by Daryl Slusher | Oct 17, 2021 | Police and Public Safety, Prop A November 2021
For anyone wanting to assess the possibilities in the upcoming Prop A election, studying the results from the May 2021 municipal election is a good place to start. Prop A is the costly, high stakes, petition driven referendum on whether to require two cops per 1,000...
by Daryl Slusher | Oct 6, 2021 | True Stories
In my last column I discussed the Civil War and the removal of the Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson statues in Richmond, Virginia — the former Capital of the Confederacy. This time I’m going to continue on the Civil War thread, but with a much less happy theme. The...
by Daryl Slusher | Oct 6, 2021 | Police and Public Safety, Prop A November 2021
As the election nears on Prop A — a petition driven measure on the November 2 ballot which would require Austin to have 2.0 police officers per 1,000 people — the Prop A campaign is reassuring citizens that their measure would only raise the City budget by a tiny...
by Daryl Slusher | Sep 14, 2021 | True Stories
Texas has really been in the national news since the Independent went on vacation. Among other things, the nation is getting to witness the intensity with which Governor Greg Abbott panders to his right wing base. National headlines about Texas have spanned a wide...
by Daryl Slusher | Aug 26, 2021 | Homicides
During the last two weeks the Independent has featured a series on Austin’s spiraling number of homicides, a trend which is sadly consistent with an array of cities around the country. In this, our third installment, we look at potential solutions, but also explore...
