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July 26, 2002 Column
The Hightower Report
The "outernet industry want advertising on the inside of your eyelids; WorldCom moneyslinger Bernie Ebbers dies by his own gun; and the un-American activities of Stanley Works.
"...phone companies in a rapid-fire acquisitions binge, notching his corporate gun with 75 takeovers in 10 years...."
June 14, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower
The Hightower Lowdown
Linda Lay is a poor little rich girl; the WTO bites its own creators; Enron got what it paid for.
"...a world governing body that would advance the global corporate agenda, literally giving the WTO veto power over national..."
Feb. 8, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower
The Hightower Lowdown
Our friends look a lot like our enemies; the Charleston Five; and burning your feet for Burger King!
"...The Corporate Spirit..."
Oct. 26, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower
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More letters about music, art, and urban planning
"...Stop the Corporate Cop Corps..."
Aug. 17, 2001 Column
Naked City
Local news this week in Austin.
"...the mysterious group responsible for the tirade: Taxpayers Against Corporate Subsidies, or TACS...."
July 13, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett
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Our Free Radio coverage generates some audio radiance, and more.
"...from a locally owned, locally focused medium into the corporate-dominated, mediocre wasteland it is now. I believe low power..."
June 29, 2001 Column
The Hightower Lowdown
Jeffords and the Lobby, Karl Rove's ethics & the New Fast Track
"...for that kind of access. This year lots of corporate lobbyists were fat and sassy because they were bosom..."
June 29, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower
The Hightower Lowdown
Killing workplace safety rules, Paul O'Neill's Alcoa conflict, and Poppy's international hustle
"...with the full involvement of health professionals, unions, and corporate officials. In all but the worst cases, the new..."
March 23, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower
The Hightower Lowdown
A Little Help From My Friends; The Buddy System
"...and agenda -- they are of, by, and for corporate America. Virtually all of them have spent their careers..."
Jan. 12, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower
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Quote of the week: "You, my hyphenated friend, are an ambassador of evil."
"...is yet another in a long line of generic, corporately owned giants who are very efficiently squeezing the personality..."
March 17, 2000 Column
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We are wrong, wrong, wrong. So is golf.
"...is yet another in a long line of generic, corporately owned giants who are very efficiently squeezing the personality..."
March 10, 2000 Column
Media Clips
Microradio wins FCC approval, but advocates of the low-wattage stations say the rules for winning a license will prohibit most stations and silence the microradio community's radical voice.
"...in theory, when the new rules take effect, the corporate stranglehold over our nation's airwaves will finally be loosened..."
Feb. 18, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols
Home-Grown Workers
Is Austin's Job Boom Trickling Down to the People?
"...have noted, however, that the billions of dollars of corporate investment in the area has not appreciably helped people..."
March 27, 1998 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton
Shooting Spelce in a Barrel
Bush and Bush Land a Free Ad
"...NAHP Goes Corporate..."
March 13, 1998 News Column by Lee Nichols
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"...but also, more recently, on such promising areas as corporate accountability, consumer and community rights and values, and support..."
Dec. 19, 1997 Column
Sanctuary
Deliciously perverse battle of the sexes plays with lust and power
"...Of course, it seems likely the instant we see corporate pretty boy Hal (Abbott), with his perfectly manicured roughness,..."
June 2, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Beloved animated series gets a baffling meta makeover
"...own dollars to make a movie castigating its current corporate strategy. Instead, former How I Met Your Mother writers..."
May 20, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
The Beta Test
Jim Cummings burns the film industry to the ground (and it deserves it)
"...made it a specific point to circumvent the traditional corporate-schmoozing model of moviemaking in order to have total control..."
Nov. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur
Jordan Levin on the Future of Rooster Teeth
Post-pandemic, the studio's general manager looks at the next steps
"...for the Austin firm. As a veteran of the corporate media world got to know Burns and Hullum even..."
July 31, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
The Hightower Report: The Living Wage Preemption Act
"...locals. Why do these governors hate democracy? Because their corporate funders don't like some of the laws local people..."
Aug. 4, 2017 News Column by Jim Hightower
The Hightower Report: How Uber Goobered and Lyft Slipped Down
Spoiled-bratism is grotesque when it comes from corporate elites
"...– but it's grotesque when it comes from billion-dollar corporate elites like Uber and Lyft...."
May 27, 2016 News Column by Jim Hightower
The Hightower Report: Obama Says "We're Writing the Rules." Who's "We"?
Obama resorts to a tacky bit of China-bashing
"...to get us to swallow that glob of global corporate greed known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, President Obama has..."
Dec. 4, 2015 News Column by Jim Hightower
Point Austin: Climate Control
Will corporate interests finally see the light on climate change?
"...Beyond these political and corporate contingencies, there remains the undeniable circumstance that those nations..."
Dec. 4, 2015 News Column by Michael King
The Hightower Report
Who will oversee Volkswagen's overseers?
"...It's a perfect portrait of a shameful corporate crime, with these highly-paid overseers essentially confessing that corporations..."
Oct. 23, 2015 News Column by Jim Hightower
Jurassic World
Bigger isn’t necessarily better
"...who are vacationing in the allegedly “safe” (yeah, right) corporate theme park of the title only to find themselves..."
June 12, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Lazarus Effect
Medical students try to bring the dead back to life.
"...(Bolger), these two aren’t about to let an abrupt corporate takeover interfere with their research, and once Zoe takes..."
March 6, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss
The Hightower Report
Samsung apologizes, only not really
"...Sometimes, corporate chieftains actually step forward to apologize for the abuse..."
May 30, 2014 News Column
The New Look of Fine Dining
Austin's emerging restaurant empires
"...Domain, an environment better suited to the chain's upholstered corporate ambience. Out-of-town fine-dining restaurants that are successful tend to..."
Feb. 14, 2014 Food Feature by Rachel Feit
A Hijacking
This psychologically tense Danish drama about modern-day piracy doesn't cater to cliches or sentimentality.
"...ship’s seven-man crew. The negotiations that ensue between the corporate offices in Copenhagen and the pirates in the Indian..."
