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Nov. 27, 2020 News Feature
Answers to Your Questions About Voting by Mail in Travis County
Options and deadlines for those not going to the polls
"...PDF version at the Texas secretary of state's website: webservices.sos.state.tx.us/vrrequest/bbm.asp. Print the application; fill it out; and then mail,..."
Oct. 2, 2020 News Feature
Election Ticker: From the Council Dais to Round Rock
Endorsements are rolling in for March 2020 Primary
"...and unreliable, and, he told the Chronicle, "When the SoS asked me to send 'show me your papers' letters..."
Jan. 24, 2020 News Feature by Michael King
Travis County Voter Registration Deadline Is Feb. 3
Early voting in the March primary election begins Feb. 18
"...March 3 – Super Tuesday! – is less than..."
Jan. 17, 2020 News Feature by Sarah Marloff
Voter Purge Leader David Whitley Resigns
Embattled SoS calls it quits after discriminatory voter purge
"...stood as a united front throughout session against the SoS, while Republicans kept punting the confirmation vote down the..."
May 27, 2019 News Post by Mary Tuma
Texas Voter Purge Effort Ends
State agrees to legal settlement; on the hook for $450K
"...judge sharply admonished the state’s effort and forced the SoS to temporarily halt the purge...."
April 26, 2019 News Post by Mary Tuma
Texas Secretary of State Defends Voter Purge Fiasco
Whitley ducks blame during contentious confirmation hearing
"...two weeks ago included 95,000 registered voters who the SoS said were potentially not U.S. citizens (58,000 of whom..."
Feb. 8, 2019 News Post by Mary Tuma
Sound on Sound Fest Canceled
Promoters cite loss of financial backing
"...roughly a week and a half ago and the SOS team scrambled to find new investors, but couldn’t make..."
Oct. 6, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin
Voter Empowerment?
Austin's ThinkVoting has an app for that
"...he said, it was feared it would seem the SOS was favoring candidates with websites. “There were disputes over..."
Oct. 23, 2014 News Post by Greg Harman
Then There's This: City May Buy Aquifer Land Slated for Sewage
Judge's order offers only clue that talks are in progress
"...value includes a wastewater permit they don't have," said SOS executive director Bill Bunch. He hopes none of these..."
Oct. 4, 2013 News Column by Amy Smith
Top 10 Environmental Stories
Save Our Springs' anniversary, Al Armendariz's move, and the bag ban
"...3) 20 Years of SOS In August, local enviros and politicos celebrated the 20th..."
Jan. 4, 2013 News Feature by Amy Smith
Voters Should Know
"...again makes his false claim that he "Expanded the SOS ordinance to help clean up sites polluting" the Barton..."
May 8, 2012 Postmarks
Brigid Shea: 'A Proven Leader'
Brigid Shea sits down for a Q&A on a wide range of city topics
"...the same place we were 20 years ago with SOS. We're coming out of a recession, we're poised to..."
April 27, 2012 News Feature by Amy Smith
Then There's This: Combs Takes the Cake
When it comes to trolling for votes, anything goes
"...on the precise details, but not long after the SOS referendum – circa 1993 or so – I attended..."
March 16, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith
City Hall Hustle: Council Kix Pix to Click!
Music, water, and fusion in the air
"...wet stuff from Lake Travis in Northwest Austin! The SOS boys are pointing to an $849 million price tag..."
Aug. 7, 2009 News Column by Wells Dunbar
Beside the Point
Council on deck to approve slip-n-slide water deal with LCRA
"...redevelopment in the Barton Springs Zone, aka Son of SOS, up for public comment and possible adoption today. (We..."
Nov. 9, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar
Beside the Point
Disneyland has its civic virtues
"...Lastly, council sets public hearing on Lee Leffingwell's beleaguered SOS Ordinance revisions for next week's meeting, Nov. 8...."
Nov. 2, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar
Another Springs/Aquifer Development Fight
Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District finds itself on wrong side of environmental fight as its board continues determining whether it should build new headquarters on donated parcel inside aquifer recharge zone
"...the ecologically fragile recharge zone. For groups such as SOSA and the Sierra Club, the fact that BS/EACD would..."
July 6, 2007 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves
Naked City
"...and insufficient regulatory mechanisms to protect the salamander's habitat. SOS Executive Director Bill Bunch said the central problem is..."
March 9, 2007 News Feature
To the Lighthouse
After 20 years, WTP4 returns to a still unanswered question: Do we need it?
"...and where our peak will be in 2019," says SOS spokesman Colin Clark. "So when they say we have..."
Feb. 23, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar
Shea Supports Brees for Place 5 on 3rd Court of Appeals
"...and defied a local court order to call the SOS election, it was the 3rd Court that heard the..."
Oct. 24, 2006 Postmarks
How Many Times Have Bunch and SOSA Saved the Springs?
"...Editor, Just one question for Bill Bunch and the SOSA. Since, according to you and your group, every time..."
May 11, 2006 Postmarks
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Our readers talk back.
"...Sometimes SOS Bill Bunch is his own worst enemy, but I..."
May 5, 2006 Column
Give Them Hell, Bill!
"...of when it was a "sleepy college town." Sometimes SOS Bill Bunch is his own worst enemy, but I..."
April 27, 2006 Postmarks
Beside the Point
Attempts to debate Props. 1 and 2 produce only polarized statements and crowd heckling
"...from building in the Barton Springs contributing zone. Citing SOS's legal defeat last week in its case to block..."
April 21, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar
Supports Open Government, Not 'Page Two'
"...Dear Editor, I just read Louis Black's anti-SOS, anti-Prop. 2 rant twice, desperately searching for meaning [“Page..."
April 11, 2006 Postmarks
Point Austin: Beside the Point
Council ponders limiting McMansions
"...it rains at council, it pours – Monday, the SOS Alliance flooded city hall with over 20,000 petition signatures...."
Feb. 17, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar
Point Austin: Blame It on Grandpa
In search of heroes and villains over AMD
"...Barton Springs. "Barton Springs may be lost in 2006," SOS wrote to supporters last week, pointing not only to..."
Dec. 30, 2005 News Column by Michael King
Silicon Labs to Move Downtown, Out of Watershed
Company's decision to move was partly due to concerns about expanding in environmentally sensitive terrain
"...understand," Armstrong said. "I was made aware of [the SOS meetings], but not until after the fact. I would..."
Dec. 9, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith
Proposition 2 Plus 8
In addition to sexual obsessions, we get to vote on railroads and mortgages too
"...Co. court decision (in a lawsuit brought by the SOS Alliance) that ruled the deal between the Village of..."
Oct. 7, 2005 News Feature by Michael King
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