Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...So far, the city has filed contracts for 17 tracts with title companies, the city's Real..."

May 22, 1998 News Feature

Who's Minding the Clinics?

City/County Divided on Public Health

"...outlying city residents will be diminished if Travis County contracts with a private HMO to manage its public health..."

May 1, 1998 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

What a Dump

What Does Gov. Bush Have Buried in West Texas?

"...needed to go full-speed ahead in search of DOE contracts...."

March 13, 1998 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

Parallel Universe

Ruben Ramos: El Gato Negro's

"...the band got burned. "I didn't know anything about contracts," he says. "Now, it's `This is what we charge;..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Hand-to-Mouthville

Health and Legal Services for Musicians

"...an independent film. Dirt poor and inexperienced with legal contracts, Crowley was admittedly in need...."

Nov. 28, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Articulations

Fear & Loathing in Austin

"...Maybe it's all the hoops through which the Cultural Contracts process requires applicants to jump; maybe it's the competition..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Breaking Away

Austin's Newest Bike Plan May Finally Pull Ahead

"...money flows, was unable to confirm all of its contracts with the ATS before the last fiscal year expired..."

Oct. 17, 1997 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

New Old Hands at Smbr

"...must oversee minority certification and compliance issues for city contracts totalling hundreds of millions of dollars (the City of..."

Sept. 19, 1997 News Feature

Chasing Gary

To Annex or Not to Annex

"...1984, when the city signed the municipal utility district contracts to extend water and wastewater service to the development...."

Sept. 19, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Articulations

Paloheimo Heads West

"...F@HPT business office, and rehearsal space); negotiating and executing contracts for facilities rental, staff and artists, co-productions, sponsored projects,..."

July 18, 1997 Arts Column by Robert Faires

The Tools of the Trade

Southwest Texas State's Jazz Program

"...a prestigious competition in which the finalists receive recording contracts and the winners large sums of money (this year's..."

June 13, 1997 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Banking on Amtrak

Kay Bailey Hutchison's Been Workin' on the Railroad

"...are rarely shut down for inclement weather. Under new contracts with carriers like Federal Express, Amtrak hopes to make..."

June 13, 1997 News Column by Brett Holloway-Reeves

BloodSport

Place 6 Goes for the Jugular

"...Lewis camp knows of at least two other city contracts which have benefited Mitchell's firm...."

May 30, 1997 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

1% for Soul

Weighing the Costs of the Art in Public Places Program

"...selection panels. Peters is now working with 20 active contracts, and three or four more are about to go..."

March 7, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Money Worries

Austin's AIDS Funding Is Decent, For Now

"...June 1992. Most of the money is allocated through contracts with service providers. Because the lengths and start times..."

Sept. 27, 1996 News Feature by Geoff Mulvihill

Pushing Priorities

Councilmembers Lay Down Their Cards

"...and for the horticulture unit, and to put cultural contracts administration funding back into the department's budget instead of..."

Sept. 6, 1996 News Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

AISD Notebook

"...Trustees did not consider a plan to approve new contracts with any of the district's health insurance providers --..."

June 28, 1996 News Feature

How $50,000 Is Shaking Up Austin's Black Artists Buried Treasure

"...pointing out that only 2.8% of the city's cultural contracts were being awarded to African-American artists. Though some arts..."

Feb. 23, 1996 Arts Feature by Danielle McClelland

Life on the 38th Parallel

GAINing Ground

"...mid-December Mitchell requested a departmental review of all city contracts with GAIN. Mitchell also asked Cook for all the..."

Jan. 12, 1996 News Feature

The ARA Clubhouse

Mitchell's Very Exclusive Board

"...reps were appointed, allow the board to award consulting contracts to its own members. In addition, the authority can..."

Dec. 22, 1995 News Column

Council Watch

Clothes, Water Quality, and Entertainment

"...as a subcontractor by companies hoping to secure city contracts. On at least two occasions, the attempts have paid..."

Sept. 1, 1995 News Column

Cash From Chaos

Reissue Issues

"...what it gets back down to is what kinda contracts were in place when the album was originally put..."

July 28, 1995 Music Feature

Educators Hate It, So Why Is Texas Keeping the STAAR Test Alive?

Behind efforts to eliminate the state test that stresses kids out and shuts schools down

"...company to write the test – the agency signed contracts worth almost $400 million to revamp the test in..."

May 23, 2025 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Fearing State Takeover, Austin ISD Plans to Replace Middle School Teachers

New staff planned for three poor-performance schools

"...we still have jobs – the people with three-year contracts, do we still have jobs here or at another..."

May 16, 2025 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

City Council Contemplates $100 Million Homeless Spending Plan

About half would be to maintain current levels of service

"...300-bed Marshalling Yard Emergency Shelter and $2 million for contracts with organizations that run street outreach initiatives). It would..."

May 2, 2025 News Feature by Austin Sanders

The City Budget Deficit Is Finally Here

Rising costs, declining revenues to blame

"...medics and firefighters will also begin negotiating new labor contracts with the city soon, and while they are unlikely..."

April 18, 2025 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Texas DOGE Committee Looks to Form $88M State Cybersecurity Agency

Cyber Command would dramatically expand spending on cybersecurity

"...of that money (about $190 million) would go toward contracts to private companies, the Legislative Budget Board found. UT..."

March 28, 2025 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

MAGA Moms and the Republican Resistance to School Vouchers

Make education public again

"...local school officials, to decide which companies get the contracts. They fear they will go to businesses connected to..."

March 21, 2025 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Musk’s unconstitutional “Department of Government Efficiency” had terminated 89 contracts and 29 grants at the Education Department that it..."

Feb. 14, 2025 News Feature

Opinion: Fighting for Diversity in the Face of New Challenges

A doctoral student and NIH-funded scholar addresses the devastating implications of Trump’s recent executive order to dismantle DEI initiatives

"...affects Chief Diversity Officer positions, equity-related plans, grants, and contracts within the Department of Health and Human Services, including..."

Feb. 7, 2025 Column by Obi Onyegesi

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