The Devil in the Details

Council faces a daunting slate of work sessions

"...center to decriminalize public intoxication, and implementation of the Colony Park master plan. The staff-proposed budget allocates modest amounts..."

Aug. 5, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Council: Proposed Budget Takes the Stage

City manager and budget staff lay out FY 2017 budget

"...• Implement Colony Park Master Plan: $217,000..."

July 29, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Homelessness Rises in AISD

More Austin students than ever have no permanent address

"...The Housing Works study cites the increasing number of..."

Aug. 21, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Council: Turn Out the Lights ...

It's the very last meeting of Council, and it's stuffed to the gills

"...Lake; a public hearing on Imagine Austin revisions; the Colony Park Master Plan......."

Dec. 12, 2014 News Feature by Michael King

Council: Dance the Last Dance ...

The last meeting before seven becomes 11

"...the pool ("Barking Springs"); a public hearing on the Colony Park Master Plan; a lengthy list of zoning hearings..."

Nov. 28, 2014 News Feature by Michael King

Council: Take the Steam Train

Can the city and Uber and Lyft come to an understanding?

"...get postponed for time, will update Council on the Colony Park District Master Plan. And of the many zoning..."

Sept. 26, 2014 News Feature by Michael King

Council: Still in Torment

Uber and Lyft up for discussion

"...• The morning briefing will update Council on the Colony Park District Master Plan...."

Sept. 19, 2014 News Feature by Michael King

We Will Become Silhouettes

The Postal Service reunited, if only for a moment

"...Cedar Park Center’s crowd broke into cheers as the first bass..."

June 3, 2013 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Austin ISD: The Resegregationists

Pearce, Garcia to be single sex schools, IDEA back tonight

"...attendance zone likely to face a daily trip to Colony Park and back. And what about the unknown number..."

Jan. 29, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

AISD, Single Sex, And the Shadow of Separate But Equal

Trustee Bradley on why she believes East Austin needs a boys' school

"...over the next decade as families move out towards Colony Park (see Creating Sustainability, Jan. 27). County Commissioner Ron..."

Aug. 9, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Headlines

"...spending $2.4 million on a new multiuse facility in Colony Park, next to the troubled Turner-Roberts Recreation Center. Once..."

Feb. 10, 2012 News Feature

Headlines

"...• Colony Park is to become home to a grand new..."

Jan. 6, 2012 News Feature

Urban Renewal, Sustainable Development, and ... Fluoride?

Preview Pt. One of a crowded Council agenda

"...Department of Housing and Urban Development funds for the Colony Park Sustainable Community Pilot Project “to plan a model..."

Dec. 12, 2011 News Post by Wells Dunbar

TDH: 8/23/11

Sanders settlement dominates Thursday's City Council agenda

"...the family of Nathaniel Sanders II that will likely spark the most discussion...."

Aug. 23, 2011 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Can't Get There From Here

While suburban rail spends and stumbles, Cap Metro's transit-dependent riders wait at the end of the line

"...pollution, traffic, and the price of gasoline and Downtown parking. And I move on with my life...."

Jan. 22, 2010 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...either side for the joint use of cyclists and parked cars – was on the consent agenda for Thursday's..."

March 3, 2006 News Feature

New Schools Across the District

The locations and controversies for the proposed new schools

"...five potential locations – either the southeast, Mueller (north-central), Colony Park (northeast), Oak Hill (southwest), or the Bear Lake..."

Aug. 27, 2004 News Feature

Don't Worry, Be Happy:

City Hall's left wing carries the day as the budget season draws to a close

"...support them -- particularly the Turner/Roberts Recreation Center in Colony Park, first promised to the neighbors over 25 years..."

Sept. 12, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Budget 'Highlights' -- the Bad News

The major cuts in the FY2004 proposed city budget.

"...Parks and Libraries..."

Aug. 8, 2003 News Feature

Naked City

Headlines

"...and naming the planned (but likely to be delayed) Colony Park Recreation Center for longtime Eastside activists Dorothy Turner..."

Aug. 1, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

The city tightens its belt; the road widening that never was

"...before the council -- affordable housing for Raul Alvarez, Colony Park for Beverly Griffith and Danny Thomas, library improvements..."

Aug. 10, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Lean and ... Leaner

A preview of the city's proposed (and shrinking) budget

"...city departments that are not self-supporting: police, fire, EMS, parks, libraries, planning, and so forth. (Those departments that do..."

Aug. 3, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Doubting Thomas

Newly elected Council Member Danny Thomas is in a position to end the fighting over the Place 6 council seat.

"...by tradition, one of the most influential. And Joe Parker at David Chapel Missionary Baptist and Sterling Lands at..."

Sept. 29, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose

Naked City

Despite the many good arguments in their favor, Beverly Griffith's parks bonds and Raul Alvarez's housing bonds get shot down at council; meanwhile, Kirk Watson's $150 million transportation proposal glides through with nary a hitch.

"...Council Watch: Parks Pogrom..."

Aug. 25, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Day Trips

The Old Tunnel Wildlife Management Area outside of Fredericksburg hosts a bat colony twice the size of our own

"...Fredericksburg, may be the smallest preserve in the state park department's inventory, but it has one of the largest..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

A League of Their Own

"...veritable nest of writers, inevitably evolving into a film colony...."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Jesse Sublett

Day Trips: Bracken Cave and Other Bat Caves

The bat colonies around Texas are swollen with mothers and their pups emerging for the nightly feeding frenzy, making for spectacular shows

"...The Bat Conservation International-owned cave houses the largest summer colony of bats in the world. At sunset an estimated..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

The Varner-Hoogg Plantation State Historical Park, near Houston, has gone from a settler's cabin to a great sugar plantation to an oil wildcatter's weekend home.

"...The Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historical Park on the coastal plains west of Houston still retains..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

9 Texas Day Trips That Will Inspire You to Hit the Road

We dip our toe in the nearly 1,500 columns from our resident day tripper

"...The Bat Conservation International-owned cave houses the largest summer colony of bats in the world. At sunset an estimated..."

May 13, 2019 Events Post by Gerald E. McLeod

A Sampling of Summer Attractions Around Texas

"Day Trips" columnist Gerald E. McLeod picks some of his favorite things to do and see around Texas

"...The Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern (www.buffalobayou.org) began in 1926 as a city water..."

May 17, 2019 Features Feature by Gerald E. McLeod

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