America, Wake Up!!

"...current hoopla over the presidential race. It's a mind-control shell game. It's not the important issue. We sit mesmerized..."

Oct. 4, 2012 Postmarks

The New Streaming Music Industry & Are Cloud Music Services the Same Old Song and Dance?

"...streaming services, fighting against what he considers a global shell game of copyrights and performance royalties not being properly..."

March 2, 2012 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The War on Women's Health

To attack Planned Parenthood, lawmakers undermine health care ... and promote more abortions

"...for women, in Texas and the U.S. The Financial Shell Game..."

April 22, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

A Retrospective Decade

Top 10 reasons to wonder why anyone votes for Rick Perry

"...2006: SHELL GAME BUDGETING Perry championed a business franchise tax to..."

Jan. 7, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Page Three: Hell in a Handbasket
or, the Worst of Austin

A week in the life of local government

"...Concrete/Austin American-Statesman war on public education to the eternal shell game that is the Domain development swindle to the..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Column by Nick Barbaro

Day Trips

The Real Ale brewery tour in Blanco is a beer lover's dream come true

"..."Brewing is basically a shell game of moving the beer from tank to tank,"..."

July 30, 2010 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Point Austin: Tell Us Something We Don't Know

Capital Metro report discovers that the agency's been badly managed. Who knew?

"...trifle out of date, the report primarily covers the shell-game practices of departed President/CEO Fred Gilliam (whom the authors..."

April 30, 2010 News Column by Michael King

Letters at 3AM: 'O' Is for Oligarchy (Continued)

The American Oligarchy has been growing for decades, and we've been its enablers

"...In small words: It's a shell game...."

April 23, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Point Austin: The Bottom Line on Health Care

Congress needs to act for universal health care

"...never happened.) Call it the brick-and-mortar exception – a shell game now costing me several hundred dollars in unanticipated..."

July 31, 2009 News Column by Michael King

The Hightower Report

Reining in Corporate Tax Dodgers; and Doping Racehorses to Win Fast Bucks

"...To support the crackdown on this shameful corporate shell game, contact the Public Interest Research Group at www.uspirg.org...."

May 15, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower

Big Tex Budget Blues

The money debate begins: 'Every Texan for himself' vs. 'All in this together'

"...To prevent the budget process from becoming a shell game, legislators are pondering at least some targeted tax..."

Feb. 6, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Cap Metro Farms Out Four Bus Routes

In a cost-cutting move, Capital Metro switches four of its bus routes to cheaper contractors

"...This twisted little shell game creates a situation where different employees get different..."

Dec. 12, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Time Warner Removing Quality Channels

"...lack of commitment to the public [“The Cable Channel Shell-Game Shuffle,” News, Nov. 28]. You noted the most recent..."

Dec. 1, 2008 Postmarks

Regardless of Outcome on Referendum, 'I Lose'

"...I'm in the middle of some kind of weird shell game. I can tell you that as a teacher..."

Oct. 15, 2008 Postmarks

Point Austin: Domain City Limits

City Charter amendment would end a deal gone sour

"...legally or ethically bound to these subsidies" (www.stopdomainsubsidies.com). A Shell Game..."

Aug. 22, 2008 News Column by Michael King

Craddick Promises Money to Burn

"...of Independent Business' fears that property-tax cuts are a shell game, adding that families of all incomes face hidden..."

May 23, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

@ Chronic

Several high-ranking Dems received donations from right-wing HillCo Partners PAC, now coming back to haunt them

"...press release that the incumbent "needs to stop the shell game and tell the voters where he is getting..."

Nov. 16, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Dems Dust-Up Over Donors

Democratic plans to target PAC recipients among the GOP could lead to some infighting in their own primaries.

"...press release that the incumbent “needs to stop the shell game and tell the voters where he is getting..."

Nov. 13, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 State Stories: Farewell to Ann, fungoo to Cheney

"...3) School Finance Shell Game: A spring special legislative session ended with stout..."

Jan. 5, 2007 News Feature by Michael King

Day Trips

Don't mess with Texas, unless it comes to per capita spending on parks, where we are ranked 49th in the country

"...on license plates is just one of the mindless games I play while stuck in traffic. My truck sports..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Town Lake Variance Shuffle

The hike-and-bike trail, questionable developer tactics, and a potential windfall for urban parks all flow together on East Riverside Drive

"...it, that standard conforms to the parkland dedication code.A Shell Game, Not a Gift..."

Nov. 24, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Point Austin: Supreme Confusion

The Supreme Court ratifies the Texas GOP majority with a shrug

"...Yet Kennedy's own majority opinion explicitly rejects such a shell game for the Latino voters of both CD 23..."

July 7, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Cyber-Arithmetic

April 26, 2006 Postmarks

Point Austin: Low Expectations

Not much reason to believe that the Lege will do right by Texas students

"...additional new money for schools is not just a shell game, it's a lie – to our teachers, to..."

April 14, 2006 News Column by Michael King

New Medicare Plan Infringes on Sovereignty, States Say

Attorney General Abbott leads states' legal charge

"...pay a portion of plan-related implementation costs – a shell game-like scheme dubbed the "clawback." Thus, the feds are..."

March 10, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Point Austin: Pointed Questions for 2006

When the Lege comes back to school, will they have done their homework?

"...the same desiccated pea around under the same tired shell game and calls it "reform." Even this credulous Lege..."

Jan. 13, 2006 News Column by Michael King

George Harrison & Friends

Gift guide

"...to help Indian refugees fleeing Eastern Pakistan, and Harrison gamely took up the standard, remembering John Lennon's advice to..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Horses Stolen! Barn Door Confirmed Unlocked!

Long suppressed, Department of Justice memorandum recommended that the re-redistricting map forced upon the Legislature by Tom DeLay and his cronies should be rejected, because it did not sufficiently protect the rights of minority Texans

"...have any better luck in prosecuting the corporate money shell game established by DeLay and his cronies at Texans..."

Dec. 9, 2005 News Feature by Michael King

Point Austin: Hecht v. Dietz

Supremes find high taxes onerous, but lousy schools OK

"...they need worry about is lowering property taxes.The Next Shell Game..."

Dec. 2, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Letters at 3AM

The following examples of government mismanagement ought to be April Fools' jokes, but they're not

"...of our debt depends on hedge funds, it's a shell game, it's a house of cards, it's going down..."

April 1, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

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