Council Watch

Business as Usual: After Bradley, Council Moves on to Other Things

"...to the airport last week discombobulated a group of Southpark Meadows neighbors who planned to storm the LCRA building..."

April 7, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Going, Going, Gone?

Gary Bradley agrees to sell 1,000 acres of land to the city

"...environmental staffer Les Tull, and therefore is key for water quality preservation...."

March 17, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Day Trips

"...penny. The wood-and-rock-screened shelters are polished and cleaned. The waterfront landscape is a well-maintained garden. But the towering pines..."

April 30, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

A Sovereign Neighborhood

Happy Days

"...Most importantly, Rollingwood had no public water or sewer service, and in the latter case still..."

Jan. 22, 1999 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Day Trips

"...hit South Texas, the Texas Zoo was a semi-tropical park showcasing native Texas animals. photograph by Gerald E. McLeod..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Our Little Town

Travis Heights Arrives

"...fire station, and not until 1914 that South Austin's water and sewer system was tied into the city's. And..."

Dec. 4, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

"...bonds is basics -- public safety, transportation, flood control, parks, libraries, water, and wastewater. Also, propositions 11&12 would approve..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Column

Just Say No

Council Draws on Tomorrow Plan to Redirect Growth

"...by those "No Strip Mall" yard signs blanketing Hyde Park, the ones that played on our collective fear that..."

May 22, 1998 News Column by Jenny Staff

Day Trips

"...tracks mix on the trail at Lake Somerville State Park, one of the longest trails in the state park..."

March 13, 1998 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

"...downtown revitalization project that includes a river walk and parks...."

Nov. 28, 1997 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Eastward Ho!

Touring the Mediterranean With the St. Elias Food Fest

"...the first time, the festival will be celebrated in Waterloo Park, having outgrown the church grounds. Visitors interested in..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Day Trips

"...field of green velvet. Preserved as a state historical park, the former home is the finest surviving example of..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...and Williamson Counties' Alliance of Cities enacted a regional water conservation plan. The plan, announced June 4 by the..."

June 28, 1996 News Feature

Neither a Lender, Nor a Borrower Be...

1995-96 City Budget: Bond Debt and the Capital Budget

"...`How are you building these roads, and keeping the parks up?'"..."

Sept. 1, 1995 News Feature

Looking Back on the Champions Tract Rezoning

Does this development belong in this particular corner of the Hill Country?

"...be built there, just before the turnoff onto City Park Road. But the proposed construction‚ which faced strenuous objection..."

June 30, 2017 News Feature by Margaret Nicklas

Austin’s Popular Gallery of Graffiti Searches for a New Location

Keeping HOPE alive

"...permanent, either. Now in its sixth year, the paint park will soon be moving from Baylor Street to a..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Arts Feature by Robyn Ross

Day Trips

Historic spring still an oasis in the West Texas town of Big Spring

"...Big Spring, the water source that gave the town of Big Spring its..."

April 25, 2014 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

City of Austin "Major Events" Roster

The city lists over 400 days’ worth of events from the Commitment Day 5K on Jan. 1 to the New Year’s Celebration on Dec. 31. The full list is posted here.

"...American Statesman Jr. Dillo4/6/20134/6/2013 Farmers Market (every Saturday)4/6/20134/6/2013 Mayfield Park Trowel and Error4/6/20134/6/2013 Texas Vegefest4/6/20134/6/2013 Statesman Jr Dillo4/6/20134/6/2013 Zilker..."

July 12, 2013 News Feature

Run This Letter as Written or Not at All

"...the Sept. 2, 2011, Austin Chronicle, "Poison in the Park," and I wish to tell you that you and..."

Sept. 27, 2011 Postmarks

Council Candidates Get Neighborly Grilling

Candidates field questions from Austin Neighborhoods Council

"...The first question focused on Riley's support of the Park planned unit development, a mixed-used project slated, symbolically enough,..."

April 1, 2011 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Res Publica

Citizens calendar, July 23-30

"...ZILKER PARK VOLUNTEER DAYS Sign up online to help finish the..."

July 24, 2009 News Feature

Hays County Turns Blue – and Green

New county leadership is keen on environmental stewardship

"...under previous courts. Flush with a new $30 million parks bond in one of the nation's fastest-growing counties, the..."

Aug. 1, 2008 News Feature by Jacob Cottingham

The Webberville Conundrum

Austin's plans for an eastern landfill hit a little obstacle – the people who live there

"...a solid-waste facility, an Austin Energy substation, or a wastewater treatment plant. Maybe even all three...."

June 6, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Naked City

"...A few short lines wedged into a massive Senate water bill will raise pumping caps for the Edwards Aquifer..."

June 8, 2007 News Feature

Day Trips

An interesting encounter with a gifted storyteller in Birmingham

"...Birmingham Civil Rights Institute across the street from the park, but that didn't seem quite right. He wasn't a..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

A sea turtle's life has never been easy

"...3- to 4-inch turtles to escape into the Gulf waters...."

July 29, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...the South Austin Tennis Center is not a neighborhood park and identified it as a "semantic" distinction, noting that..."

May 13, 2005 Column

Into Town

Will Austin shoppers support a Downtown farmers' market?

"...Austin Farmers' Market opens this weekend in Republic Square Park, the downtown block will once again be the site..."

May 2, 2003 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Postmarks

"...As evil, soulless, groundwater-polluting scum, I'd like to remind both Daryl Slusher and..."

July 19, 2002 Column

Naked City

Downtown de-vitalization, flying Ron Wilson, Hyde Park flood & Ed Herman speaks

"...association fees in addition to the price of his parking spot) would have been nearly double his current monthly..."

March 23, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

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