Opposes Lifestyle Taxes

"...we should all share in their costs. Drivers, even SUV drivers, are not the only ones who benefit from..."

Sept. 20, 2004 Postmarks

On Toll Roads and Opportunism

"...and injured myself. Now I can’t drive my big SUV...."

Sept. 9, 2004 Postmarks

Food-o-File

Don't leave the table till you clean your plate of local food news; while you're at it, Eat, Drink, Watch Movies

"...This is the second vehicle I've lost to an SUV-wielding college kid. Be afraid. Be very afraid...."

Sept. 3, 2004 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Sycophantic, Self-Serving, Counterproductive, Knavely, Inability-in-Perpetuity, Timid Clamor

"...Are you traveling in the backseat of the armored SUV driving in circles around Bush's cocaine-fried, mad-cow-eaten mind? Are..."

June 16, 2004 Postmarks

'Tomorrow' Not Far Away?

Local greens use the disaster flick to talk seriously about climate change

"...in front of the Gateway Theatre – as one SUV after another drove by in the parking lot –..."

June 4, 2004 News Feature by Lee Nichols

TCB

Texas history, Handsome Joel, and 'Choice Cuts' from Tee Double.

"...his car was struck from the rear by an SUV driven by Thomas Wandersee. Wandersee was charged with intoxication..."

May 28, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Letters at 3AM

The United States military is moving inevitably toward reinstating the draft

"...The poor shouldn't have to fight a war for SUV-drivers. "Not since the 19th century," he writes, "has America..."

May 14, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two

Paying taxes adequate to meet social needs is a necessary hedge against a frightening future

"...even to the store, is made in a bulletproof SUV driven by a bodyguard, more ambitious excursions undertaken in..."

April 30, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Anatomy of a Shooting

The circumstances around Jessie Lee Owens' shooting were anything but clear-cut

"...Neon continued forward, striking the back of an unoccupied SUV before smashing into a chain-link fence. Owens had been..."

March 12, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Super Bowl Coverage as Cultural Indicator

"...know when enough is enough – four-bladed razors. The SUV will soon be passé – hybrid station wagons. Trendsetting..."

Feb. 3, 2004 Postmarks

TV Eye

Trio's Epic TV: The Top Ten Miniseries of All Time recalls a time before TiVo.

"...are lifted. He loads his reluctant family into their SUV for the road trip, taking along an elderly neighbor..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Naked City

Local leaders want your input on an extensive -- and potentially controversial -- list of smog-fighting strategies.

"...far enough to shift Central Texas away from the road-and-SUV paradigm that's brought us close to nonattainment in the..."

Nov. 14, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

A Healthy Place to Get Drunk

"...cocktails for your nicely preserved liver, get in your SUV drunk, and run over some cyclist on the way..."

Oct. 29, 2003 Postmarks

APD Officer Faces Homicide Charge in Owens Shooting

The grand jury takes an unusual step in indicting Scott Glasgow.

"...Glasgow fired five times; the Neon struck a parked SUV and a fence before coming to a stop...."

Oct. 24, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from around Austin and beyond

"...observers say, appears to drive an oversized truck or SUV), was built within the zoning and code requirements of..."

Sept. 12, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...significantly more fuel-efficient per passenger mile than your average SUV...."

Aug. 22, 2003 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Writing Austin's Lives

"...poor mom working two jobs, suburban white mom driving SUV, tattooed mom with baby in corduroy Snugli ... images..."

July 4, 2003 Features Feature by Abe Louise Young

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"...longer. Put them in that same garage with an SUV (or any gas-powered vehicle) and they will be dead..."

June 20, 2003 Column

Place 5 Run-Off: It's All Over But the Votin'

Margot Clarke and Brewster McCracken head for the finish line Saturday.

"...said," sniffed one Clarke supporter, "was I drive my SUV Downtown every morning.") Clarke's remarks excerpted in the mailer..."

June 6, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

After a Fashion

"...right past the ads involving a yellow halter-top, an SUV, and a car wash, or especially the ads that..."

May 9, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Hightower Report

Organics: good enough for the pilgrims, good enough for us; and, trailer trash go upscale.

"...by owners who tow a big hog of an SUV behind their royal rigs...."

Nov. 8, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

Cumbia Sobre El Rio

Monterrey's Celso Piña and his 21st Century cumbia

"...Here the social classes are sharply divided, the rich, SUV-driving residents living in heavily policed and gated communities, while..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

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Our readers talk back.

"...none of the two motorcycle, three car, and one SUV cops knew sign language. And if an officer of..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Column

The Hightower Report

Bush keeps emphasizing the "shadow" in "shadow government" and Segway tries to push you off the sidewalk.

"...on the makers to come out with a 4-wheel SUV Segway -- a big honker that lets the owner..."

Aug. 9, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

Naked City

Bike Like U Mean It

"...Have you ever had a near-death encounter with an SUV broader than a double-wide trailer? Or noticed that many..."

May 3, 2002 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...or the biggest flags on one's home or gas-guzzling SUV? Or wear clothes covered by the flag? Or to..."

April 5, 2002 Column

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar asks, "What's black & white and splooged all over …???" And keep your eyes peeled locally, kids, in the next few weeks, Austin becomes celebrity central.

"...usually involving some cute young ponytailed babe in dad's SUV, yakking up a storm and paying zero attention to..."

March 1, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

A Shifting Landscape

Texas Parks & Wildlife at an organizational crossroads

"...In other words, it's tempting to argue that the SUV-driving Sansom represents the New Texas, where urbanites, former Yankees,..."

Feb. 8, 2002 News Feature by Dan Oko

TV Eye

Fox premieres an extraordinary new series that redefines prime-time network fare.

"...comes with some familiar trappings: a comfortable home and SUV, a wife he's recently reconciled with after having an..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

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

"...the sanctimonious honkers and pointers, a corpulent truck or SUV)...."

Oct. 12, 2001 Column

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