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The Hightower Report: Why Are Taxpayers Subsidizing Corporate Crime?
Tough on crime, unless it's corporate
"...the old saying. Unless, of course, the criminals are corporate executives. In those cases, the culprits are practically always..."

Feb. 20, 2015 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Bold & the Bountiful: HAAM's Corporate Battle of the Bands Rocks for a Cause
Fifteen years in, HAAM's Corporate BOTB is bolder than ever
"...The takeaway from this year’s Corporate Battle of the Bands: These folks are bold...."

June 9, 2024 Music Post by Cy White

Looking Back at the Corporate Comedy Classic Office Space
Mike Judge's defining depiction of corporate America enters the Texas Film Hall of Fame
"...Judge looked past Downtown and the Drag to the corporate world – those cubicle farms that had sprung up..."

March 1, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

HAAM’s Corporate Battle of the Bands
Working stiffs rock for musicians health care network
"...dream-crushing quip, “Don’t quit your day job,” at tonight’s Corporate Battle of the Bands, where groups of gainfully employed..."

May 9, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Hightower Report: College bowl games become corporate money games
Games now bring us to the sponsors
"...about the Camellia Bowl. But the game had a corporate sponsor and could count on bulk purchases of tickets..."

Jan. 9, 2015 News Column by Jim Hightower

Gay Corporate Texas
When it comes to equality, a surprising number of major Texas companies are downright liberal
"...before voters Nov. 8 – but who better than corporate America to teach business-friendly legislators about "values" that embrace,..."

Oct. 21, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Corporate Free Speech
"...the IBM on a secretary's desk was a Selectric, corporate advocacy ran toward offering a senator a ride on..."

Jan. 31, 2010 Postmarks

The Hightower Report: Corporate Weasels Try to Escape Paying for Workers' Injuries
Who needs workers' comp? Not big business.
"...When you come across a corporate lobbying group claiming to be pushing "Responsi­ble Alternatives to..."

April 24, 2015 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report: Scurrilous Corporate Thieves Are Stealing Workers' Comp
No honor among these thieves
"...thief, yes – but not those princely CEOs of corporate larceny. The elites in the top suites are pickpockets,..."

April 17, 2015 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report: Corporate greed is making us sick
Corporate greed is making us sick
"...The failure of our corporate and political leaders to make sure every worker gets..."

Oct. 25, 2013 News Column

Corporate Elite Will Reap Election Benefits
"...be raided to fill the deep pockets of the corporate elite who bought this election). As long as Republicans..."

Nov. 3, 2010 Postmarks

Corporate Welfare?
"...of serving not only the economically disadvantaged but large corporate clients as well. That's because the JTPA obligates the..."

Nov. 13, 1998 News Feature

Corporate Takeover
Walter Prescott Webb Told Us So
"...has been almost no discussion of the MAI and corporate power in the mainstream press. But the articles by..."

March 13, 1998 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Opinion: Don’t Ask Texas Schoolchildren to Fund Your Corporate Expansion
Central Texas Interfaith calls on tech companies to withdraw their applications for Chapter 313 tax breaks
"...Texas, and that the good jobs promised by this corporate giveaway often haven't materialized. When Central Texas Interfaith and..."

April 22, 2022 Column by Michael Floyd

Corporate Reshuffle Signals New Era at Rooster Teeth
How the AT&T takeover at Time Warner affects the local studio
"...Here's the timeline of those corporate shuffles that have moved Rooster Teeth from an independent..."

Dec. 12, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Drafthouse Eyes New Corporate Campus
Film company has eight figures, no renderings yet for AISD's Baker Center
"...is to turn the 4.36-acre site into the Drafthouse's corporate campus; the mixed-use development will also include affordable housing..."

Oct. 6, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Hightower Report: Should We Entrust Our Schoolchildren to Corporate Profiteers?
What's your education worth?
"...billion from their federal funding and give it to corporate chains...."

July 28, 2017 News Column by Jim Hightower

Hightower Report: The Joke of 'Corporate Governance'
One CEO has seen his pay cut in half ... to $11.5 million
"...on CEO pay, because he was a lavishly well-paid corporate chieftain himself. As CEO of Exxon Mobil for 13..."

Feb. 1, 2013 News Column by Jim Hightower

Corporate Rock Policy Still Sucks
"...song, the manager told us the Driskill had a corporate no-drums policy. Floyd talked fast and smooth, and the..."

May 1, 2012 Postmarks

Austin's Corporate Welfare at Its Worst
"...to extend Las Manitas a $750,000 forgivable loan is corporate welfare at its worst [“Beside the Point,” News, June..."

June 8, 2007 Postmarks

Corporate Web Sites Still Suck
"...going on there. It's sad to see things going corporate. Hopefully some of the management there can keep the..."

July 23, 2004 Postmarks

"Corporate Predator" Dissected
Freeport Makes The Nation
"...public relations people to promote a warm and fuzzy corporate image. He points out that Freeport has hired numerous..."

July 21, 1995 News Feature by Robert Bryce

St. David's Named Austin FC's First Corporate Sponsor
Also zoning change for McKalla Place moves forward
"...FC announced St. David's HealthCare as the first founding corporate sponsor for the city's first major league sports team..."

May 24, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Cut the Corporate Welfare
"...These could use more funds. But let’s cut the corporate welfare. Finally, with the Precourt lawsuit in Ohio [see..."

May 3, 2018 Postmarks

The Hightower Report: Turning Human Misery Into Corporate Profits
Corporations use the courts to prey on financially devastated Americans
"...lawyer, and can't mount an effective defense against the corporate lawyers. So, some 95% of these lawsuits produce default..."

April 3, 2015 News Column by Jim Hightower

Corporate Evolution: In-House Chef Serves Efficiency
Chef Ari Dvorin feeds morale of corporate clients
"...food service options is a relatively new trend in corporate culture. It's a way to bring staff members together..."

Aug. 13, 2013 Food Post by Carly Yansak

Hightower Report: In Battling Corporate Greed, Tenacity Matters
Activism pushes major corporations to support food labeling law
"...political cash, deceptive advertising, and outright lies – the corporate Goliaths squeaked out a narrow victory over a scrappy..."

March 1, 2013 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report: Meet Big Brother's Corporate Cousin
England has a watchful eye (and its CCTVs) on auto insurance
"...simplicity for the government ... and profitability for its corporate cousin, which is implementing the new gotcha technology. Still,..."

March 30, 2012 News Column by Jim Hightower

Ruling: 'A Raging Flashflood of Corporate Money'
"...elections financing washed away in a raging flashflood of corporate money." Decrying the decision to afford corporations First Amendment..."

Jan. 29, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Corporate Camera Abuse
"...parking garages. They are everywhere. And what about the corporate databases that sell our private information on the open..."

June 4, 2009 Postmarks

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