Workers Defense Project

"...is hoping to ignite a grassroots backlash to a plan by the Department of Homeland Security and the Social..."

Sept. 14, 2007 News Feature by Michael May

Happenings

July 12-18

"...Manchaca, Stassney, and South First. Among issues for discussion: flood damage and recent burglaries. 7pm. Woodlawn Baptist Church, 4600..."

July 13, 2007 News Feature

Proposed Animal Shelter Move Gets Community Howling

Plan to move ailing Town Lake Animal Center to East Austin creates strange bedfellows

"...kennels and parts of the office are prone to flooding. To rectify this, voters approved $12.1 million in bond..."

June 15, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Deep Eddy Rising

Citizens and city come together to restore an Austin landmark

"...the property – and two weeks later a massive flood filled the pool with mud and debris and destroyed..."

June 1, 2007 News Feature by Michael King

Flouting City Ordinances

"...parents still live there.) According to Doucet, the firm planning the proposed 24-hour Supercenter, the supply trucks will go..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Postmarks

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...prehurricane mortgage or rent payments and a long-term housing plan, among other things. Also, there is no longer an..."

Oct. 20, 2006 News Feature

Beside the Point

Dollars in the details

"...unexpected repurposing of bumped-up transportation bucks. Riveting as multi-objective flood-control projects undoubtedly are, the real bated breath was reserved..."

May 12, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Primary Colors: Part II

More races to watch, up and down the ballot

"...But blaming Sonleitner for the toll plan has been overblown – as a member of the..."

Feb. 17, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...add two acres of additional impervious cover in the flood-prone West Bouldin Creek Watershed. A majority of the multipurpose..."

May 20, 2005 Column

When Is a Park a Park? When Is a Park Not a Park?

"...add two acres of additional impervious cover in the flood-prone West Bouldin Creek Watershed. A majority of the multipurpose..."

May 11, 2005 Postmarks

Naked City

The council member appeals to history to keep Town Lake Park alive and the boat races dead.

"...the shores from becoming a commercial annex to the then-planned Austin Convention Center (later moved back across the river)..."

Oct. 10, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Adiós! Don't Let the Door ...

A Quick Roundup of the Best and the Worst of the 78th Lege

"...Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos, who had co-sponsored HB 2327, had planned to mount a filibuster against HB 2292, but relented..."

June 6, 2003 News Feature

The Showdown at Sixth and Lamar

The new chain shopping center raises alarms from local merchants.

"...West Austin will include a Borders has spurred a flood of supportive letters to BookPeople CEO Steve Bercu, whose..."

July 26, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...of Austin's mandatory zoning changes which create a "Neighborhood Plan Combining District (NPCD)" ["Dawson in Danger?," Nov. 16]...."

Nov. 23, 2001 Column

Postmarks

Blacks & whites & various Blues

"...just knowing that he has gotten off the Democratic Plantation is enough...."

Aug. 31, 2001 Column

Thirty Years on Location

An overview of the Texas Film Commission, which has been wedding film production and the state economy for 30 years.

"...With Austin suddenly on the upswing, a flood of TV movies arrived to shoot in the midst..."

June 15, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Gore vs. Bush vs. Nader vs. Ventura vs. Hernandez vs. Simone, approximately.

"...The Rainey Plan..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Column

Naked City

The city makes plans to reduce ground-level ozone in order to comply with an EPA-mandated cleanup schedule.

"...letter to Regional EPA Administrator Gregg Cooke that the plans being instituted would "cut ozone in half across eastern..."

Sept. 8, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Trial and Error

Questions raised about whether cards were stacked against Davidians in their civil suit against the federal government.

"...Davidians didn't win the civil suit. Perhaps the simplest explanation is that all of the blame for the tragedy..."

Aug. 18, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Naked City

With plans for the Colorado River Park nearly complete, a process that looked ugly at its outset has produced a blueprint that nearly everyone can live with.

"...casualties. Thus, Austinites can look forward to a final plan that aims to set aside the riverbank riparian area,..."

April 28, 2000 News Feature by Dan Oko

The Least of These

UT professor Horace Newcomb reflects on the segregation South on the release of his friend and colleague Paul Stekler's documentary George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire.

"...serve as a training site for students who would flood into the state the following year, 1964, Freedom Summer...."

March 10, 2000 Features Feature by Horace Newcomb

No Green Acres

Crumbling Landmarks

"...summer due to damage caused by last October 's floods. The park simply can't afford to remove the debris..."

April 16, 1999 News Feature

Dancing About Architecture

"...The four reissues -- Couldn't Stand the Weather, Texas Flood, Soul to Soul,and In Step -- fare a lot..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Election Results

"...revenue bonds, even the controversial Town Lake Park/Palmer Auditorium plan. Not surprisingly, the Transportation and Public Safety packages did..."

Nov. 6, 1998 News Feature

Endorsements

City Propositions

"...to the Shoal Creek Trail, from branch libraries to flood control on Williamson Creek -- have been needed, and..."

Oct. 23, 1998 News Feature by the Editorial Staff

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...D: Harry Elfont & Deborah Kaplan; with Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Charlie Korsmo, Lauren..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Postmarks

"...of which is occupied by a spring-fed lake and flood plain) is surrounded on two sides by the single..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Column

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...included a much larger swath of East Austin for master-planning purposes, but the city scaled back the area to..."

Nov. 28, 1997 News Feature

Déjà Vu Development

photograph by Jana Birchum

"...traffic on too-small streets and increased runoff into the flood-prone creek the most obvious concerns...."

July 18, 1997 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Mind the Bullock

"...Why? For one thing, I'm concerned about increased flooding of Waller Creek, about small, locally owned businesses that..."

March 28, 1997 Column

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