by Daryl Slusher | May 1, 2024 | City Council 2024
Last week we examined the City’s legal shellacking regarding the Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ) for the Statesman PUD. In that article I mentioned that this is just the latest legal drubbing for the City and promised to discuss those legal losses in this...
by Daryl Slusher | Apr 24, 2024 | City Council 2024
First folks, I want to say I’m sorry it took an extra week to get this story to you. I sort of went off into a second spring break. But, also current events kept changing the story. I started out writing this installment about the current status of Project Connect and...
by Daryl Slusher | Apr 10, 2024 | City Council 2024
They did it. The Austin City Council hired a new City Manager. Some people, like me, were doubtful that they could pull it off by April — or at all — but they did. Another way of looking at this is that the Council took 14 months, did a national search, and then...
by Daryl Slusher | Mar 13, 2024 | City Council 2024, District Attorney Race
Yes, I know it’s Spring Break and SXSW and all that stuff, but I feel like I need to wrap up on the DA’s race. After that I’ll switch to a slightly lighter topic, Austin’s City Manager search. Then the Austin Independent is going to take a couple of weeks for spring...
by Daryl Slusher | Mar 3, 2024 | District Attorney Race
This Tuesday March 5 is primary election day with the Travis County District Attorney (DA) race — between incumbent José Garza and challenger Jeremy Sylestine — being by far the most fiercely contested seat. This is the last of our pre-election coverage....
