Under One Roof

Can the City Make Good on Its Affordable Housing Promise?

"...parks, his project qualifies for a packet of Smart Growth incentives, including waived utility fees, accelerated reimbursements for new..."

July 28, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

No Green Acres

Crumbling Landmarks

"...Texas is known for its historical landmarks, yet many of..."

April 16, 1999 News Feature

Austin Energy Wins Round One

Austin Energy fends off rate case with only minor loss

"...much-debated but long-standing 9% transfer to the city's General Fund, its low-income customer assistance program, and its virtually 100%..."

March 8, 2013 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Point Austin: The Governor's Principles

The latest Perry eruption is a characteristically lamentable mash-up of political calculation and fiscal faux conservatism

"...invisible for another few months while the state of Texas recovers from our national shame...."

April 27, 2012 News Column by Michael King

The Daily Hustle: 9/14/10

Council makes amends, amendments

"...the Hustle of her plans to trim Austin Energy's funding of the Economic Growth and Redevelopment Services Office. While..."

Sept. 14, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Texas Civil Rights Project..."

June 28, 2002 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...the City of Georgetown but the entire State of Texas." Perhaps that is why the Texas Municipal League, the..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Column

Why Venues Are Struggling to Stay Open in the Live Music Capital of the World

As Hot Summer Nights descends, Austin’s live music epicenter campaigns for city support

"...This is the case every evening in Austin, Texas, but especially during Hot Summer Nights, the Red River..."

July 12, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Looking at the Lege After a Flaccid Special Session

Alpha males Abbott and Patrick can't get their red meat passed

"...Conundrum one: Texas Governor Greg Abbott has one 140-day regular legislative session,..."

Aug. 18, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

MoPac and the Expensive Mess That Never Ends

Engineering company renovating the beleaguered stretch of highway gets bought out

"...as CH2M restructured with the goal of becoming a fundamentally different engineering enterprise. Through the process, management made a..."

Aug. 4, 2017 News Feature by Braden Maccke

The Education Session

The Lege takes another run at patching school finance

"...If there's a poster child for what's best about Texas school kids, she could be Regan Lively. With a..."

May 1, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Battle for the Springs: A Chronology

"...vast underground reservoir that underlies much of South Central Texas. The aquifer is replenished by water soaking into the..."

Aug. 9, 2002 News Feature

Bigger, Better, Smarter

San Diego is everything Austin wants to be: livable, transit-oriented, pedestrian-friendly, and downtown-centric. But will tools that worked in the nation's largest border and military base town translate to Central Texas?

"...got light rail, downtown housing, a streamlined development process, growth-management plans to promote infill and combat sprawl, and institutional..."

Jan. 14, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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Who has the ego problem?

"...state to participate in a commercial wind-power project in Texas, and continues to be by far the state's largest..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Column

A Museum Comes of Age

"...items called for an amendment to the General Operating Fund budget by appropriating $2 million for the building purchase...."

July 23, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

West Lake Hills Under Siege

Urbane Mud-Slinging

"...divided by antagonistic visions of the community's future, and fundamentally opposing perspectives on how they should cope with growth..."

Sept. 18, 1998 News Feature by Wesley Oliver

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MUD Myths

"...going to have to come out of the general fund which the city is not yet ready to pay...."

April 18, 1997 Column

311 Story in Error

"...It seems I read somewhere that conservative legal foundations, funded by agribusiness interests, were the catalyst for the takings..."

Oct. 25, 1996 Column

The Mayor’s Race Offers Clear Choices on How Austin Should Grow

Election marks a critical juncture on the way to Austin's future

"...of Council's 2020 moves to reduce Austin Police Department funding and cancel cadet classes at the police academy, and..."

Oct. 14, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Musicians on How Best to Employ City Funds Earmarked for the Local Scene

$3 million in HOT funds are coming. Now what?

"...release music, pay for studio time and rehearsal spaces, fund and produce their own music videos, etc. Not a..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Music Feature

"Historic" Spending on Homelessness in New City Budget

FY 2020 plan calls for maximum tax rate to beat revenue caps

"...help of $15.3 million in one-time expenditures, using the funds garnered by setting the property tax rate to achieve..."

Aug. 5, 2019 News Post by Mike Clark-Madison

Life Support

The complicated system that is the Austin-Travis Co. EMS is nationally recognized for saving lives. As Austin continues to grow, can the system save itself?

"...from the finish line of the annual MS-150 Houston-to-Austin fundraising ride. Fortun­ately, there are plenty of public safety personnel..."

Aug. 16, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Battle for Barton Springs: A Brief Timeline

Twenty years of progress

"...of the Edwards Aquifer begin to threaten the Central Texas water that nourishes Barton Springs...."

Aug. 3, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Total Utility

The pain and politics of raising electric rates as a means of controlling our destiny

"...supporters, including two former key skeptics. Joshua Hous­ton of Texas Impact represented houses of worship that had been convinced..."

June 15, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Streetcar Desires

The Austin streetcar has a consensus – it still needs champions

"...are bigger than the streetcar project itself. As Central Texas slouches toward a regional vision to be born –..."

July 20, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

10 Reasons to Love a Streetcar

The 'streetcar effect' – offering Austinites far more than a free ride

"...fixed-rail transit, they uniquely shape urban land-use, development, and growth patterns. The "streetcar effect" serves to stimulate desirable development..."

July 20, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

You Can't Touch This

The budget battles, Round 2: Citizens rally to save community services

"...the council has to cut $38 million in General Fund spending and raise property taxes just to break even..."

Aug. 22, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Page Two

The war in Iraq has diverted our attention from other important matters, including a truly destructive proposed federal budget, mirrored by Texas' very own fiscal abyss.

"...about one-time money raids that will adversely impact on Texas for decades -- including selling off the LCRA, raiding..."

April 4, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Austin @ Large: Into the Gap

The city manager's new budget squeezes city services that are already tight

"...don't trust Futrell's self-analysis), nearly 70% of city General Fund spending went to "core" and "semi-core" services; less than..."

Aug. 9, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Council comes back after a month's hiatus with a number of potentially divisive issues on its plate.

"...even less divisiveness than the previous council. Promoting downtown growth through multimillion-dollar incentive packages, the primary business of late,..."

Aug. 4, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

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