The Common Law

'Security freeze' your identity-theft worries

"...A security freeze prohibits, with certain specific exceptions, a credit-reporting agency from releasing the consumer's credit report or any..."

July 20, 2007 Column by Luke Ellis

The Common Law

"Security Freeze" your identity theft worries, part two

"...about identity theft. A security freeze means that your credit file cannot be shared with potential creditors or identity..."

July 27, 2007 Column by Luke Ellis

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Warning: blatant use of music knowledge within

"...Community Affairs' administration of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program...."

Nov. 12, 1999 Column

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Home Is Where the Tax Credits Are

"...more complete description of the federal low-income housing tax credit program (described as "rent control" in the article), and..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Column

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...schools in the district. The consultants recommended more frequent reporting, particularly pertaining to problems encountered on the various projects,..."

Nov. 18, 2005 News Feature

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Bunch Replies

"...to correct, disagree or thank the Chronicle for its reporting and editorializing on this important subject. The Chronicle has..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Column

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The Clark-Madison brouhaha continues amidst tributes to Mambo John and more.

"...Clark-Madison's effort to paint at least one public sector agency in a good light, but this piece is hagiography,..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Column

Deadlocked Over Density

Neighbors say ARA's development plans for East 11th Street would clash with existing homes and businesses, including the historic Victory Grill

"...Since its inception in the mid-Nineties, the nonprofit development agency created by the city to spur economic growth along..."

Sept. 5, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Fables of the Reconstruction

A confidential internal U.S. memo describes a Coalition / Iraqi administration sinking into chaos

"...to the CPA, who wrote this summation of field reporting for a senior CPA director – have been severely..."

April 16, 2004 News Feature by Jason Vest

Is Knowledge Power?

A profile of precarious global intelligence firm Stratfor

"...unclassified Internet information better than even the Central Intelligence Agency (which was undergoing its own post-Cold War identity crisis)...."

Sept. 14, 2001 News Feature by Michael Erard

Man of the Hour

Superintendent Pat Forgione discusses his goals for AISD in a Q&A interview with reporter Kevin Fullerton.

"...leading both the county attorney and the Texas Education Agency to slap indictments and censure on the district --..."

Oct. 29, 1999 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

The Hightower Report

Corporate Control of Independent Scientific Research; and Death, Taxes ... and Debt Collectors

"...The researchers submitted a statement to the Environmental Protection Agency charging that biotechnology giants are preventing them from fully..."

March 20, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower

Fun and Games With Stratfor

APD and DPS collaborated with private 'geopolitical intelligence firm'

"...just Booz Allen Hamilton, former employer of National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden and the company where he accessed..."

March 7, 2014 News Feature by John Anderson

Media Clips

San Antonio Express-News pays its editor an amount "in the millions"to hire new reporters, open new bureaus, and try to improve its notoriously mediocre coverage.

"...that's something the team I have assembled can take credit for." Once more money was in the pipeline, "to..."

March 24, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols

The Facts Were Immaterial

The 'counterintelligence' operations of Hoover's FBI included harassment, vilification, violence – and fake 'underground' newspapers in Bloomington, D.C., and Austin

"...clumsy to pull it off." And judging from the agency's short-lived and frankly laughable products, indeed it was...."

June 7, 2013 News Feature by Dale Brumfield

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Our readers talk back.

"...Now, all of what I have said will be discredited with an easy sound bite: "The State Theatre's remaining..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Column

Stage 4 Risk of COVID-19 Shapes Austin's Holiday

No-virus November

"...Dallas counties, as Houston and San Antonio are also reporting a rise in COVID-19 cases. "Unless we can slow..."

Nov. 27, 2020 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...As Texas legislators press the Texas Education Agency for better reporting of dropouts to account for the..."

March 26, 1999 News Feature

Sheriff Sally Hernandez Continues to Do "What’s Right"

Besieged by the state GOP, Hernandez shows no sign of backing down from her immigration policies

"...them, ICE can – and does – present the agency with a warrant. "When we ask them for warrants..."

July 7, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

In the Name of Ann Richards

AISD's School for Young Women Leaders is a district showcase – does its glittering reputation hide a darker side for teachers and students?

"...is peculiarly, almost uniquely defensive about the school. In reporting this story, the Chronicle asked to speak to campus..."

Aug. 30, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

A 'Do or Die' Year at Reagan

A Q&A with 'Saving the School' author Michael Brick

"...wasn't expecting, but when you go into a big reporting project like this, if you're not surprised and you..."

Aug. 17, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Can the Earth Be Saved?

Walter Cronkite and the creation of Earth Day

"...1970, under the Nixon Administration, when the Environmental Protection Agency was founded...."

April 20, 2012 News Feature by Douglas Brinkley

More Funny Numbers From Strayhorn

Carole doesn't understand the difference between money "gone" and money "owed"

"...confused by the slant of Statesman reporter Ben Wear’s reporting, which said that Capital Metro wiped out its savings..."

April 30, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

What Killed Michael Clark?

The official Travis Co. autopsy doesn't tell the whole story

"...APD and the local press incorrectly interpreted Peacock's findings, reporting that Clark had sickle cell anemia.)..."

Dec. 2, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...[per year] to qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit," he said. "That's bad ethics and bad economics, and..."

Feb. 21, 2003 News Feature

Rerun at the D.A. Corral

Republican Shane Phelps challenges Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle for a second time, and seems to be trailing.

"...Lehmberg, his first assistant on the D.A.'s 170-member staff, credits Earle with number of "firsts." His was the first..."

Oct. 6, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

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Don't Dissolve District

"...Austin's jurisdiction, it has nearly always been the only agency making an effort to do so...."

May 1, 1998 Column

Fightin' Words

Rich Oppel and Mike Levy Spar on Paper:

"...Pulitzer judge, so I have some exposure to the reporting of corruption by the nation's newspapers. You know so..."

Jan. 17, 1997 News Feature

The Permanent Warning

Neglecting the Past Dooms Readers

"...the poor country cousin in the world of news reporting, hustled out the door when it can't be ignored...."

Sept. 13, 1996 News Column by Chris Walters