City Announces 'Multimodal' Bond Package

Package notable less for its contents than for how it came to be

"...connectivity – via roads, bicycle paths, trails, sidewalks, and transit infrastructure." Mayor Lee Leffingwell echoed Ott the next day,..."

June 25, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Our Bodies, Our Cars

Time to walk the walk on making cities healthy

"...the CDC's recent work on encouraging walking to public transit stops and schools and discouraging car-based sprawl as a..."

June 11, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Walker Steps Down as Cap Metro Board Chair

After 11 years, says time for "someone else" to take on "exciting challenges"

"...fell back to whether Central Texas would provide public transit, and whether the agency should exist at all. Since..."

March 31, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

Oak Hill Redevelopment: Varying visions for town center

Concept of town center node in Oak Hill looks like it's getting tougher - not easier - as city's neighborhood plan progresses

"...for a town center centered on a Capital Metro transit node...."

June 29, 2007 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

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Our readers talk back

"...to throw cold water on the frenzy over TOD (transit-oriented development) ["Here Comes the Train," News, Jan. 28], but..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Column

Cold Water on TOD

"...to throw cold water on the frenzy over TOD (transit-oriented development) ["Here Comes the Train," News, Jan. 28], but..."

Jan. 27, 2005 Postmarks

Austin @ Large: The Fall Season

Will the City Council schedule bring breakout hits or fabulous flops?

"...all that "all accountability, all the time" is the first commandment of Austin politics.Unfinished Business Simply dealing with these..."

Oct. 1, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Who Does What

"...UTC considers projects and plans related to safety, public transit, streets and highways, and other issues. Also makes recommendations..."

May 23, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

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Our readers talk back.

"...jury-rigged them to a tatty oak board, forming their first skateboards." That must have really pissed little sister off,..."

June 7, 2002 Column

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Light rail, affordable housing, and reverse racism.

"...and 2025 when Austin is projected to grow and transit ridership would increase. One of the reasons Austin rail..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Column

Where Are They Now?

"...Transit Corridors..."

Aug. 20, 1999 News Feature

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Different Traditions

"...rather hear NPR programming than the excellent KUT programming. First of all, not everything on KUT is excellent. The..."

July 30, 1999 Column

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Sweep Them Out

"...First, the mayor tries to secretly and rapidly move day..."

June 4, 1999 Column

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We Get What We Want

"...is a volunteer mediator in juvenile court. She has first-hand knowledge of the difficulties that at-risk youths face. And..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Column

Planning a Compact City in the Midst of Urban Sprawl

"...Sic Transit Gloria..."

Dec. 22, 1995 News Feature

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...week. Tovo served on Council for over a decade, first as an at-large member then representing Central Austin’s District..."

Jan. 26, 2024 News Feature

City Hall Ready for Liftoff on New Land Use Rules

It's as easy as flood protection, affordability, parking, transition zones ...

"...As City Council prepared to take the first of the three votes required to approve a new..."

Dec. 13, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Public Notice – Code X: The Final Chapter?

What to look for when the new LDC draft comes out tomorrow

"...and let the spin begin. FWIW, here are the first things I'm going to be looking for...."

Oct. 4, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

In the Aisles

Love – platonic and romantic – among the groceries

"...the arthouse crowd. He carried Christian Petzold’s Casablanca-by-way-of-Kafka drama Transit – one of the year’s best – on his..."

July 12, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

What Land Use Code Do We Need to Build the City We Want?

Planning a way forward after CodeNEXT

"...have all signed on to positions crafted by the first four, leaving CMs Leslie Pool, Kathie Tovo, and Alison..."

April 12, 2019 News Feature by the News Staff

Working the Budget

Council and staff review the preliminary numbers, with crossed fingers all around

"...not the draft primary budget issues that occupied the first four work sessions – but the possibility of a..."

June 10, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Lee & Carole & Brewster & All of Us ...

Five candidates for mayor jockey to be first among equals

"...2003, counters that in 2005, "I was actually the first council member to say we can't do the premiums..."

May 1, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

'Chronicle' Endorsements

May 9 municipal election (early voting, April 27-May 5)

"...When the mayoral race was first being handicapped last year, it didn't appear the central..."

April 24, 2009 News Feature

Rockin' Solutions: A Four-Piece Combo

Highlights of solutions emerging from the four Live Music Task Force subcommittees

"...Helping Musicians: Tip jars to transit..."

July 18, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories: Rent & Roll

French capitalism meets community bicycling

"...fresh cross-cultural inspiration this summer visiting older, denser, more transit-rich and cosmopolitan cities. Viewed through the "Developing Stories" prism,..."

Aug. 10, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

'Y' Can't We Be Friends?

The Fix290 Coalition provides a test case for highway and community compatibility

"...The first group, which grabs most of the headlines and defines..."

June 16, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

We Think It Can, We Think It Can ...

Capital Metro may have finally found a rail plan everybody can … tolerate

"...it's blue) to pull the agency's All Systems Go! transit vision (and political future) over the mountain for the..."

Oct. 15, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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Yoga and Starbucks. Karaoke and republicans. Squirrel rifles and Al Gore. Together for the first time in this week's letters to the editor!

"...Public Transit Politics..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Column

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Scaggs Photo in Bad Taste

"...Rapid Transitions..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Column

Undine

Love is like drowning in this German fairy tale-inspired romance

"...connects with Undine, the rushing waves of love at first sight overwhelming...."

July 16, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

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