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Feb. 6, 1998 Column
Live Election Night Results & Updates
The latest from the polls and candidate watch parties
"...Well, it's getting to be about 11pm, and by now the scene's looking set in its ways...."
Nov. 6, 2018 News Post by News Staff
10-1, Take Two
Five City Council incumbents up for re-election this November
"...District 4 Council Member Gregorio Casar defeated seven candidates in 2014 to ascend the dais, although his run-off..."
May 20, 2016 News Feature by Michael King
Gentrification Refugees
Jumpolin demo a long time coming, according to city records
"...Plans to demolish the Eastside building housing Jumpolin began more than two months before the property..."
Feb. 27, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú
Homeless Campground: South Austin Dilemma
Larger issue still unaddressed
"...of homeless Austinites camping on 18.2 acres of undeveloped land in South Austin were forced to find another place..."
April 4, 2014 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger
Taco Tower Project on Council's Plate
The Taco PUD wins divided blessing of Planning Commission
"...211 S. Lamar, currently occupied by a Taco Cabana, and the Waterfront Planning Advisory Board has rejected it outright...."
June 21, 2013 News Feature by Elizabeth Pagano
Growing Pains
HausBar dispute shadows city's urban farms
"...farm movement to extended discussions of the future of land use in East Austin...."
April 26, 2013 News Feature by Anna Toon
One More Detour on Holly Street
Power plant demolition delay reprises neighborhood history
"...resistance, taking what the city offered for the property and moving south of the river. "When the city comes..."
Jan. 21, 2011 News Feature by Amy Smith
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City Council Notebook
"...at Austin-Bergstrom. Because if anything, flying is distractingly comforting and pleasant already...."
Sept. 28, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar
Naked City
"...the fight. This Wal-Mart is not going in our neighborhood." – Jason Meeker of Responsible Growth for Northcross Headlines..."
Dec. 15, 2006 News Feature
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Our readers talk back.
"...County, I say yes, I think SOS did matter and continues to matter. However, the larger problem has been..."
Aug. 23, 2002 Column
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Our readers talk back.
"...In your simplistic remarks about the proposed Stratus development settlement (in "Page Two" of the July 26 issue),..."
Aug. 2, 2002 Column
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Recent coverage of light rail and of access-TV personality Alex Jones pushes readers' buttons this week.
"...article was most interesting. It concluded, "They may moan and groan, but they'll live with it." It's reminiscent of..."
July 28, 2000 Column
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Our readers talk back.
"...The 1868 Italianate villa is one of the oldest and more historic houses in Austin, and its architectural integrity..."
Dec. 31, 1999 Column
Preaching to the Converted
"Troubling Era"
"...host Ray Suarez, author of the upcoming The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration and..."
Dec. 25, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
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Muddying the Waters
"...appreciate Kayte VanScoy's attention to the issue of annexation and the history of MUD districts ["Council Watch," Vol.17, No.9]...."
Nov. 7, 1997 Column
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Justice Denied
"...Another election has passed and Austin's Hispanic community, once again, comes out the loser...."
June 6, 1997 Column
Point Austin: What to Do About CodeNEXT
Opponents offering plenty of fear but precious few solutions
"...anti-CodeNEXT circus made a whistle-stop in my Windsor Park neighborhood over the weekend, in a Sunday afternoon "forum" titled..."
Nov. 17, 2017 News Column by Michael King
City Bond Breakdown: $385 Million
Seven bond proposals for capital improvement projects near the bottom of the ballot
"...12: Transportation and Mobility..."
Oct. 19, 2012 News Feature
Sinclair Black: Transforming Visions
Sinclair Black – Austin's original New Urbanist
"...a plan (shown) to protect the skyline of Austin (and views of the Capitol) by concentrating new development in..."
March 28, 2008 News Feature
UT Area Needs More Apartments
"...Street Lights?,” News, Dec. 30]. I live in her neighborhood, next to a duplex full of undergrads who are..."
Jan. 3, 2006 Postmarks
Endorsements
Our picks in the May 7 elections
"...Of the five balloted and one official write-in candidates for Place 1 (currently held..."
April 15, 2005 News Feature
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Politics & music & the politics of music.
"...check for accuracy the author's assertions about the ownership and control of Stratus Properties Inc. ["Stratus Flows Downhill," Dec...."
Dec. 8, 2000 Column
Naked City
Beverly Griffith and Raul Alvarez rain on the mayor’s bond parade by adding a few proposals of their own; Cedar Avenue settlement goes back into mediation.
"...ballot that will carry Capital Metro's light rail referendum and the mayor's $150 million bond package for road improvements,..."
Aug. 11, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton
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Transportation and trash are heavy on the minds of readers this week.
"...Staff Johnson quoted a flyer distributed by SOS Action and referred to SOS Action as the SOS "Alliance's political..."
Feb. 4, 2000 Column
Think Locally, Act Regionally
Regional Government's All the Rage - Are We Ready?
"...a place known only to travel writers, TV weathercasters, and the friends and relations of Lyndon Johnson. Nobody actually..."
Feb. 20, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Doin' the Turnaround
Eric Mitchell's CURE for Downtown
"...CURE as in Rogaine, but as in Central Urban REdevelopment, Mitchell's relatively inexpensive and widely supported plan to stimulate..."
Dec. 1, 1995 News Column
Urbanists Challenge Linda Guerrero for District 9 Hot Seat
Filling Kathie Tovo's shoes (with houses?)
"...years on City Council, first as an at-large member and then, in 2014, defeating her then-colleague Chris Riley to..."
Aug. 26, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders
Faster Than Sound: City Council Supports Music-Focused Arts Facility on East 11th Street
Harold McMillan breaks down civic steps to the envisioned Kenny Dorham Center
"...home to historic institutions like Huston-Tillotson University, Victory Grill, and the George Washington Carver Museum...."
Sept. 10, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe
As Austin's I-35 Mess Gains National Attention, the City Refocuses on the Palm District
Applying an "equity lens" to reimagine the blocks alongside Austin's gnarliest highway
"...long-running efforts by local advocates for sustainable mobility, smarter land use, and environmental justice to forge a different vision..."
