Not since the oil rush has Texas seen anything like what's happening in its state capital. The downtown rocks every night of the week, as high-tech workers jam dozens of jazz joints.
Houses sell in a day.
Glenn West has seen most of the makings of the boom. West can't quite believe what he and other Austin leaders have wrought in about two decades. It wasn't always thus. Like Wisconsin, Austin hit the skids in the mid-1980s. It was time to rally the troops.