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Considering the date, it's likely all your Christmas shopping is already done, but Cuisines Editor Virginia B. Wood has some ideas for gifts that keep giving long after the wrapping paper has been thrown away.

Gore vs. Bush vs. Nader vs. Ventura vs. Hernandez vs. Simone, approximately.

City Coucil wants to cut a deal with Stratus Properties on the Barton Creek properties because they think House Bill 1704 gives them no other option.

Republican Jill Warren is behind in the polls and going negative on her Democratic opponent Ann Kitchen, in the race for House District 48 in Travis County.

Can the City Make Good on Its Affordable Housing Promise?

A New Drug for a New Millennium

Tech leaders look for solution to Austin's growth problems

During Gov. Bush's campaign for his party's presidential nomination last fall, reporters asked the candidate to comment on a federal government report asserting that many Texans, including large numbers of children, were going to bed hungry. "I saw the report that children in Texas are going hungry. Where?" he demanded, going on to say, "You'd think the governor would have heard if there are pockets of hunger in Texas." Indeed, you would, especially if one of those pockets is just a few miles from his front door, Virginia B. Wood explains as she explores the very pockets of hunger in Austin Bush has difficulty fathoming.

A transportation bond package combining roads and light rail is planned for November.

Underdog Stella Roland challenges incumbent Dawnna Dukes to represent East Austin in the Texas House of Representatives.

there's power in numbers with the census 2000 data.

Over the objections of SH130 backers, CAMPO expresses its unanimous support for an eastern alignment for the road.

Responding to market demands and consumer pressure, Whole Foods decides to banish genetically modified ingredients from its store-brand product lines.

Building SH 130 is still being considered in terms of costs, routes, and whether it will be a toll road.

San Diego is everything Austin wants to be: livable, transit-oriented, pedestrian-friendly, and downtown-centric. But will tools that worked in the nation's largest border and military base town translate to Central Texas?

Neighborhood Services office aims to help neighborhoods help themselves

Our readers talk back.

With neighbors still reeling from 1990 expansion, Hyde Park Baptist plans another growth project.

The Capital Area Metropolitan Organization approved Capital Metro's light rail plans; now it's up to voters.

Despite Austin's reputation as the most expensive rental market in Texas, the state Department of Housing and Community Affairs has approved only one low-income housing tax credit project for Austin this year.

Capital Metro unveils plans for light rail, a bus-rapid-transit system, and HOV lanes for Austin.

You don't hear much about Wayne Bell when the Long Center for the Performing Arts is discussed. That may be because this honored Austin architect is low-key, modest, the consummate team player. But he's the point man on this $60 million project and arts writer Robi Polgar reveals how integral he is in getting it built in a calm, orderly, informed, and successful way.

Old Settler's Park in Round Rock is one of the best city parks in Texas.

The city gives a thumbs-down to subsidised housing.

Patenting the Formula

New Endeavors

We've Been Having Fun All Summer Long

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