Money, It's a Gas

Economics, schmeconomics: Chronicle reviewer Roger Gathman compiles the latest books about the (almost) first commodity, money.

"...children were going to have to "pay down" the debt, as a certain short Texas billionaire put it. As..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Postmarks

Plan for People, Not Cars

"...and interviews show UT students in long-term student loan debt...."

March 26, 1999 Column

Tight Squeeze at Ut

"...bonds issued by the State of Texas, but that's debt that it must repay. And since the department is..."

Aug. 28, 1998 News Feature

Festival Screenings

"...La Dueda LA DUEDA (THE DEBT)..."

April 24, 1998 Screens Feature

In the Middle of It

Where Tapestry's Acia Gray Likes to Be ó and Is

"...we'd be up at Rutland and Burnet with no debt. Instead, we're here at 507 Pressler with a lot..."

Feb. 20, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Won't Get Schooled Again

Austin's Music Class of '98

"...careful to set some obtainable goals - keeping my debt low, making cheap records, touring, and just selling more..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Austin Knows Best

City's Newest Children Rebel With More Lawsuits

"...immediately shut down -- shifting responsibility for the MUDs' debt to the city. And payment of that debt, according..."

Dec. 26, 1997 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

Naked City

Chasing Gary, Part 2

"...Austin's case, a little bit bigger and deeper in debt. The 4,600 acres in question are within the four..."

Oct. 24, 1997 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...wickedly funny one-legged assault while attempting to collect a debt, or the adrenaline-charged ultra-violence of the climactic heist, but..."

Nov. 3, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...wickedly funny one-legged assault while attempting to collect a debt, or the adrenaline-charged ultra-violence of the climactic heist, but..."

Oct. 27, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...to find a dry cleaner who skipped on his debt, this movie-loving gangster seizes the opportunity to change careers...."

Oct. 20, 1995 News Feature

Larson SAFE at Home

Baseball Boosters Seek Swing Vote

"...to circumvent the city charter requirement that all bond debt must be approved by the voters. The majority of..."

Aug. 18, 1995 News Feature by Daryl Slusher

Council Watch

"...work. Never mind that $8.7 million of the 20-year debt service on the loan is expected to be paid..."

June 23, 1995 News Column

Freeport Wins Small

Thousands and Thousands of Dollars

"...sewer service now. Also, FMP faces a $74 million debt balloon payment in January, and has warned shareholders that..."

May 19, 1995 News Feature by Daryl Slusher

Walking the High Finance Wire

Bergstrom Costs Going Up and Up

"...bonds was approved for construction of the airport and debt service, the Aviation Department is now asking for an..."

May 12, 1995 News Feature by Dave Cook

Opinion: Highway Caps Are Not Austin’s Priority

Council Member Mike Siegel makes the case against funding the I-35 cap and stitch project

"...time, the city is reaching the limit of its debt capacity. This means that every dollar committed to the..."

May 16, 2025 Column by Mike Siegel

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...$22 million in for every $100 million of existing debt. As American Rescue Plan spending reaches its end, Watson..."

March 14, 2025 News Feature

One of Them Days

Keke Palmer and SZA star in a likable throwback comedy

"...(Ice Cube) had until 10pm to settle a $200 debt with a local gangster. This time it's aspirational waitress..."

Jan. 17, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

City Council Has More Time to Decide on Funding for I-35 “Caps”

TxDOT moves deadline to decide on the $900 million cost

"...Still, all of the added debt (Council members also want to fund a climate change..."

Jan. 3, 2025 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...the multibillion-dollar transit investment, has authority to pay off debt needed to fund transit expansion with city property taxes...."

June 21, 2024 News Feature

Suburbanites Opt to Leave Austin, While Voters Keep Austin Blue in Weekend Election

Turnout was about 6% for the historic election

"...have to pay off their share of the city’s debt incurred to pay for projects like infrastructure improvements (about..."

May 10, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders

She Is Conann

Barbaric vision of how aging means eating your own youth.

"...piece I won’t get into, but which owes a debt to the one Peter Greenaway film that everyone’s familiar..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Book of Clarence

Uneven attempt to both resurrect and spoof the biblical epic

"...again), went off to become an apostle, he's in debt to mobster Jedediah the Terrible (Kofi-Abrefa) and in love..."

Jan. 12, 2024 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...plan to cancel up to $20,000 of student loan debt for some borrowers. The court's 6-3 decision will impact..."

July 7, 2023 News Feature

Loans at the Lege

"...state is crushed under $141 billion in mostly federal debt, most of the people with these loans are either..."

Feb. 28, 2023 Postmarks

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Speaker Newt Gingrich still has a boatload of campaign debt. According to paperwork filed in January 2023 with the..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Voxtrot: The (Re)start of Something

12 years after disbanding, the forerunners of modern indie-pop call on the "mystical, inexplicable force" that flowed through their Early Music

"...Scottish band to whom Voxtrot actually owed a creative debt, must have been deeply confused)...."

Sept. 23, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Funny Pages

Portrait of the comic artist as a young idiot

"...of Mitchell Wenig (instantly recognizable as one of the debt-settling siblings from Uncut Gems, directed by producing duo the..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Breaking

Tragic true-life drama attacks how the system fails military veterans

"...have redirected a lifeline disability check to cover a debt and left him without any financial means to pay..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Nope

Jordan Peele's sci-fi horror/satire on minor celebrity is a "yeah"

"...– especially since those scenes, again, owe a big debt to Shyamalan's 2002 homage to 1950s alien invasion flicks,..."

July 22, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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