Walker Steps Down as Cap Metro Board Chair

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

"...Press release from Capital Metro:Lee Walker Announces Retirement from Capital Metro Board of DirectorsMarch..."

March 31, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

ACL Live Shot (Second Weekend): Dynamites feat. Charles Walker

Singer proves ‘Love Is Only Everything’

"...Charles Walker is not as nimble or as desperate as Charles..."

Oct. 12, 2013 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

General Lee and Me

My life and dirty times as a Jam & Jelly Girl with Dino Lee & the White Trash Revue

"...rhymes with "Bilbo" but is better known as "General Lee."..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

A Mutual Respect

Russell Lee's documentary photographs of the Great Depression helped fashion our collective visual memory of that era, but his greatest achievement may have been the trust he engendered in his subjects.

"...I wish I had known Russell Lee in the Sixties, when he taught photography at the..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Which Way Do We Go?

Rae Takes the Wheel

"...Ms. Inside, charged with climate change within the agency, Lee Walker is Mr. Outside, tasked with reminding the community..."

April 9, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

"...from business as usual." – Capital Metro board Chair Lee Walker, announcing his retirement in a letter to state..."

April 4, 2008 News Feature

Election 2004 Updates

The latest electoral happenings in Central Texas, updated daily

"...by before, they didn't even have furniture. They were sleeping on the floor," he said. After that visit, Gloria..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature

Here Come the Transporters

In the endless Central Texas transportation wars, the lions and the lambs look for ways to make peace

"...public support for roads – and still plenty of leeriness about the entity that would provide the transit. What's..."

June 4, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Shaky Railing

Three former Capital Metro board members and two former employees claim that the transportation agency attempted to put Longhorn Railway, its costly freight rail operator, out of business.

"...Cap Metro General Manager Karen Rae and board Chair Lee Walker stress their commitment to keep freight rail services..."

Dec. 10, 1999 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Naked City

Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs board member Florita Bell Griffin goes on trial for allegedly conspiring to benefit from housing projects she approved.

"...alleged co-conspirators and business partners Terrence Roberts and Joe Lee Walker...."

Oct. 27, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Night School

Kevin Hart goes back to school. Sadly, not comedy school.

"...Directed by: Malcolm D. Lee. Starring: Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish, Rob Riggle, Megalyn Echikunwoke,..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Capital Metro Strike Threat Looms

Despite citizen efforts to intervene, negotiations have not progressed

"...bus schedule shipped last week. The cover features a sleek, angular detail of HEB's Tech Ridge outpost in North..."

Jan. 27, 2006 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Capital Metro's Labor Lowdown

StarTran makes its 'last, best, and final offer'

"...its interest in negotiations (a semiprivately circulated e-mail from Lee Walker, chair of Cap Metro's board of directors, says..."

Nov. 18, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Austin At Risk

Tech leaders look for solution to Austin's growth problems

"...Metro board chair, UT business lecturer, and original Dellionaire Lee Walker. "For all the problems we have, the opposite..."

May 12, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Sleepy Hollow

"...Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Christopher Walken, Michael Gough, Christopher Lee, Jeffrey Jones and Lisa Marie. You'll notice Washington Irving's..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Steal Big, Steal Little

"...Andy Garcia, Alan Arkin, Rachel Ticotin, Joe Pantoliano, Ally Walker and Holland Taylor. The tightly structured narrative of Andrew..."

Oct. 6, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

The Little Engine That Did

Capital Metro rides the train out of the political doghouse

"..."This is a really big deal," Capital Metro Chair Lee Walker noted, "because it's the first time our regional..."

Nov. 5, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Capital Metro Stays Its Course

All Systems Go!, but no extensions added, to a November commuter-rail vote

"...prime time now." Thus concluded a tale of two Walkers, as Capital Metro board Chair Lee Walker told Mueller..."

Sept. 3, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Deal of a Lifetime

TDHCA Board member Florita Bell Griffin is standing trial in a Houston federal courtroom on allegations that she, along with two co-defendants, conspired to profit from deals she helped approve.

"...that Griffin, along with co-defendants Terrence Roberts and Joe Lee Walker, conspired to invest in B. Hammond Homes Inc.,..."

Nov. 3, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

DVDanger: 'Frightmare', 'The Flesh and Blood Show'

Redemption resurrects the legacy of terror maestro Pete Walker

"...discussion without talking about the exploitation bloodbaths of Pete Walker...."

March 23, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: A Family Matter

Cap Metro employees face another stark decision on their livelihoods

"...a brief strike, it took direct intervention by then-Chair Lee Walker and Mayor Will Wynn to broker a deal...."

Oct. 24, 2008 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: What Good Are Unions?

Give a hand to those Cap Metro workers who fought for you and me

"...Most enigmatic of all was phantom board Chair Lee Walker – aka "the Ghost Who Walks" – who..."

Feb. 3, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: Memo to Cap Metro

Stop Union-busting, or Take a Hike

"...the last few months President Fred Gilliam, board Chair Lee Walker, and their politician colleagues on the Cap Met..."

Dec. 16, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...enough, in the end, to stop the reappointment of Lee Walker and John Treviño to the Capital Metro board...."

Oct. 14, 2005 News Feature

Bicycles, Roses, and Survivors

The Lance Armstrong Foundation and the spirit of its founder

"...money for breast cancer research, so she was invited. Lee Walker, president of Dell Computers in its formative years,..."

Oct. 15, 2004 News Feature by Rita Radostitz

Mystery Train

Light Rail's narrow defeat at the polls has probably spared Capital Metro an assault by legislators in January. But the agency is trying to figure out how to keep rail on track while satisfying Republican legislators who want sales tax returned.

"...money gets spent well," says Cap Met board chair Lee Walker, "but we can't pretend there wasn't an election."..."

Dec. 22, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

She's All That

On a bet, a high school jock turns a plain-looking girl into a prom queen.

"...Freddie Prinze Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook, Matthew Lillard, Paul Walker, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Kevin Pollack, Anna Paquin, Usher Raymond,..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin @ Large: Say It Ain't So, Metro!

If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep driving … or worse

"...TO: E. Lee Walker, Chair, Capital Metro Board of Directors..."

Aug. 27, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Cap Metro Courting Prospective Partners

Transit authority could extend rail and bus service well beyond Austin

"...Planning Organization representative and a new board chair. Since Lee Walker, who held both positions, resigned in early April,..."

July 4, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Union Visit Livens Up CAMPO Meeting

Picture Cap Metro with a big bull's-eye painted on it.

"...the CAMPO board's support to delay the reappointment of Lee Walker and John Trevino to the Capital Metro board..."

Sept. 16, 2005 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

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