New Water Treatment Plant Is a Boondoggle

"...ratepayers $14 million every year we delay the billion-dollar boondoggle. Instead of focusing on conservation – the cheapest source..."

Sept. 16, 2009 Postmarks

STNP Boondoggle Worse Than Reported

"...Editor: I want to correct misperceptions about Austin's biggest boondoggle, the South Texas Nuclear Project. Your recent story ["Patched..."

Aug. 13, 2003 Postmarks

CTRMA Boondoggle

Jan. 2, 2013 Postmarks

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

Smart Growth wouldn't be dead if it had stayed in touch with reality

"...Rudy's husband. The Domain deal is a good old-fashioned boondoggle; City Hall has brought your wallet into bed with..."

July 4, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Page Two

"...130 is a boondoggle. By any definition and by any standard, the bottom..."

May 22, 1998 Column by Louis Black

The Hightower Report

Time to End a Banker Boondoggle That Hurts Students; and Making a Mockery of U.S. Representational Democracy

"...Time to End a Banker Boondoggle That Hurts Students..."

May 1, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower

Naked City

Basics, Not Boondoggles

"...T-shirts listing "Ten Ways to Spot a City Hall Boondoggle." Given the controversy surrounding the Stratus Properties deal --..."

Aug. 2, 2002 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Daryl 'Boondoggle' Slusher..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Column

The Hightower Lowdown

W.'s "clean coal" energy policy; credit-card hucksters on campus; the B-1 Boondoggle keeps flying

"...Bush's 'Clean Coal' Boondoggle Even George W. Bush acknowledges that he's not the..."

Aug. 24, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

Postmarks

"...supply than demand. The Austin Convention Center is a boondoggle, and it's an even bigger boondoggle because expansion displaced..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Column

King Kirk

illustration by Doug Potter

"...out to be his finest hour, or his baddest boondoggle...."

Jan. 8, 1999 News Column

Altered States

Daryl and His Other Brother Daryl

"...spending a lot of money doesn't mean it's a boondoggle." Words like that from the mouth of a councilmember..."

May 15, 1998 News Column by Lee Nichols

In Silico

Study of the attempt to replicate a human brain overthinks everything

"...lot of researchers who saw it as a billion-euro boondoggle, driven by hubris and tolerating no criticism or dissent..."

April 30, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

To Expand the Convention Center or Not?

Despite unanimous support from City Council, voters will decide the answer

"...called Unconventional Austin – denounce the project as a boondoggle benefiting only Down­town hotels and the "failing convention industry."..."

July 19, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Council Preview

Zimmerman off to East Texas to "investigate" city biomass contract

"...to take place Friday. Zimmerman calls the plant a "boondoggle," and Austin Energy is no longer terribly enthusiastic about..."

June 19, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

The Hightower Report

Massey's Mess; and Not-So-Little Corporate Piggies

"...the trough – demanding to be fed another tax boondoggle...."

July 15, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

Uncle Sam says 'tough break' to regular taxpaying citizens, 'anything for you, Lockheed'; and working stiffs sponge up the stress of globalization

"...the Air Force – but it's really a massive boondoggle for the Lockheed Martin Corporation, which makes the thing...."

April 29, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...STNP Boondoggle Worse Than Reported..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Column

Same as It Never Was

Some airports, forts, and boondoggles were never meant to be

"...The Boondoggle It's different from most vacant buildings, this red brick..."

July 4, 2003 Features Feature by Devin Greaney

The Hightower Lowdown

Enron's true crimes are the legal things it did; Boeing patriotically rips off us taxpayers; and Bob Barr acts like a crack smoker.

"...Boeing's Boondoggle..."

Jan. 25, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

All That Glitters

Balancing Act

"...exceeded all expectations, and they're still perceived as a boondoggle."..."

Feb. 5, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Lay of the Land

Timing Is Everything

"...masse about growth, downtown renewal ceased to be a boondoggle unworthy of broad public support. And by now, we've..."

Feb. 5, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Lone Stars Rising

The Lady Rancher: From Hogs to Boll Weevils

"...returned $75,000 worth of contributions since 1994. The Biggest Boondoggle..."

Oct. 16, 1998 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Postmarks

No Schism

"...to provide stories on the education beat.] Back Our Boondoggle..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Column

Conventional Wisdom

Is It Wise To Expand Austin's Convention Center?

"...scares the hell out of many Austinites. Given the anti-boondoggle climate that has reigned in Austin of late, it..."

Jan. 30, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Off the Desk:

"...editor Daryl Slusher, whose campaign slogan is "Basics, not Boondoggles." Slusher formally kicked off his campaign last Tuesday with..."

Feb. 2, 1996 News Feature

Public Notice: Housekeeping News

Plus trying to slow the Convention Center expansion, code changes

"...convention center expansion" said CAP co-founder Laura Cantu-Templeton. "This boondoggle must be scaled back in size and cost; Austin..."

June 2, 2023 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Austin at Large: The Pigs Inside Our Python

Austin takes a looooong time to digest what it swallows

"...the usual interest groups latched onto it as another boondoggle that they could publicly whack and get praised and..."

Feb. 25, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Opinion: Who Pays $278 Million: Austin Taxpayers or Private Developers?

Council should not vote to divert city tax dollars to the south shore property owners

"...us and Taxpayers Against Giveaways to stop this latest boondoggle. Tell the Mayor and Council no...."

Feb. 4, 2022 Column by Bill Bunch

Austin at Large: The Showdown at the Batcave

Part I: What's all this we hear about a $277 million developer handout?

"...for the South Central Waterfront district was an obvious boondoggle over which right-minded Austinites should be duly outraged...."

Dec. 31, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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