The Power of Poetry
Johnston High English teacher makes poets out of school's urban immigrant youths
"...The five Johnston High School seniors met twice a week after school in the room..."
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June 1, 2007 News Feature by Michael May
Letters at 3AM
Freedom is beautiful and dangerous: That has been the theme of American writers since the beginning
"...of a daily class, the last these high school seniors will attend. It's spring, graduation is near, senioritis is..."
May 11, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura
House: Squeeze the (Dem) Voters
Voter-ID bill passes the House
"...forms of photo ID – minorities, the poor, and seniors – and in those groups are a lot of..."
April 27, 2007 News Column by Lee Nichols
Naked City
"...voting fraud; Democrats say it will disenfranchise many minorities, seniors, and the poor. Headlines• Early voting begins Monday, April..."
April 27, 2007 News Feature
TAKS Scores Show Both Improvement and Trouble for AISD
Numbers down for the crucial third and 11th grades
"...trying as long as it takes. About 400 current seniors are in that boat. However, many simply give up:..."
May 26, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May
On The Lege
Big Tobacco, poor smokers gain temporary reprieve, and other tax politics news
"...in some tax relief for people with disabilities and seniors over 65, who currently have their school property taxes..."
April 28, 2006 News Column by Amy Smith
New Medicare Plan Infringes on Sovereignty, States Say
Attorney General Abbott leads states' legal charge
"...With more than 300,000 seniors eligible for Plan D benefits, Abbott argues, Texas will..."
March 10, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Harvesting History
An appreciation of the pecan
"...advisory board member donated an old power cracker, volunteer seniors have been busting Austin's nuts for 25 cents a..."
Nov. 25, 2005 Food Feature by MM Pack
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...a bigger push for dual-credit programs – high school seniors enrolled in college-credit courses at local colleges – for..."
Nov. 18, 2005 News Feature
Stopping the Nonsense
The No Nonsense campaign gears up to derail the national anti-gay crusade
"...students asking college students to vote, bowlers asking bowlers, seniors talking to seniors, church members talking to church members..."
Oct. 7, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...(the number of freshman compared to the number of seniors or students who graduate or earn a GED), and..."
July 22, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...• This month, 545 of the roughly 4,000 AISD seniors will not receive expected diplomas because of failure to..."
May 27, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols
Round One at Round Rock
Is the noisy suburban school battle an omen of things to come?
"...in technology, including laptop computers for 3,000 high school seniors. And instead of a $91 million high school –..."
April 29, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May
Assisted Living
Greenebaum's superstylized first feature attempts to mesh fiction with nonfiction while remaining a narrative, and it attempts to do it almost entirely in the confines of a nursing home, entirely in one day.
"...(Greenebaum's camera stays trained on the at-times grotesquely infirm seniors like a Japanese tourist's would in Dante's seventh circle),..."
April 8, 2005 Movie Review by Shawn Badgley
Meet the Fockers
You can Fockerize Meet the Parents all you want, but this new movie is a lame sequel to the comic hit of 2000.
"...from Roz Focker’s occupation as a sex therapist for seniors. Jack Byrnes has now graduated from teaching his cat..."
Dec. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Letters at 3AM
The United States military is moving inevitably toward reinstating the draft
"...addresses, and phone numbers of high school juniors and seniors." Maybe that's what they meant by "no child left..."
May 14, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura
My Architect: A Son's Journey
Compelling, luminous, and poignant, this documentary about legendary American architect Louis Kahn, made by his illegitimate son, is surprisingly revelatory.
Feb. 13, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Hightower Lowdown
George talks the macho talk, soldiers walk the deadly walk; and Congress says "Health care for me, but not for thee."
"..."budget constraints" as their reason for having to shortchange seniors...."
July 25, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower
The Hightower Lowdown
Health care fight proves that The People can prevail; and what happened to Ranger George?
"...for health care programs that provide essential services to seniors, low-income children, people with disabilities, and others without health..."
June 13, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower
About AIDS
"...HIV Treatment Works for Seniors -- Get Tested!..."
April 11, 2003 Column by Sandy Bartlett
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...If the government has a health care plan for seniors, how come it doesn't cover everything, including prescription drugs?..."
April 12, 2002 Column
Naked City
GED-ding Mighty Crowded
"...status. Based on trial exams administered to high school seniors, the 2002 exam has been written so that a..."
Dec. 21, 2001 News Feature by Emily Pyle
Naked City
Keep the Poor Kids Down
"...would grant automatic admission to the top 20% of seniors at 250 Texas high schools rated by the Texas..."
Dec. 21, 2001 News Feature by Lee Nichols
University High
Community colleges are pushing "college credit" courses for high school students -- but the education is in doubt.
"...Given the state's "piss-poor" record of preparing high school seniors for college, says Treisman, even second-rate college classes may..."
June 8, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton
Naked City
The House considers a Top 10% law to address inequities at magnet high schools, and UT is embroiled in a free speech debate after a scuffle between faculty and university police.
"...10 at magnet schools. For instance, the 196 non-magnet seniors at Johnston would get 20 Top 10 slots. The..."
March 9, 2001 News Feature by Louis Dubose
The Hightower Lowdown
Treasury Sec. Paul O'Neill pitches Bush tax breaks, Newt Gingrich is a business consultant, Congressional fundraising among freshman is out of control
"...cheapest price. This would provide needed medicines for all seniors while also stopping some of the corporate rip-off. It's..."
March 2, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower
Private History of a Campaign that Failed
Stand-up comic Eddie Gossling is not your president today, and he has a
lot of people to blame for it. Here is his first-hand account of his
weeklong campaign for the White House.
"...time with discussions of such supposedly "serious" issues as seniors, prescription drugs, health care, social security, and military readiness...."
Nov. 10, 2000 Arts Feature by Eddie Gossling
Naked City
The city's SMARTHousing initiative gets its first concrete proposal for affordable housing, a 55-unit complex for lower-income seniors.
"...of America to build a 55-unit complex for low-income seniors on vacant city land abutting the Oak Springs library...."
Oct. 13, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton
The Hightower Lowdown
Over the Counter Fraud; Shell Games
"...television ads proposing federal funding of prescription drugs for seniors. Sounds good, but who exactly are these "Citizens" for..."
Oct. 6, 2000 News Column by Jim Hightower
Carrying the Burden
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.
"...using donated seeds and bedding plants. The kids and seniors who tend the gardens get some produce to take..."
