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What the Task Force Wrought
Austin ISD's facilities review became a panic drill of cuts, closings, and contradictions
"...down with questions about the future of the district's facilities. Superintendent Meria Carstarphen was looking for guidance from board..."

May 27, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been
Austin Community Television's First Quarter-Century
"...begins the 25-year-old story of access television in Austin, Texas - with Mick and Keith and a temporary expatriate..."

June 5, 1998 Screens Feature by Michael Bertin

Babies Behind Bars
In the mirror world of TDCJ, life goes on
"...Last year in Texas prisons there were 399 attempted suicides – 16 successful..."

July 16, 2004 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Here Come the Transporters
In the endless Central Texas transportation wars, the lions and the lambs look for ways to make peace
"...really parts of the same plan. Though the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority's toll-road system and Capital Metro's commuter-rail-and-bus..."

June 4, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

What a Dump
What Does Gov. Bush Have Buried in West Texas?
"...miles from the Rio Grande, near the tiny West Texas town of Sierra Blanca. As luck would have it,..."

March 13, 1998 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

TDCJ Fails to Protect Prisoners From Extreme Heat
At least 14 have died since 2007
"...In 2010, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Risk Management Division reminded employees..."

April 23, 2014 News Post by Jordan Smith

Rodeo 80
The 2007 Legislature in a quick-step roundup
"...ask this to the people of the state of Texas: Is that your priority?" – Richard Whittaker Austin UnBashed..."

June 8, 2007 News Column

Naked City
"...The Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept. released a proposed Land and..."

July 5, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Planetarium, AISD PAC: Two Dreams to Come True?
Austin moves closer to having a planetarium and an AISD performing arts center
"...new directors – Karin Richmond, former chair of the Texas Enterprise Zone, and Anthony Platts­mier, president of the Experimental..."

May 21, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...from using eminent domain to take land for lodging facilities, parking, or a parking structure to be used in..."

Aug. 19, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...Department of Justice gave its preclearance to the new Texas map. See p.22...."

Dec. 26, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Entertainment Economy
As the Austin film, music, and gaming scenes become a "cluster," civic leaders are looking for industrial-strength creativity
"...it to be more than that. The University of Texas turned out to be a great success, but other..."

March 14, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Then There's This: Aquifer Angst
Will the city poop out on its fight to block a wastewater permit?
"...contested case hearing set for Nov. 14 at the Texas Commission on Envi­ron­mental Quality...."

Sept. 28, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith

Everything Under the Sun(set)
The Sunset Advisory Commission looks toward the 81st legislative session
"...At the final presession meeting of the Sunset Advisory Commission last week, legislators got a reminder of what they're..."

Dec. 26, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Coal Hard Cash
Alcoa has applied for a mining application in Elgin, near Austin.
"...after years of fighting the company before the Railroad Commission and Milam County courts -- no recourse...."

Sept. 3, 1999 News Feature

Local Group Has High Hopes for Plan-it-arium
Stars aligning for an Austin science museum
"...of Art to the north and the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum to the west. The group's plan..."

June 15, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Sunsetting TYC: Will It Stick?
The Sunset Commission's close vote makes TYC's Lege fate hard to predict
"...Close the Texas Youth Commission and merge it with the Texas Juvenile..."

Jan. 23, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Naked City
"...•The Republican Party of Texas hammered another nail in its 2008 coffin this week,..."

Aug. 3, 2007 News Feature

The Cost of Jobs at TYC
A new argument has opened in the Lege over whether to keep TYC facilities open for economic reasons.
"...to slow down the closure of contentious and scandal-wracked Texas Youth Commission facilities, because doing so would hit the..."

April 3, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

What Price Baseball?
The Rangers Ain't Gonna Like This, Yogi
"...by Robert Bryce Photos courtesy of the Texas Observer..."

June 20, 1997 News Feature

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...declared death by injection "cruel and unusual punishment." In Texas, the capital prosecution of Anthony Graves was undermined when..."

Dec. 22, 2006 News Feature

A Shifting Landscape
Texas Parks & Wildlife at an organizational crossroads
"...laying down the literal law of the land in Texas, where an estimated 94% of all land is in..."

Feb. 8, 2002 News Feature by Dan Oko

Austin Hunkers Down and Waits as the Pandemic Grows
It’s closing time
"...essential services, schools or colleges, pharmacies, transit and transit facilities, the airport and airport operations, and hospitals and medical..."

March 20, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

News Roundup: No Fun
Lege goes anti-LGBT; Council debates noms; fests could get curfews
"...this week's News Roundup, the Lege tries to keep Texas anti-gay; Council gets bogged down in board and commission..."

May 11, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

East Austin Nonprofit Mired in Controversy CEACO Sinking
"...self-congratulatory dinner of steak and good cheer at the Texas Land and Cattle Company...."

March 5, 1999 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

What Price Labor?
Business as Usual
"...around to seek redress against the company with the Texas Workforce Commission; the rest of the crew went home..."

Nov. 27, 1998 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Best-Laid Plans
How does the patchwork of separate plans for the future of Central Texas fit together? No one knows.
"...In Central Texas, right now, there's a whole lot of planning going..."

July 16, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Art of the State
Retiring director Rick Hernandez reflects on three decades with the Texas Commission on the Arts
"...When Ricardo Hernandez started working with the Texas Commission on the Arts, Dolph Briscoe was in the..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Who Does What
"...transportation players without a scorecard. Try this one:Boards and Commissions..."

May 23, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

A Museum Comes of Age
"...easily torn down because of potential intervention from the Texas Historical Commission. Again, Canales could not get into specifics...."

July 23, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

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