Texas Feels Ripple Effects From Green Investment Ban

Blocking environmentally minded investment is harder than it may seem

"...laws targeting "woke" financial firms that seek to limit investments in fossil fuels, firearms, and the like are starting..."

Sept. 9, 2022 News Feature by Isabel Maney

Local Investment Fuels Expansion at Johnson's Backyard Garden

Local investment fuels expansion at local garden

"...opportunity to witness the basic principles of slow money investment in action – the farm is in the midst..."

April 9, 2010 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

A Wise Investment

"...is not just a good deed; it’s a wise investment. The plight of the poor abroad affects the US..."

Oct. 22, 2020 Postmarks

CHIP Is a Wise Investment

"...is not a waste of taxes but a wise investment. It helps parents who work but whose jobs do..."

Feb. 12, 2009 Postmarks

Regulate Real Estate Investment Purchases

"...flux of investors wishing to buy new homes for investment properties (and thus, turn them down). Some investors are..."

Oct. 24, 2006 Postmarks

Opinion: Decriminalizing Homelessness is Working. Now Austin Needs Investment to Take the Next Step.

The ordinance changes in Austin, designed a year ago to decriminalize the basic human need of having somewhere safe to sleep, have done exactly what they were crafted to do

"...policy decisions have magnified. We need to make substantial investments in Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) and other permanent housing..."

July 17, 2020 Column by Matt Mollica

Late Meeting Leads to Big School Investment

Everyone should vote on $4.6 billion investments close to 3am, correct?

"...board adopted updates to the $4.6 billion, 25-year infrastructure investment plan. The evening started on rocky footing: Over the..."

April 7, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Rail a Great Investment

"...think spending on the Leander line was a good investment and hope additional projects extend our rail transport options...."

March 30, 2010 Postmarks

Congressional Investment Pays Off

"...than one, and these industries have found that the investment with the greatest return is buying Congress. Believe me,..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Postmarks

Maria’s Taco Xpress Sells to Investment Company, Sign Up for Sale

Iconic South Austin restaurant has been operating since 1997

Sept. 30, 2020 Food Post by Jessi Cape

Point Austin: Return on Investment

Austin Energy rate cuts are both a financial and political dividend

Sept. 2, 2016 News Column by Michael King

Capitol Investment

State Preservation Board announces months of repairs to Capitol Dome

Dec. 11, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

All We Are Saying … Is Give Investment a Chance

When it comes to Iran, which is bigger: the president's urge to wage war or to service big industry?

Feb. 14, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Money for Nothing

Despite unprecedented taxpayer investment, state-funded CPCs deliver few services

"...these fake clinics, officials are giving them an unprecedented investment over the next two years...."

July 20, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

The Common Law

Investment property & 1031 exchanges

"...I own an investment property. I keep reading about all these California investors..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Column by Luke Ellis

UPDATE: Austin Food & Beverage Entrepreneur Clayton Christopher Is Leaving CAVU

$2 billion in investments include Sweet Leaf Tea and Deep Eddy Vodka

"...The face of startup investment in Austin is less application-based and more in-your-face, thanks..."

April 19, 2019 Food Post by Jessi Devenyns

I Don't Know How She Does It

Sarah Jessica Parker stars in this comedy about working-mom woes.

"...– I swear, Sarah Jessica Parker’s harried mom slash investment banker Kate spends most of it talking about a..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Double Take

"...prince-and-the-pauper switcheroo, a story that's more or less about investment-banking tomfoolery, and even a certain amount of urban edge...."

Jan. 12, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

City and Cap Metro Contemplate How to Make a "Real City” Transit System

Following the slow march toward a vote on a multibillion-dollar investment in public transit

"...continues toward an expected November vote on a multibillion-dollar investment in public transit, as City Council and Capital Metro..."

Jan. 17, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Merck in Austin?

Pharma firm considers “Innovation” location, Austin city incentives

"...the creation of 600 jobs and a total proposed investment of $28.7 million in a company IT hub, eventually..."

April 3, 2017 News Post by Michael King

Austin at Large: We’re Not Making More Land

Showdown at the Batcave Part 3: What’s the return on this $277 million investment?

"...The city's other four active TIF districts or "reinvestment zones" (to make this even less limpid, they're numbers..."

Jan. 14, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Toy Story 4

Fourth verse, first as the first, second, third as the adventures of Woody and Buzz continue

"...the spookiest.) And what a technical stunner. My emotional investment in the story was pretty much zilch, but I..."

June 21, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Hummingbird Project

Who knew you could tell a character story about laying fiber-optic cable?

"...drama about the economics and morality of commercial infrastructure investment this deep since Wall Street, and the dearth has..."

March 29, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Giant Little Ones

Teen sexuality as a spectrum in this tender drama of growing up and coming out

"...and what makes Giant Little Ones worth the emotional investment, is that they'll be there for him when he..."

March 22, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Iron Orchard

Texas wildcatter literary classic is a sometimes too-faithful adaptation

"...turn the right plot of land into a million-dollar investment. Drunk on his newfound power, McNeely soon turns on..."

March 1, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Live by Night

Ben Affleck directs and stars in this period gangster drama

"...quizzical and constipated; his immobilized performance actively repels emotional investment in the character. And what a shame. Squint and..."

Jan. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Money Monster

George Clooney plays a cable-TV guru taken hostage by an irate viewer

"...and predictor of “hot stocks.” When one of his investment tips proves ruinous, a disgruntled, newly bankrupted viewer named..."

May 20, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Captain America: Civil War

It's a Marvel Universe, and we all just live in it

"...broken. Thirteen films in, that’s a real return on investment...."

May 6, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Demolition

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in dramedy as a man rebuilding his life

"...in virtually every scene. Gyllenhaal is Davis Mitchell, an investment banker who works in the firm of his father-in-law..."

April 8, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bill of the Week: Laying Pipe Across the State

Texas spending money on infrastructure? Not impossible.

"...Republican is not only spending money on new infrastructure investment, but he's suggesting that the state use the Rainy..."

Jan. 19, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

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