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Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...at least a couple of weeks. Schroeder is seeking reinstatement to APD; she was fired last year after she..."

June 2, 2006 News Feature

Endorsements
Democratic and Republican Primaries, March 7
"...incumbent Kay Bailey Hutchison, who tends to get a statewide pass as a "moderate," although she generally votes lockstep..."

March 3, 2006 News Feature

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...controversially a new wage-progression scale for new hires: New employees formerly started at 75% of the top wage, ultimately..."

Jan. 6, 2006 News Feature

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...Austin bars and clubs takes effect, as does a state mandate for vehicle emissions testing as part of annual..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...anything wrong with the current school-finance system, had the state continued to fund its proportionate share." – Former Lt...."

Aug. 27, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Babies Behind Bars
In the mirror world of TDCJ, life goes on
"...alleged rapes of inmates, 947 weapons confiscated, and 781 employees arrested on various charges; there were 149 cases of..."

July 16, 2004 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Naked City
Assorted news from the drug war front
"...16-18 voted to conduct a two-year study of the state's drug policies. Two Texas LWV members and drug reform..."

April 30, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere.
"...witnesses, and concealed evidence for years; attorneys for the state of Texas acknowledged the dishonesty but insisted it made..."

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

Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...We received condolences from people all over the United States, but not a word from our own back yard...."

May 30, 2003 Column

Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...Michael King's attack ["Capitol Chronicle," Nov. 22] against state Sen. Jane Nelson's legislation to bring medical malpractice lawsuits..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Column

The Plot Thickens
Funeral Scandal Is a Real Scene Stealer
"...the TFSC. There's also a high-stakes hearing at the State Office of Administrative Hearings pitting funeral giant Service Corporation..."

May 5, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Coal Hard Cash
Alcoa has applied for a mining application in Elgin, near Austin.
"...air-quality controls. Like dozens of older facilities across the state, Alcoa was "grandfathered," meaning the plant has never been..."

Sept. 3, 1999 News Feature

Burying the Past
Judge rules that George W. Bush doesn't have to testify in whistleblower lawsuit.
"...desire to "defend an important principle." He said the state of Texas is sued about 10 times a day..."

Sept. 3, 1999 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Buried in Scandal
SCI and the Money Trail
"...Public Justice, SCI's PAC pumped just over $113,000 into statewide and legislative races between 1996 and 1998, and 75%..."

March 26, 1999 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Downtown Developments
"...room, and covered parking in what was once the state's Anson Jones Building...."

Feb. 5, 1999 News Feature

The Child Support Mess
"...month, Baldwin takes over the most fouled-up agency in state government, the Child Support Division of the Texas Attorney..."

Jan. 15, 1999 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Postmarks
SXSW Diary
"...press is ignorant and apathetic, just think of the state of the everyday voter who spends most of their..."

March 20, 1998 Column

God's Steward at the TNRCC
In Barry McBee's Environment, Politics and Religion Mix
"...in the country. As the latter, he's an environmental states' righter who wants to reduce the power of the..."

Jan. 16, 1998 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Wild, Wild Wildlife
Texas Parks & Wildlife's Andy Sansom
"...of its infrastructure problems. The department, which has 2,693 employees, operates on a budget of about $160 million per..."

May 9, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Hundreds of Thousands Denied Medicaid and Food Assistance in Texas
It's a department of dysfunction, and it isn’t getting better
"...Texas Health and Human Services Commission, whistleblowers at the state agency warned in an anonymous letter released Nov. 21...."

Dec. 1, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Pushing for Real Police Oversight in Contract and on the Ballot
What exactly is a G File?
"...of the Texas Local Government Code, the snippet of state law establishing this confidential class of information: "the department..."

July 15, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Abbott Lifts COVID Rules: Will a Surge Follow?
Governor's move seen as premature, reckless by local leaders, businesses
"...crisis will be observed with tragic irony as the state remains in a frustratingly, dangerously familiar place, with the..."

March 5, 2021 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

AISD’s Special Education System Struggles to Keep Up
School system tries to keep up with its workload and comply with legal mandates
"...are dwindling, leading to a heavy reliance on contracted employees. According to data obtained through open records requests, AISD..."

Feb. 26, 2021 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

Nic Patrizi Opens Industry Soup Kitchen in East Austin
Vic and Al’s space is now a community kitchen to address food insecurity
"...concern for others, whether that be making calls to state reps, planning to pool resources with friends, or putting..."

March 21, 2020 Food Post by Alex Detmar

How and Why the City and County Chose to Cancel SXSW
Striking precarious, if unachievable, balance between protecting public health and avoiding economic calamity
"...who has traveled recently – increased throughout the United States, the risk of allowing SXSW to proceed also grew...."

March 13, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

More Off-the-Air Static at KUT
Overtime pay cut angers station's already demoralized staff
"...overtime, reporters – like most of their fellow non-exempt employees at the Univer­sity of Texas at Austin, and indeed..."

Oct. 5, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Texas Republicans, Defiant as Always
Why the GOP isn't listening to you: They don't have to
"...press or on the Supreme Court of the United States, Texas Republican leaders are defiantly deaf to you...."

July 5, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Hightower Report: Scurrilous Corporate Thieves Are Stealing Workers' Comp
No honor among these thieves
"...program, freeing corporate giants to injure or even kill employees in the workplace without having to pay for the..."

April 17, 2015 News Column by Jim Hightower

AISD's Underutilized Business
AISD weighs equity study to improve its limited program for minority- and women-owned firms
"...of the Texas Department of Trans­port­a­tion and Sam Houston State University, he said, "I'm familiar with a world where..."

May 24, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Prevailing Wage Doesn't Always Prevail
Carpenters union says workers are getting stiffed on state project
"...one big plus is that it is a prevailing-wage state. That means that a laborer or mechanic working on..."

Jan. 20, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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