The New Texas Family Planning

Slashed budgets and anti-abortion politics undermine women's health care

"...clinic, which has offered family planning and reproductive health services to low-income and uninsured women since the early Seventies,..."

Jan. 27, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Future Is Now

Local fiscal policy enters its Cold War era

"...willing to accept that the current level of city service delivery is where Austin wants to be. But the..."

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

Capitol Chronicle

The governor sells social service cuts as "enhancements."

"...was hinting that it would not approve already-announced Texas cuts to those programs, the governor ordered a partial restoration..."

Oct. 31, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Page Two

If you want to cut government spending, legalize pot, plus more pearls on government spending (or lack thereof) and the Austin Film and Green festivals.

"...of those most gleeful about cutting back on government services soon to face how these actually impact their families..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Point Austin: Step Up to Citizenship

The curtain rises on the annual budget pageant – places, please

"...a looming deficit that cannot be resolved without desperate cuts to essential services and ends in a triumph of..."

June 25, 2010 News Column by Michael King

The Fire at AFD

Fire Chief Rhoda Mae Kerr leads a department flaming with labor, race, and gender politics

"...for underserved children. Congratulating the group for decades of service, she finishes up strong: "I'm an example of how..."

Oct. 16, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Young and Hungry

ACC offers students two restaurants' worth of opportunity

"...sides of meat and breaking them down into individual cuts, while making their own sausages, bacon, hams, and prosciutto...."

Oct. 20, 2006 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Withering on the Vine

One Gardening Group Struggles While Another Thrives

"...Gardens' Sunshine Gadens suffers from neglect due to funding cuts. photograph by John Anderson..."

July 31, 1998 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

The Destruction of Texas Health Care

The GOP crusade against Planned Parenthood is devastating basic care for Texas women

"...provide low-income and uninsured women with access to health services. As it stands, there remains just $38 million of..."

Feb. 3, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

City Budget Crunch

Our discount 'menu'

"...proposals have been grouped in, with added emphasis on cuts or increases affecting the General Fund, which pays for..."

June 26, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Letters @ 3AM

As much fun as it is to blame speculators and oil companies, and as certain as it is that some reforms would help, the real culprit is global demand

"...and access to transportation. ... Places with decent rail service will be prime. Places without rail service will be..."

July 18, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Naked City

"..."I have learned from my service over the decades that the first, last, and most..."

Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...the Lopez family. It featured numerous photos of returning service men, weddings, graduations, and even a funeral with open..."

March 11, 2005 Column

The Hightower Report

Light rail – it's not just for lefties anymore; and parks officials are forced to be Bush spokesmen

"...Houston, Milwaukee, and elsewhere that are endangered by Bush's cuts. To get a copy, call 202/675-7915...."

July 16, 2004 News Column by Jim Hightower

A Better Tomorrow

For years, the city of Austin's arts funding process has been mired in perpetual gloom, but with the city reviewing its Cultural Contracts Program, artists and arts companies talking with each other about collaborations and a shared vision of what the arts mean to Austin, there are glimmers of light on the city's arts funding horizon.

"...applicants with little regard for their distinguished records of service to the community, and the commission largely upheld these..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Bending the Rules

Getting arts funding from the City of Austin is a long, complicated game, and Austin Chronicle writers Robi Polgar, John Walch, and Mary Jane Garza have been following some of the players around the game board this year. In the final part of their four-part series, they critique the city arts funding process.

"...year, so many applicants were steeling themselves for funding cuts as they made their way around the game board...."

Sept. 3, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

Postmarks

Bush on Borderline

"...ability to grant variances to subdivision regulation to install services, and greater state agency oversight of local implementation process...."

June 11, 1999 Column

Rolling Rebellion at Capital Metro

Budget cuts threaten transit services for the disabled

"...Filing out of Special Transit Service buses and taxicabs, they packed into Cap Metro's lobby,..."

April 4, 2008 News Feature by Justin Ward

Dollars Down to Earth

1995-96 City Budget Shoots for Balance

"...want the basics, like police and fire protection, EMS service, and smooth streets...."

Sept. 8, 1995 News Feature

Health Care: Flirting With Armageddon

Choosing between a 'firing squad' and 'death by starvation'

"...and it doesn't require a liberal reporter or a social-service lobbyist to be daunted by the crisis facing Texas..."

March 4, 2011 News Feature by Michael King

Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground

Austin slowly thaws out from an unprecedented – but not entirely unexpected – disaster

"...area of East Austin near Givens Park lost gas service Wednesday, which Texas Gas Service said would take several..."

Feb. 19, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

This Is Your City Budget

More police, vanishing grants, rising costs, and ... Jazzercise?

"...Despite Austin's strong stance during the seemingly endless recession, cuts at the state and federal level – informed by the..."

Sept. 2, 2011 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Running the UT Numbers

Unless you're the football coach, budgetary times are dire

"...pet projects will result in budget-driven layoffs and curriculum cuts. In recent days, the local headline news has featured..."

Dec. 18, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

AISD Takes a Tax Bite to Voters

School board hammers out a budget

"...years of nominal budget surpluses and property tax rate cuts, Austin ISD's board of trustees agreed on some very..."

Aug. 29, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...the details of the proposed 2006 budget, with city service "add-backs" on everybody's mind. See "Council Notes."..."

Aug. 12, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Still Hungry

Reassessing the state of Austin's food security

"...on a platform that touted the tax and budget cuts in his home state. Austin was riding the crest..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Bad Medicine?

If Austin's Public Clinics Go Private, the Poor Could Suffer

"...13-clinic system under the Austin/Travis County Health & Human Services Department (HHS). Although Linda may eventually qualify for welfare..."

Nov. 22, 1996 News Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

Layoffs at County’s Largest Mental Health Provider Approved by Board of Trustees

Nurse describes “sloppy and dysfunctional” leadership

"...amid a budget shortfall stemming from inadequate delivery of services...."

Sept. 1, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

Point Austin: Moths to a Flame

If it's Friday, we have a budget

"...the dais must find at least $1.3 million in cuts to offset its pending additions. That process resumed Wednesday..."

Sept. 11, 2015 News Feature

Letters at 3AM: Where We Actually Live

A nation that lets its infrastructure crumble will wake one fine day to find itself crippled

"...and AIDS. ... Arizona has ended many behavioral health services for 4,000 children. Oregon has made significant cuts to..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

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