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Lanier High Student Commits Suicide
No other students hurt
"...Austin Independent School District officials have confirmed that a Lanier High School..."

Oct. 15, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Texas State Makes the Leap to Big-Time Football
Bobcats enter FBS
"...The technicolor dream bus has finally arrived in San Marcos. The stadium has..."

Aug. 30, 2012 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

'Surely We're All Worth a Nickel?'
Will AISD flinch from tax election?
"...Austin Independent School District has one of the lowest tax rates in..."

Aug. 23, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Design a Poster, Save A Life
Local ISDs and Cap Metro launch rail safety competition for kids near new tracks
"...The competition is open to grades K-12 at schools within half a mile of the new rail tracks..."

Jan. 22, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Credit Where It's Due
"...Mayor Adler, since he signed off on the infamous school bus camera program where automated cameras on school buses..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Postmarks

Bad Weather Means Delayed Start
Good news: Forecast of ice means a lie-in
"...clock: Forecasts of ice overnight mean the area's largest school district is pushing back the start of classes on..."

Feb. 23, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback: Fun Fun Fun Fest 8
Fun Fun Fun Fest finally arrives
"...offering exposure to emerging acts, notably Beast Coast rappers Flatbush Zombies, tween metallurgists Unlocking the Truth, Canadian punks White..."

Nov. 8, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

AISD's Next Step After Exigency?
If exigency doesn't mean cuts, what does it mean?
"...were considering. The tone was set when Webb Middle School library clerk Catharine Sonnenberg told them, "I have been..."

March 4, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Adventures in Can-Kicking
Austin ISD approves 2010 budget, avoids tax fight
"...that thing down the road? That's the Austin Independent School District budgetary can, and it got kicked there last..."

Aug. 24, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Pride Piper
Artist and Pride piper Silky Shoemaker brings DIY joy to the Pride table
"...queer performance revue to multiple U.S. cities in a school bus that usually worked...."

June 4, 2010 Features Feature by Cindy Widner

Page Two: Field of Dreams
Summer in Vermont singing Gram Parsons' Grievous Angel
"...room because he had brought Sweetheart with him to school even though he didn't like it. We listened to..."

July 31, 2009 Column by Louis Black

'The Lining of Forgetting: Internal and External Memory in Art'
This thought-provoking exhibition plays off memory's elusive, fluid nature
"...elder, go out the back door to catch the school bus...."

July 3, 2009 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Hang Up and Drive
Ban on cell phones in school zones passes
"...phone – especially texting! – while driving in a school zone is clearly common sense, but now it might..."

May 26, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Worried About Additional Fuel Costs for AISD Buses
"...the radio the other day that the Austin Independent School District must budget an extra $500,000 next year to..."

April 22, 2008 Postmarks

Dumped by County, BFI Takes Landfill Plan to TCEQ
County rejects BFI deal but isn't willing to fight landfill proposal at state level
"...was an "atrocity" that kids at nearby Bluebonnet Elementary School were kept inside at recess due to "odorous conditions."..."

Nov. 16, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Attack of the Teenagers
"...would be better to get the boys settled in school at the beginning of the year instead of midway..."

Sept. 18, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
"...Education expert Frank Cyr (1900-95) ensured that school buses are all the same color, officially known as..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

AISD Employees to Receive Historic Raises
District, union agree on pay package in wake of state school bill
"...education system – which includes funds earmarked for public school pay raises...."

June 13, 2019 News Post by Austin Sanders

Because the Night Playlist
Daylight savings end-times tunes
"...that sucks streams bone dry breaks for November rain. School children don’t have to eat their breakfast in the..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Music Post by William Harries Graham

SXSW Meet Up: Underground Tables
Some secret supper clubs and pop-up dinners are hidden in plain sight
"...native Kati Luedecke, a chef who studied at Escoffier School of Culinary Arts and has much experience in the..."

March 12, 2017 SXSW Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Art of Moving Books
The Nobelity Project taps Baylor Estes to put his art all over a bookmobile in Honduras
"...directing a team that will cover a stand-issue yellow school bus with his brightly colored cartoon images of parrots,..."

May 10, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Common Law
Talking, Texting, and Driving – What's the Law?
"...restricted licenses are prohibited from using wireless communication devices. School bus drivers are also prohibited from using cell phones..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Column by Luke Ellis

Night and Day With Maceo
Still blowin'
"...the very beginning. I was right out of high school and after a year or two of college I..."

Feb. 19, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

The Hypocrisy of Disco: A Memoir
Disco doesn't have much to do with anything in Clane Hayward's memoir of her late Seventies, peripatetic preteens, which were spent shuttling between a hippie mom, redneck dad, and anybody else with an open space – but not necessarily an open heart – in which Hayward could crash
"...near-criminal indifference to her children. Hayward, who teaches middle school in Austin, opens her memoir with a slumber party..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Books Review by Kimberley Jones

Angels in South America
Round Rock-based Bolivian missionary project in crisis
"...local priest, and parents of the children at the school, has won the support of the U.S. board. "We..."

Aug. 31, 2007 News Feature by Dan Selinger

It Is Easy Being Green
Rather than make you puzzle out for yourself what environmental art is, Austin Green Art is hosting a summerlong, citywide exhibition that shows you what it is
"...by Atlanta, Ga., artist Martha Whittington to a 1950s school bus converted by Austin artist Roisel Ramirez into a..."

June 10, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Stick Makes Teachers Sick
Education Austin walks the blocks for Mark Strama
"...the 78th Legislature fell hard on teachers and public schools, and now teachers are ready to fight back. As..."

Oct. 1, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Come Out and Play
Has Austin – or anywhere else – ever seen anything like Cinemania weekend?
"...with the highly anticipated indie (there's that word again) high-school-classic-in-the-making, Napoleon Dynamite, and ends on Sunday with the 25th-anniversary..."

May 28, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Picks & Sleepers
"...America came while living in a commune on a school bus in an empty lot in Philly. Then she..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Day Trips: The Lucky Rabbit, Jonestown
Old-fashioned roadhouse offers bands, burgers, and a big backyard near Lake Travis.
"...thirst at the outdoor bar in a converted 1950s school bus...."

Oct. 14, 2022 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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