Place 3: Kim Goes Attack-Dog

Girl fights are all the rage

"...should have compromised with developers instead of passing the SOS Ordinance. What Shade in fact said was "how sad..."

May 9, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

'Chronicle' Used to Do Objective Endorsements

May 12, 2006 Postmarks

Shameless Accusations

"...PR piece [“Austin@Large,” News, May 5], he shamelessly accuses SOS Alliance, Sierra Club, Save Barton Creek Association, and other..."

May 10, 2006 Postmarks

Dear SOSAnista Board

"...Dear SOSAnista board, Your Chron/PR letter reminds me of poison ivy,..."

April 24, 2006 Postmarks

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Our readers talk back.

"...true for the budget-strapped city. This is about the SOS shutting down the government, not opening it up. Most..."

April 21, 2006 Column

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...campus in the environmentally sensitive Barton Springs watershed. The SOS is seeking a temporary injunction against the city to..."

March 24, 2006 News Feature

Bill Bunch Sets the Record Straight!

"...mention of AMD’s false claims of complying with the SOS ordinance nor of AMD’s withholding its alleged “independent” traffic..."

June 29, 2005 Postmarks

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Our readers talk back.

"...facility within the actual letter and spirit of the SOS ordinance as the construction will be less than 15%..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Column

Vote YES on All Propositions

"...facility within the actual letter and spirit of the SOS ordinance as the construction will be less than 15%..."

Sept. 7, 2004 Postmarks

Wal-Mart Ready for Round 2?

City approves another big-box site plan for the MoPac-and-Slaughter site

April 9, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

Happenings

"...destroy the springs. That marathon meeting kicked off the SOS movement that led in 1993 to passage of the..."

June 6, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Domain Gives Slusher Pain

"...with impervious cover as much as three times above SOS Ordinance limits. Endeavor has discussed buying enough land in..."

May 9, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Gary Bradley's Bitter Wisdom

Gary Bradley contemplates life.

"...When a business is willing to comply with [the] SOS [ordinance], I think it is unconscionable for SOS to..."

Oct. 11, 2002 News Feature

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Our readers talk back.

"...Most of this pending development is exempted from the SOS ordinance -- "grandfathered" under old water quality rules. This..."

April 26, 2002 Column

Naked City

A roundup of local news, rumors, and factoids from around Austin

"...Bunch wrote that he included the city in SOS's possible targets because last year's "Bradley Agreement," which allowed..."

Aug. 10, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

Barton Blues Again

"...second photo was taken in 1990, the year the SOS Alliance mounted a campaign to stop FM Properties' Planned..."

Dec. 1, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose

Naked City

A New Activist Group Forms To Stop Hyde Park Baptist ChurchÕs Development Plans.

"...except for the fact that he campaigned against the SOS ordinance in 1992. "That was many years ago, and..."

Oct. 8, 1999 News Feature by Amy Smith

Page Two

"...process. It makes me want to dust off our SOS yard sign...."

Aug. 13, 1999 Column by Louis Black

Church and State

"...that Steve Adler “worked against the Save Our Springs ordinance.” The ad, paid for by the the Shudde Fath..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Postmarks

Leffingwell Has Failed To Lead on Water

"...conservation and the “expansion” of the Save Our Springs Ordinance to redevelopment projects in the Barton Springs Watershed [“It's..."

April 17, 2012 Postmarks

Water Use Goals a Joke

"...as the “architect of redrafting the Save Our Springs Ordinance” [“Spring Training,” News, March 21]? Leffingwell set a goal..."

March 25, 2008 Postmarks

Election Notes

Prop. 2 will shape the way the area develops at a time when the community is trying to decide for itself what sort of neighborhood it wants to be

"...do with Prop. 2? Some say nothing – the ordinance does not prohibit development in the watershed; it only..."

May 12, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Wal-Mart Suit Dropped

Property owner at MoPac and Slaughter gives up fight against city, Stratus

"...from the impervious-cover limits of Austin's Save Our Springs Ordinance and from the city's current ban on retail stores..."

Oct. 22, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...without having to comply with the Save Our Springs Ordinance. The tract, located at MoPac and William Cannon, can..."

Dec. 26, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

County Goes Slow on Lowe's

"...the city of Austin and its Save Our Springs Ordinance. As Lowe's sees it, the home-improvement giant should be..."

June 27, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

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"...Max introduced the city's first nondegradation water quality ordinance to protect Barton Springs. This evolved into the SOS..."

April 25, 2003 Column

Wal-Mart on the Aquifer?

"...place, and it's exempt from the Save Our Springs Ordinance because of a 1996 city-negotiated settlement with the previous..."

April 11, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

Wal-Mart on the Aquifer?

"...place, and it's exempt from the Save Our Springs Ordinance because of a 1996 city-negotiated settlement with the previous..."

April 4, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

On The Lege

Cue the Fat Lady

"...Hays County in its jurisdiction and from enforcing the SOS ordinance, by requiring a uniform water-quality ordinance citywide. The..."

June 4, 1999 News Column

Naked City

"...the baseball stadium, Palmer Auditorium, the Save Our Springs ordinance legal defense, the consultants, and the East Austin recreation..."

June 16, 1995 News Feature

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