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HOME: APRIL 21, 2006: NEWS
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City of the Dead

Journeying through the graves of Austin's oldest cemetery

We Have a Winner! Sort of ...

Our scientifically calibrated Bloat-O-Meter© has identified the most McMansiony house in Austin

An Honest Ballot

A look at what you're actually going to be voting on

news and reviews

Naked City [04-21-06]
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere.

Point Austin: Refighting the Last Wars

Proposition 1, Proposition 2, saving Barton Springs ... and everything else

Beside the Point: Facing the Charter Music at St. Ed's

Attempts to debate Props. 1 and 2 produce only polarized statements and crowd heckling

On the Lege

Opening day of the special legislative session featured more plot lines than a MASH episode.

The Hightower Report

Don't Look Down at Immigrants, Look Up; and a New Horror From the IRS


recently in politics

Clouded Prospects [04-14-06]

Lege special session opens with glowing rhetoric, uncertain goals

Run-off Roundup [04-14-06]
Congressional District 10: Ankrum Wallops Foreman

Run-Offs to Go [04-07-06]
A handful of races still hang in the balance – including these hot ones

Is BCP Still for the Birds? [04-07-06]

Ongoing disagreement over the appropriate balance between public access and endangered species protection on Western Travis County's Balcones Canyonlands Preserve comes to a head

Out Youth Temporarily Out of Business [04-07-06]

Financial problems and staff turmoil leave queer kids alienated

Officers Cleared in Hernandez Beating Trial [04-07-06]

APD still investigating whether policy violations occurred

AMD's Favorite Charity [04-07-06]

It could be me!

Ballot Battle [04-07-06]

March Madness, April Fools

Endorsements [04-07-06]

What's at Stake at City Hall? [03-31-06]

City elections bring debate over people, priorities, and propositions





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