Pushing Priorities

Councilmembers Lay Down Their Cards

"...Manager Jesus Garza's proposed budget of $1.2 billion -- Austin's loss of financial power, with boom times putting the..."

Sept. 6, 1996 News Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

They'll Be Booming

By the Time I Get to Georgetown...

"...Del Webb, and both hold high-impact jobs with well-known Austin corporate citizens. So they'll be joining the masses who..."

July 5, 1996 News Feature

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...group of mayors from 20 Central Texas cities, including Austin Mayor Bruce Todd, lists one voluntary outdoor watering schedule..."

June 28, 1996 News Feature

Naked City

Off the Desk

"...Vision Project -- a partnership of the City of Austin, Capitol Metro, and UT's architecture school -- will hold..."

June 21, 1996 News Feature

You Don't Need Money, Just a Little Bit a Month...

1996 AISD Bond Election

"...AISD Board of Trustees joined ranks with trustees of Austin Community College in not pledging to steer any new..."

Feb. 23, 1996 News Feature by Roseana Auten

The Road to Ruin

US290: We Built It, and Dammit, They're Coming

"...Some Austinites can- not view the towering freeway ramps under construction..."

Jan. 19, 1996 News Feature

Off the Desk

"...TateAustin, the bustling downtown ad and PR firm which is..."

Jan. 12, 1996 News Feature

A Brave New World

If Just for One Day...

"...passed on to some other world. It was an Austin parallel universe where the front page of the Sunday..."

Nov. 24, 1995 News Feature

Is This UTopia?

A Long-Overdue University Master Plan is Unveiled

"...when the chair of the Faculty Building Advisory Committee, Austin Gleeson, takes you into this sanctum, he makes you..."

Sept. 22, 1995 News Feature

A Few Questions for a Newcomer

Got a Problem With Salamanders, Bare Feet, and One Algae Tie?

"...In late August, the Austin American-Statesman's new editor Richard Oppel used his column to..."

Sept. 15, 1995 News Feature

A Neighborhood of Churches

The Path to Glory is Right Downtown

"...put its impetus quite succinctly: "When I moved to Austin, I went walking downtown with friends, and we said,..."

Aug. 11, 1995 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Jam City

Managing Congestion

"...was provided for traffic light synchronization. (The City of Austin allocated another $250,000 for traffic light synchronization for fiscal..."

Aug. 11, 1995 News Feature

Happy Trails on the Horizon?

AMTC's Vision Quest

"...by Nelson England Some Austinites have been dreaming about it for decades: a system..."

July 28, 1995 News Feature

AISD Notebook

"...elementary schools - two of which are in East Austin and plagued by low-performing status. Consuelo Barr was swiftly..."

June 30, 1995 News Feature by Roseana Auten

Books, Books, Books

The Summer of '95

"...to ease the summer heat by spending time at Austin's myriad bookstores, where you'll find all these titles and..."

June 2, 1995 Books Feature

Killer Green Information Environmental BBSs

BBS Basics

"...bills and equipment, while others don't charge anything. (One Austin sysop told me his long distance bill went as..."

April 28, 1995 News Feature by R.U. Steinberg

Preserving a 'Special Kind of Place'

Scott Swearingen on the ‘environmental city’

"...Environmental City: People, Place, Politics, and the Meaning of Austin. Below are excerpts from our conversation...."

April 23, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Pondering Downtown Condos

Frequently Asked Questions

"...Isn't the Austin condo market overbuilt?..."

March 13, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

The Making of an Endorsement

"...to incentivize exactly the kind of (re) development that Austin has decided we need: dense, mixed-use projects that integrates..."

Oct. 24, 2008 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...body president, and representatives of the university, including Dr. Austin Gleeson, Chairman of the Master Planning Committee, and others..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Column

Postmarks

Development peccadillos and Lost Austin kudos.

"...of developable area. When we discovered other city of Austin rules made it impossible to use the total city-committed..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Column

Postmarks

"...detailed coverage [Vol.18, No.8]. I write to urge all Austin voters to get out and vote in favor of..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Column

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