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Closing Schools Won't Fix AISD Budget
We have the Legislature to thank for this mess
"...closed to cut costs, there was immediate backlash from neighborhoods fearful of losing their schools. Yet what has been..."

Jan. 21, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

City Hall Hustle: The Mystery of the Mayor's Desk
Wherein many questions are asked ... and zilch are answered
"...Laura Morrison: I've got the Zilker Neighborhood Association soiree – then Bouldin, then OWANA, then Shoal..."

Dec. 31, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Austin's Promise Deferred
Neighborhoods miss out on initial Fed grants
"...local groups that applied for the new Federal Promise Neighborhoods Planning Grants (the Austin Achievement Zone in St. John/Coronado..."

Sept. 22, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Commends 'Chronicle' and Gregor
"...Dear Ms. Gregor and The Austin Chronicle, The Austin Neighborhoods Council commends the Chronicle and reporter Katherine Gregor for..."

May 5, 2010 Postmarks

Politics Gift Guide
Deck the halls – or get decked – with these last-minute suggestions from the News staff
"...the nerve to open on the outskirts of your neighborhood association? Well, NIMBYCO's "Moat to Go" package has everything..."

Dec. 18, 2009 News Feature by The 'Chronicle' News staff

The Latest Proposal
Downtown businesses and orgs form an alliance
"...Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau to the Downtown Austin Neighborhood Association to South by Southwest; but the list also..."

Oct. 9, 2009 News Feature by Michael King

A New Lease on Life for Pearce? Not Exactly.
Pearce has been repurposed – but for what purpose?
"...School on Aug. 4, the school district and the neighborhood community presumed there would be five years to tackle..."

Sept. 4, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Naked City
"...Park, a pocket park inspired by the North University Neighborhood Association, is the former site of an electric substation...."

July 3, 2009 News Feature

When the People Living in Houses Were More Important Than the Houses
"...life on this property to sell? That's what this neighborhood association wants. Lorre Weidlich, the chair of the Hyde..."

June 12, 2009 Postmarks

Experience and Identity
Place 1 opponents offer different bios, styles, priorities
"...Riley has garnered the large majority of the traditional neighborhood and political activist organizations...."

May 1, 2009 News Feature by Michael King

Arts on Real: Theatre under threat
Escalating property values may cause the Eastside's classiest warehouse theatre to close its doors for good
"...been there, like the member of an East Austin neighborhood association who just liked what Arts on Real represented:..."

May 2, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Politics Gift Guide Part II
More creative shopping suggestions from the Chronicle News staff
"...For the scrappy little neighborhood association in your life, we recommend you purchase the..."

Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature

Point Austin: Whose City Is It?
Northcross Wal-Mart fight is about a lot more than a site plan
"...entitled to impose its implacable will on the surrounding neighborhoods, and indeed the whole city...."

Nov. 16, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Can Height and Homes Coexist?
The next big high-rise tower passing through city commissions – 800 West Ave. – has offered plenty of fodder for discussion.
"...lot right in the middle of the Old Austin neighborhood. Can height and homes coexist? It might be right..."

Oct. 26, 2007 News Post by Kimberly Reeves

Finding the Sweet Spot
For Austin's 'density bonus' development program – what's on our wish list?
"...been negotiating ad hoc exchanges of community benefits for neighborhood, commission, and council support of the variances needed to..."

Oct. 26, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Now Is the Time for Justice!
"...who is a member of the Blackshear Prospect Hill Neighborhood Association and current president of the Organization of Central..."

June 12, 2007 Postmarks

Developing Stories: Counting Cars and Fears
Officials say their hands are tied at Northcross – but is that true?
"...June 21 permitting deadline. Project opponents such as the multineighborhood Responsible Growth for Northcross had hoped that the revised..."

June 8, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories
Traffic, bullshit, Suttle, and Town Lake
"...to deny a site plan, when a TIA (or neighborhood-traffic analysis) demonstrates that a project would overburden streets or..."

June 1, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

AISD's Johnston and Webb: Test Score Role Reversal
TAKS scores for district's two most struggling schools confusing
"...students were essentially being blamed for shutting down their neighborhood school. But the threat may have actually provided some..."

May 25, 2007 News Feature by Michael May

Death by a Thousand Waivers: Variances granted here
Many projects on the waterfront are asking for exceptions to the rules
"...(The open-meeting briefing was derailed, however, when two dozen neighborhood activists showed up to protest specific projects, preventing any..."

Jan. 19, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Survey Says? RG4N Polls on Wal-Mart
Responsible Growth covers Northcross this weekend
"...Growth for Northcross announced they will undertake a massive multineighborhood survey to get a gauge of public opinion in..."

Jan. 12, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Naked City
"...an impasse between St. David's HealthCare and the Hancock Neighborhood Association. Hancock must feel a bit beleaguered these days,..."

Nov. 17, 2006 News Feature

South Congress Cafe to 86 Deck?
Jury finds restaurant guilty of violating agreement it made with city to bring eatery into compliance with city building and zoning code
"...under 5,000 square feet and said that since the neighborhood is all over the cafe, "The city's all over..."

Oct. 13, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...devastation of the environment and the historic Oak Hill neighborhood. Anyone can see for himself or herself how bad..."

June 23, 2006 Column

Downtown's Tall Order
Where can we put 20,000 new residents?
"...of downtown. Most lack high-density CBD zoning, and the neighborhood associations just across the downtown boundaries can be relied..."

June 23, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Elementary School Limbo Continues
Decisive vote on whether to close two AISD elementary schools comes down to indecisive 4-4 tie at Monday's board of trustees meeting
"...to know what's going to happen," said Bouldin Creek Neighborhood Association President Kathie Tovo...."

March 31, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Naked City
Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond
"...Regulation Ordinance. It reads: "protecting the character of older neighborhoods in the City of Austin is in the public..."

Feb. 10, 2006 News Feature

Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...The Galindo Elementary Neighborhood Association suggests adding more courts at the public schools..."

March 11, 2005 Column

Austin Needs Tennis Courts
"...centers during the same time periods. The Galindo Elementary Neighborhood Association suggests adding more courts at the public schools..."

March 7, 2005 Postmarks

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...Eastside leader Ora Lee Nobles, president of the Blackshear Neighborhood Association and its nonprofit housing corporation, died this week...."

July 30, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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