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...
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...
One thing that the Prop B results exposed was that there is a lot of unoccupied ground in the political middle. By that I specifically mean between the majority of citizens and the Austin City Council, and often between the majority of citizens and the more active and...