State of the City Address

As delivered by Mayor Lee Leffingwell today

"...like health care reform and energy policy. Here in Texas, we have a state education system that fails too..."

Feb. 2, 2010 News Post by Lee Nichols

Exiled From Main Street

Can Austin's stock of affordable housing keep pace with high-speed growth?

"...limo-laden life at their new company ... in Austin, Texas...."

June 28, 2013 News Feature by Elizabeth Pagano

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...argument that unhelmeted bicycle head injuries were burdening public funds. For more info, see www.bikesafeaustin.org and www.nohelmetlaw.org. – Daniel..."

Aug. 25, 2006 News Feature

City Council Gets Some Breathing Room on the Budget

Austin bounced back from COVID with what City Manager Spencer Cronk called “spectacular economic growth.” How spectacular?

"...as owner of the utilities), goes into the General Fund, which pays for public safety, public health, and social..."

July 22, 2022 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Point Austin: Governor Oops! Again

Perry's vision of Texas rests on willful blindness

"...state's finances – rising oil and gas income remains Texas' historical life-preserver – there were no gestures at restoring..."

Feb. 1, 2013 News Column by Michael King

Becoming Drought Tolerant

Central Texas looks for ways to balance population growth with future water supplies

"...newspaper Bourbon News, a journalist wrote, "The drought in Texas is so intense that potatoes are cooked in the..."

Aug. 29, 2014 News Feature by Lizzie Jespersen

Point Austin: Questions for Visa

A few things we might ask before we provide corporate welfare

"...what has already been negotiated under Gov. Rick Perry's Texas Enterprise Fund. (The TEF supports "free enterprise" by donating..."

Nov. 30, 2012 News Column by Michael King

Balancing the Books After Years of Neglecting Schools

The Texas Legislature wants to fix school finance, but how?

"...but maybe not enough to travel back. That's how Texas lawmakers have treated the state's school finance system, and..."

April 7, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

State Budget Estimate Up, But Much Already Spent

Texas prepares for second half of grand bait and switch

"...As the Texas Legislature prepares to reconvene tomorrow, there's some good budget..."

Jan. 7, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Riding the Pinwheel

The GOP redraws the map of Texas – brazenly sidestepping most of the state's newest voters

"...Outside a committee hearing room during the 82nd Texas Legislature, I ran into Austin political consultant (and staunch..."

Aug. 26, 2011 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Envision Next Session

Having lost its two big battles at the Lege, Envision Central Texas retrenches to win the war

"...Aug. 31 legislative recap luncheon hosted by Envision Central Texas, a nonprofit that advocates for regional growth planning...."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

City Budget: Minimal Slippage

Sparse cuts, few surprises in proposed fiscal document

"...support and internal service savings (like keeping the transportation fund flat), plus $3.5 million in "corporate savings" for staff..."

July 23, 2008 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Perry Back To Slash and Burn

Governor's Texas Budget Compact called hypocritical

"...After goon-squading his way through how Texas treats its young, its old, its weak, its infrastructure..."

April 16, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Capitol Chronicle

Federal judges denounce gerrymandering, but then leave us with the same old bunch of white guys.

"...T. John Ward in their Nov. 14 opinion regarding Texas Congressional Districts:..."

Nov. 30, 2001 News Column by Michael King

Capitol Chronicle

Surveying the George W. Bush Legacy in Texas

"...have recently been sending what they don't want to Texas. Of late the refuse has included sewage sludge, silicon..."

March 16, 2001 News Column by Michael King

Budget Breakdown

"...In 2013, Sen. Kirk Watson warned that Texas' austerity budgets should not become the new normal. The..."

Feb. 6, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: Underfunded and Overtested

Save Texas Schools builds a groundswell for public education

"...speaking about the politics side of the public education funding debate, from her ringside seat on the House Appropriations..."

Feb. 22, 2013 News Column by Michael King

Dewhurst for Lieutenant Governor (Again)

Lite guv wants another run as senate president

"...unsurprisingly, he touts as one of his achievements that Texas is "not facing a budget deficit." Which is true..."

Sept. 9, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Greening of George W. Bush

An industry pollution control program started backed by Gov. George W. Bush has cleaned less than 3% of the industrial toxic emissions it aimed to clean up.

"...little to clean up the air. An analysis of Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission pollution statistics, which was funded..."

Oct. 27, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose

School Vouchers Win in Late Night Vote at the Capitol

Controversial Republican proposal will become law

"...supporters made their voices heard but Republicans in the Texas House won in the end, approving Senate Bill 2,..."

April 17, 2025 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Money for (Almost) Nothing

Texans may not be getting their money's worth from economic incentive programs

"...programs. The report, titled "The Failed Promise of the Texas Miracle" was produced in collaboration with the LBJ School's..."

Feb. 5, 2016 News Feature by Amy Kamp

Point Austin: Tools for Lege Watching

Considering Texas' future – a few things to keep in mind

"...Elsewhere in this issue ("Will Texas Do Better?"), we take another look at the prospects..."

Dec. 14, 2012 News Column by Michael King

Show Your Work

How Texas ended up $27 billion short

"...Amid the gloom shadowing the Texas budget, there is one bright spot for Dick Lavine:..."

March 4, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...that the toll-road scheme is consistent with Envision Central Texas. The toll-road plan is based on sprawl-growth patterns and..."

July 23, 2004 Column

Carrying the Burden

During Gov. Bush's campaign for his party's presidential nomination last fall, reporters asked the candidate to comment on a federal government report asserting that many Texans, including large numbers of children, were going to bed hungry. "I saw the report that children in Texas are going hungry. Where?" he demanded, going on to say, "You'd think the governor would have heard if there are pockets of hunger in Texas." Indeed, you would, especially if one of those pockets is just a few miles from his front door, Virginia B. Wood explains as she explores the very pockets of hunger in Austin Bush has difficulty fathoming.

"...10 miles due east of the official residence of Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush, who..."

April 28, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

New Director on the Block

Rebecca Campbell and the Texas Documentary Tour

"...$80,000 to 31 emerging film and video artists of Texas during the first two years of the Texas Filmmakers'..."

June 5, 1998 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Food-o-File

Another Austin growth spurt

"...A culinary incubator has growth in mind. Capital Kitchens (1606 W. Stassney #1) owner..."

May 22, 2015 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Council: Vested Interests

Council agenda considers grandfathering, incentives, and parking

"...that would serve to tighten the regulations governing Managed Growth Agreements, especially those which arrive at Council without staff..."

May 23, 2014 News Feature by Michael King

Voter Groups Blast New Interim Maps

AG claims he cut a deadline deal with MALDEF, cuts everyone else out

"...their fear that Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund was ready to sell them down the river in..."

Feb. 6, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

City Hall Hustle: Who's Zoomin' Who?

Right behind the Hanger comes LegalZoom

"...million worth of benefits from the deal, accounting for growth in taxes, utility revenues, and more, and $7.5 million..."

Feb. 5, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

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