Will D.A. Garza Be Removed From Office Over Handling of Drug Cases, Nonexistent Abortion Crimes?

Petitioner hopes so, legal experts say it’s unlikely

"...which elected prosecutors can be removed from office through civil trial – including “adoption or enforcement of a policy..."

April 26, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Texas’ Largest Independent Abortion Provider Needs Help Getting to New Mexico

They face a mess of restrictive laws and fake callers

"...up against Senate Bill 8's six-week ban and vigilante civil suits, already about a third of patients at Whole..."

July 22, 2022 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Spider House Saga Goes to Court

Judge hears motion to dismiss defamation lawsuit

"...Act, which protects those who exercise their First Amend­ment rights, such as freedom of speech, regarding "a matter of..."

March 1, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Spider House Sexual Misconduct Saga Goes to Court

Judge hears motion to dismiss co-owner's defamation suit

"...Act, which protects those who exercise their First Amendment rights, such as freedom of speech, regarding “a matter of..."

Feb. 22, 2019 News Post by Sarah Marloff

SXSW Adds Speakers, Films

Buzz Aldrin, Kesha, Cory Booker, Cecile Richards, and more

"...fairness, and decency. … At a time when human rights are front and center in the U.S. we think..."

Feb. 7, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Q&A: Gloria Steinem

Activist icon is the 2016 Liz Carpenter Series Lecturer on Wednesday

"...think it speaks to the power of protest and civil disruption, and how it can make a difference. You're..."

Sept. 12, 2016 Arts Post by Jessi Cape

Lights, Camera, aGLIFF!

Long-running film fest returns with something for everyone

"...the freedom to marry in the state of Vermont (civil unions in 2000; marriage equality in 2009). Learning from..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Screens Feature by Mary Tuma

37 Arrested at Occupy Austin

City rule change leads to nonviolent clash with occupiers

"...that have precipitated clashes with those in the Occupy Movement simply exercising their First Amendment rights. Now, he has..."

Oct. 30, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Gutbucket Politics

The deadly consequences of following Bush's instincts

"...from itself. All this was done while long-guaranteed citizens' rights were actually and defiantly willed away in another ritual..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Tom DeLay to Todd Baxter

Top 10 state stories

"...the 2002 corporate fundraising scandal. In a subplot, a civil trial judge ruled that DeLay's fundraising creature – Texans..."

Jan. 6, 2006 News Feature

An Austinite in Iraq

Local man describes the progress, failures, and dangers in Iraq after humanitarian work there

"...to regain control of their country, and the peace movement is struggling to understand how democracies can be coerced..."

April 1, 2005 News Feature by Jeff Tonn

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...surface water for their proposed developments, despite a regional movement to try to minimize growth in the area. Wednesday's..."

May 21, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Happenings

"...signed Defense of Marriage Act that withholds recognition of civil unions established in other states. Friday offers two event..."

June 6, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...planes, its eco-terrorism after the Gulf War, its grave human-rights record, etc...."

Sept. 27, 2002 Column

Naked City

Houston activist Ken Crowley is sentenced to six months in federal prison and $1,000 in fines for repeated civil disobedience at the School of the Americas.

"...in federal prison and $1,000 in fines for repeated civil disobedience at the school...."

July 19, 2002 News Feature by Joshua Fischer

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...pass Prop. 1, and help me build the independent movement...."

May 3, 2002 Column

The Hightower Lowdown

Resurrecting Cointelpro; The Cold Side of 'Workfare'

"...depths to which he's willing to submerge our Constitutional rights ... he plunges us into even lower levels of..."

Dec. 28, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

Ozone of His Own

Texas environmentalists wonder when George W. Bush will face up to the consequences of killing the Tejas emissions-reduction program.

"...Whitmire -- at least not in public. But the states'-rights position the governor took complemented Senator Jerry Patterson's comparison..."

Sept. 8, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose

Night of the Living BCCP, Part 37

Balcones Canyonlands Conservation Plan: Half a Loaf?

"...Opposition, however, continues to come from property rights advocates like (Field?) Marshall Kuykendall, who told the Travis..."

May 19, 1995 News Feature by Robert Bryce

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