Grits for Breakfast (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Belatedly realizing the city's bloated public safety budget necessitates draconian fee hikes and slashing basic services, the Austin city council must now change course and "think first of the Austin taxpayers," said the Austin Statesman in a Sunday editorial . Police and firefighter unions must not be given the "keys to the vault" during meet and confer negotiations, said...
Northwest Progressive Institute (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Editor's note: Netroots Nation story Here is what was posted in response a negative article that was written by the Austin Statesman. "Readers expect front-page stories to speak directly and clearly about events and issues. Eliminating the possibility of misunderstanding from our work is a critical part of our daily newsroom routine. When we communicate in a way that could be misinterpreted,...
Extreme Mortman (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
From the Austin Statesman’s coverage of Netroots Nation: There was even one panel Friday featuring Princeton economics professor and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman (wearing, as if to galvanize stereotype, what appeared to be Birkenstocks) that was essentially about how the media weren’t liberal enough. As they say, only in Austin.
Grits for Breakfast (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Austin District Judge Charlie Baird believes probation works better than prison for many offenders, but says the key for their success is getting and keeping a job. Reports Steven Kreytak at the Austin Statesman (" Judge takes active role in lives of probationers ," Aug. 13): Judge Charlie Baird says that for the more than 1,800 people on probation in his court to turn their lives...
Grits for Breakfast (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
State Senator John Whitmire and Rep. Jerry Madden want the state auditor to take another crack at analyzing the agency's problems, the Austin Statesman reports (" Audit demanded, Nedelkoff off ," Aug. 7): A day after blasting the Texas Youth Commission for continued financial mismanagement, two key legislative leaders this afternoon requested a full state audit of all spending by the...
Tennessee Guerilla Women (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
And you thought we had enough problems. Austin Statesman: In the video , Dean describes how he has tried to be a peacemaker between gays and lesbians and prominent African American leaders, led by onetime Gore campaign manager Donna Brazile, who had objected to goals and timetables for gay and lesbian delegates to the party’s national convention. “I wanted equal representation for gay...
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Oooh, the Austin Statesman thinks that Pelosi is so left-wing she's practically (D-Beijing.) I think some "journalist" just made a commie joke, without having any clue as to what a communist is. Or even a socialist. Americans wouldn't know a socialist if one gave them universal health care and a functional education system.
Grits for Breakfast (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Texas Department of Public Safety Colonel Tommy Davis announced his pending retirement after 43 years with the agency. Here's a roundup of MSM coverage: Dallas News Austin Statesman Houston Chronicle AP Under Davis DPS grew into a fiefdom that may be dismantled upon his departure. Poor security during the Governor's mansion fire seems to have provided an excuse for Davis' critics to unleash...
Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Source: [b]Austin Statesman[/b] A woman, her four children and her pregnant sister were refused boarding on the second leg of their Detroit to Seattle trip. Southwest said the family was too unruly during the Detroit to Phoenix portion of their journey to continue on to Seattle. The family says ...
Grits for Breakfast (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
I'm amazed anyone can look at the results from Texas' experiment steroid testing high school athletes - which identified two steroid users out of more than 10,000 tests given - and think the idea was anything but an abominable failure . However, columnist Cedric Golden at the Austin Statesman believes that cost-benefit analysis is just fine (" Steroid problem should be tackled at home,...
