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Sept. 26, 2003 Column
You Can't Touch This
The budget battles, Round 2: Citizens rally to save community services
"...$38 million in General Fund spending and raise property taxes just to break even this year, and still faces..."
Aug. 22, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
The fuss over historic zoning is a symptom of larger city problems.
"...it hasten or delay the decay of the urban tax base? Is it Smart Growth or its opposite? In..."
Aug. 22, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison
Margot and Brewster Get Their (Red) Ink On
"...if they don't have to pay for them" through tax increases. "But it's important for the city to make..."
May 30, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...["Postmarks," May, 9] is an excellent example of why taxes should perhaps be increased -- to pay for better..."
May 16, 2003 Column
Endorsements
The Chronicle endorsements
"...to be made this summer, and that neither painful taxes nor more painful layoffs can be ruled off the..."
May 2, 2003 News Feature
Your Neighbors, Your Money: ACC Looks for Support
Austin Community College seeks to build support for a tax referendum even as a state audit blasts ACC leaders.
"...ask local voters next spring to approve a property tax increase. The referendum, as approved Monday by the college..."
Dec. 6, 2002 News Feature by Michael King
Page Two
In the wake of the Republican Dream Team's electoral sweep, expect the governmental services you depend on to be diminished.
"...themselves as populists, the people's candidates, promising to cut taxes, decrease the cost of health care, and build more..."
Nov. 8, 2002 Column by Louis Black
Cedar Park, Over Ice
Southwest Sports Group's high-powered campaign to win voter approval for an ice rink/concert complex could "put Cedar Park on the map."
"...Cedar Park Development Corporation, which collects a one-cent sales tax to "promote" -- that is, subsidize -- employers and..."
Nov. 1, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Winter Heat Wave at ACC
The heat is on Austin Community College President Richard Fonté.
"...job it is trying to do. Indeed, the school's tax rate has not changed since voters first approved it..."
March 8, 2002 News Feature by Cathy Vaughan
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
Some brave suggestions on the city budget from someone whose job isn't subject to voter opinion.
"...where thousands have seen their own pink slips, should taxpayers be asked to keep other people employed so municipal..."
Feb. 22, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison
Naked City
Statesman editor Rich Oppel finds Lloyd Doggett's words distasteful, but not the Re-publican's actions.
"...House Republicans' solution to any and all social problems: tax cuts. "Their position is so extreme," said Doggett, "that..."
Nov. 9, 2001 News Feature by Michael King
EZ Does It?
The city hopes HUD Empowerment Zones will bring in money for East Austin.
"...on some of its disadvantaged neighborhoods by securing federal tax breaks and other incentives designed, in theory, to shore..."
Sept. 14, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith
Naked City
Bills that would create a special taxing and development district for Gary Bradley's Spillar Tract land move forward at the Lege, despite Bradley's apparent violation of his agreement with the city.
"...moving forward in the House) would create a special taxing district for the Bradley-owned Spillar tract in Hays County,..."
April 20, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett
The Hightower Lowdown
Selling the Commons; The Corporate Tax-Dodgers
"...thinking about selling naming rights to city hall.The Corporate Tax-Dodgers Suppose you owned a local hardware store and had..."
March 16, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower
The Deal of a Lifetime
TDHCA Board member Florita Bell Griffin is standing trial in a Houston federal courtroom on allegations that she, along with two co-defendants, conspired to profit from deals she helped approve.
"...equitable selection process, determine who reaps the millions in tax credits the agency dispenses annually. The tax-credit awards, which..."
Nov. 3, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton
Under One Roof
Can the City Make Good on Its Affordable Housing Promise?
"...commercial activity to escape outside their borders, hollowing the tax base and ghettoizing inner-city neighborhoods. Since then, the mayor..."
July 28, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton
Naked City
Herein, a concise explanation of all those weird and voluminous charges attached to your local, mobile, and long-distance phone bills.
"...are compounded by a myriad of mysterious fees and taxes with unintelligible names...."
June 2, 2000 News Feature by Rob D'Amico
Naked City
On May 6, voters will choose how AISDwill send tax dollars to property-poor school districts under Chapter 41 of the state education code.
"...the state education agency, AISD officials are worried that taxpayers may not select any method at all, believing that..."
April 21, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton
A Decade at the Lege
"...finance law, which required property-rich school districts to share tax revenues with poorer districts. The bill gave property-rich districts..."
Jan. 7, 2000 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett
The Year It All Went Wrong
Looking back at club closings in Austin in 1999.
"...along from crisis to crisis just fine until the tax(wo)man stepped in...."
Dec. 31, 1999 Music Feature by Michael Bertin
Postmarks
Bush on Borderline
"...an economic "boom," a time when governments should raise taxes to provide resources for "lean" years; not cut taxes...."
June 11, 1999 Column
No Green Acres
Crumbling Landmarks
"...Legislature, it wouldn't need the endowment program. Sporting Goods Tax..."
April 16, 1999 News Feature
Postmarks
Plan for People, Not Cars
"...Beyond whatever tax subsidies/incentives CSC is getting for moving downtown, there is..."
March 26, 1999 Column
Aleshire the Agitator
Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Limelight
"...nearly two decades. During his five-year stint as county tax assessor-collector and 12 years as county judge, Aleshire has..."
Aug. 28, 1998 News Feature by Robert Bryce
Postmarks
Mixed Up Signals
"...economic well-being. How can that be bad for our tax base?..."
April 24, 1998 Column
Naked City
Off the Desk:
"...might be a new sheriff in town policing your tax dollars. The ICWT was assembled to review the local..."
Feb. 13, 1998 News Feature
Let's Make a Deal
Greasing the Wheels at City Hall
"...the tunnel through a voter-approved increase in the bed tax, from 4.5% to 6.5%. Watson was backed by Smith,..."
Jan. 30, 1998 News Column by Kayte VanScoy
Chasing Gary
To Annex or Not to Annex
"...$274 million worth of property, it will increase city tax revenues by about $1.4 million per year. However, annexation..."
Sept. 19, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce
The Cost of Growth
"...1991-92 1996-97 1997-98 % change since 91-92 Total tax roll $16.9 billion $25.8 billion $27.5 billion 63 %..."
