The Hightower Report: Moral Monday on the Move

Moral Monday on the move

"...It is gaining popular support by directly confronting the immorality of extremist governors, legislators, and corporate lobbyists who're denying..."

Jan. 24, 2014 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report: North Carolina's Moral Freedom Summer

The Moral Monday Movement is on the move again!

"...The Moral Monday Movement is on the move again!..."

July 18, 2014 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

To start a movement, start moving!

"...Like that little choo-choo in the children's book, Moral Monday is the little movement that says, "I think..."

April 4, 2014 News Column by Jim Hightower

Scorched

"...in which the robbers all have their reasons and moral justifications but lack the skills and larcenous fortitude to..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fight for $15 Protests Fast Food Working Conditions

Rallies come on heels of negative labor report on Austin restaurants

"...Fight for $15 dovetails with the national Moral Monday movement, which frames living wage as not just..."

Oct. 14, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

The Fall

Astonishing and hyperstylized images mark Tarsem's stunning but mournful movie, which is also layered with fairy-tale subtext and thickets of moral and motivational ambiguity.

"...a time" fairy-tale subtext and dense with thickets of moral and motivational ambiguity – is unlikely to be an..."

May 30, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

X-Men

"...in its ability to view itself as a modern moral fable of sorts. This springs, I suppose, not just..."

July 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mayor Welcomes Refugees

Adler calls it a "moral imperative" to aid Syrians and others fleeing "horrific conditions"

"...took part in a White House media conference call Monday afternoon, joining former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Deputy..."

Nov. 27, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Abbott Against the Environment

The governor vetoed $127 million out of the state's budget Monday, mostly for environmental initiatives

"...and clean water, came into Gov. Greg Abbott's cross-hairs Monday when he line-item vetoed $127 million out of the..."

June 16, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Ring in the New Year With a Binge Watch

12 streaming shows to get you to midnight and beyond

"...circumstance – something that elevates it beyond just another Monday on the couch. So you’re going to want to..."

Dec. 27, 2018 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Spoilers Are the New Black

Are we too squeamish about our right to be shocked?

"...father." Film critics and fans have contended with the moral quandary of spoilers for decades. But now TV battles..."

June 9, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

News From Around the World: Austin, Tajikistan, Manchester, and Two World Cups

"...to the Women's World Cup in China: Kickoff is Monday, Sept. 10, continuing through the end of the month...."

Aug. 22, 2007 Sports Post by Nick Barbaro

The Hispanic Factor

Place 5 Poses Moral Quandary for Some Latino Voters

"...In a press released issued on Monday, May 12, the campaign boldly announced: "Enriquez' Team Going..."

May 16, 1997 News Feature by Amy Smith

Immigration Insanity in D.C.

While Senate debates useless details of proposed immigration legislation, potentially insidious portions of Hagel-Martinez compromise lurk, waiting to slip through

"...citizens: Section 204 provides for deportation based on "good, moral character." Seriously: "In determining an applicant's moral character, the..."

May 26, 2006 News Feature by Diana Welch

Capitol Chronicle

No Mercy: Perry to Decide If Texas Will Continue to Execute Mentally Retarded

"...Monday's news that the U.S. Supreme Court has once again..."

June 8, 2001 News Column by Michael King

Postmarks

A right, a left, another right: our letters column takes it on the chin.

"...them killed for seeking higher education), and allows allegedly moral murderers to train on their soil. They should establish..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Column

Postmarks

We Get What We Want

"...deeply disappointed by the last eight years under Dan Morales need to remember who set the standard by which..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Column

Two Days, One Night

Marion Cotillard becomes the face of the working class in the latest Dardenne brothers' gem of social realism.

"...keep her on, with a new vote to occur Monday morning. Hence the title and hence what follows, as..."

Feb. 6, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

LCRA Close To Capping Utility Sales

River Authority moves to begin unloading water/wastewater utilities

"...A chunk of the group's pitch – indeed, any moral high ground the coalition might hold in what's become..."

Nov. 25, 2011 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Fireproof

God helps a firefighter, played by Kirk Cameron, to repair his marriage.

"...is a steaming cesspool of deviance, hedonism, and casual amorality. Every year it pumps our minds full of the..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Are You Decent?

Dudley & Bob and the footsoldiers in the FCC's war on pop culture

"...in the past without any overt signs of widespread moral decay or public outrage. "Legally, I must protect the..."

Feb. 18, 2005 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Man 'n' 1 Women 4 Ever" for your weekly moral values update...."

Nov. 12, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

A Quarrel With the Status Quo

Charlie Baird on criminal justice, equity, and the Travis County D.A.

"...other issues. I just can't do that from a moral – I think it is wrong for me to..."

Jan. 20, 2012 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...an editorial break with the well-respected, progressive guidelines and moral and political principles that have been the hallmark of..."

March 8, 2002 Column

Page Two

Peckinpah rides again at the Alamo Drafthouse.

"...create? Peckinpah was obsessed with the contradictions between natural morality (a moral vision as solid as the streams, the..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

"...set to close the sale of the bakery on Monday the 21st and begin remodeling at that point. Second,..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Column

Officer Who Killed Teen Fired

Joseph family's attorney calls the decision a "good first step"

"...of 17-year-old David Joseph. In a disciplinary memo issued Monday, March 21, Police Chief Art Acevedo said Freeman violated..."

March 25, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Naked City

"...counting ..." – U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, reacting Monday after President Bush's State of the Union Headlines..."

Feb. 1, 2008 News Feature

Point Austin: The Struggle Continues

The Poor People's Campaign renews the long-term fight

"...That was one refrain sung by several dozen demonstrators Monday afternoon in front of the Capitol gates, the latest..."

June 15, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Zimmerman Not Celebrating Marriage Equality

D6 CM compares same-sex marriage to pedophilia

"...Davies asked Zimmerman if he thought pedophilia is the moral equivalent of homosexuality. First detailing his longtime stance against..."

July 3, 2015 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

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