Lee Leffingwell: 'Think Long-Range'

The incumbent mayor defends his record

"...we have in place right now are firm water contracts for 325,000 acre-feet per year, that's out of the..."

April 27, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

TDH: 8/16/11

Wind power, Downtown parking debate and other renewable resources

"...Items 2, 3: Two large renewable energy contracts from Austin Energy. The first contracts with Palo Alto’s..."

Aug. 16, 2011 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Point Austin: No Choice

When bosses say their hands are tied, handcuffs follow

"...outsource to private contractors) all of its current labor contracts. That includes the StarTran agency contract, which until now..."

July 1, 2011 News Column by Michael King

Emergency! Emergency!

Why rush Formula One?

"...the Legislature, are we really still talking about approving contracts with Formula One and with the state comptroller on..."

June 24, 2011 News Feature by Nick Barbaro

City Hall Hustle: Trimming Tax Breaks and Tweaking Services

Council follows the money – what little there is

"...drastic changes to the suite of city-funded social service contracts...."

May 13, 2011 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Public Ed's Future Hangs in Balance

It's Teacher Appreciation Week, but you'd never know it at the Lege

"...adding an extra year to the length of probationary contracts for new teachers, pushing them to four years and..."

May 6, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Final Blow: AISD Approves Job Cuts

Days numbered for hundreds of teachers, staff

"...end of the current school year: one letting current contracts expire without renewal, a second terminating existing contracts, and..."

April 1, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Daily Hustle: 6/10/10 (Updated x 2)

Water Treatment Plant No. 4 dominates low impact agenda

"...that would dominate the morning: Items 5 and 10, contracts for Water Treatment Plant No. 4..."

June 10, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

The Four Horsemen of the Deficit

Examining the new House committees on state spending

"...she warned that the bundling inherent in big state contracts "highly limits the opportunities for small businesses that are..."

Jan. 13, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Fam Planning for County Uninsured Up for Vote

Senate dumps abortion-care coverage ban amendment, but what about Austin?

"...– Thursday, Dec. 10 – whether to continue funding contracts for reproductive health care, including abortion care, that moved..."

Dec. 9, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond

"...announced a plan to increase the number of construction contracts awarded to local firms, keeping more money in the..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature

Q&A: Austin’s Coastal Neighbors

How Galveston looks to its past to prepare for its future – and what that means for Austin

"...month we meet, and we review the city's preconditioned contracts, which become very important, and those were put in..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Sara Hensley Turns Over a New Leaf

The new PARD director has big ideas – to realize them, she'll have to raise big bucks

"...at every single level, with responsive information on personnel, contracts, the budget." Previously, Parks Board members had tried but..."

July 24, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Lee & Carole & Brewster & All of Us ...

Five candidates for mayor jockey to be first among equals

"..."local preferences" distinction at City Council: steering more city contracts to local businesses and offering local firms the chance..."

May 1, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Point Austin: Removing the Mask

Hard times reveal the way things actually work

"...I'm all for the sacredness of contracts and the rule of law. But I'm also curious..."

March 20, 2009 News Column by Michael King

City Hall Hustle: Ocean's Seven

When the joint is hoppin', the cool cats and kitties come knockin'

"...dais. He was there to oversee ratification of city contracts with the police and EMS departments. While calling the..."

Oct. 3, 2008 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Sunset Staff: Scrap TTC, Overhaul TxDoT

Legislature's Sunset Commission staff make their sweeping recommendations for state transportation agencies

"...TxDOT’s contracting practices by authorizing the use of design-build contracts for traditionally funded highway projects and removing requirements to..."

June 3, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

"...to the list of states that have pulled their contracts with Accenture for poor performance. The private firm's nightmarish..."

March 16, 2007 News Feature

Who's Paying for LCRA Growth?

The LCRA’s wholesale customers are asking tough questions about the agency’s expensive expansion

"...calling on its wholesale electric customers to extend their contracts through 2041. The existing contracts don't expire until 2016,..."

Oct. 6, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...SBA never said it had awarded $25 billion in contracts to small business. It said that was the figure..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Column

Saying It Over and Over Again Doesn't Make It True

"...SBA never said it had awarded $25 billion in contracts to small business. It said that was the figure..."

Aug. 15, 2006 Postmarks

The Hightower Report

'If an ordinary American did to a 7-Eleven what Halliburton routinely does to taxpayers, that poor soul would be doing 25-to-life in state prison'; Domestic oppression in the air?

"...its despicable, shoddy, and criminal record of performance on contracts it gets from the government. Its rip-offs total hundreds..."

Nov. 4, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

Add-Backs to Cut City Services

"...Services $2.14 millionMunicipal Court: $337,067 for clerks, social service contracts, and juvenile docket pilot program..."

Aug. 5, 2005 News Feature

The Hightower Report

All-American Spam adopts an English accent; and big airlines stiff their workers

"...employees – letting CEOs simply walk away from binding contracts on wages, health care, and pensions...."

Dec. 3, 2004 News Column by Jim Hightower

Naked City

A pivotal hearing in the sandwich chain's Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding

"...seeks the court's permission to cancel a bevy of contracts the company holds with third-party area developers, who are..."

Sept. 10, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Change in the Weather

A different kind of summer for the city arts funding process

"...protracted string of blistering attacks on the city's Cultural Contracts program. In years past, the panels evaluating applicants for..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...gets the $2.2 billion, who gets the long-term management contracts, and where the collected tolls go...."

May 28, 2004 Column

It's a Dirty Job ...

New arts tsar Vincent Kitch rolls up his sleeves to give Austin arts funding a clean start

"...Kitch has undertaken the cleaning up of the Cultural Contracts Program, spending the past five months – his first..."

April 16, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Feedback of a Different Kind

At last week's arts funding forum, artists gave city officials an earful – but not what they expected

"...process. That's a rather radical change for Austin's Cultural Contracts program, which for decades inspired chiefly heated complaints and..."

March 12, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Mutual Interests

Military might makes investments right for teachers and state employees in Texas.

"...now, benefiting directly from a slew of federal defense-related contracts, as President George W. Bush's "War on Terror" has..."

Dec. 19, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

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