by Daryl Slusher | Dec 9, 2021 | City Council 2021
As noted last week, in the spirit of the season, we are focusing on some of the accomplishments of the Austin City Council that don’t get as much attention as some of their high profile misadventures. As a source we are using accomplishments that Mayor Steve Adler...
by Daryl Slusher | Nov 30, 2021 | City Council 2021
We are entering the season of looking back at the happenings of the year. In that spirit the Independent is going to look at some of the Austin City Council’s accomplishments as discussed by Mayor Steve Adler in his August 30 State of the City speech. At the time the...
by Daryl Slusher | Nov 10, 2021 | True Stories
For the last several articles the Independent has concentrated on Prop A. That was a critical issue for the City and deserved the attention. This week let’s catch up on a number of other events which we didn’t mention in the meantime. (If anyone missed our Prop A... by Daryl Slusher | Nov 4, 2021 | Austin Elections, Police and Public Safety
Austin voters stepped up and pulled City government back from the brink on Tuesday (and in early voting) with a sound trouncing of Prop A, 68% against. Prop A was the petition driven proposition from Save Austin Now to require Austin to have two police officers per...
by Daryl Slusher | Oct 18, 2021 | Police and Public Safety, Prop A November 2021
In yesterday’s installment we looked at whether the Prop A election — Save Austin Now’s petition driven referendum on whether to require two cops per 1,000 residents — will more closely resemble May’s election on the reinstatement of the camping ban (Prop B) or or the...
