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Carstarphen and Austin ISD trustees wrestle over priorities, budget, and power

"...the district her own. When the board approves the budget for the 2010-2011 school year in August, it will..."

March 5, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: Bare Necessities

Budget decisions are about money ... and justice

"...news is that the great 2008 city public safety budget crisis has been averted once again by the heroic..."

Aug. 15, 2008 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

"...once-powerful and currently obsolete Talmadge Heflin to lead the state party with his trademark conservative fist. Heflin, you may..."

Aug. 3, 2007 News Feature

Gov. Perry's Ham-Fisted Veto Pen Strikes Again

Lege coverage

"...more than half a billion dollars out of the budget...."

June 22, 2007 News Column by Richard Whittaker

Get in Line

In the new Texas arithmetic, nothing for nothing leaves nothing

"...Last week the State Board of Education, after previously hearing testimony on a..."

July 23, 2004 News Column by Michael King

'The Perfect Storm': AISD Board Adds by Subtracting

The Austin ISD board of trustees passes its 2003-04 budget.

"...ISD board of trustees approved the administration's 2003-04 operating budget, which will spend $663 million, on revenues of $633..."

Aug. 29, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Fighting a Rising Tide

The 78th Lege chipped away at abortion rights

"...Texas a grade of "C-" on the organization's annual state-by-state report card analyzing relative access to abortion services. NARAL..."

July 25, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

The Sound of Falling Dominoes

The state budget crisis is only one piece of a much larger, distressing government puzzle.

"...sound bites. In fact, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the true cost of the plan..."

May 30, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

Deficit? What Deficit?

"...the House and Senate floor, it's when discussing the state budget that real blood is spilled at the Lege...."

Dec. 27, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

Central Texas Lawmakers Speak Out About the 86th Legislative Session

Interviews with the team representing 2.1 million Austin metro residents

"...three, or four, or five sessions, but as our state grows ever larger and more bumptious, so do the..."

Jan. 4, 2019 News Feature by the News Staff

Texas Women's Health Care: Costs More, Does Less

With Planned Parenthood out, state serves fewer for more

"...The number of clients served by the state's family planning budget dropped dramatically in fiscal year 2012,..."

Nov. 30, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Point Austin: Budgets Are Moral Documents

When the rulers call for sacrifice, who do they mean?

"...on both men's 2011 legislative agenda: to "balance the budget without raising taxes," according to Dewhurst. That was the..."

Jan. 21, 2011 News Column by Michael King

Things Are So Bad That ...

Watson condemns budget process

"...How bad is the state budget looking? On Nov. 15, the Legislative Budget Board..."

Nov. 19, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Perry vs. Texas Teachers

Is the governor standing between educators and federal stimulus money?

"...protection measure, which will send $26 billion to the states to allow them to keep paying their workers. On..."

Aug. 13, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Dismantling Family Planning

Advocates say a state Senate budget rider would cripple delivery of health care to poor women

"...Family planning advocates are decrying a new state Senate budget rider that they say would dismantle a..."

March 17, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

Pregnant Pause

Anti-abortion group is poised to siphon big chunk of indigent health-care funds

"...Even as the state budget for health and human services is expected to..."

Feb. 27, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Beyond City Limits

"...the special session to include other "emergencies" facing the state. Many of the new items had been part of..."

July 4, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The House Adjourns to Oklahoma

The House Dems may be losing the legislative wars, but they're finally winning the PR battle.

"...Ardmore, Okla. There they vow to stay until the state and national Republican leadership agrees to desist in its..."

May 16, 2003 News Column by Michael King

The Hightower Report

Being an arms pimp backfires on the U.S.; and to see our nation's future, look at Texas' miserable present.

"...revenues, and left such a fiscal mess that the state now can't meet its basic responsibilities...."

March 21, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large: Money Changes Everything

In budget crunch, how will Austin decide which 'pet projects' get spayed?

"...clearly doesn't feel sorry for herself. But the upcoming budget cycle -- which has already started, months ahead of..."

April 26, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Capitol Chronicle: Blame It on the Kids

Gov. Perry has no trouble funding his enormous transportation plan, but can't find insurance money for poor kids.

"...based on current projections, we can expect the already-battered state budget to be in the hole about $5 billion..."

Feb. 1, 2002 News Column by Michael King

Capitol Chronicle

The Legislature enters the home stretch -- two weeks to go.

"...three big-ticket items complicating a final resolution of the state budget. Lawmakers have agreed in principle to fund some..."

May 18, 2001 News Column by Michael King

Top 10 Hits

Proposed Budget Cuts Have Some Singing the Blues

"...holiday season or football season, the City of Austin's budget season is not marked by greeting cards, supermarket decorations,..."

Sept. 12, 1997 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

Boom and Gloom

Austin's Budget Struggles to Keep Up

"...finance director Betty Dunkerley is taxed by this year's budget process. photograph by John Anderson Last year, when we..."

Aug. 22, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Dollars Down to Earth

1995-96 City Budget Shoots for Balance

"...Nice fantasies, but then comes budget time, when the politicians and city staff finally have..."

Sept. 8, 1995 News Feature

Last Day at the Lege

Sine die arrives as threat of a special session looms

"...Texas Legislature has only one job: to pass a budget for the upcoming biennium. More realistically, it has to..."

May 29, 2017 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Lege Lines

Budget fight on the horizon, GOP leadership spat, TMF thwarts anti-choice measures, and more

"...Budget Battle Here! Taxes Fight Over There!..."

May 1, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

What the Task Force Wrought

Austin ISD's facilities review became a panic drill of cuts, closings, and contradictions

"...firm Parsons prepared a facility condition study recording the state of every building in the district. Magellan Con­sulting, based..."

May 27, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

City Hall Hustle: Twisting the Knife

Is Austin heading for a double-dip recession?

"...I asked Chief Budget Officer Ed Van Eenoo that question as a kind..."

April 22, 2011 News Column by Wells Dunbar

AISD: Long on Ideas ... Short on Funds

AISD looks for answers to budget dilemma

"...Independent School District's plans to deal with its spiraling budget crisis may include declaring financial exigency and massive layoffs..."

Jan. 28, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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