Cronk Meets Job Creation Goals

City manager names candidates for new executive team

"...by Council, Cronk's making the incumbents reapply for their jobs and compete against outside applicants was unexpected...."

Nov. 30, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

All Over Creation: Come and Don't Get It

You already have a job; no need to make another one out of figuring out art

"...I've written about this before, my proclivity to engage..."

June 26, 2015 Arts Column by Robert Faires

All Over Creation: I Was Meant for the Stage

To learn which actors were destined for the theatre, watch how they hold the stage alone

"...much less show-bizzy. Sure, Liza-with-a-Z pizazz will do the job, but Reck accomplished it in silence, with the slow..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Arts Column by Robert Faires

All Over Creation: Head in the Game

In Houston, 'Warrior Class' and 'Road Show' show it is how you play the game

"...following their breakup. Buying her silence with a government job for her unemployed husband or a law degree and..."

June 7, 2013 Arts Column by Robert Faires

All Over Creation: One Movement Ends, and One Begins

As one chamber music ensemble takes its final bow, another makes its start

"...after that Symphony Square debut – Nel took a job at the Eastman School of Music, Gregory Allen became..."

March 16, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires

All Over Creation: Re: Views

What makes a review a review?

"...had better well do a decent and somehow informative job of it."..."

Jan. 20, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires

The Hightower Report

How job cuts miraculously turn into job "creation"

"...Perry claimed that he had generated a million new jobs in the state through an agency that he controlled,..."

July 1, 2016 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

Gov. Perry boasts his job numbers, but the facts belie him

"...has produced in Texas. Fantasy No. 1 is a creationist story about jobs. As he recently sallied across Iowa,..."

Sept. 16, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower

Enterprise Fund Carrying Too Many Ones?

TPJ accuses Perry of over-inflating impact of TEF

"...he will amend 11 project contracts issued through his job-creating Texas Enterprise Fund. But Texans for Public Justice say..."

Jan. 27, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Hightower Report

What job creation numbers don't tell us

"...entirely different standard for measuring the health of America's job market than they use for the stock market?..."

June 20, 2014 News Column by Jim Hightower

Public Notice: Working Hard for the Money

City offers temp jobs and green job training … and lifeguarding

"...– there happen to be a couple of city jobs programs in the news this week...."

May 13, 2022 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Behold the Texas Miracle!

The Texas Miracle has a very mixed record on state prosperity

"...taxes, reasonable regulations, and the right-to-work laws that attract job creators and keep job growth here in the state..."

March 20, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

The Usual Suspects

The first year of the Will Wynn era closes to very mixed reviews, as Austinites wonder whether the city leadership is floundering.

"...need to do now is more central to her job."..."

July 9, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Rock of Ages

Tom Cruise playing a dissolute rock god is the main attraction of this jukebox musical.

"...play, Rock of Ages joins Mamma Mia! in its creation of narrative entertainment from a pre-existing body of musical..."

June 15, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXQ&A: TMS Ruge

Project Diaspora co-founder and SXSW speaker talks African tech

"...connected experience. Look, broadband is just another catalyst for job creation. Job creation begets wealth creation. Wealth creation begets..."

March 13, 2010 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

It's Your City Council!

Brigid Shea and Clay Dafoe vs. Lee Leffingwell

"...been "cash-positive [for the city], performance-based, and providing good jobs." (Shea praised the recent Apple Inc. incentive deal as..."

April 13, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

The Hightower Report

Free (Corporate) Speech; and Corporations Take the Money and Run

"...America's monetary policy, says it is trying to invigorate job creation in our country by cutting interest rates to..."

Oct. 29, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

The House of the Devil

This retro horror film is the freakiest and most unnerving shocker in theatres this season.

"...of the Devil is an assuredly sinister and faithful re-creation of late-Seventies/early-Eighties horror that succeeds (mostly) in lulling the..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

May 12 Municipal Election: The 'Chronicle' Endorsements

"...deserve credit for being proactive on economic development and job creation, and for delicately balancing budgetary economies with public..."

April 27, 2012 News Feature

Happy-Go-Lucky

British director Mike Leigh's latest is an uncharacteristic story about an indomitably joyful woman – a lovely state of being, perhaps, but not necessarily of dramatic interest.

"...And her cheerfulness is indomitable: She laughs at her job; she laughs with her girlfriends at the pub; she..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Tom & Viv

"...throughout that Vivienne played an essential part in the creation of Eliot's writing -- as muse, editor, helpmate, typist,..."

March 17, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Is Austin’s New Arts Umbrella Organization Just in Time or Too Little, Too Late?

After two decades of treating culture and creativity as an afterthought, the city of Austin finally has a real arts department

"...asking for a dedicated department for years, and its creation isn’t exactly inventing the wheel. “Most other cities have..."

April 25, 2025 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Money for Nothing

The Texas record on "enterprise funds" is even worse than meets the eye

"...return the firms claim that they have created 48,317 jobs (as of December 31, 2012). Well, that's what they..."

Oct. 31, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

"...fiction. Screenwriter John Lee Hancock has done an admirable job of condensing Berendt's novel, eliminating some of the novel's..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Joe's Apartment

"...this expanded feature is based, was indeed a marvelous creation, loaded with dark wit, ingenious editing, and East Village..."

Aug. 2, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In the Line of Fire

"...in the 1963 assassination of JFK, is a classic creation. The script gets inside the little-explored personalities of those..."

July 9, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

(Frank) Leffingwell for Judge

Former mayor's son is up for WilCo judge

"...a similar tradition of focusing on "economic development and job creation ... the basic purposes of local government."..."

Nov. 24, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

The Good Dinosaur

Sweet and charming, Pixar's dino pic should please everyone

"...original film or most heartwarming, but it gets the job done in fine fashion. And the studio only has..."

Nov. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ted

Mark Wahlberg and the teddy bear he willed to life as a child stay BFFs into adulthood in Seth McFarlane's zany first foray onto the big screen.

"...and the digitally animated Ted is a visually flawless creation...."

June 29, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lee Leffingwell: 'Think Long-Range'

The incumbent mayor defends his record

"...so well in all the basic statistics – unemployment, job creation. We continue to grow at about the same..."

April 27, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

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