Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...that's small change compared to the $1.4 million DeLay's defense fund has taken from Republican supporters and political action..."

Nov. 4, 2005 News Feature

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...and the city of Austin for its public education projects. – Rachel Proctor May..."

Sept. 16, 2005 News Feature

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Our readers talk back.

"...[Jordan Smith responds: According to information provided to the defense by James Allridge's family, he and Ronald were forbidden..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Column

City Water Tunnel #3

If the Department of Environmental Protection hired someone to explain New York's City Water Tunnel #3, the largest non-defense public works project in the Western Hemisphere, that someone couldn't do a better job than performer Marty Pottenger, who delivers the truth of the project, as plain and raw as the earth that's being tunneled, as bright and ragged as the people tunneling.

"...About what it's like to work on the largest non-defense public works project in the Western Hemisphere. About what..."

March 8, 2002 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

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Our readers talk back.

"...are Enron's executives, who conned investors and their own workers by inflating their profits with hot air and creative..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Column

Money, It's a Gas

Economics, schmeconomics: Chronicle reviewer Roger Gathman compiles the latest books about the (almost) first commodity, money.

"...of saying: underpaid, overworked, and permanently cowed), and "knowledge workers," which include software engineers, CEOs, and -- surprise surprise..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Wallet and Spirit

Sickbed Fortune

"...however, the business magnates merely exchanged plaintiff money for defense money. They helped elect judges -- and later legislators..."

Jan. 29, 1999 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

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Environs Observer

"...2222 and 360. If we add this development to projects already approved along this stretch, the developers' own estimates..."

July 25, 1997 Column

Over a Troubled Bridge

Neighborhoods Battle Plan to Widen Lamar Bridge

"...engineers' arguments as Orwellian logic based on self-fulfilling traffic projection models left over from the glory days of the..."

Oct. 11, 1996 News Feature

Fall Movie Round-Up

Sneaking Into Autumn

"...In his first film project since Defending Your Life, Albert Brooks casts himself as..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Public Notice

Tears From Heaven

"...Notice" extend deepest sympathies to the family, friends, and co-workers of Pamela S. Lychner (37) who perished along with..."

July 26, 1996 Column by Kate X Messer

Spanked All Over

Top Ten Environmental Stories of 1995

"...cancelled$100 million in insurance coverage it held on the project. Freeport announced it will fight the cancellation and has..."

Jan. 5, 1996 News Feature

Opinion: Time to Look in the Mirror on Housing

Builder David Whitworth asks, is protecting single family zoning a Republican or Democrat issue?

"...our council members, it is the same position. In defense of our council members, they do support subsidized housing,..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Column by David Whitworth

How to Jail the Poor

Travis County tries to fix its Driving While License Invalid issue

"...serious sex cases – second attorneys, investigators, and social workers," she elaborated to me in June. "And we're going..."

Sept. 21, 2018 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

A Nightmare for DREAMers

Ending DACA affects an estimated 124,000 Texans

"...from the Equal Justice Center and Texas Civil Rights Project, to pressure Congress into crafting a workable solution. A..."

Sept. 29, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

News Roundup: Lawsuits, Laws, and Plea Bargains

Brian Rodgers vs. COA, Abbott vs. women's rights, etc.

"...Downtown Austin Alliance concerning last year’s defeated urban rail project; 2) records concerning the inception and development of the..."

June 15, 2015 News Post by News Staff

Playback: Charlie Pierce Burns It Down

Charlie Pierce, the Gibby Haynes of piano, speaks out; Sweet Spirit serenades Spoon in a tour diary excerpt; and Phil Anselmo says maybe next year for a Housecore Horror ATX return

"...bars, explained playing "Tollbooth I Love You" with highway workers, and revealed Britt Daniel's backstage juice recipe. Her recap..."

May 29, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

News Roundup: Marriage (In)equality, Buehler, and the Mayor

Paxton vs. true love; Buehler civil suit dismissed; and more

"...• The Fight for Marriage (In)Equality: Attorney General Ken..."

Feb. 23, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Respublica

"...AIR, & WATER CONCERT/SILENT AUCTION benefits the Green Corn Project, the Colorado River Foundation, and Environment Texas. 4-8pm. Patagonia,..."

Jan. 30, 2009 News Feature

'Chronicle' Endorsements

May 10 municipal elections

"...a more proactive council could have derailed the Wal-Mart project. But as a group we are unpersuaded that Leffingwell..."

May 9, 2008 News Feature by The Chronicle Editorial Board

'Chronicle' Endorsements

May 10 municipal elections

"...a more proactive council could have derailed the Wal-Mart project. But as a group we are unpersuaded that Leffingwell..."

April 25, 2008 News Feature by The Chronicle Editorial Board

Naked City

"...accessible entrances, and remove the long-accumulating gravel bar. Longer-term projects include possibly building a new south bathhouse, redesigning both..."

March 28, 2008 News Feature

Top 10 State stories

Molly, Please Come Back, We Need You!

"...Nowhere Perry's imperially ambitious but publicly reviled Trans-Texas Corridor project got its chain yanked, as lawmakers responded to citizen..."

Jan. 4, 2008 News Feature by Amy Smith

Page Two: Seasons Change, and So Do We

Our sports blog commences, 'SXSW Presents' continues, and Priest unmasks the past

"...(An Aside: In the Chronicle's defense, I'd like to point out that we are not..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Column by Louis Black

UT Idles on Los Alamos

Nuke-lab bid cools down, but not entirely

"...With defense behemoth Lockheed Martin balking at the incredible effort required..."

Sept. 24, 2004 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Los Alamos Chain Reaction

UT's bid to take over Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory bombs with peace activists

"...when it was created as part of the Manhattan Project. In recent years the laboratory has suffered from a..."

July 23, 2004 News Feature by Felix Gillette

The Military-Petroleum Complex

The Second Iraq War and the cronies of state capitalism

"...days after Bush Senior spoke to the refiners, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz testified before Congress about the rapidly..."

June 18, 2004 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Capitol Chronicle

Political commentary on the career of Henry B. Gonzalez

"...yes, quixotic -- effort to save the once-model housing project doomed by its proximity to prime downtown real estate...."

Dec. 8, 2000 News Column by Michael King

Aleshire the Agitator

Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Limelight

"...feeling that Aleshire engenders - not just among county workers, but among a cadre of local political players. But..."

Aug. 28, 1998 News Feature by Robert Bryce

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Don't Dissolve District

"...on the front line of environmental protection: addressing construction projects, new subdivisions, industrial uses, agriculture needs, residential wells, and..."

May 1, 1998 Column

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