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Republicans offer the same predictable help to the unemployed: tax cuts for the rich.

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Happenings

Advocates for migrant workers and local law enforcement team up to get deadbeat employers to pay up.

The mayoral race is on, with and without some usual suspects.

A long-ago marijuana conviction gets a library staffer fired and raises questions about city employment policies and the war on drugs

Whole Foods Market lays off a group of low-wage employees.

Parks & Recreation downsizes, shedding functions that perhaps it never should have had.

The City Council on Tuesday approved its $1.8 billion budget for fiscal 2003, but not before mollifying some angry citizens and mopping up some of the blood on the floor.

City Hall scraped to the bone; now it cuts into it.

In this startling thriller, a mousy but frustrated office worker and an unrepentant thief pull off a heist that depends in equal measures on quick thinking and creative choreography.

With arbitration clauses, homebuilders are erecting a legal wall to keep themselves out of court.

News items from near and far

Beyond City Limits

The Travis County Sheriff's Officers Association is fighting for a fair pay raise for all sheriff's office employees -- particularly corrections officers.

It's time to look more intelligently at economic development

Fastball gains velocity, Herring swims upstream, and Spoon's new single is ripe for consumption

Food Editor Virginia B. Wood says goodbye to Chronicle writer Rebecca Chastenet de Géry and hello to Claudia Alarcon and Erin Mosow, while still serving up the latest news in this week's "Food-o-File."

Ten years after Gravity, Alejandro Escovedo finds his "Paradise."

The Screwed Can't Sue

Kmart gives its CEO the blue light and workers the pink slip; corporate taxes disappear into the Bermuda Triangle; Vignette rewards failure.

Now that the lawsuits are over, we hope the council campaigns will turn to issues.

Tuna isn't the only Texas town with which actor-writers Jaston Williams and Joe Sears can be closely identified. Austin has played a significant role in the development of their town, and in return Sears and Williams have changed the face of the capital city.

Texas unemployment insurance paints a dismal picture.

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Austin Interfaith's Alliance programs represent one alternative to failing AISD schools.