Fighting Family Detention

On June 1, a judge will consider whether to allow detention centers to be licensed as child-care facilities

"...Last February, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services approved licensing family..."

May 27, 2016 News Feature by Dina Samir Shehata

Steve Adler: 'New Way Forward'

"...I represented over a thousand churches; I represented the Texas Nature Conservancy. I've represented small business, I've represented big..."

May 30, 2014 News Feature

HD 50: Circular Dem Firing Squad

Rifts deepen among candidates

"...list item that's also been a third rail in Texas state politics. Sheppard led the attack, saying she is..."

Nov. 1, 2013 News Feature by Christopher Hooks

AISD's Underutilized Business

AISD weighs equity study to improve its limited program for minority- and women-owned firms

"...It's a vicious circle: For decades, government entities in Texas would not do business with them, so they couldn't..."

May 24, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Q&A: Austin’s Coastal Neighbors

How Galveston looks to its past to prepare for its future – and what that means for Austin

"...team, we have our medical – UTMB [University of Texas Medical Branch]. We have the Red Cross, the Salvation..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...what happens to children left behind in the U.S., Texas organizer Valentina Guerrero said: "When my mother was deported,..."

Sept. 26, 2008 News Feature

Naked City

"...strong community opposition, Austin Independent School District board of trustees on Monday deferred until later this spring a decision..."

Feb. 16, 2007 News Feature

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"...guarantee Rick Perry a one-way ticket back to North Texas. Question: Does one wait till midnight on Nov. 6..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Column

Save as We Pave?

The latest trend in environmentally sensitive planning tiptoes into Travis County

"...space, fragile ecosystems, watersheds, and the rural character of Texas? Or should it be privately developed as a residential..."

Oct. 20, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

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"...an attitude which "contains the contaminated seeds of an anti-democratic fascism." Then he decries name-calling, character assassination, and casting..."

April 14, 2006 Column

Endorsements

No on everything. Double no on Proposition 2.

"...On Nov. 8, Texas citizens will once again be asked to go to..."

Oct. 21, 2005 News Feature

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"...review of the Ghostland Observatory album by Audra [Schroeder] ["Texas Platters," Music, July 15]. Thanks, but no thanks. Does..."

July 22, 2005 Column

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"...and Jim McDermitt claims, "The formation of the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority, as a new toll road authority..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Column

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"...an equal opportunity to learn for all students in Texas schools, not just those students lucky enough to live..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Column

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"...many of the hardcore leftists who have discredited my Democratic Party so disastrously, he appears to be addicted to..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Column

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Avenue, and South MoPac. Lest you think APD's brain trust has been sampling the wares in the evidence room,..."

July 23, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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"...that spoiling, you should support Instant Run-Off Voting for Texas. Democrats Rep. Eddie Rodriguez and Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos introduced..."

March 26, 2004 Column

Capitol Chronicle

Republican Bill Ratliff throws a monkeywrench into his own party's redistricting plans

"...to advise you that the undersigned members of the Texas Senate are unalterably opposed to the Senate's consideration of..."

July 18, 2003 News Column by Michael King

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"...clearly linked to this show create a muddled and untrustworthy account of the experience, which according to people I..."

June 27, 2003 Column

Call and Answer

It's been a hard spring of politics in Texas; now it's time to relax with a book.

"...illusion that the world begins and ends in Austin, Texas. Finally, there is yet another explicit literary and political..."

June 6, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

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"...for music goers or change our motto to "Austin, Texas, the live, unplugged, nonsmoking, not over a certain decibel,..."

May 16, 2003 Column

Naked City

"...Performing Arts, was taken over this week by the Texas Education Agency. According to TEA files, the school's board..."

April 26, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

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Bush League lambasting, locally-grown concerns, and a side of jazz.

"...failure at NHMCCD and many colleges and universities in Texas. Dual Credit classes do not "tend to function as..."

June 22, 2001 Column

Miles to Go

A transportation bond package combining roads and light rail is planned for November.

"...more than 15 years, the transportation game in Central Texas has been treated as a zero-sum contest between rail..."

March 10, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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Secrets of the Trade

"...need a program to tell where all of the Texas Republican strategists and press aides are working. Earlier this..."

Sept. 24, 1999 News Feature by Robert Bryce

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Don't Shelve Smart Growth

"...support the goals of Smart Growth, they do not trust the process. Many feel left out and believe that..."

July 2, 1999 Column

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Don't Dissolve District

"...the century-old doctrine followed in no other state but Texas that gives every landowner the right to pump as..."

May 1, 1998 Column

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Brown Right To Fight

"...Austin American-Statesman editor Richard Oppel said that University of Texas professor Lino Graglia is "not a racist" and is..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Column

The Solution to Pollution

On the Lege

"...The "Trust Me" Law: Signed into law on May 23, HB..."

June 9, 1995 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Whether Saving Lives During the Freeze or Saving the City From Save Austin Now, Bob Nicks Just Helped

"I didn’t do a thing. I sat in my office and dispatched people. But I was part of it.”

"...The power was still out for much of Central Texas. Back at his home in Giddings, two generations of..."

April 8, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

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