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Contradictions Exposed

"...Chronicle needs to promote one of the most obnoxious right-wing figures in Austin, but you have the best representative..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Column

Deep Six

"...The Best and Worst in Austin and National Media..."

Nov. 10, 1995 News Column

Point Austin: How to Suppress the Vote

With its latest lies, Texas GOP reminds us: This is all they’ve got

"...enabling his lobbyist sustainers, Empower Texans, to masquerade as media on the Senate floor reflects their actual role as..."

Feb. 1, 2019 News Column by Michael King

Page Two: Budgetary Fantasies

Those who think budget-cutting is easy will soon learn otherwise

"...a good chunk of the American people or the media pundits who analyze the public's political behavior in order..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Point Austin: Meet the Republicans

The Republicans hold their convention while licking their wounds

"...expect to hear several more shoes drop before the media tires of Le Affair Palin, and by Tuesday, the..."

Sept. 5, 2008 News Column by Michael King

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"...I would hope that the Chronicle, or any media outlet for that matter, would be more circumspect when..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Column

The Hightower Lowdown

Enron's true crimes are the legal things it did; Boeing patriotically rips off us taxpayers; and Bob Barr acts like a crack smoker.

"...is considered to be perfectly legal. The politicians and media have quickly narrowed the focus of their inquiries to..."

Jan. 25, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

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Capital Metro Responds

"...many years the Chron has voiced what corporately dominated media won't hardly touch. Protection of aquifers, real protection for..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Column

Fast, Twisted, and Deeply Paranoid

A year of notes on The Manchurian Candidate remake's script

"...even a medal of honor winner, would set off media alarms like a tank going through the carry-on luggage..."

July 30, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Fast, Twisted, and Deeply Paranoid

A year of notes on 'The Manchurian Candidate' remake's script

"...even a medal of honor winner, would set off media alarms like a tank going through the carry-on luggage..."

July 23, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...town, was bought out in 2002 by At Home Media Group Inc. and gently shoved up to Little Rock...."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Austin’s Battle-Scarred Congressman Outlines Strategy to Contain Trump and Musk

Where is the resistance? Here.

"...Doggett is part of a working group of Democrats,..."

Feb. 21, 2025 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Shooting Lessons by Lenny Kleinfeld

Kleinfeld's newest Chicago-based crime thriller takes the safety off

"...with that – the better to keep any IRL right-wing out-of-my-cold-dead-handsers from going, how you say, ballistic...."

April 5, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Hightower Report: Koch Brothers Are Out to Conquer the Countryside

Donald Trump is just the sideshow

"...coincidence that such a large flock of corporatists and right-wing ideologues now roosts in state offices and keeps pushing..."

Jan. 6, 2017 News Column by Jim Hightower

Lege Lines: Dubious Tax Cuts, Senate Shenan­igans, Twitter Trysts, and More

Business lobby doubts tax cuts, and more from the Capitol

"...second time this session where there's been tension between media and the Senate administration. On opening day, there was..."

March 13, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Hightower Report: Incredible Shrinking Democracy

The No. 1 news source in America is full of copycats

"...fear that it's Fox TV, the shameless spewer of right-wing hokum. But, no, not even close...."

June 22, 2012 News Column by Jim Hightower

Education: 'It's Time To Be Innovative'

Something everyone can agree on: digital classrooms

"...Yet he argued that his innovative use of social media like Twitter for student projects and Skype for office..."

March 16, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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Missoula Speaks!

"...In November's elections, the national media gave extensive coverage to a proposed "personhood amendment" to..."

Dec. 9, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower

Outtakes Get Their Day in Court

Pamela Yates returns to a haunted Guatemala in Granito: How To Nail a Dictator

"...which pitted the impoverished indigenous population against the (U.S-supported) right-wing military regime and the landowners and business interests it..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Letters at 3AM: The Inevitability of the Unexpected

The unexpected always happens

"...imagined gay pride parades in every major city, gay media stars, or that gays would redefine gender and marriage...."

March 25, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Unstable Element

Are Austin's water fluoridation policies dangerous? It depends who you ask.

"...The reduced form of the highly reactive chemical element..."

Nov. 27, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Blame It on Israel and the PAC

"...the behest of our “friend” Israel. Though the corporate media know better than to even mention it, Israel has..."

July 10, 2008 Postmarks

Naked City

"...Longcope sold the paper in 1996 to a Dallas-based media outfit, which sold it once more, in 2004, to..."

April 6, 2007 News Feature

Spinning and Campaigning for Props

"...Austin has "grandfathered" 122 developments over the Edwards Aquifer (www.liveablecity.org/media/CleanWaterProp2.pdf) in direct violation of the SOS Ordinance. Usually grandfathering..."

May 2, 2006 Postmarks

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"...recorded in Big Brother CTRMA's database. But the major media have not reported the news and none of these..."

July 1, 2005 Column

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"...on so many fronts, to begin to awaken the media to its responsibility as a standard bearer. Issues please...."

Nov. 5, 2004 Column

Stick Sunk; Barely Baxter; Rose Reblooms

A narrow defeat, and an even narrower win, for Travis Co. GOP legislators

"...through Election Day. And his ham-handed use of the media may have been his undoing; he seemed to cause..."

Nov. 5, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

The Hightower Report

No Child Left Behind leaves the funding behind; and Richard Perle bungles on the battlefield and in the boardroom

"...Poor Richard. Richard Perle is a right-wing neocon theorist who wants to be taken seriously as..."

Sept. 24, 2004 News Column by Jim Hightower

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"...The media will overlook President Bush's gaffs even more. They'll edit..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Column

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Everybody talk about: pop music, aquifer protection, police presence, even doggie do and doggie don't.

"...came during keynote speaker Carole Keeton Rylander's rambling, long-winded, right-wing tirade of a speech. About 35 minutes into her..."

May 18, 2001 Column

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