The Hightower Report

Health Care Morality; and Keeping Watch on You

"...WATCH ON YOU In his 2002 State of the Union speech, George W. issued a clarion call for Americans..."

May 26, 2006 News Column by Jim Hightower

Lawless Disorder

Top 10 crime and justice stories

"...in Chief Stan Knee firing Schroeder and sparked police union allegations of interference on the part of the Citizen..."

Jan. 6, 2006 News Feature

Gosh, This Is Embarassing

"...go round and round in the local economy generating activity. That multiplying factor is between 3x and 8x and..."

Dec. 21, 2005 Postmarks

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...points to the amendment's language prohibiting the recognition of unions that are "identical or similar" to marriage. A literal..."

Nov. 4, 2005 News Feature

Terms of Engagement

If 'We Can't Make It Here,' then James McMurtry's in big trouble

"...in at just under eight minutes, it's an alternate state-of-the-union, a scholarly commentary on the economy, the war, and..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond.

"...council got into a spitting match with the firefighters union because there, um, aren't enough tax dollars available. See..."

Aug. 26, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Letters at 3AM

A visit to Deadwood: The legends show you where to go. Once you get there, you do your best to find out why you came.

"...like to see what's coming and we're aware of activity at every entrance and exit. Did Wild Bill decide..."

June 24, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Naked City

DeLay-related organization promised corporate money would get to GOP candidates

"...their dollars would go directly toward financing GOP campaign activity – "rather than just paying for overhead" – that..."

June 3, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Delay of Game

Seaholm, Block 21 challenge the Downtown Domino theory

"...for future Austin-San Antonio commuter rail service" along the MoPac/Union Pacific line, Gilliam adds. "But it is not a..."

April 8, 2005 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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"...in the 20th century, mostly citizens of the Soviet Union. If nationalism prevails, that figure will likely be dwarfed..."

Dec. 3, 2004 Column

The Hightower Report

Punishing thought crimes: Bush cracks down on dissent, and the GOP rejects your right to read

"...the people being investigated are involved in any criminal activity whatsoever. It's jackbooted autocratic power like this that led..."

Aug. 6, 2004 News Column by Jim Hightower

Naked City

Withhold federal money until police resolve race crisis, group demands

"...of 1964, which prohibits discrimination "under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance" – the law under which..."

June 25, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

'Something Went Wrong'

Six months after he was killed by an Austin cop, Jessie Owens' family still wants some basic answers

"...police his department, about the role of the police union in setting the city's priorities. And, most of all,..."

Dec. 12, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

A Shining Star Goes Dark

A tragedy at Reagan High School evokes a mother's courageous response.

"...of single parenthood, Carolyn Mosley married Jeff Samuel. The union fulfilled Mosley's long-held wishes for her two teenage daughters..."

May 16, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Day Trips

"...nearly 50 years the town was a beehive of activity. But almost as fast as it appeared on the..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Letters at 3AM

Weapons of Mass Deception

"...service protections. This proposal was couched as a money-saving, anti-union tactic that would give the new department "flexibility" (Bush's..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

Everybody suddenly wants to take credit for commuter rail.

"...clever enough to realize that the sudden burst of activity on commuter rail might could just possibly have something..."

Oct. 18, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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"...like a park. Since the initial flurry of security activity, they have also made adjustments to mitigate the changes..."

April 19, 2002 Column

Been Around the World

Cine las Americas enters its fifth year as the premier festival of Latino filmmaking … only they're not calling it "Latino" anymore.

"...the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown (ADD, 409 Colorado), the Texas Union Theater (TEX, UT Campus), the Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex..."

April 12, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Naked City

News from around Austin

"...by the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Wednesday, March 27 at 11:30am, Trudy's Texas Star restaurant..."

March 22, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

City Water Tunnel #3

If the Department of Environmental Protection hired someone to explain New York's City Water Tunnel #3, the largest non-defense public works project in the Western Hemisphere, that someone couldn't do a better job than performer Marty Pottenger, who delivers the truth of the project, as plain and raw as the earth that's being tunneled, as bright and ragged as the people tunneling.

"...Pottenger's impersonations -- the voices of sandhogs talking about union dynasties, of geologists waxing philosophical on the peregrinations of..."

March 8, 2002 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Naked City

Local news this week in Austin, Texas.

"...by the council today, Thursday, at the Conley-Guerrero Senior Activity Center, 808 Nile. Will this be the last we..."

March 2, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

The Hottest Race in Texas

The David Fisher-Todd Staples Senate Contest in East Texas Will Decide the Fate of the State Senate -- and the U.S. House

"..."and they take advantage of it." With increasing gang activity, he explained, officers become fair game: "Officers get caught..."

Oct. 27, 2000 News Feature by Michael King

Endorsements

"...the effort to stop the disastrous merger of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads, which cost Texas businesses..."

Oct. 20, 2000 News Feature

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"...propaganda. It attempts to characterize people who oppose homosexual unions as being in faulty marriages themselves and being overly..."

May 12, 2000 Column

Celtic Airs

"...Bards). It could be a stretch to link that activity to the very successful Austin Celtic Festival last fall,..."

April 14, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Naked City

Northwest Austin neighbors of Hyde Baptist Church's Quarries property map out a plan for fighting massive development in their neighborhood.

"...250-child day care, a 600-student high school, a senior activity center, and an adult day care center -- neighborhood..."

Dec. 17, 1999 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...the Central Texas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union last week. Taft championed the efforts to overturn the..."

June 25, 1999 News Feature

Live Shots

"...possibly imagine. Thursday. Across the street from UT's Student Union, the Drag bustles with all manner of life. Do..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Music Feature

El Corazón de Santa Barraza

"...have a student painting a mural at the student union building here -- the first mural on campus --..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

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