T. Don Hutto Detention Center Still Open

Controversial private prison contracts directly with ICE to house women seeking asylum

"...a request for proposals, as is standard with federal contracts. There is also no clarity on the length of..."

March 1, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

All This and Zoning Too

Marathon City Council meeting zones through lengthy agenda

"...about everything else: a moratorium on short-term rentals, new contracts for major Austin Energy customers, an initiative to help..."

Nov. 13, 2015 News Post by Michael King

TDH: 9/14/11

Wind power contracts blow through council chambers

"...did find the time to approve several wind power contracts, which, if all adopted, will put the city in..."

Sept. 14, 2011 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Dingus Don't Like Craddick and ALEC

Craddick challenger lambasts speaker over "special interest" award.

"...makers, drug companies, and utilities ... looking for government contracts or for lax regulation."..."

July 31, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Thompson to Dukes: Facts on My Side

HD-46 challenger fires back at Dukes' family complaint.

"...forward to exploring Rep. Dukes's and Stacy Dukes-Rhone's alleged contracts and associations with numerous governmental entities around Austin," said..."

March 3, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Scaling the Pyramid

City moves to reprioritize social service programs in the new year

"...revamp of the process awarding the city's social service contracts – more than 60 separate funding agreements inked by..."

Oct. 15, 2010 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Money for Nothing

Millions of Williamson County taxpayer dollars pour into a contractor's pocket, and no one seems to know why.

"...in Williamson County: about the letting of government construction contracts; about changes to the state's Local Government Code affecting..."

Aug. 15, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

AISD's Underutilized Business

AISD weighs equity study to improve its limited program for minority- and women-owned firms

"...women- and minority-owned firms have been excluded from big contracts. It's a vicious circle: For decades, government entities in..."

May 24, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Forest for the Trees

The Austin Arts Commission has never been a model of bureaucratic efficiency, but this year it seems to have become a big cliché in action, a body so focused on procedure and minutiae and the concerns of the moment that it can't see the forest for the trees. It's compounding the problems in Austin's profoundly flawed public arts funding system and demonstrating just how poorly that process serves not only the city's artists but all its citizens.

"...potential conflicts with city policy and with the Cultural Contracts Program's own mission and goals. These broader concerns were..."

July 6, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Better Tomorrow

For years, the city of Austin's arts funding process has been mired in perpetual gloom, but with the city reviewing its Cultural Contracts Program, artists and arts companies talking with each other about collaborations and a shared vision of what the arts mean to Austin, there are glimmers of light on the city's arts funding horizon.

"...plain ill will have cast shadows over Austin's Cultural Contracts Program, leaving it lost in a midnight world...."

Oct. 11, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Paint By Numbers

Racial Divides in Austin's Public Arts Funding

"...here, five thousand dollars there -- through its Cultural Contracts program. Normally, this is chump change in the municipal..."

June 28, 1996 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect ...

Part One: The Artists' Application Process

"...30 minutes before the annual City of Austin Cultural Contracts applications are due. The artists gathered at Kinko's are..."

March 26, 1999 Arts Feature

Broken News

Times Warner's struggling news channel lashes out at defectors

"...lock its employees into lengthy (by any standard) three-year contracts, and why it has shown an unusual willingness to..."

July 14, 2000 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Going for Broke

Fruit Salad Days

"...have seemed like less-than-commercially-viable artists, they also offered simple contracts, dependable accounting, and the opportunity for musicians to buy..."

June 18, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Arts Commission's 1996-97 Recommendations

"...funding) will go to 23 of 25 applicants. Individual contracts range from $1,500, to $61,403 for Ballet Austin. Other..."

June 28, 1996 News Feature

City to Moriarty: Drop Dead

City declines allowing Bill Moriarty to return to former position with Austin Clean Water Program

"...former city environmental consultant Diane Hyatt, who lost her contracts with the ACWP when Futrell concluded that Moriar­ty and..."

Sept. 7, 2007 News Feature by Michael King

City Hall Hustle: Making Sausage Without a Map

Transparency's not what you see, but what you see through

"...the contentiousness of the topic: funding for social service contracts. Was this the latest example to add to the..."

July 9, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...to task for awarding billions and billions in federal contracts to major American corporations. Didn't happen. He either totally..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Column

Washington Against Hightower

"...to task for awarding billions and billions in federal contracts to major American corporations. Didn't happen. He either totally..."

Aug. 8, 2006 Postmarks

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

Even if a current criminal probe turns up no fire, Austin's minority contracting program has never lacked for smoke and heat.

"...minorities or women. It requires that bidders on city contracts make certain, carefully defined, good-faith efforts to secure M/WBE..."

Dec. 6, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

A Bad Year Gets Worse

The Austin Arts Commission has found itself stewing in a bubbling gumbo of controversies this year, and lately that gumbo has been getting hotter and hotter, with resignations from the Commission, an investigation by the Texas Commission on the Arts, and a call for reforms by a City Council member.

"...of Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks over a new Cultural Contracts funding guideline, then stood by its decision even when..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Work for Hire

The RIAA amends a copyright law that labels "sound recordings" as "work for hire" thus robbing most musicians of right to their masters.

"...the Artists' Coalition and has negotiated hundreds of recording contracts for the likes of Joni Mitchell, Sheryl Crow, and..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Cash Cows

The Huddled Masses

"...the agency prioritizes using jails that already have existing contracts with other Department of Justice agencies, such as the..."

Dec. 18, 1998 News Feature by Lisa Tozzi

Front Steps Slips and Falls

As the nonprofit that runs the ARCH falls apart, the city's rush to replace it frustrates providers

"...learned that the city of Austin would cancel all contracts with the nonprofit in a number of ways. None..."

July 29, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

City Ends Contract With Operator of Austin's Downtown Homeless Shelter

Front Steps has run the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless since 2004

"...week to identify organizations that can take on the contracts currently held by Front Steps, which include operations at..."

July 22, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Actors' Inequity

The Cost of Art IV: The artists onstage in Austin aren't just not paid what they're worth, many aren't paid at all

"...Equity stage companies paying actors weekly salaries under union contracts with benefits...."

Jan. 23, 2015 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Austin ISD Considers Teacher Job Security

Trustees vote tonight on returning to three year contracts

"...passed through their probationary period were on three year contracts. Then in March of that year the district declared..."

Feb. 24, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Waste Wars

City Tries to Seal Best Deal for Trash and Recycling

"...in the Solid Waste Services Department are negotiating 30-year-long contracts for recycling and waste disposal that could eventually cost..."

Dec. 26, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Cracks in the System

Is the City's Minority Procurement Process Up to Par?

"...Carol Hadnot, a minority procurement consultant, says African Americans..."

Sept. 19, 1997 News Feature by Chris Walters

Cultural Arts Program

Tracking the recent history and redevelopment of Austin's Cultural Arts Program

"...April 2001: Cultural Contracts Program staff uses a new program guideline to declare..."

April 16, 2004 Arts Feature

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