Beside the Point

Paul Robbins wants to take City Hall back

"..."Dear Toby," leads the letter to City Manager Toby Futrell from Paul Robbins,..."

March 23, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside the Point

City Council wants to grant workers collective bargaining rights, needs Lege approval

"...Echoing my editor's words on the flip side, as we just learned firsthand, campaign season..."

March 2, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside the Point

Council votes to double time limit on sewer repairs

"...I heard it through the pipeline: "We're about to notice 10,000 residents of some..."

Feb. 2, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside the Point

This week's cold spell had a chilling effect on public discussion of crucial items

"...bitter wintry mix; before luxe retailers Downtown tried de-icing the Great Streets with imported Dead Sea rock-salt grains; before..."

Jan. 19, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside the Point

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like 2007

"...citizens signed in to address City Council last Thursday, the last meeting of the year. As Jennifer Gale waited..."

Dec. 22, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside The Point

It may be too late for the sound and fury over the Wal-Mart at Northcross to signify anything

"...(Thursday) City Council wraps up its holiday shopping, plopping the hottest present of the season under its crowded Christmas..."

Dec. 15, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside The Point

Slow week at City Council ... try to stay awake

"...to council: You are grossly underpaid. Please, give yourselves another raise. Failing that, y'all look a wee peaked –..."

Dec. 1, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside The Point

A light council agenda for this week, focusing on Downtown and salamanders

"...For the last few weeks, BTP has been feverishly scanning web-programming..."

Nov. 17, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside The Point

As the bond election nears, council takes up a light agenda

"...reminding us, "Austin is what you make it." With their recovery-chic name – what happened to the five missing..."

Nov. 3, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside the Point

The downtown plan moves forward, but the direction is a little uncertain

"...Of the untold thousands of recent Austin transplants, one stands out..."

Oct. 13, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside the Point

Jennifer Kim fights a lonely battle to get the new Green Water Treatment Plant built

"...It was an amiable, online chat like any other: Summer plans were bandied, books were suggested, the intractable..."

June 30, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside the Point

City Council gets ready to wade in the water (treatment plant)

"...At the June 8 City Council meeting, Brewster McCracken suggested that..."

June 23, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside the Point

Bond package continues taking shape, and the McMansion ordinance's day of truth arrives

"...In the late hours of City Council's Thursday evening two weeks..."

June 9, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside the Point

Council ponders where to set the property-tax rate, and which health care package should cover city employees and their partners

"...since BTP's salad days covering covering school-finance hearings in the Capitol's frosty granite dungeons, it's never ceased to amaze..."

June 2, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside the Point

Austin Energy – at least they're not FEMA; and, coming up this week: more bond slicing and dicing

"...He wasn't exactly Jack Bauer – there were no nerve gas releases nor slit throats in..."

May 26, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside the Point

The tentative bond election starts solidifying this week

"...or is that dozens? – can take comfort in the fact that today marks the beginning of Internal Audit..."

May 19, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

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The future is sunny, cab drivers are stormy, and water treatment's horizon is cloudy

"...It may sound surprising, but there were some surly cab drivers downtown last week...."

May 5, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside The Point

Mueller neighbors aren't against a new water tower, they just want a better-looking one.

"...More precisely, it was a storage tank – in the city's 50-year water plan, it's the first of several..."

April 14, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside the Point

It's trump and counter-trump in the council vs. charter wars

"...Public lewdness, disturbing the peace, libel and slander – we're no stranger to..."

March 31, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside the Point

As usual, the Statesman editorial page gets it completely wrong

"...cellar steward Rich Oppel paused long enough to let the delicate bouquet waft under his nose, before swatting it..."

March 24, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside the Point

City Council takes up arms and definitions over the charter amendments

"...Proposition X: Shall the mayor pro tem sink his already precarious mayoral prospects..."

March 10, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside the Point: Council's Best Friends

Austin is a dog's - not to mention city manager's - town.

"...For now, Jennifer Kim's proposal permitting pups on the patios of consenting Austin restaurants is in the doghouse..."

Feb. 24, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside the Point: Somewhere Over the Dais

Pay no attention to the man sleeping under the bridge

"...what was left at 10pm of a crowd after the marathon presentation on African-American Quality of Life (see "Engineering..."

Nov. 4, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Beside the Point

Transportation studies, bond committees, and the City Hall cafe

"...meeting came with a bit of déjà vu, as the council confirmed its decision to commission an independent study..."

March 18, 2005 News Feature by Michael King

The High Road

"...Loren Guerra. A version of this review ran in The Austin Chronicle in March 1996 when this film premiered..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Movie Review by Alison Macor

The Wind in the Willows

"...and why haven't we heard about it? More to the point, why haven't all the children of the land..."

March 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The English Patient

"...Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth and Julian Wadham. Based on the Booker Award-winning novel by Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

That’s Entertainment: The Paxton Impeachment Trial So Far

Texas’ most addictive reality show heads into week 2

"...politics from a progressive perspective in his weekly column, “Point Austin.” We’re pleased to bring back his column whenever..."

Sept. 11, 2023 News Post by Michael King

The Good Boss

Spanish workplace comedy shows the perils of imbalance

"...Blanco (Bardem), the titular boss of an industrial scales manufacturer in El..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Movie Review by Lina Fisher

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Who will win this epic new battle royal as Godzilla faces King Ghidorah?

"...Officially the longest-running film franchise in history, Toho Studios’ gargantuan, Atomic..."

May 31, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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