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March 14, 2003 Music Feature
Concrete Costs
TxDOT's plans for the next 25 years include mucho pavement, and more money.
"...evident -- essentially, population growth fueling congestion in a highway-dependent, car-centric area during a time of constricted budgets --..."
Nov. 29, 2002 News Feature by Dave Mann
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
The sluggish transportation beat picks up speed and energy after the election.
"...advisory committee"), which is the final arbiter of which highways get built where and when and how around here...."
Nov. 22, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison
Naked City
"...letting the private sector manage the long-delayed, $1.5 billion highway project. Now, the bad news: The Georgetown-to-Seguin toll road..."
April 12, 2002 News Feature
Day Trips
"...in Texas can be just awesome. Fields along the highways are filled with colors, as if the sky had..."
April 5, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Naked City
There Goes the Neighborhood
"...reconstructed and refurbished the state cemetery by diverting state highway funds. That's a state road running through the graveyard,..."
Nov. 2, 2001 News Feature by Michael King
Back Home in Texas
The return of the reigning Queen of Austin Country Music
"...The spry, Hill Country Flyer shuffle of "South Texas Highway" sails through the station next, a full head of..."
Oct. 19, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez
Ozone of His Own
Texas environmentalists wonder when George W. Bush will face up to the consequences of killing the Tejas emissions-reduction program.
"...program. Cars would be placed on dynamometers for simulated highway driving, and "for 240 seconds approximate driving at different..."
Sept. 8, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose
Postmarks
Cap Metro wants to hear your complaints; a reader asks whether the Summer Smut issue was worth the offense it generated; a radio fan finds sustenance in a substitute; and more letters to the editor.
"...your type and you are blameless. Floating on the highway towards redemption. God bless you...."
Sept. 1, 2000 Column
Welcome to Texasland
Bob Bullock's final monument to himself, the Texas
State History Museum, won't have many historical
documents, but it promises to be entertaining.
"...road that ran through the graveyard declared a state highway, and poured state money into the cemetery, justifying the..."
June 23, 2000 News Feature by Bill Crawford
Where the Shadows Are Deepest
The search for, and subsequent conversation with, country singer James Hand
"...Atlas & Gazetteer reveals Tokio to lie on U.S. Highway 82/380 between Brownfield and Plains in far, far, far..."
May 5, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray
Postmarks
Readers take us (and each other) to task over mistaken identites and misguided ideas.
"...record, as dozens of pickups lined the sides of Highways 71 and 290 each weekend, the tailgates loaded with..."
Feb. 18, 2000 Column
Rob Roy Parnell Jacksboro Highway (Blue Rocket)
Texas Platters
"...Rob Roy Parnell Jacksboro Highway (Blue Rocket) His older brother, Lee Roy, may have..."
Dec. 3, 1999 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri
The Straight Story
David Lynch takes the long road to a strange story of brotherly love
"...stubbornness -- he's like the resolute turtle crossing the highway at the beginning of The Grapes of Wrath --..."
Oct. 29, 1999 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Corner to Corner
There's more development slated for the already-crowded RM 2222 and Loop 360 interchange.
"...-- RM 2222 and Loop 360 (Capital of Texas Highway), which were driven through the middle of the old..."
Sept. 10, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Road Block
"...designed by the agency in conjunction with the Federal Highways Administration -- formerly used to allow highway construction (both..."
June 11, 1999 News Feature
Hard Core Logo
A legendary punk band reunites for a tour of Western Canada in this indie film that perfectly captures the common fissures that erode so many bands on the run.
"...fact, this pseudo-rockumentary by Canadian director Bruce McDonald (Roadkill, Highway 61) is one of the most wickedly effective satires..."
Jan. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Confessin' the Blues
Soul Man W.C. Clark
"...That was until about a year ago, when a highway accident spared Clark's life, but claimed those of his..."
July 31, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess
Beating A Path To SH130: Private Roads, Public Interest
"...under the public-private partnership plan, they could build the highway in five years (instead of 15 or 20), and..."
May 22, 1998 News Feature
Suburban Blight
Austinites' Escape to the 'Burbs Backfires
"...no charm or value to the tract home and highway strip. But that's not what this article is about...."
March 27, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Page Two
Travis County Bond Propositions
"...by the county in connection with the proposed State Highway 130 project, and the levying of the tax in..."
Oct. 17, 1997 Column by The Chronicle Editorial Board
Day Trips
"...and arts and crafts used to dot the nation's highways, providing motorists a place to use the restrooms, stretch..."
Sept. 19, 1997 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Banking on Amtrak
Kay Bailey Hutchison's Been Workin' on the Railroad
"...hoarded instead of being used to improve our crumbling highways, transit systems, vacuum tube air traffic control systems, and..."
June 13, 1997 News Column by Brett Holloway-Reeves
Phantom Power & Spiritual Benefits
The Return of the Bad Livers
"...breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the UniCal Union at highway 76 and I-10! That's a heck of a deal!"..."
Feb. 14, 1997 Music Feature
Concrete Carpet Ride
Jim Bob's Road to Nowhere
"...And further west towards the parkway's other end at Highway 71, Freeport-McMoRan is building an apartment complex, attests a..."
Dec. 27, 1996 News Column by Alex de Marban
Summary of Water Quality Recommendations
"...Force draft) Temporary Controls (to contain silt erosion during highway construction)..."
Dec. 13, 1996 News Feature
Motoramas in Pink Pajamas
And Other Illusions From When Life Was Mighty Swell
"...a ballerina and her beau glide down the Electronic Highway of Tomorrow in a car that looks like a..."
Dec. 13, 1996 Screens Feature by Jesse Sublett
Conflicts and Contradictions
The Choices of Terry Allen
"...-- Terry Allen, "Amarillo Highway"..."
Feb. 16, 1996 Music Feature by Lee Nichols
City, County Join the I-35 Resistance
Council and commissioners ask for big changes to TxDOT plan
"...that the Capital Express Central project allow for the highway mainlanes, which will mostly be below the current grade,..."
March 3, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders
Hays County Moves to Bridge the SH 45 Gap Amid Political Firestorm
Mind the gap
"...new road to bridge the gap between Texas State Highway 45's southwestern and southeastern segments – left unbuilt for..."
