What Texas Artists Had to Say on the CMT Music Awards Red Carpet

Jackie Venson, Midland, and more talk country music’s Austin migration

"...seeming ready to lean back into the "western" palette of the genre. On the occasion of the CMT Music..."

April 7, 2023 Music Feature by Maggie Q. Thompson

Public Notice: Death of a Planner

John Fregonese tried to get us all to a better place

"...goes a lot deeper than that, and his knowledge of the city, and his understanding of the trade-offs implicit..."

June 22, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Matters of Perception

Evidence suggest that former APD officer Timothy Enlow hasn't been completely honest -- nor have those who have testified against him.

"...the arbitration hearing regarding the Austin Police Dept. dismissal of former officer Timothy Enlow was suddenly interrupted by a..."

Sept. 27, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Texas Platters

"...1940, there's little about Phil Ochs' music that says "Texas," other than an affinity in his later recordings for..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Music Review

Beware of Failing Rock

An Austin Couple Says Their Insurer Let Them Down

"...scared little girl who didn't want to go out of her house. Before, she'd always been an outdoorsy, gregarious..."

June 21, 1996 News Feature by Roseana Auten

Review: "I See You See Me"

Photo exhibition sheds gentle light on LGBTQ+ and disabled lives

"...capture still moments and preserve them through a process of light and intention. With "I See You See Me"..."

July 28, 2023 Arts Feature by James Scott

Cost of Justice

Will voters want to pay for a new courthouse?

"...On November 3, Texas voters will go to the polls to consider seven..."

July 10, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

City of Dreams

Visions in Earlier Austin Plans Not Unlike Our Own

"...was remarkable even then, and General Burleson's tiny settlement of Waterloo. Then Mirabeau Lamar, vice president of the Republic..."

Dec. 1, 1995 News Feature

Tubes of Art

"...to hear the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's senior curator of film and media arts, John G. Hanhardt, lecture on..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Teaching Truthiness

Activists, lawmakers call on State Board of Education to reject racist Mexican-American textbook

"...Roughly 200 educators, lawmakers, and activists – many of whom traveled from all over Texas – gathered outside..."

Sept. 16, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

News Roundup: Refugees, Republicans, & Rhetoric

Refugee politics take center stage

"...Dem congressman backpedals hard from an anti-refugee bill; the Texas Board of Education opts for ignorance (again); and more...."

Nov. 22, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Despite "Flawed" Process, SBOE Votes for Social Studies Textbooks

Vote on books falls along party lines

"...Instead of taking the time to review hundreds of pages of..."

Nov. 21, 2014 News Post by Mary Tuma

Microscope Zooms in on Anti-Science SBOE

Legislators try to rein in controversial education board

"...isn’t quite hitting the fan yet, but for the State Board of Education, turds are being collected and the..."

April 28, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Whither Rosewood Courts?

The fight to save the first public housing complex for African-Ameri­cans in the U.S

"...will remember Rosewood," said Alexis Henderson, Rosewood Courts resident of five years. "It is time for a change."..."

Jan. 31, 2014 News Feature by Lizzie Jespersen

This Land Is Our Land

News From the Fronts of State-City Land War

"...Tom Terkel of Cencor Realty photograph by Alan Pogue At the end..."

April 24, 1998 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Dissecting Mercer's Anti-Evolution Editorial

Because shooting fish in a barrel is fun!

"...it takes a while for the lightbulb to go off over my head...."

Feb. 16, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Criminally Innocent

How can you be exonerated of a crime that never happened?

"...the California coast and to visit with the parents of his girlfriend, who is also the mother of his..."

Nov. 5, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

SXSWedu: Lights, Camera, Learn

Film programming includes 'Bully', 'Brooklyn Castle'

"...SXSWedu has announced its lineup of eight documentaries to screen during the 2013 conference and..."

Feb. 7, 2013 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Making Everyone Happy

The state's textbook adoption process focuses more on pleasing everyone than on teaching children.

"...what we teach, who shall decide what is taught? Texas' recent hearings on the statewide adoption of social studies..."

Sept. 13, 2002 News Feature by Michael May

Point Austin: Learning From Experience

The things they won't tell you in Texas schools

"...Molly Ivins often noted that persistent observers of Texas politics learn one..."

Sept. 24, 2010 News Column by Michael King

Rose's SBOE Bill Fails, Then Passes

HB 710 will but ed board under Sunset review

"...legislator benefited from a vote result changing upon verification of the vote, with several lawmakers claiming their machines had..."

May 5, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Election Day Live Coverage for Travis County

Tracking the local races

"...all doomscroll and stress-bake our way through this longest of all Election Days, Central Texas saw steady yet light..."

Nov. 3, 2020 News Post by the News Staff

Panel Finds 'Serious Flaws' in SBOE-Backed Social Studies Textbooks

Independent reviewers find more than a dozen factual distortions

"...An independent review of Texas social studies textbooks reveals distortions of history..."

Sept. 10, 2014 News Post by Mary Tuma

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Quote of the Week"I think your question is being asked relating..."

July 15, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Big Fish,Small Bowl

On View: Texas Commissioner of Education Mike Moses

"...On November 16 of last year, Mike Moses found out what it means..."

Feb. 2, 1996 News Feature by Roseana Auten

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...May chooses to be ignorant by [sic] the hysteria of those preaching for limiting scientific information on evolution in..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Column

Who Can Vouch for the Charters?

The state's freewheeling experiment with charter schools gets a poor grade.

"...Legislature in 1995, partly as an alternative to direct state grants ("vouchers") to families to spend on private schooling...."

April 4, 2003 News Feature by Michael May

Point Austin: God Knows

Two recent Texas lessons about the relation between religion and freedom

"...borrowing from the Rev. Mitt Romney, who recently visited Texas to explain to us the relationship between religious belief..."

Dec. 14, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Rally Planned to Oppose Racist Mexican-American Textbooks

Coalition will hold rally before SBOE public hearing on Tuesday

"...up to fight against proposed Mexican-American textbooks deemed racially offensive and overflowing with historical errors...."

Sept. 12, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...There's an election Nov. 3, with state and county offices and a $672 million city bond..."

Oct. 2, 1998 News Feature

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