Naked City

"...we solve them together – unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have different stories, but..."

March 21, 2008 News Feature

Working on the Railroad

The regional Transit Working Group is poised to make progress on passenger rail

"...standing-room-only crowds, a historical brokering of a regional Central Texas transit system – focused on rail, not roads –..."

Feb. 22, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Naked City

"..."Texas is about to become the center of the political..."

Feb. 15, 2008 News Feature

AISD's Fingerprints

Teachers speak out against having to get fingerprinted

"...that motion, he became the first person in the state to submit to a new, state-mandated regime of fingerprinting..."

Feb. 1, 2008 News Feature by Justin Ward

Naked City

"...Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, reacting Monday after President Bush's State of the Union Headlines..."

Feb. 1, 2008 News Feature

Naked City

"...attempt to confuse already addled voters, the city's public-safety unions issued endorsements for the May 10 City Council elec­tions,..."

Jan. 25, 2008 News Feature

Happenings

Jan. 3-9

"...COUNTY, STATE, AND NATIONAL CONVENTIONS – AND YOU Join the Texas..."

Jan. 4, 2008 News Feature

Supports State Rep. Dawnna Dukes

"...Dear Editor, State Rep. Dawnna Dukes always stands up for state employees,..."

Dec. 27, 2007 Postmarks

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

Naked City

"...36.1 or am I not? Make my day.'" – Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson on why he thinks the..."

Nov. 9, 2007 News Feature

Naked City

"...• The Texas Civil Rights Project filed an ethics complaint against Court..."

Oct. 19, 2007 News Feature

Why Rick Went to Israel

Texas and Israel talk launch new trade talking shop, but Gov. Perry really wants to talk about Iran.

"...more about economics. On Tuesday, Perry officially established the Texas-Israel Chamber of Commerce. While Texas is already Israel's number..."

Sept. 27, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Happenings

September 6-12

"...BUS RIDERS UNION – ATX Discuss Capital Metro's proposal to raise the..."

Sept. 7, 2007 News Feature

Pearce Gets a New Principal

High test scores at what cost?

"...hurdles, the seasoned educator managed to maintain an acceptable state academic rating for the school...."

Aug. 24, 2007 News Feature by Justin Ward

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...She was deemed a county "trailblazer" Wednesday by the Texas Association of Counties Leadership Foundation...."

Aug. 17, 2007 News Feature

Naked City

"...•The Republican Party of Texas hammered another nail in its 2008 coffin this week,..."

Aug. 3, 2007 News Feature

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

Naked City

"...tradition of public service." – U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas Headlines• Former first lady Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson, who..."

July 20, 2007 News Feature

Naked City

"...– City Manager Toby Futrell, in response to Tuesday's Statesman editorial criticizing her "alarmingly cavalier attitude toward a legitimate..."

July 13, 2007 News Feature

Council's Got ... Talent?

At intermission, we talk to the headliners

"...Moreover, his full-contact personal style, also a holdover from union days, tends to cost him political points with the..."

July 13, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Comptroller's Cupboard Not Bare

Texas confirms it actually has the money to pay employees the raise it promised them.

"...Remember the state employee pay raise the Lege passed last session? Well,..."

July 10, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

"...City Limits• On June 27, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information request for details pertinent..."

July 6, 2007 News Feature

Naked City

"...notes that Austin will join more than 170 other state and local governments that have said no to sweatshop..."

June 15, 2007 News Feature

Rodeo 80

The 2007 Legislature in a quick-step roundup

"...population, never mind the decade-plus of systematic underfunding of state agencies...."

June 8, 2007 News Column

Capitol Briefs

"...meet-and-confer contract negotiations to Austin's rank and file, non-public-safety employees, looks dead in the water. House Bill 2184, which..."

May 25, 2007 News Column

Dying in Committee, Part 1

The first casualties of the legislative session are the bills that will never be debated in the chamber.

"...pay raise for everyone are actually finding that some state employees are missing out because their boss just doesn't..."

May 1, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Film News

Of informational pickets, $1.5 billion projects, and newborns

"...newborn son, Nick Drake O'Connell, seeking a milk fix?… Texas may be a right-to-work state, but that didn't stop..."

April 27, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Point Austin: Hold That Bus!

New labor deal proposed for Cap Metro waits for willing riders

"...the agency's outsourcing that has undermined wages and threatened union jobs and in return create a "meet and confer"..."

April 6, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

"...it can provide valid scientific arguments to the contrary. State Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, described the ruling as "further..."

April 6, 2007 News Feature

On the Lege: A $156 Million Disaster

The Accenture scheme blows up in the state's face

"...a delicate function of human services by replacing 2,900 state workers with privately operated call centers. The call centers..."

March 23, 2007 News Column

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