by Daryl Slusher | Apr 13, 2021 | Strong Mayor Initiative
The homeless camping issue is so controversial, visible and seemingly intractable that the proposed rollback of the Austin City Council’s June 2019 repeal of the City’s camping ban long ago became the marquee item on the upcoming May 1 City Charter amendment ballot....
by Daryl Slusher | Mar 31, 2021 | Police and Public Safety
On March 25 the Austin City Council moved a step closer to authorizing a new police cadet class beginning June 7 — after over a year without a cadet class. The vote was eight to one with two Council Members abstaining. Council Member Greg Casar voted no while Mayor...
by Daryl Slusher | Mar 31, 2021 | True Stories
It’s refreshing some times when veteran politicians show they are still capable of naïveté and even hopeless optimism. That thought came to mind when watching a March 23 joint Austin City Council-Travis County Commissioners Court briefing on local coronavirus efforts....
by Daryl Slusher | Mar 25, 2021 | Police and Public Safety
Among other items, today’s Austin City Council agenda features a choice on whether the Council will approve a police cadet class beginning in June. Last summer the Council zeroed out the budget for new cadet classes at the Austin Police Academy, the training...
by Daryl Slusher | Mar 10, 2021 | City Council 2021
A series of interlocking issues will dominate local governance and politics this Spring. At least two of those are petition induced referendums on the May 1 municipal ballot: homelessness, in the form of whether to overturn the City Council’s June 2019 repeal of the...
