by Daryl Slusher | Jun 2, 2021 | City Council 2021
The proposed zoning for the former East Austin gasoline tank farm comes up again tomorrow (June 3) at Council. We went over some of the history two weeks ago when the item first hit the Council agenda. Council agreed to a postponement at the urging of Council Member...
by Daryl Slusher | Jun 2, 2021 | City Council 2021
The protest encampment surrounding City Hall is a virtually perfect metaphor for the homeless issue in Austin — if not for the whole state of City governance. The encampment got started the Monday after the May 1 election in which Prop B was approved. Prop B...
by Daryl Slusher | Jun 2, 2021 | True Stories
This week’s good news is that the Texas Legislature adjourned. The bad news is that they will be coming back later this year. Oh yeah and some more bad news is what the Legislature did while they were here. United Democrats did manage to kill the voter...
by Daryl Slusher | May 25, 2021 | Texas Legislature
The Austin City Council has achieved something that few other entities or causes have been able to do in this session of the Texas Legislature — forge bipartisan voting coalitions. The problem for the Council is that the bipartisan agreement is about overturning their...
by Daryl Slusher | May 25, 2021 | Texas Legislature, True Stories
Governor Greg Abbott last week signed the so called fetal heartbeat bill into law in Texas. The bill outlaws abortion the moment a fetal heartbeat is detected. That is often around the six-week mark and before many women even know they are pregnant. In signing the...
