Strides

Wondering what the second Salt Lick -- still with barbecue but also with fine wine and dining -- wants to be

"...me a fresh pour, and it was fine. My assumption is that the original pour had been sitting in..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Lowe's, Austin, and HB 1204: Who's Got the Cards?

Are Austin's hands tied on another land-use battle over the aquifer?

"...The Sunset Valley assumption then was that Austin would enforce its Save Our..."

Oct. 10, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

For regional planning, it's a great day to go back to the future

"...have forecast with such surety. When ECT began, its assumption that Central Texas would double in population was itself..."

Oct. 10, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

The Trees

Online music trading that "leaves" the RIAA and music industry in the underbrush.

"...Working on the assumption that both the Texas Psych and Syd Barrett list,..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Page Two

Welcome to the "Best of Austin," in what in some ways feels like the worst of times.

"...population. The genius of the United States is the assumption that many voices, many philosophies, many religions, many ideas..."

Sept. 26, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Naked City

While the Beast makes small concessions, the mayor hints at hope for a negotiated settlement.

"...of vegetative buffers between the project and the nearby Assumption Cemetery to the east and an apartment complex to..."

Sept. 26, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Tweaking the ARA Plan

Seven years after its creation, the Austin Revitalization Authority hopes new revisions to its urban renewal plan can push Eastside redevelopment forward.

"...verge of an unprecedented economic boom, and the general assumption was that some of that good fortune would, or..."

Aug. 1, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

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