Archive for the ‘Growth’ Category
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Iraq. Katrina. Pain at the pump. Unsafe food. Record debt. Real incomes falling for the first time since the Great Depression. A long list of failures trails the Bush administration as it limps through its final days.
But the saddest legacy of the saddest presidency may turn out to be the ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Though we haven't seen any real polling in a while, we assumed that Laura Morrison was leading going into the runoff against El Cid.
Her consultants must be seeing something in the numbers that they don't like, because we saw our first piece of negative advertising today.
It is a big foldout ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
The subterranean Austin city council runoff for the Place Four seat being vacated by Betty Dunkerly poked its head up this week when Laura Morrison, who led the voting in round one, criticized city leaders for awarding a contract to retool the Green Water Treatment Plant without sufficient public input. ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Already more than a quarter million dollars in hock to local Hays County taxpayers, outdoor retailer Cabela’s may now be forced to cough up nearly half-a-million more to the Texas Enterprise Fund.
The controversial state business incentive fund pushed through the Legislature by Rick Perry in 2003 with an initial $300 ...
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Rick Cole has been city manager in Ventura, California, north of Los Angeles for nearly four years. Now he’s in the running to replace Austin’s own Toby Futrell, who retires in May.
According to a news story in Cole’s hometown paper, he was recruited by a corporate headhunter and has ...
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Family Feud Rules (about 4:50 in):
What do we find most unsettling about this story?
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
When Princeton graduate Jennifer Kim opposed the University of Texas’s proposed development of prime Austin real estate, she apparently forgot that her opponent, Randi Shade, is a former UT student body president.
Kim had introduced a non-binding resolution to signal the City Council’s opposition to what some suspect is the UT ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Jennifer Kim is sponsoring a resolution at City Hall to oppose the development of UT's Brackenridge Track of land. We don't know whether this is a binding resolution or if its more like the ones Democrats are so fond of.
Either way, we can't help but wonder if RG4N had been ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
The Man has a little diddy today asking where in the world the middle of town is these days. It is interesting for about 1/3rd of the page, and then devolves into folks telling us about how it didn't used to be this way.
Warning: Spoilers after the jump...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
This story in today's paper touches on multiple sagas playing out around town.
We liked this quote the best:
"A few very organized people really can derail something like this," said Wren, who supports density.
Good to know that citizen voices still have a shot against commercial developers and City Hall.
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
News broke last night about Las Manitas surviving the new development on congress. We just realized that Copa Bar & Grill (not near as popular with the Council Crowd) owner Mary Ogden is represented by none other than Harry Whittington- of the famous Dick Cheney buckshot incident.
Did Marriott ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
If the struggles by the folks who actually live in the North Loop area were a movie, we think Star Wars would be a good analogy. It probably isn't that entertaining, but then again neither were the prequels.
If you hadn't noticed, we like underdogs here at APR. Unfortunately, ...
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Not a box score, but the agenda items likely to garner the most attention at tomorrow's City Council meeting:
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
At 6pm on Thursday, October 11th, the City Council will decide whether to rebuild the animal shelter downtown or move it to a lot near Airport Boulevard and East 7th Street. This is becoming a bigger issue than many expected, with neighborhood groups rallying against an increasingly deaf city ...
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Friday, October 5th, 2007
The North Loop saga has ended for now.
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