Austin's Growing Pains

We’ve got “an affordability problem”

"...If it's spring – a bit early even for Austin, but the redbuds say yes – it's survey time,..."

March 3, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Point Austin: Let Us Begin

The transportation bond represents useful and necessary progress

"...Unlike seemingly every other Austinite, I don't profess to be a traffic engineer. I..."

Oct. 28, 2016 News Column by Michael King

Did the City Jump Into Bed With Taser Too Fast?

Lawsuit seeks to block body camera contract

"...is set in Travis County's 126th District Court, the city of Austin and anybody working under City Manager Marc..."

July 22, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Video: A Drive Through Austin – June 1996

A visiting Scot takes us back in time

"...to an exotic yet familiar time and place – Austin, 20 years ago. The video, uploaded by Austin attorney..."

June 6, 2016 News Post by Tucker Whatley

City Budget Preview Remains Strong, With Notes of Caution

Good times continue?

"...That's the extreme thumbnail version of the city budget forecast presentation delivered Wednesday morning by..."

April 29, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Point Austin: Growth Pays

Echoing anti-tax advocates, Statesman editors miss the way to true community investment

"...Zimmerman's proposal to slash the proposed wage increase for city employees, the Statesman editors dragged out the thoughtless cliche..."

Aug. 21, 2015 News Column by Michael King

Weird City Hip-Hop Live Shot: Phranchyze, Jean Grae, Homeboy Sandman

First-year fest sends home its vets with noodles for brains

"...Saturday, kicking off Weird City’s inaugural year in the company of veteran,..."

Sept. 28, 2014 Music Post by Nina Hernandez

City Plans '[re]Manufacture' for Landfill

City hopes to create jobs while moving Austin closer to its zero-waste goals

"...is another's treasure. With its new "eco-industrial park" south of the airport, Austin plans to apply that adage on..."

Aug. 8, 2014 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Point Austin: ... And Two Steps Back

Firefighters fulfill threat to contest DOJ decree

"...Having just labored through the pleadings filed by the Austin Firefighters Assoc­iation to the federal court considering the proposed..."

July 4, 2014 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: Clean Is as Clean Does

Austin's success against sealants starts a trend

"...Mayor Lee Lef­fing­well, there has been a dramatic decline of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the sediment of Lady Bird..."

June 20, 2014 News Column by Michael King

City’s SXSW Survey Finds Little Worth Noting

General questions by ACE staff lead to general answers

"...notable takeaway from Wednesday’s second public meeting by the city’s Austin Center for Events (ACE) staff, which presented results..."

May 29, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Kind Words About Austin Aquarium

"...to Gwen McKenna's letter in the Chronicle criticizing the Austin Aquarium [“Appalled at Aquarium,” Postmarks, Feb. 28]. I have..."

March 3, 2014 Postmarks

Then There's This: City May Buy Aquifer Land Slated for Sewage

Judge's order offers only clue that talks are in progress

"...be a happy ending to the otherwise grim prospect of a sewage treatment facility ending up on a 604-acre..."

Oct. 4, 2013 News Column by Amy Smith

Point Austin: The Reading Railroad

Mayor's search for rail funding earns cheap shot from 'Statesman'

"...The future of Austin as a city rests to a great degree..."

May 10, 2013 News Column by Michael King

City Looks to Outside Counsel

Repeal of land code 'not a black and white legal issue'

"...Outside legal counsel has been retained to help the City Council wade through a highly controversial staff proposal that..."

March 25, 2013 News Post by Amy Smith

State & City Redevelopment? Hold That Thought ...

The TFC wants to redevelop state land in Austin – Austin's not so sure

"...Considering the lousy history of collaboration between the city of Austin and the state..."

Dec. 7, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

City to Heyride: Not So Fast

Is this mobile ridesharing app in a legal gray area or openly violating the city's taxi franchise agreement?

"...Heyride was on the cover of The Austin Chronicle last week ("Going Places," Nov. 2012),..."

Nov. 30, 2012 News Feature by Dan Solomon

Council: Of Public Power and Inside Chess

Council takes up the MACC, TXI, etc.

"...This week's City Council subject most likely to generate public sparks is..."

Oct. 12, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

'Banned' Because of His Name

"...to your report about the judge's ruling against the city of Austin's attempt to "ban" protesters [“Judge: City of..."

Oct. 8, 2012 Postmarks

Point Austin: Chartering a New Course

A thumbnail portrait of the proposed City Charter propositions

"...There's This") takes a useful first look at the city's bond proposals, on what promises to be a very..."

Sept. 21, 2012 News Column by Michael King

Lawsuits Filed Against City, Cap 10K for ADA Violations

Parking spaces and annual race inaccessible to people in wheelchairs

"...Last week, to correspond with the 22nd anniversary of the signing into law of the Americans With Disabilities..."

Aug. 3, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Austin Rail Planning 'Off-Track' Again?

"...after the first “urban” passenger rail was proposed for Austin (presented to Austin City Council in 1973!), why is..."

May 30, 2012 Postmarks

Point Austin: Open Questions

Campaign questionnaires offer a window into the city's political obsessions

"...one curious conclusion one might come to by reading City Council campaign questionnaires, a preoccupation I pursued over the..."

April 13, 2012 News Column by Michael King

City Campaign Season Opens

A dozen Council candidates queue up for questions at the "Power Lunch"

"...The table couldn't have been much longer for the City Council candidates – mayoral, Place 2, Place 5, and..."

March 27, 2012 News Post by Michael King

Point Austin: A Taste for Apple

When the big corporate boys come calling, the city pays the fees

"...If you're the city of Austin, it would appear that $8.6 million is..."

March 23, 2012 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: Dick Brown's Hermit Crabs

The outcries of HURF should make Austinites hurl

"...It's not clear yet how the struggle over the Austin Energy rate changes will finally play out, but whatever..."

Feb. 24, 2012 News Column by Michael King

Grading the City's New Website: Incomplete

The city launches its new website, trailing bells, whistles, and bugs

"...Farewell, www.ci.austin.tx.us and www.cityofaustin.org. Hello, www.austintexas.gov. More than four years after..."

Feb. 10, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Then There's This... : Austin's Never-Ending Story

Deadline reporting on the city of reinvention

"...had been in squatter mode, occupying Michael King's "Point Austin" column space every other week. Alas, I am no..."

Jan. 20, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith

Occupy Austin, 2011

A movement in evolution

"...Since early October, a few days after the Austin wing of the Occupy Wall Street national movement got..."

Dec. 30, 2011 News Feature by Michael King

Cole Springs Defense of May Election

Supports turnout, but not at "expense of violating the Charter”

"...This week, we delved pretty deep into the question of moving municipal elections to November. It's a prospect the..."

Sept. 30, 2011 News Post by Wells Dunbar

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