Austin Film Festival

Alongside his coverage of the slowly-brewing water shortage facing Texas, the San Antonio Current's Greg Harman recently added his voice of reason to the toll road debate. Perhaps, he suggests, the real issue is not whether an unpaid citizen activist...

According to The Burnt Orange Report and KXAN-TV, the state of Texas is charging motorists a 4,000 percent administrative fee for each toll they don’t pay after 112 days. Some motorists – even those with the proper tags – are...

Hank Gilbert of Truth Be Tolled, the Texas Democratic Party’s nominee for Agriculture Commissioner, will give public testimony on the Environmental Impact Study (EIS) for the Tar Sands Keystone Pipeline, slated to cross through a number of Texas counties. The...

Congratulations, Storm Pictures! Truth Be Tolled: the 281 Special Edition received the Gold Remi Award for a Feature Documentary Film at the WorldFest Houston International Film Festival !

Be sure to join us the WorldFest Houston International Film Festival on Tuesday, April 13th for the premiere screening of Truth Be Tolled: 281 Special Edition. The screening is at 5 pm at AMC Studio 30 Theaters on Dunvale2949 Dunvale...

Storm Pictures is proud to announce that "Truth Be Tolled: 281 Special Edition" will be an Official Selection at the 43rd Annual WorldFest Houston International Film Festival. The newest film in the "Truth Be Tolled" trilogy has also been nominated...

Like a horror-film zombie, the TTC "died" but not really...will this be the final blow that does the trick? Article By Jay Root of The Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Department of Transportation is closing the books on...

By Josh Baugh From Express-news Bexar County Commissioner Tommy Adkisson on Monday will recommend stripping toll roads from the Metropolitan Planning Organization's plans and fixing some of the region's most congested corridors with freeway expansions. The move would represent a...

By Kelley Shannon From Associated Press Gov. Rick Perry ditched his plan to build a $175 billion network of toll roads that would crisscross the state after it ran into strong opposition, but he hasn't been able to shake the...

In the midst of Governor Perry's photo-op turnaround in support of eminent domain reform, five Mayors of Texas towns in the path of the Trans-Texas Corridor took a stand against Rick's proposed land grab. The Mayors formed the Eastern Central...

By Michael Lindenberger From The Dallas Morning News Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has refused to sign off on the first of two major private toll road projects approved for North Texas earlier this year. Abbott said provisions in the...

By Jim Vertuno of Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Senate on Monday night approved its version of a major overhaul to the state's road-building agency, including allowing voters in counties in the state's largest metro areas to raise...

TALLAHASSEE (Reuters) - Plans to lease Florida's "Alligator Alley" to private operators are now on hold after no bidders stepped up to take over the 78-mile stretch of toll road through the Everglades, transport officials said Tuesday. The Florida decision...

By Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson for the San Antonio Express-News Maintaining and improving transportation infrastructure in Texas has become nearly as daunting a proposition as driving down Loop 410 at rush hour. San Antonio and Texas as a whole have...

Storm Pictures is proud to announce that Truth Be Tolled: The TURF Special Edition has just won a Silver Remi Award in the 2009 WorldFest Houston International Film Festival. The film was chosen from among 4,300 entries in 10 major...

By Hilary Hylton From Time Magazine It was the shout-out heard around the world: Texas' Republican governor Rick Perry's praise for his state's tea-party protesters, accompanied by not-so-veiled references to a potential Lone Star State secession. The remarks prompted glaring...

I don't think the significance of this story should be overlooked. By Ben Philpott for KUT Radio Because Texas lawmakers pass the majority of their bill during the final days of the legislative session, the session is over before the...

"The Recovery Act creates jobs by investing in immediate projects such as highways, bridges and tunnels — and within limitations to prevent waste, fraud, and ‘highways to nowhere’ — grants the states and their citizens broad discretion to choose which...

"I am … compelled to strongly denounce your comments to Mr. Hank Gilbert at the … meeting as completely out of line and wholly unacceptable. Regardless of the criticism you may have received over the last few years in your...

Tar Sands Time Out is the Sierra Club's page on the plan to build a pipeline through Texas to carry tar sands-extracted oil from Canada's Alberta Boreal forest. This pipeline was part of the Trans-Texas Corridor (which is now "dead,"...

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: if it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. --Ronald Reagan

Democracies die behind closed doors. --Written by the Honorable Judge Damon Keith, in a 2002 federal court ruling

"Pouring good money after bad is generally frowned on. But that’s exactly what the Treasury’s doing; literally, committing hundreds of billions - or trillions – of public dollars to prop up companies that are financially dead. And we’re not even...

By Ben Wear From the Austin-American Statesman The other day, when TxDOT officials were declaring the Trans-Texas Corridor dead (sort of), questions arose about how much money had been dropped on Gov. Rick Perry’s vision of 4,000 miles of tollways,...

'Dead,' but not forgotten? By Patrick Driscoll From the San Antonio Express-News AUSTIN — The biggest problem with the Trans-Texas Corridor has been its name, and the outdated image it invoked. So the Texas Department of Transportation decided to retire...

From Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota is deep in the hole financially, but the state still owns a premier golf resort, a sprawling amateur sports complex, a big airport, a major zoo and land holdings the size of...