Naked City [05-05-06]
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere.

• Election Notes
  Endorsements and dollars accumulate as campaigns hit stretch
  
• Ethics, Libertarians, and Scalawags
  Politicians with ethical troubles? Naaah.
  
• Check Your Scopes
  "Clean Austin" says Liveable City report supports Prop. 1; Liveable City says 'um ... no it doesn't.'
  
• Money to Burn?
  Social service providers worry about the potential effects of Prop. 1
  
• Austin Interfaith Grills Candidates
  Office seekers – most of them – learn to just say 'yes'
  
• Election Tidbits
  News and notes from the municipal election beat
  
• Supremes Tackle Civility of Execution
  Supreme Court takes up question of whether a death row inmate may use federal civil rights law to challenge a state's manner of execution
  
• Officer Suspended for Excessive Use of Force
  Officer Christopher Gray gets 70-day suspension for excessive use of force and acts bringing discredit to APD for his role in September arrest
  
• Don't Put Their Backyard in My Backyard
  Council approves affordable housing facility over neighbors' objections
  
• Weed Watch: Blowing Bad Smoke
  FDA says idea that marijuana has any medicinal value is hoax
  

Beside the Point: Happy Daze
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The future is sunny, cab drivers are stormy, and water treatment's horizon is cloudy

Austin at Large: Unclean Hands
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Prop. 1 and Prop. 2 are not "open," not "clean" – and definitely not progressive

The Hightower Report
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
Who Is to Be Detained?; and Constricting High School Education

Are the Waters Rising at Bouldin Creek? [04-28-06]
BY WELLS DUNBAR
New FEMA floodplain maps raise neighborhood questions about proposed developments

Finley Murder Mystery Unravels [04-28-06]
BY JORDAN SMITH
After more than a month of searching for the aspiring singer / songwriter, sheriff's investigators charge victim's aunt and uncle with her murder

Scotty Needs Our Help! [04-28-06]
BY KEVIN BRASS
Check it out! Austin High alum dispatches spazzy SOS (Save Our Scotty?) for GWB's former press sec!

Ghost Taxpayers [04-28-06]
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Despite what you may have heard from anti-immigration types about foreign freeloaders taking our jobs and our services without chipping into the national kitty, an increasing number of undocumented immigrants pay taxes.

Endorsements [04-28-06]
BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD
City of the Dead [04-21-06]
BY CHERYL SMITH
Journeying through the graves of Austin's oldest cemetery

We Have a Winner! Sort of ... [04-21-06]
BY WELLS DUNBAR and RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Our scientifically calibrated Bloat-O-Meter© has identified the most McMansiony house in Austin

An Honest Ballot [04-21-06]
BY MICHAEL KING
A look at what you're actually going to be voting on

Clouded Prospects [04-14-06]
BY AMY SMITH
Lege special session opens with glowing rhetoric, uncertain goals

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