Judge Throws Out Texas Voter ID Law

Compares photo requirement to Jim Crow, poll tax

"...in. A Federal judge has found that Texas' voter ID law is "an unconstitutional poll tax [and] creates an..."

Oct. 10, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Everything You Need to Know About Voter ID

A program to help guide you through Tuesday's Senate meeting

"...probably aware: Tuesday morning at 9am, the Senate will consider a “voter ID” bill, SB 362 by Troy Fraser,..."

March 9, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Are Republicans Trying to Kill Voter ID?

"The target keeps moving on me" complains Elections committee chair

"...a Republican from Euless, wants to deliver a voter ID bill to Gov. Perry’s desk – requiring a photo..."

May 6, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Watson's 3/17 Speech Against Voter ID

Transcript of Austin senator's remarks

"...time this session in the Senate's tussle over voter ID, I found his words worth printing in full. Here's..."

March 18, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Federal Court Rejects Texas Voter ID Law

New Texas Voter ID law undermines minority votes

"...Columbia ruled that the new state of Texas Voter ID law – which would require all potential voters to..."

Aug. 30, 2012 News Post by Michael King

SCOTUS Punts on Fisher vs. UT, Lifts Part of Voting Rights Act

Two major rulings from the Supreme Court

"...boiled with the abortion debate, lawmakers and civil rights activists occasionally looked up to absorb the impact of two..."

June 28, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Keel: The Real Deal

He's No Andy Griffith

"...me down" on MoPac near FM 2222. The article said that "they edged [Keel] off the road, abandoned their..."

Nov. 10, 1995 News Feature

SXSW Film Review: Daniel Isn’t Real

Enter the imaginary anti-friend

"...of Daniel’s “games” nearly results in a potentially fatal incident, Luke’s mother (Mary Stuart Masterson) forces him to lock..."

March 14, 2019 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

Point Austin: What the GOP Wants for You

The 2010 Republican Party platform is a real nightmare

"...still awkwardly split between the monied party elite, who decided all matters of importance, and the firebrand rank and..."

July 23, 2010 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

"..."I chose to run for the presidency at this moment in history because I believe deeply..."

March 21, 2008 News Feature

Res Publica

Post-election funk? There's still plenty for good citizens to do this week: Nov. 6-13.

"...but from which ones? That's for you to help decide tonight at one of two public forums planned for..."

Nov. 7, 2008 News Feature

Other Immigration-Related News

Congress reportedly strikes green card, H-1B visa amendments from Labor/HHS appropriations bill; Bush administration gets called out for trampling Constitution to expedite border-wall construction.

"...• On Friday, Nov. 2, Congress reportedly struck two noteworthy amendments from..."

Nov. 9, 2007 News Feature

Happenings

"...For more details and events, see Community Listings. Friday 04..."

July 4, 2008 News Feature

Naked City

"...• Tuesday, Nov. 6, is Election Day – your..."

Nov. 2, 2007 News Feature

Border Wall Opposition Mounts

Immigration and environmental groups alligne4d against wall.

"...decrying the wall. Sierra Club state director Ken Kramer said, “A wall along the Texas-Mexico border would undermine decades..."

Oct. 26, 2007 News Post by Daniel Mottola

Elizabethtown

Cameron Crowe's romantic comedy doesn't make the attraction between the characters played by Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom believable and then goes off in dozens more unprofitable directions.

"...a salted slug. It’s a black day for Seattle resident Drew Baylor (Lord of the Rings’ Bloom), whose crowning..."

Oct. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Thank You for Your Service

American soldiers return from Iraq and try to readjust to civilian life

"...now that these soldiers have arrived back home, they’ve really landed in the shit. With a great sense of..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Do Go On, Mr. Gunn

An extended transcript of our chat with Tim Gunn

"...The Chronicle recently chatted up Project Runway fixture Tim..."

April 12, 2012 Screens Post by Andy Campbell

Confrontational Cinema

Companion doc to The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence revisits Indonesian atrocities

"...man is from Joshua Oppenheimer's revolutionary 2013 documentary The Act of Killing. He is Anwar Congo, a former member..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: Backstage at the Circus

The Lege melodrama can be a hard act to swallow

"...episode featured the farcical denouement of Longview Republican Rep. David Simp­son's challenge to the House speakership of incumbent Joe..."

Jan. 11, 2013 News Column by Michael King

A Thing Called Divine Fits Part 2

More Q&A with Spoon's Britt Daniel

"...the last time Britt Daniel appeared in a band outside of Spoon was with Golden Millennium, a drunken glam-rock..."

Aug. 23, 2012 Music Post by Austin Powell

In Goth We Trust

Or is that disco?

"...was due to being true DIY music with no real stars until Donna Summer came along. Being a disco..."

Jan. 16, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Welcome to El Partido de Té

Can the GOP expand and base-pander at the same time?

"...of Texas launched its Hispanic Republicans of Texas political action committee on Tuesday. On the other hand, a large..."

July 23, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The AggreGAYtor: August 22

Your daily dose of LGBTQ news

"...new modeling gig. Today’s AggreGAYtor makes me feel mighty real...."

Aug. 22, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Shearwater Revisits 1980

“It seemed like a good way to make sense of this time”

"...slotting in after a prime one remains a tough act to follow. Fortunately, Shearwater’s Jonathan Meiburg still had plenty..."

Feb. 2, 2016 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Tony Visconti Part 2 (The Encores)

"...or a follow-up, or else both parties start getting fidgety. File it under the theory that focused concentration requires..."

June 23, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Hello/Goodbye

Saying hello to a new Bromberg disc, goodbye to Kirk Rundstrom.

"...artist I saw perform more than any other was David Bromberg. At the time, I was living on Long..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

85th Texas Legislature Preview

Can the GOP-run House and Senate get along well enough to get anything accomplished?

"...5. In his dual role as lieutenant governor and president of the Senate, Dan Patrick had prepared a bombastic..."

Jan. 13, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

Austin's Hip-Hop Pioneers, in Their Own Words

The Austin History Center-archived rappers and industry innovators share stories

"...recording of undigitized Eighties/Nineties Austin girl group Cooly Girls. Alongside taking over Manners' longtime Hip Hop Hooray broadcast this..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...and Macedonia. Just before I left the U.S. in mid-September I saw one of my ethnic Albanian friends who..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

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