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Performer Matches: Knife in the Water, Water the Dog
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Aug. 30, 2012 News Post by Amy Smith
With Water Plan Approved, Council Turns to Wells
Council may require city registration of wells
"...City Council last week signed off on a new water management plan and revisions to the city's water code...."
Aug. 24, 2012 News Feature by Amy Smith
Council: Of Money and Weirdness
City Council hits its late-summer budgetary stride
"...$30.0 million: Open Space and Watershed Protection..."
Aug. 24, 2012 News Feature by Michael King
Point Austin: Big Numbers
A thumbnail look at the proposed 2012-13 city budget
"...57% ($1.8 billion) of the city's income comes from utility charges (most of which stay in utility operations), the..."
Aug. 24, 2012 News Column by Michael King
Then There's This: The Urge To Conserve
Council postpones action on drought contingency plan
"...no getting around it – Austin residents have embraced water conservation as a way of life, evidenced by the..."
Aug. 10, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith
The Battle for Barton Springs: A Brief Timeline
Twenty years of progress
"...highway construction and unregulated development in the Barton Creek watershed and the recharge zones of the Edwards Aquifer begin..."
Aug. 3, 2012 News Feature by Michael King
More On Regulating Private Water Wells?
"...a flier from a company offering to drill a water well on my Central Austin property for $5.95 per..."
Aug. 1, 2012 Postmarks
Then There's This: No Drought Here
So what if the lakes are half full – it rained, didn't it?
"...ago, during a City Council work session on Austin Water Utility's budget outlook, Mayor Lee Leffingwell raised the issue..."
July 27, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith
No Doldrums Here: Council Rumbles Into August
Some 120 items bring City Council back in full force
"...matters postponed from last month. For starters, the Austin Water Utility will be bringing forward its conservation and management..."
July 27, 2012 News Feature by Michael King
Total Utility
The pain and politics of raising electric rates as a means of controlling our destiny
"...a rate hike of the sort suggested by the utility would bury them. Austin Independent School District Superintendent Meria..."
June 15, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin
The Common Law: Austin Summer Water Restrictions
"...garden. But my neighbor told me that Austin imposes water restrictions and that I'm watering too much. Are there..."
June 8, 2012 Column by Luke Ellis
Then There's This: Save the Trees!
Groups aim to spare seven Downtown trees
"...years to transform the old site of the Green Water Treatment Plant into a $500 million development of housing,..."
June 1, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith
May 29 is Primary Day
Early voting rises late in Travis County before election day
"...citizenship papers or passport, a copy of a current utility bill, bank statement or other official document that shows..."
May 28, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Headlines
"...work session, focusing on these often controversial departments: Austin Water Utility, Austin Energy, and Economic Growth and Redevelopment Services...."
May 11, 2012 News Feature
Brigid Shea: 'A Proven Leader'
Brigid Shea sits down for a Q&A on a wide range of city topics
"...When I first worked on the Austin Clean Water project, we put together a bid and as we..."
April 27, 2012 News Feature by Amy Smith
May 12 Municipal Election: The 'Chronicle' Endorsements
"...From water conservation and redevelopment protections to regulatory protections like the..."
April 27, 2012 News Feature
It's Your City Council!
Brigid Shea and Clay Dafoe vs. Lee Leffingwell
"...major environmental initiatives on his watch: his work on water conservation, the renewable energy generation plan, initiating single-stream recycling,..."
April 13, 2012 News Feature by Michael King
It's Your City Council!
Laura Pressley vs. Mike Martinez
"...her health problems to switching from Austin's fluoridated tap water. (Her company, Pure Rain, imports bottled rainwater from Oregon.)..."
April 13, 2012 News Feature by Michael King
Shea's Contracts at Issue
Questions raised about candidate Brigid Shea's work as consultant and lobbyist
"...to construct (or plan) one version of the city's Water Treatment Plant No. 4 project. Shea fired back an..."
April 6, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin
West Lake Waterworks
City to offer $16 million for control of its wastewater system
"...Dave Claunch to try and wrest control of its wastewater system from the Lower Colorado River Authority. The city..."
April 6, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin
Render Unto Apple
Approval of the Green Water Treatment Plant master plan development is among next week's council agenda items
"...City Council's April 5 agenda (only a utility rate work session this week) looks a little less..."
March 30, 2012 News Feature by Michael King
How Many Apples for $8.6 million?
Full week's work for City Council, including Apple incentives
"...Hall is making early dinner plans. There's a Green Water Treatment Plant redevelopment briefing in the morning that could..."
March 23, 2012 News Feature by Michael King
Inside Out ... Outside In
The growing influence of fringe movements on City Hall reflects either a healthy populism or the implosion of civic engagement
"...whether the city should put a warning label on utility bills alerting residents that fluoride had been added to..."
March 2, 2012 News Feature by Josh Rosenblatt
Then There's This: Utilities or Food?
The poor get poorer as electric and water rates rise
"...basic needs includes paying the household bills to keep water and electricity working. Even as the city continues to..."
Feb. 24, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith
Headlines
"...a new report, "Hard To Swallow," which shows Austin's water costs are higher than in any other large city..."
Feb. 17, 2012 News Feature
Urban Forest Being Stripped Bare
"...to support? Better invest in rain barrels, gutters, and water-conservation gardens. Read the Texas Water Development Board’s "Rainwater Harvesting..."
Feb. 16, 2012 Postmarks
Energy Proposal 'Offensive and Absurd'
"...this one would set a terrible precedent. No municipal utility in Texas offers a discount for out-of-city electric customers...."
Feb. 5, 2012 Postmarks
Then There's This: Away We Go
Who does Austin want to lead the way
"...a turn for the worse over Leffingwell's support of Water Treatment Plant No. 4, and the city's convoluted business..."
Feb. 3, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith
Cole Hosts AE Forum at ACC
Panel discusses rate proposal, consequences, possible alternatives
"...at its peak) of the importance of a public utility, and the potential loss of the municipal utility if..."
Jan. 28, 2012 News Post by Michael King
AE Rate Gate
Shockingly, nobody wants to pay more for electricity
"...energy with cutting-edge technology. Just an all-around good-guy city utility that zipped along for 17 years without a rate..."
Jan. 13, 2012 News Post by Amy Smith
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