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The Varner-Hoogg Plantation State Historical Park, near Houston, has gone from a settler's cabin to a great sugar plantation to an oil wildcatter's weekend home.

George W. Bush is not sure global warming and the greenhouse effect are a problem.

"If you fail light rail again, you've sealed your fate to sucking a tailpipe and damned your city's 21st century global position."

Although some critics have assumed, from Jacques Barzun's criticisms of modern culture, that he is a conservative ideologue, in reality he has always followed his own, pragmatic vision of things.

Lorne Oppler gives the lowdown on eating kosher in Austin.

A private health care consultant has improved efficiency at the county's primary health care clinics. Looming Medicaid cuts protenda new crisis.

Yoga and Starbucks. Karaoke and republicans. Squirrel rifles and Al Gore. Together for the first time in this week's letters to the editor!

San Antonio-based Presidian wants to enter into public private partnerships with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

A drug bust in tiny Tulia, Texas opens up old racial wounds and raises questions about the veracity of the undercover cop-for-hire who orchestrated it all.

The theatre community sounds off on critics as artists.

Bad management and drug tests lead to txn's demise.

Case Marianella homeless shelter provides a badly needed haven for homeless Spanish-speaking immigrants.

Substandard Conditions Are a Way of Life for Northridge Acres

Citizens voice their approval of the recommendations of the Police Oversight Focus Group; proposed City Hall balloons and its price tag grows; Rainey Street Historic District nears its day of reckoning.

City Council Member Gus Garcia retires after more than 30 years of public service

Cine las Americas Festival of New Latin American Cinema

Austin author Inga Muscio (Cunt, Seal Press) reflects on her experience as a badass skateboard babe and wonders why more women in Austin don't fancy life on four wheels.

Architectural Team Picked to Design Scaled-Down Building

A plethora of environmental concerns are argued in this week's letters to the editor.

Cap Metro's light rail proposals clear a major hurdle after receiving a "recommended" rating from the Federal Transit Administration.

Economics, schmeconomics: Chronicle reviewer Roger Gathman compiles the latest books about the (almost) first commodity, money.

Candidates lining up for city council races; things are heating up in the district 48 race; the austin police association is not happy with the manner in which chief stan knee has picked his assistant chiefs, and the jesus video is being mailed to every texas household.

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Hey, who put a vegetarian in my aquifer?

City's day laborer program undergoes successful overhaul

Wildseed Farms in Fredericksburg sows the seeds for a colorful spring.

What does this so-called "boom" mean to most Americans?

George Jones comes to Austin and everyone gets arrested in the melee. Meanwhile, Matthew McConaughey gets naked and busted, and Austin's answer to Santana, Vallejo, signs with Gloria Estefan's Sony imprint. Maybe K-NACK, a local alt.rock station from earlier this decade, can play them online as the station returns -- on the Internet.