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News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...year. Burglary was up 7.6%, to 8,031 incidents, and auto theft spiked 16.4%, with nearly 3,000 reports in 2007...."

June 13, 2008 News Feature

Speed Racer

The Wachowski brothers' hyperbolic film is supersaturated with outrageously eye-popping visuals, but there's nary an honest emotion in sight.

"...scant five minutes of Rockstar Games' new Grand Theft Auto IV video game than there is in the whole..."

May 9, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Revolution Will Not Be Motorized

Will the city create a path to give bicyclists a little respect?

"...support of efforts to elevate Austin's official League of American Bicyclists bike-friendliness ranking from silver to gold, council voted..."

May 9, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

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News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...majority of Texans who want to protect the sacred American principle of 'one person, one vote,'" said Lt. Gov...."

May 2, 2008 News Feature

Can Austin Meet New Air Rules? Don't Hold Your Breath.

Onward through the smog

"...decade. Ozone, produced when airborne pollutants from industry and autos mix together and bake in the sun, is linked..."

March 28, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Media Watch

The Statesman's getting smaller, but for what?

"...Engaged in the fight of its life, the Austin American-Statesman continues to do battle by shrinking itself, curling into..."

March 21, 2008 News Column by Kevin Brass

Friday Picks

"...Wife Thinks You're Dead." – Doug Freeman Slim Cessna's Auto Club..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

Day Trippin'

More day parties than you can shake an iPhone at

"...Legendary Shack*Shakers (5); outside: Otis Gibbs (noon), This Is American Music Revue featuring Grand Champeen, Two Cow Garage, Glossary,..."

March 11, 2008 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

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"...and class lines and discipline inequities that result in African-American students being punished more. The district is establishing a..."

Dec. 28, 2007 News Feature

Houston Confronting Peak Oil

2007 Houston World Oil Conference focused on eventual point at which world oil production outpaces global demand

"...to base pay on productivity rather than office. Increased auto efficiency standards, alternative fuels, hybrids, and electric cars were..."

Nov. 9, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Peak Oil in the Energy State

2007 Houston World Oil Conference focused on eventual point at which world oil production outpaces global demand

"...Billionaire T. Boone Pickens, perhaps the most famous living American oil and gas man, said the peak has already..."

Nov. 1, 2007 News Post by Daniel Mottola

Day Trips

San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge on the Texas coast near Brazoria is a very peaceful place

"...have been spotted in the refuge along with bobcats, American alligators, and bald eagles...."

Oct. 5, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Page Two: Grand Illusions

The only problem with wide-ranging, all-encompassing conspiracy theories is that they're wrong

"...another. These include the Illuminati, the Freemasons, the Vatican, American Jewry, Jews in general, Zionists, and the Israeli government..."

July 6, 2007 Column by Louis Black

'We Had a Tragedy Here in Austin'

City Manager dispells dark rumors surrounding David Rivas Morales's beating death this week.

"...to four). Mike Martinez and Sheryl Cole thanked the African-American and Latino – League of United Latin American Citizens,..."

June 21, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

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"...Produced in partnership with KUT and the Center for Mexican-American Studies at UT-Austin, Latino USA is syndicated to 172..."

June 1, 2007 News Feature

AE & Plug-In Hybrids: Power Coming and Going

Electric cars could both run clean and boost our power supply

"...lowest. According to Duncan, the engineers realized that "the automobile battery is the perfect storage for wind."..."

May 25, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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"...an educational initiative designed to increase awareness and lower bicycle-auto accidents. He noted in a statement that Texas has..."

May 25, 2007 News Feature

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"...Austin's Lloyd Doggett was among four co-sponsors. To urge automakers to build the vehicles, the Plug-in Partners campaign, initiated..."

May 4, 2007 News Feature

Once a Cardinal, Always a Cardinal

Josh Hancock, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher, dead at 29

"...Hancock died at about 12:30 Sunday morning in an auto accident on a stretch of U.S. 64/Highway 40 (or,..."

April 29, 2007 Sports Post by Shawn Badgley

A Guide to the Works

"...explores the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through an Israeli janitor, an American nurse, and a Palestinian patient at a West Bank..."

April 6, 2007 Arts Feature

Bi-ology

The Texas Biennial's second rising

"...die. In the case of reseeding, the plant is auto-reproductive. Given good soil, water, and appropriate light, one biennial..."

March 2, 2007 Arts Feature by Nikki Moore

Food-o-File

Revisiting Josephine Viscardi; plus, Cissi's Market on South Congress

"...had just completed an archaeological study on a similar African-American neighborhood in Houston where Italian immigrant families had opened..."

March 2, 2007 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

The TCBender Is Gathering Steam

"...Promise Breakers (Faces, Stones, T.Rex, Mats) and bluegrass fiends American Graveyard loosened the bolts last night, and there's nothing..."

Feb. 9, 2007 News Post by Christopher Gray

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"...States and collection of more than 2,800 reports involving Americans in an "anti-terrorist threat database." One such protest chronicled..."

Feb. 2, 2007 News Feature

Riding at Risk

Austin's streets still a hazard for two-wheeled transportation

"...But the $25,000 liability settlement he received from Saenz's auto insurance has barely offset the unpaid bills that piled..."

Nov. 10, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Crestview at the Crossroads

Near north neighborhood faces redevelopment transformation

"...commercial sense dictates that there will still be some auto traffic in and out of the new mini-neighborhood...."

Oct. 6, 2006 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Jim claimed, and I quote, "There are 7.3 million Americans working for minimum wage. Another 8.2 million of us..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Column

Who Killed the Electric Car?

This multifaceted documentary about the history of GM's electric car seeks the culprit responsible for its demise and finds plenty of blame to go around.

"...by 1998 to be emission-free. GM and the other American auto manufacturers began working on prototypes to fulfill the..."

July 28, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...it's one day after a historic occasion for disabled Americans: July 26 marks the 26th anniversary of the Americans..."

July 28, 2006 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...(consider: hardly anyone under 40 even reads the Austin American-Statesman these days)...."

July 21, 2006 Column

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