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Home Is Where the Tax Credits Are

"...There are three water supply corporations in this general area. All have to cross I-35..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Column

Home-Grown Workers

Is Austin's Job Boom Trickling Down to the People?

"...When spokespersons for the microelectronic corporations are asked what commitments their companies have made to..."

March 27, 1998 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Targeting the Fat Cats

On Your Ballot: ALLC's Campaign Reform

"...limit non-Austin contributions to any candidate to $15,000, prevent corporations from influencing referenda items, and possibly embroil the city..."

Oct. 10, 1997 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Coca-Cola High School

Marketing at Westlake: It's the Deal Thing

"...events in Texas, has made sponsorship deals with several corporations including Pepsi, Gatorade, Dodge Trucks, and Sonic. And the..."

Aug. 22, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Un-FAIR Deal

Corporate Customers Demand Cheaper Energy

"...this mood of uncertainty are four of Austin's beloved corporations -- Advanced Micro Devices, IBM, Texas Instruments, and Motorola..."

Jan. 24, 1997 News Column by Alex de Marban

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...wrecking popular government in the United States. The big corporations and the centimillionaires and billionaires have taken control of..."

Nov. 29, 1996 News Feature

Money's Green, Too

The Nature Conservancy & Big Bidness Makes Cents

"...be seen right here in Austin, Bartlett insists, where corporations, governments, and environmental activists have cooperated to make this..."

Nov. 3, 1995 News Feature

Carpet Cowboys

The American dream crumbles in the Carpet Capitol of the World

"...mostly been snapped up by two or three large corporations, where much of the town is employed. The film..."

Nov. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Opinion: Patients Shouldn’t Be Charged More by Hospital-Owned Practices Than Physician-Owned Practices

An Austin physician urges Congress to act to ensure patients receive the same services for the same prices

"...health care is becoming increasingly dominated by fewer, larger corporations. Large hospitals and health systems are merging, and swallowing..."

Oct. 6, 2023 Column by Nancy Binford

BlackBerry

Rise and fall of the original smartphone as hilarious tech satire

"...quickly such projects spin out of control into boom-and-bust corporations...."

May 12, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

How a Small Town Has Fared as a Microchip Factory Brings in Billions

Has Taylor, TX, become Boomtown, TX?

"...ways resembles other diverse, lower-income areas in which major corporations have decided to build large facilities in recent years:..."

April 28, 2023 News Feature by Abe Asher

Bill That Would Likely Require Another Vote on Project Connect Moves Ahead

Acquiescing to a revote

"...Troxclair’s House Bill 3899 would not allow local government corporations, like the Austin Transit Partnership, to issue bonds paid..."

April 21, 2023 News Post by Benton Graham

Help the Houseless

"...Editor, My experience after eviction makes me realize housing corporations are concerned with only profit. Months before my eviction..."

March 22, 2023 Postmarks

The Territory

Inside the war to save the Amazon and its Indigenous peoples

"...to stave off the large number of farmers, settlers, corporations, and politicians who’ve got their eyes on this particular..."

Aug. 19, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Neptune Frost

Activist artist Saul Williams crafts an Afrofuturist classic

"...The plight of the miners highlights just how much corporations exploit the workers in Rwanda and other African nations,..."

June 17, 2022 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

Opinion: It’s Time to Hold Social Media Platforms Accountable

We do not need another TikTok video inviting or suggesting school violence

"...more than ever it is time that social media corporations like TikTok are held accountable for the content that..."

Jan. 14, 2022 Column by Annika Olson

Clifford the Big Red Dog

Unnecessary feature length adventure for the childhood friend

"...he would indeed be on the run from scientific corporations backed by police enforcement. And, for what it’s worth,..."

Nov. 12, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

As Outrage Grows, the Anti-Voter Train Rolls On

The steady march of "election integrity" legislation continues at the Texas Lege

"...Both sides of the debate took aim at Texas corporations. Patrick managed to personify American Airlines in a press..."

April 16, 2021 News Feature by Benton Graham

Slaxx

Fashion horror is a good look

"...take on the ridiculous rules of faceless but heavily-branded corporations, and the stereotypes that working in a mall store..."

April 2, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Council Recap: $15M in SAVES Funding for Venues, Child Care, Iconic Biz

Efforts to raid Convention Center reserves turned back

"...now tied up in incentive deals made with large corporations like Visa, Samsung, and Apple. Tovo, whose District 9..."

Oct. 2, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

ICE Quietly Renews 10-Year Contract With T. Don Hutto Detention Center

Taylor prison houses largely asylum-seeking women and has been the subject of numerous accusations of abuse

"...to "lock in" detention in Texas, benefiting private prison corporations for years to come...."

Aug. 21, 2020 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Advocates Call on City, County to Protect Most Vulnerable During COVID-19 Outbreak

Education, health, housing, justice addressed by list of demands

"...the legality of levying a temporary tax on large corporations and wealthy community members to fund initiatives aimed at..."

March 16, 2020 News Post by Mary Tuma

Underwater

Neo-creature feature is a soggy mess

"...future. In a few short minutes, we learn that corporations have laid claim to the resource-heavy Mariana Trench. We..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Conservative Political Group ALEC Is Coming to Town (UPDATED)

Corporate group hosts mid-August legislative confab

"...is that ALEC is a legislative bill-mill where “global corporations and state politicians vote behind closed doors to try..."

Aug. 5, 2019 News Post by Michael King

Woman at War

Saving the world, one wry laugh at a time in this Icelandic eco-comedy

"...is an eco-terrorist who wishes to harm the multinational corporations she sees as plundering her country’s natural resources and..."

April 5, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sustainable Meat

"...Whole Foods Corporation is currently using Cargill and Tyson corporations as their main suppliers of beef and poultry. Cargill..."

Nov. 15, 2018 Postmarks

Dark Money

Campaign finance reform as true-life political thriller

"...free speech protected under the First Amendment and that corporations and unions are permitted to spend unlimited amounts of..."

Aug. 3, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mega Chains H Mart and 99 Ranch Market Come to Austin

What’s at stake for local Asian markets?

"...worried the stores could impact her business. As large corporations, H Mart and 99 Ranch have access to resources..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Food Feature by Beth Sullivan

The Hightower Report: Should Lousy, Low-Wage Jobs Count as “Jobs”?

Great news, everybody: Jobs are now plentiful!

"...which – ironically – increases the power of low-wage corporations! With hundreds of thousands of people scrambling at once..."

July 14, 2017 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report: Where Does Inequality Come From?

By taking from the needy and giving to the rich

"...from at least 23 million Americans; it lets insurance corporations either refuse to cover people with pre-existing conditions or..."

June 2, 2017 News Column by Jim Hightower

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