What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been

Austin Community Television's First Quarter-Century

"...concert in Hyde Park, England when he saw his first Port-a-pak video camera...."

June 5, 1998 Screens Feature by Michael Bertin

Fudging Facts on the Titty Tax

Rep. Ellen Cohen repeats inaccurate statement in laying out revised sexually oriented business tax

"...Rene Oliveira, D-Brownsville) that HB 1751 was a straight First Amendment violation. "For some reason, the state skips past..."

April 1, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Full Ballot Language With Extended Endorsements

"...In case you're wondering, since the Texas Constitution was first enacted in 1876, voters have approved 410 amendments. That's..."

Sept. 12, 2003 News Feature

Full Ballot Language With Extended Endorsements

"...In case you're wondering, since the Texas Constitution was first enacted in 1876, voters have approved 410 amendments. That's..."

Sept. 5, 2003 News Feature

Full Ballot Language With Extended Endorsements

State Constitutional Election, Sept. 13, 2003

"...In case you're wondering, since the Texas Constitution was first enacted in 1876, voters have approved 410 amendments. That's..."

Aug. 29, 2003 News Feature

Natural Born Leader

Mayor Hits the Ground Running His First 100 Days

"...of the May election would have suggested. In his first 100 days in office, Kirk Watson has shown himself..."

Oct. 3, 1997 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation, Part 1

We are governed today by an arbitrary legal hodgepodge

"...We'll start with the amendments, but first: my purpose. This series of columns is..."

April 19, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

UPDATE: Abortion Bill Passes House

Dems expected to offer mitigating amendments

"...have so far cut short consideration of all proposed amendments to House Bill 2, Rep. Jodie Laubenberg's sweeping abortion..."

July 9, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Page Two

A First Amendment primer for Alex Jones' faithful and others in need

"...avenue of discussion: Letter writers often refer to their First Amendment rights without seeming to have ever read what..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Unreasonably Reasonable

Political arguments depend on mutual respect

"...you get right down to it, what the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says seems fairly simple. It..."

June 27, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Red-Light Cameras on Trial

State Reps. Fred Hill, Carl Isett Collide Over Red-Light Cameras

"...aggressive line of questioning before winning passage of an amendment that could force cities to trash their red-light camera..."

May 16, 2007 News Post by Amy Smith

Liveblogging the Lege Part Two

"...bill, is finally laid out and ready to take amendments. Voting procedures: Paper ballots. Counted on House floor. Gotta..."

Jan. 9, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Open Letter to Vanessa Leggett

We're all in trouble, along with Vanessa Leggett, if the governement begins defining who is and who is not a true journalist.

"...freedom of the press is the notion that the First Amendment protects those who are engaged in journalism, not..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Postmarks

Plan for People, Not Cars

"...volunteer. I served a one-year term on the station's first Community Board; I served as the station's first Outreach..."

March 26, 1999 Column

Geek Love

Protector of Cyberspace Mike Godwin

"...Frontiers Foundation (EFF) and the leading legal expert on First Amendment rights and the Internet,1996 saw Godwin take on..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Screens Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

Dismantling Family Planning Pt. 2

House budget amendment would subvert access to reproductive services

"...morning, Rep. Warren Chisum, R-Pampa, is now proposing an amendment that women's health care advocates say would completely undo..."

April 16, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

More From 'Iconoclast' Country

W. Leon Smith on freedom of speech, peace, and Crawford

"...has freedom of expression but there are repercussions." OK, first of all, that seems to me to be an..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature by Kate X Messer

New Solo Performance Shows How Black Mothers Are Left Doubly Unprotected by the Constitution

Taji Senior's amendment puts the country’s foundational document on trial

"...In amendment: the birth of an american myth, or the slow..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Most Dangerous Man in Austin?

Cody Wilson's day-to-day life is pretty routine. But the product he's selling threatens to make gun control laws obsolete.

"...Austin, the man reviled and revered for manufacturing the first fully functional 3-D-printed firearm is now orchestrating the production..."

Nov. 20, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation, Part 2

Laws arbitrarily enforced (or not enforced) according to the whims of the authorities are no longer laws

"...On to the Fourth Amendment: "The right of the People to be secure in..."

May 3, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...before August, the practical deadline for getting potential constitutional amendments on the November ballot. The national GOP convention opens..."

July 9, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Weed Watch

Transit authorities have freedom of speech, too, judge rules

"...District Judge Paul Friedman struck down the so-called Istook Amendment, which sought to deny federal money to any transit..."

June 11, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Capitol Chronicle: Patriotic Gore

The Texas House wants to cut health care, human services, and education, but it's really enthusiastic about war.

"...the members of that organization. (When the resolution was first proposed, some disgusted progressives asked, in all seriousness, whether..."

April 11, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Page Two

Travis County Bond Propositions

"...recall approving $67.7 million four years ago for the first phase of jail construction and the construction of a..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Column by The Chronicle Editorial Board

Did City Stifle Free Speech?

Judge to rule soon on city's trespass citations during Occupy protest

"...variety of "disruptive" behaviors – a violation of the First Amendment? Or, is the policy, signed by City Manager..."

Dec. 30, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Page Two: Quicksand

Between politics and principle lies the quagmire of ideological righteousness

"...There are those Second Amendment champions, the ones who fervently insist that there is..."

April 15, 2011 Column by Louis Black

The War on Talking About the Drug War

Border Patrol agent loses job after stating the obvious

"...Con­sti­tu­tion – and the last time I checked, the First Amendment was still the First Amendment to the Constitution."..."

Feb. 4, 2011 News Column by Jordan Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Column

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Giving Hate a Microphone

"...that as a station that strives to be the First Amendment at its best, we don't want to censor..."

March 19, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

Supremes Stand for Individual Rights

Two new opinions from the high court check state powers

"...rulings strengthening individual rights against state power. In the first, the court redefined the right of students to be..."

June 26, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

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