City Begins Budget Cut-and-Paste

We're $68 million in the hole. What's council going to do about it?

"...It wasn't all a bad dream: The city of Austin really is facing a $68 million budget..."

May 17, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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Problems Down the Pipeline

"...Last week, Longhorn Partners Pipeline LP shrugged off the city of Austin's refusal to issue the company a permit..."

Feb. 8, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

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"...this week, Beverly Griffith became the first of three City Council members to announce she has reached the halfway..."

Jan. 18, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

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The LCRA has been a welcoming refuge for former city officials.

"...Top-level city officials rarely disappear after retirement; they merely travel the..."

Jan. 11, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

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"...After a long search, the city has finally narrowed the field of candidates for its..."

Nov. 9, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

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"...Former City Council Member Eric Mitchell filed to run for mayor..."

Oct. 12, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

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"...Last week, "Naked City" reported that a community meeting on Austin's proposed Empowerment..."

Oct. 5, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

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A roundup of local news, rumors, and factoids from around Austin

"...The commission found that the facilities were all over capacity -- numerous prisoners were found sleeping on the floors..."

Aug. 10, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

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The ban on big events at Auditorium Shores turns out to be just temporary.

"...Contrary to the report in last week's "Naked City" ("Stevie Ray in Solitary?"), the city of Austin now..."

Aug. 10, 2001 News Feature by Lee Nichols

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Council Member Jackie Goodman believes ZAP is the answer to Planning Commission gridlock.

"...chilled syrup, is it wise to expand the processing capacity of one of the city's most powerful citizen boards..."

June 8, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

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Local news this week in Austin.

"...to park downtown at lunchtime. There's a maze of city regulations to wander through, disparate neighborhood interests to corral,..."

May 11, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

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Council Watch

"...(aka SCIP II) housing project across 12th Street. The city now owns the building again, and as recently as..."

April 20, 2001 News Feature by Emily Pyle

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Local news this week in Austin, Texas.

"...8,000 revelers will descend on our already stuffed-to-the-gills central city, and that insipid slogan "Downtown Jam" will take on..."

March 2, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

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CSC now plans to sublet office space at new downtown headquarters

"...Back in those long-ago, flush days of 1999, the city gave Computer Sciences Corp. nearly everything it asked for,..."

Jan. 12, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

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Corporate luminaries in town for the Fortune 500 conference will be met by a bevy of protesters against the event.

"...known, but the costs and potential disruption to the city of Austin during the conference will be significant. For..."

Oct. 13, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

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Volente debates incorporation as a means of escaping Austin's extraterritorial jurisdiction, and its development rules.

"...next to an endangered species habitat, linked to the city by winding two-lane roads, the city is not likely..."

Sept. 22, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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Lumberman's Investment Corporation has offered a compromise to the city on its plans for the Sand Beach Reserve, located just north of Town Lake; the CityCouncil approves a $1.8 billion budget.

"...Council Member Griffith have been staging for months, the City Council voted down a proposal Tuesday which would have..."

Sept. 15, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

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Beverly Griffith and Raul Alvarez rain on the mayor’s bond parade by adding a few proposals of their own; Cedar Avenue settlement goes back into mediation.

"...Thursday about what good business it is for the city to have good parks, and soccer fans bemoaned the..."

Aug. 11, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

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Council comes back after a month's hiatus with a number of potentially divisive issues on its plate.

"...oh, when will the 7-0 honeymoon end? That's what City Hall watchers were starting to wonder, after being lulled..."

Aug. 4, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

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The tragic shooting of Austin Parks Police officer William Jones highlights deficiencies in pay and staffing levels in the parks police department.

"...face every day. It's also a reminder that the city's long-neglected park policemen deserve to be paid and treated..."

June 2, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

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Computer Sciences Corporation prepares to sign a contract with the city to develop on three blocks of lakeside land.

"...Feb. 10, will come the official confirmation that the city has indeed contracted Computer Sciences Corporation. It's been nearly..."

Feb. 11, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

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The City Council considers ways to strengthen Austin's Minority- and Women-owned Business Enterprise Program, which awards contracts for city work to businesses owned by minorities and women.

"...of peace, love, and equity in the awarding of city contracts to minority- and women-owned businesses. But just in..."

Dec. 31, 1999 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

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City Manager Jesus Garza forms a top-level committee to oversee neighborhood services.

"...Okay, let's get this straight: Neighborhoods want city staff to be more responsive. They want faster service..."

Nov. 12, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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Licking the Platter Clean

"...lot when mid-September budget time rolls around on the city calendar...."

Sept. 17, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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Off the Desk:

"...it seems the whole thing now belongs to the city. In the weeks ahead, the coalition will take up..."

June 18, 1999 News Feature

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Off the Desk:

"...Rumors that the city's financial and administrative services director is on her way..."

June 4, 1999 News Feature

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Off the Desk:

"...Austin Business Journal Publisher Lisa Bormaster is Minneapolis-bound. American City Business Journals, which owns ABJ and a slew of..."

Oct. 31, 1997 News Feature

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Off the Desk:

"...staff, according to the terms of the recently passed city budget. But will there be enough officers to deal..."

Sept. 26, 1997 News Feature

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Off the Desk

"...off their peach. The final 5-2 vote on the city budget Wednesday began with rumblings of ranks-breaking on Monday,..."

Sept. 19, 1997 News Feature

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Off the Desk:

"...weeks of low-level conflict over the future of the city's 12,000-acre wildlife preserve system, City Manager Jesus Garza has..."

July 25, 1997 News Feature

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