The Life and Times of Gus Garcia
City Council Member Gus Garcia retires after more than 30 years of public service
"...the council and more than three decades in public service, Garcia is being toasted at one fete after another..."
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June 2, 2000 News Feature by Daryl Slusher
East Austin Nonprofit Mired in Controversy CEACO Sinking
"...That conclusion is drawn based on exhaustive reviews of contracts between CEACO and its funding sources, internal CEACO memoranda,..."
March 5, 1999 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy
'An Independent Person'
A Conversation With Randi Shade
"...of contacts and support from the health and human services arena. I came to the council with a real..."
June 3, 2011 News Feature by Michael King
Bending the Rules
Getting arts funding from the City of Austin is a long, complicated game, and Austin Chronicle writers Robi Polgar, John Walch, and Mary Jane Garza have been following some of the players around the game board this year. In the final part of their four-part series, they critique the city arts funding process.
"...arts funding system -- formally known as the Cultural Contracts Program -- enters its ninth and final month for..."
Sept. 3, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza
A Better Tomorrow
For years, the city of Austin's arts funding process has been mired in perpetual gloom, but with the city reviewing its Cultural Contracts Program, artists and arts companies talking with each other about collaborations and a shared vision of what the arts mean to Austin, there are glimmers of light on the city's arts funding horizon.
"...plain ill will have cast shadows over Austin's Cultural Contracts Program, leaving it lost in a midnight world...."
Oct. 11, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Pushing Priorities
Councilmembers Lay Down Their Cards
"...power, with boom times putting the squeeze on city services and suburban sprawl stealing away the city's tax base,..."
Sept. 6, 1996 News Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade
Who's Minding the Clinics?
City/County Divided on Public Health
"...But, as Colunga proudly points out, a wealth of social services for indigent county residents are crammed into these..."
May 1, 1998 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton
Austin Looks for Routes Out of Its Homelessness Crisis
Under pressure, the city experiments with fast and sustainable strategies
"...more than a year, the city of Austin, its social service partners, and primary and behavioral care providers have..."
July 9, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders
Conceding to Concessions
Airport Eateries Surprise the Discerning Palate
"...pull this off due to the widespread use of socialist-flavored single-vendor contracts that create a virtual monopoly over a..."
Nov. 24, 1995 Food Feature
Council Proposes “Austin Affordability Action Plan”
Looking for ways to balance the budget
"...and One Voice Central Texas (the broad coalition of social service organizations). An argument simmered over the Chamber's role..."
March 3, 2017 News Feature by Michael King
News Roundup: Endings and Beginnings
Out with the old City Council, in with the new
"...said that while the officers provided an important public service by directing traffic, he worried that the “overwhelming police..."
Dec. 15, 2014 News Post by the News Staff
Lee & Carole & Brewster & All of Us ...
Five candidates for mayor jockey to be first among equals
"...be ready ... to maintain our basic core city services during hard times." (Last week's grim budget preview for..."
May 1, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar
Think Locally, Act Regionally
Regional Government's All the Rage - Are We Ready?
"...That's why "regionalism" is bound to join "boondoggle," "social fabric," and (paradoxically) "compact city" as a watchword of..."
Feb. 20, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
City Council Clashes Over 2017 Budget
Competing ideas on how to spend $969 million
"...pays for most of what residents generally consider city services: police, fire, EMS, parks, libraries, health and human services,..."
Aug. 19, 2016 News Feature by Michael King
Life on the 38th Parallel
GAINing Ground
"...instead be used for affordable townhomes, parkland, and a social service facility for Central East Austin residents. GAIN's cause..."
Jan. 12, 1996 News Feature
City Hall Hustle: An F1 Piñata
Break it open, and out streams council confetti
"...Item 98, implementing the city's long-gestating funding changes to social service providers and nonprofits, the composition of which hasn't..."
June 24, 2011 News Column by Wells Dunbar
Naked City
"...Seattle, San Francisco, and Cincinnati. In Austin, the Bus-Fi service begins as a pilot this month on nine coach..."
Nov. 24, 2006 News Feature
Council Roundup: Late Nights, Longer Meetings
Now let’s find a way to get out of meetings earlier
"...he's reportedly shifting his denunciations of affordable housing and social service spending over to talk radio (see "Zimmerman Is..."
Jan. 27, 2017 News Feature by Michael King
Money Don't Buy Everything, It's True …
City Council plows through housing, energy, and budget hearing
"...“meet-and-confer” (the negotiated police union contract), returning to Civil Service rules, pressing for stronger accountability for offending officers, and..."
Aug. 21, 2017 News Post by Michael King
Council: Seeking Consensus on Hotel Occupancy Tax
City Council’s HOT debate masks deeper divisions
"...from quality-of-life initiatives, authorized but unfunded police officer positions, social service programs surviving on "one-time" funds, and the always..."
Sept. 8, 2017 News Feature by Michael King
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...women's movement, et al. The pursuit of economic and social justice is as American as the Boston Tea Party...."
Jan. 14, 2005 Column
Tovo Takes Up (White) Lodging
Place 3 action on convention center hotel, social service funding
"...week, council approved execution of new funding agreements for social service agencies, an overhaul of which hadn't been executed..."
July 1, 2011 News Feature by Wells Dunbar
Tone Deaf
Deaf Austinites say police can't seem to listen to reason
"...of the Texas School for the Deaf and the social service and employment opportunities connected to the world-class educational..."
Dec. 3, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith
The Sunday Survey 7/11/10
Oil, Emmys and derailments
"...on the fuel consumption front, critics of CapMetro's MetroRail service were positively giddy that the Red Line service was..."
July 11, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Putting Himself 'Out Here'
Theatre Arts and English teacher Rick Garcia has put himself "out here," on Austin's fringes, n the off-the-map, lost-worldness of Johnston High School, to reach out to some of the poorest kids in one of Austin's most neglected neighborhoods and make a difference through that rare and vital cocktail: art and education.
"...role this year, because I am going to play social service. This individual is going to get that opportunity,..."
March 9, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar
What Do Austinites Want?
10-1 City Council wrangles its first budget
"...adjustment that would not require any reduction in city services. City Manager Marc Ott's budget staff duly prepared a..."
Aug. 21, 2015 News Feature by Michael King
Mike Martinez: 'Leadership of Austin's Tomorrow'
"...manager of a restaurant, or who works in the service industry. There's a lot of people in Austin who..."
May 30, 2014 News Feature
Health and Human Services: Making Do With Less
Health and Human Services takes another hit
"...the myriad 2011-12 functions of the Health and Human Services Department, Director Carlos Rivera reports more than 45,000 immunizations..."
Aug. 31, 2012 News Feature by Michael King
Beside the Point: Money, Money Everywhere
City budget: A study in haves and have-nots
"...the Parks and Recreation Department, libraries, Health and Human Services Commission, Neighborhood Housing and Community Development, and Solid Waste..."
Aug. 10, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar
Lege Lines: "Texas Plan" Hits Home
School finance heads to the House floor
"...diverted from IT spending at the Health and Human Services Commission, the site of recurrent procurement scandals.) A countermeasure..."
