City Hall Hustle: Herd Instinct: Rounding Up the Strayhorns

Who's voting for Strayhorn, and why?

"...bought Austin into the mother of all boondoggles, the South Texas (Nuclear) Project. But with the public's political memory..."

May 1, 2009 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Rights of Citizens Marginalized

"...the exception of part of the funding for the South Texas Nuclear Project, this was the norm until November..."

March 17, 2008 Postmarks

Voting for Kinky

"...are confused," the second time we voted down the South Texas Nuclear Project. Then "they" pushed it through again,..."

Oct. 3, 2006 Postmarks

Is Strayhorn Running Against Austin?

"...chances to sell our interest in the economically disastrous South Texas Nuclear Project, once immediately after the Three Mile..."

Sept. 18, 2006 Postmarks

Postmarks

"If you fail light rail again, you've sealed your fate to sucking a tailpipe and damned your city's 21st century global position."

"...I'm one of the people who voted against the South Texas Nuclear Project way back when, and guess what,..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Column

Man in the Middle

"Personally," says Council Member Daryl Slusher, "I think Austin is growing way too fast."

"...with Slusher's history. As an activist who fought the South Texas Nuclear Project, as a force behind protecting what..."

Sept. 29, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Message: We Care

Council Embarks on Soul-Searching Mission in Bastrop

"...outlined a history of staff failures, from the bungled South Texas Nuclear Project in the late Seventies, to the..."

July 4, 1997 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

Slaughterhouse Three

Circle the Firing Squads

"...has also voted for a long list of spending projects, and supported a property tax increase last year. Goodman..."

May 12, 1995 News Feature by Daryl Slusher

So Long to My Other Brother Daryl

Slusher remembers Janes

"...Patrol." Daryl lambasted the American-Statesman for its "idiotorials." The South Texas Project got so far behind schedule that he..."

June 22, 2007 News Feature by Daryl Slusher

Timing Is Everything

Events in Japan cast a long shadow

"...before the earthquake in Japan triggered the world's worst nuclear emergency in 25 years, the nuclear industry had cause..."

March 18, 2011 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Patched Atoms: Feds OK Restarting the Nuke

Despite not really knowing why South Texas Project 1 sprang a leak, federal regulators are satisfied with the $4 million repair job.

"...Among the nation's 103 commercial nuclear reactors, the twin 15-year-old nukes at the South Texas..."

Aug. 8, 2003 News Feature by William M. Adler

Austin Says, 'No, Thanks,' to Investing in New Nukes

City's decision based on an 'apolitical' financial risk analysis, Wynn says

"...energy, so boom! Bing! We're gonna add two new nuclear reactors down at the South Texas Project near Bay..."

Feb. 15, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Will Shill for Nukes

At UT and elsewhere, academic scientists are only too happy to lend their names and reputations to the nuclear power industry

"...published an op-ed article by Sheldon Landsberger, professor of nuclear engineering at UT. Headlined "Funds for nuclear waste storage..."

April 16, 2004 News Feature by William M. Adler

What a Dump

What Does Gov. Bush Have Buried in West Texas?

"...miles from the Rio Grande, near the tiny West Texas town of Sierra Blanca. As luck would have it,..."

March 13, 1998 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...into The Lone Star Report for regular doses of Texas politics, wrought by a right-wing hand. The publication is..."

Oct. 18, 1996 News Feature

Naked City

"...closure and demolition of the 141-unit Stoneridge Apartments on South Lamar, which will be redeveloped as an upscale condominium..."

Oct. 12, 2007 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...ripe old age of 76, and having lived in Texas since 1930, longer than a lot of the native..."

June 30, 2000 Column

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

As other cities catch up, 'Solar Austin' advocates look to prime the green-power pump

"...and (what are the odds?) another defect-spawned shutdown of South Texas Project 1, our very own little nuclear power..."

Aug. 15, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Off the Desk:

"...accident and mental anguish... The city's lawsuit against the South Texas Project (STP) nuclear plant is barreling along. Anti-nuclear..."

Nov. 24, 1995 News Feature

Half-Dead or Half-Life?

South Texas Project expansion not quite dead – yet

"...it no longer plans to pursue expansion of the South Texas Project at Matagorda Bay – seemingly good news..."

April 29, 2011 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Naked City

"...• The Texas presidential campaign shifts into high gear today (Thursday), as..."

Feb. 22, 2008 News Feature

The Austin Climate Protection Plan

An update on the state of the city's ACPP

"...for 2012 to 2020 – would be a marathon project. The Municipal Plan alone requires a wholesale re-examination of..."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Meeker vs. Leffingwell

Race for City Council's Place 1 seat off to a bruising start

"...during his campaign announcement, he's depicting Leffingwell as a nuclear-power proponent, which – given Austin's liberal bona fides and..."

Feb. 15, 2008 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Nuke Means No

New coalition opposes nuke proposal

"...NRG Energy's proposal that the city enter into a nuclear power purchase agreement with the South Texas Project. City-owned..."

March 11, 2011 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...declared death by injection "cruel and unusual punishment." In Texas, the capital prosecution of Anthony Graves was undermined when..."

Dec. 22, 2006 News Feature

Naked City

"...aid to poor people - some 10,000 in Central Texas alone last year, with another 3,000 turned away for..."

July 28, 1995 News Feature

Dragons in the Whorehouse

Houston STP Lawyers Depose "No Nuke" Activists

"...seven years exposing allegations of safety problems at the South Texas Project (STP) nuclear plant, sat at a conference..."

Dec. 22, 1995 News Feature

There Goes the Sun

Austin's clean-energy industry appears poised to take off -- but city leaders seem surprisingly unenthusiastic.

"...and gas-fired plants (and, lest we forget, from the South Texas Project, when it's actually operational, although the actual..."

Nov. 28, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...latest attempt to (yet again) ban same-sex marriages in TexasHeadlines• Senate leaders jumped ship last Tuesday on plans to..."

May 20, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Eco-Currents: Spring Roundup

Butterflies, hummingbirds, power plants, and more

"...Community Design and Develop­ment Center; Richard MacMath, sustainable design project manager at HDR Architecture; and Jim Walker, director of..."

April 15, 2011 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

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