Need to Work on Health Insurance by Exploring Options: First We Dismiss Expanding Government Programs

"...charity care delivered in fiscal 1998” (Window on State Government, 1998). Insurance companies are trying to make money while..."

July 19, 2005 Postmarks

The Government Shutdown Hits

Affordable Care Act takes effect as Tea Party throttles government

"...too. The Tea Party's shutdown of the U.S. federal government is in effect...."

Oct. 1, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Against Nanny Government

"...Dear Editor, It is no "presumption" that the federal government has no role in providing social welfare programs ["Page..."

May 3, 2004 Postmarks

City Hall Hustle: Discount Government

That beeping you hear is the rollback rate, backing up

"...Texas' own Truth-in-Taxation laws, overhauled by the government-averse, service-slashing Repub­lican Legislature of 2005, require the mayor to..."

Sept. 4, 2009 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Council to Finalize Aid Programs for COVID-Hit Businesses

Ready for relief

"...$27.2 million to businesses and individuals through seven relief programs. Only $861,000 has been awarded to 34 music venues,..."

Dec. 4, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Public Notice: Government by Committee

Tonight's Town Hall: First step in a "New Way Forward"

"...who complain regularly about transparency and accountability in city government can fit into the room, festivities will start at..."

Jan. 23, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

The Cost of Government?

Local public spending outpaces local incomes – but not local needs

"...of Austin has released a progressively-more-hyped "Combined Cost of Government" index. This index aggregates the revenues of Austin's five..."

Aug. 13, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Locking Up Addicts Is Better Than Rehab Programs

"...News, July 18]. Instead of these wimpy, whiny drug programs which just flat out do not work, the system..."

July 24, 2008 Postmarks

AFP Is an Anti-Government Organization

"...off communication between counties and legislators. AFP is an anti-government organization that seeks to cut government services by having..."

March 6, 2008 Postmarks

Local Conservation Programs Get Big Bucks

"...Two local conservation programs will get six-figure boosts from the federal government in..."

July 3, 2007 News Post by Justin Ward

U.S. Government Gone Rogue

"...Dear Editor, I think the American government has gone rogue and no longer follows the will..."

July 12, 2011 Postmarks

What We Put in Our Bodies Shouldn't Be Up to the Government

"...defending marijuana use poured their effort into “our social programs.” I think preventing people from being unjustly jailed and..."

June 17, 2007 Postmarks

Potheads Spend Less on Pot Than the U.S. Government Does

"...have been blessed by a number of educational television programs devoted to a fresh understanding of the United States..."

July 20, 2005 Postmarks

Government Has Expensive Drug Habit

"...offenders would be better spent on education and treatment programs...."

Nov. 5, 2003 Postmarks

Accounting and the War on Women

anti-PP groups claim non-profit engages in fraud

"...PP falsified patient records in order to bilk the government...."

Aug. 15, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Amend This!

Political commentary on the constitutional amendment process

"...editorial that sort of endorsed land title resolution, paid government service for teachers, highway bonds, and state agency bonds...."

Oct. 26, 2001 News Column by Michael King

Faith Healers

A look inside the Teen Challenge faith-based drug treatment in Fort Worth suggests that there are problems with Christian drug rehab programs.

"...Faith-based programs like Teen Challenge aren't new, of course; churches were..."

Dec. 15, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Get Out the Bootstraps

Cause Texas Ain't Takin' Care of You No More

"...welfare recipients overcome their unhealthy dependencies on a too-generous government, many liberals decry the welfare overhaul as nothing less..."

June 13, 1997 News Feature by Audrey Duff

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Bush's proposed economic reforms highlight the divide between Republican theory and practice.

"...Core to Republican ideology is fiscally responsible government. This, realized by less government in general and less..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Harnessing Anger

"...of sympathy for affluent, propertied voters resentful of city government intrusion, no less than four Republicans hope to mount..."

Feb. 13, 1998 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Page Two

Our Top 10s give you another chance to laugh, and rail, at us; Republican dominance and a state budget crisis bode ill for government services, and for Austin; we bid a fond farewell to "Dancing About Architecture" and chart a new course, a bit.

"...pitch is anyone's guess. We have an essentially new government in power in Washington, D.C., and in Austin, as..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Council Recap: Nothing Goes Farther Than Cash

City to launch guaranteed-income pilot program

"...to “prove” they still need the assistance, as many government-run financial aid programs normally require...."

May 6, 2022 News Post by Austin Sanders

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On the right wing's ideological sleight-of-hand, unenlightened self-interest, and the humanitarian legacy of Cousin Eli

"...surveys Americans routinely express support for spending more on government programs like education, opposition to government budget deficits ......"

Jan. 9, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Capitol Chronicle

The governor sells social service cuts as "enhancements."

"..."increasing" funding for mental health care and substance abuse programs under the Children's Health Insurance Program, "pending federal government..."

Oct. 31, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Voices From the Front

"...are the results of more than a decade of governmental hostility toward social programs that are now desperately needed...."

June 19, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

The Power to Change

A quick sound check with the Austin mayoral candidates

"...it the creation of a Music Department within city government. Due to the bad economy I would have to..."

April 30, 2009 Music Post by Austin Powell

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Paying taxes adequate to meet social needs is a necessary hedge against a frightening future

"...pandering, unnecessary legislative pork spending, widespread corruption, and massive government inefficiencies in everything from spending and staffing to administration..."

April 30, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Fairness in Farming

"...very summer. The OFF Act would not end corrupt government checkoff programs to benefit lobbying organizations, but it would..."

July 20, 2023 Postmarks

A Starring Role: Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Our man Brenner talks with the famed astrophysicist, because science.

"...Then the adults will be enlightened enough to create programs that will serve the kids. You can't train kids..."

Nov. 26, 2013 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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The right's most troubling victory may be its brilliant subversion of the language of political debate

"...all been major contributing forces to this loss. When government programs effectively address large-scale social problems, the flaws in..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Column by Louis Black

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