Proposition 2 Plus 8

In addition to sexual obsessions, we get to vote on railroads and mortgages too

"...views most such government-by-boilerplate with great skepticism, but our formal endorsements will arrive in a couple of weeks, prior..."

Oct. 7, 2005 News Feature by Michael King

CTRMA Responds to Strayhorn: 'I Am Rubber. You Are Glue …'

Heiligenstein answers audit, says comptroller attacks unwarranted

"...apparent 'favoritism and self-enrichment' in the appointments to the RMA, excessive budgeting for marketing, and instances of lax expenditure..."

April 8, 2005 News Feature by Michael King

Strayhorn Takes Toll on the CTRMA

Comptroller delivers scathing audit of road agency

"...signs announcing the report's "Wrong Way" judgments of the CTRMA: "Double Taxation," "Loose Management Practices," "Favoritism and Self-Enrichment," and..."

March 18, 2005 News Feature by Michael King

Costello Puts Up a (Toll) Roadblock

Austin Toll Party sues CTRMA

"...bonds for U.S. 183-A. His lawsuit could cost the CTRMA millions...."

March 4, 2005 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

The Traffic Report

Rail rolls forward, but toll roads encounter slowing

"...Area Metropolitan Planning Organization's Transportation Policy Board, approved the CTRMA's controversial $2.2 billion plan in July...."

Sept. 10, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...For example, on the night of the vote no CTRMA official could, or would, answer whether the RMA has..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Column

Slusher's Reasons for Voting 'No' on Toll Plan

"...For example, on the night of the vote no CTRMA official could, or would, answer whether the RMA has..."

Aug. 4, 2004 Postmarks

Austin @ Large: The End of the Roads

The toll plan takes us down the right path, but there's still a long way to go

"...asked for it. Despite the large price tag, the CTRMA plan is really a fairly modest proposal, already constrained..."

July 30, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...agreed to delay action until July on incorporating the RMA's $2.2 billion toll-road proposal into the official regional long-range..."

May 14, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...tract at Escarpment Boulevard and Slaughter Lane would be earmarked for a 93,000-square-foot HEB grocery, which would anchor a..."

May 7, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Rest of the Races

Anti-Soifer site comes down, Hidalgo Co. turnout goes up, and Williamson Co. (as usual) veers right

"...whisper that Robinson – who's a member of the RMA board that hired Heiligenstein – had been anointed for..."

March 5, 2004 News Feature

Adiós! Don't Let the Door ...

A Quick Roundup of the Best and the Worst of the 78th Lege

"...period for abortion and requires providers to offer frightening (mis)information about fetal development and scientifically discredited claims of links..."

June 6, 2003 News Feature

Naked City

Headlines

May 16, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...Former City Council Member and UT regent Lowell Lebermann, high-powered lawyer Henry Gilmore, and transportation consultant Johanna Zmud..."

Dec. 20, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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