Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...Amalgamated Transit Union 1091, representing Capital Metro's bus drivers and maintenance workers, have voted overwhelmingly against accepting the final..."

Oct. 31, 2008 News Feature

Emerald City Blues

The parking-lot crisis

"...road leading to Emerald City Press, the hip walk-up and drive-through coffee shop that opened last March near the..."

Oct. 10, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...2006. On Aug. 19, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted 7-0 to deny clemency for Wood, which..."

Aug. 22, 2008 News Feature

Littlefield Clean Up Begins

Building owners come to voluntary agreement with TCEQ after March oil leak

"...tank under the back alley between the Littlefield Building and the Driskill Hotel got sluiced out by a broken..."

Aug. 18, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...more complicated. For example, hunting vests, children's novelty costumes, and adult diapers are tax-exempt for the three days, but..."

Aug. 15, 2008 News Feature

City Hall Hustle: Gas, Water, and Trash

There could be a higher utility bill in your future

"...resource-based geopolitical woes than that old 5 o'clock news standby, "Pain at the Pump"? Maybe John McCain's dim mantra,..."

Aug. 8, 2008 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Hays County Turns Blue – and Green

New county leadership is keen on environmental stewardship

"...County Judge Liz Sumter, Precinct 2 Commissioner Jeff Barton, and Precinct 4 Commissioner Karen Ford – dramatically changed the..."

Aug. 1, 2008 News Feature by Jacob Cottingham

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...block the release of what they argue are incomplete and potentially damaging criminal background-check reports. Texas chapter of the..."

July 18, 2008 News Feature

Hill Country Militia

Grassroots homesteaders tighten ranks to fight urban encroachment

"...At what point does dissatisfaction become dissent, and dissent a full-fledged movement?..."

June 27, 2008 News Feature by Greg Harman

Billboard Plant: Newest Travis Heights Resident?

Neighborhood questions what will go on in Reagan National Advertising's planned warehouse

"...boiling about where those billboards should be made. The land in question is a 2.3-acre wooded tract at the..."

June 13, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Bikes Missing From Domain's Mix

"...The Domain, the upscale Northwest Austin development known for posh emporiums like Neiman Marcus and Tiffany..."

May 23, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

City Opens Emergency Storm Shelter

Parque Zaragoza Recreation Center to take in citizens without electricity

"...The City of Austin and the American Red Cross are opening a shelter at..."

May 15, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Cool Austin, Cool Planet

This Earth Day, the ambitious Austin Climate Protection Plan celebrates a first year of slow, quiet, but impressive progress

"...year – do you know where your Austin Climate Protection Plan is?..."

April 18, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Who's Responsible for the Littlefield Spill?

City and state hunting through archives to work out who will foot bill

"...Creek. But now, in 2008, the city of Austin and the Texas Com­mission on Environmental Quality are hunting through..."

March 28, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

"...to see each other coming out of their homes, standing in line on a chilly Tuesday evening, talking, arguing,..."

March 14, 2008 News Feature

To Opt, or Not?

How one neighborhood-planning team carefully weighed VMU's power to change its surroundings

"...an early VMU hotbed. According to George Zapalac of Watershed Protection and Development Review, of the nine VMU projects..."

Feb. 1, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Council Passes Ordinance to Lower Race Costs

City will charge 5K and 10K races flat fees for traffic-control plans and barricading

"...ordinance passed by council last Thursday will charge 5K and 10K races flat fees for traffic-control plans and barricading...."

Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature by Laurel Chesky

The Insiders

Meet City Hall's local candidates for city manager

"...three-ring binder" stuffed with names of new city manager candidates from across the nation. Once council settles on the..."

Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Wal-Mart Case Could Take Several Weeks to Decide

Complexity of Wal-Mart case, not to mention Thanksgiving, could delay judge's decision

"...city legal codes, methods of tree preservation, traffic-impact analyses, and especially flood-drainage engineering, defense attorney Casey Dobson began his..."

Nov. 23, 2007 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Is RG4N in Trouble?

Testimony seemed to go poorly for anti-Wal-Mart forces Wednesday.

"...tomorrow morning I’ll get an earful from RG4N’s lawyers and/or spokesperson Jason Meeker telling me exactly why I’m wrong...."

Nov. 14, 2007 News Post by Lee Nichols

Beside the Point

Council on deck to approve slip-n-slide water deal with LCRA

"...platform afforded me. Not that markets rise, chests heave, and women swoon over my unyielding column inches, but still:..."

Nov. 9, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Watershed Redo

How redevelopment can save the springs ... or not

"...– the continued commercial pollution of our Barton Springs Watershed creeks as well as the Edwards Aquifer, a source..."

Nov. 2, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Naked City

"...find a site to replace its northeast Travis County landfill Headlines..."

Nov. 2, 2007 News Feature

Clear-Cutting Austin

Rapid growth laying waste to city's urban forest

"...a couple this spring – both of the literal and metaphorical sort...."

Sept. 21, 2007 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Look Who's Talking About the Budget

Council focuses on utilities slice of budget pie

"...biggest slices of the pie: utilities like Austin Energy and the Water Utility and infrastructural slices of the General..."

Aug. 31, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar

City Council Notebook

What's happening this week in Council chambers?

"...three Austin Clean Water Program repair programs. Item 28: And the motherload – another $27 million (with a million-plus..."

Aug. 29, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Beside the Point

Preternaturally talented rogue city manager tries escaping 'The Company' before it does her in

"...With all the pirates, green ogres, and spiders having vacated the neighborhood septuplex, we've entered the..."

Aug. 17, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Developing Stories: Counting Cars and Fears

Officials say their hands are tied at Northcross – but is that true?

"...in Austin? Will our elected representatives – the mayor and City Council members – stand up for their convictions..."

June 8, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories

Traffic, bullshit, Suttle, and Town Lake

"...traffic-impact analysis from Wal-Mart for the planned Northcross Mall redevelopment – notes that another deal in progress nearby would..."

June 1, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

AMD Not So Clean?

Sediment-laden runoff spotted flowing from Southwest Austin construction site of company's controversial Lone Star campus

"...notice of noncompliance for "failure to provide adequate erosion and sedimentation controls." Officials from the city's Watershed Protection and..."

April 6, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

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