Termagant Homosexuals...

"...Standiford Top of the Mind Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise [of religion] or abridging the..."

May 23, 1997 Column

TCEQ OKs Rock and Concrete Crushing Cluster in East Austin

Meanwhile, Lege may make it harder for residents with health concerns to weigh in

"...right at the dog's eyebrow" on Edwin Lane, says neighbor Martin Mehner, who worries about silica, a carcinogenic mineral..."

May 26, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher

New Study’s Staffing Model Calls for 108 New Officers

More cops, 2022 version

"...Crime Commission, an outside private support group for local law enforcement agencies, finds that if the Austin Police Department..."

Jan. 21, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Record Turnout in Run-Off Election Pushes Democratic Party Toward Change

State and local races show the blue getting bluer

"...ballots arrived on Wednesday, the cut-off date in state law. The Travis GOP run-off, with just one big race..."

July 17, 2020 News Feature by the News Staff

Envisioning the Future of Austin State Hospital

What will it take to turn the former Texas State Lunatic Asylum into a world-class center of brain health?

"...for a "forensic" admission – i.e., one required by law – it's 90 days. Some stays are much longer...."

March 22, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Dr. Robert Van Boven, the Whistleblower

Lakeway neurologist battles hospitals, officials, and the "culture of silence"

"...attempted to end his career, and a range of lawyers and officials who believe they can wear him down..."

April 20, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

SXSW Unleashes Massive Film List

High-concept horror A Quiet Place to open fest

"...in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood decides that wrestling boys is the only way back..."

Jan. 31, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Q&A Hole: Why Are So Many People Unhappy With President Trump?

Can’t American citizens cut that orange shitgibbon a little slack?

"...So we queried several of our talented friends and neighbors last week, asking Why Are So Many People Unhappy..."

June 12, 2017 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Texas Bands Together Part II

Concerts over the next few weeks benefit victims of Central TX floods

"...more How much: $15 All proceeds go to My Neighbor's Keeper..."

June 15, 2015 Emergency Post by Alexa Harrington

Point Austin: Drive-By Government

Abbott says Texas doesn't have to disclose companies' chemical stockpiles, but why are these chemicals in our neighborhoods in the first place?

"...disclose chemical stockpiles, because of a 2003 Home­land Security law intended to keep "terrorists" in the dark. (Scare quotes..."

July 18, 2014 News Column by Michael King

DVDanger: Blackness And Shadows

Period piece "The Black Torment" and the world's end in "Dead Shadows"

"...greeted by his crippled father (Joseph Tomelty) and his sister-in-law from his first marriage, Diane (Ann Lynn. who appeared..."

May 3, 2014 Screens Post

The Joseph Stack Manifesto

Reprint of pilot's suicide note

"...We are all taught as children that without laws there would be no society, only anarchy. Sadly, starting..."

Feb. 18, 2010 News Post by Lee Nichols

Sometimes Rumble, Sometimes Tumble

Joe Lansdale may be Texas' bloody answer to Mark Twain

"...across the creek from their home, so an irate neighbor cracked the dog across the head with a steel..."

June 26, 2009 Books Feature by Joe O'Connell

Res Publica

Good times for good citizens: Feb. 27-March 5

"...ST. JOHN/CORONADO HILLS NEIGHBOR­HOOD PLAN KICKOFF MEETING 9:30-11:30am. Pickle Elementary School, 1101 Wheatley...."

Feb. 27, 2009 News Feature

Letters From the Women of SAFPF

A small sample of the letters received by Austin attorney Derek Howard; transcribed and minimally edited

"...to explore the prospect of filing a civil rights lawsuit. For several months, she and other inmates, from Halbert..."

Dec. 12, 2008 News Feature

Not in My Graveyard: RAMP vs. Covenant Presbyterian

One woman's battle with a church to preserve a Central Austin cemetery

"...them. First and foremost, she says, it's against state law to use dedicated cemetery land for any other use..."

Nov. 28, 2008 News Feature by Laurel Chesky

Why Are Municipal Court Judges So Lenient?

"...surrounded by a sphere of rights. If your nearest neighbor lives two miles away, then each person's sphere is..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Postmarks

Austin's Most Wanted Bison Killer

Local businessman may pay high price for Colorado bison killings

"...local hunters to kill 32 bison belonging to his neighbor after they wandered on to his ranch in Park..."

May 23, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

TPPF Conference

Conservative conference points toward next Legislature

"...D-Austin. The co-author of last session's government fiscal openness law, House Bill 3430, took part in a panel with..."

Jan. 18, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Election 2006

The latest from the campaign trail

"...list of candidates endorsed last week by Texans for Lawsuit Reform, an influential political action committee on a mission..."

Sept. 29, 2006 News Feature

The Bloodthirsty Killers of Circle C

Victims take flight! ... Officials shrug! ... Stealthy predators stalk the suburban streets!

"...names like Miss Princess. They are, in short, her neighbors' cats, which roam the otherwise peaceful cul-de-sacs in search..."

Dec. 9, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Pfurious in Pflugerville

Pfillies or pfamily pfun for the NE Travis suburb?

"...town has earned both pfriends and pfoes – pitting neighbor against neighbor and property tax relief against wholesome pfamily..."

Jan. 14, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

News Top Tens

"...down, inevitably, in the speaker's back room -- stops lawmakers from lobbying before state agencies, makes campaign finance disclosure..."

Jan. 2, 2004 News Feature

Wal-Mart Smiley Face Eats a South-Side Trailer Park

The newest bad big-box project prepares to displace poor people on Slaughter Lane.

"...residents of a tumbledown trailer park, but a state law that took effect last year could buy them more..."

Aug. 29, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Fonda Good Neighbor..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Column

Talking Trash

A huge garbage dump in northeast Travis County causes a stink with its neighbors.

"...fills her comfortable Walnut Place home. Neither has her neighbor, Joyce Thoresen, or Harris Branch resident Joyce Best. The..."

May 17, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

The City Council greets the Gus Garcia Era.

"...months may be like -- parsing a passel of neighborhood quandaries...."

Nov. 30, 2001 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

The Last Sunset

The day the DEA came for Dan Del Santo

"...Like so many other artists, Dan went outside the law to support himself and his family. He got caught...."

Nov. 9, 2001 Music Feature by Anne Sherwood

Car Croquet

Neighborhood leaders seek stronger code enforcement front-lawn parking.

"...duplex in North Austin last year, Larry Walker's next-door neighbors have turned their lawn into a parking lot. What's..."

Sept. 28, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Naked City

Volente debates incorporation as a means of escaping Austin's extraterritorial jurisdiction, and its development rules.

"...village -- that being the maximum size, by state law, for such an incorporated place -- is undeveloped; much..."

Sept. 22, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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