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Austin Voters Save City Government – Prop A Trounced
Austin voters step in and save City governance. Prop A fails.
Each Side Tries to Build a Majority in Critical Prop A Election – Early Voting Starts October 18
A look at how each side in the Prop A battle is trying to build an electoral majority.
Will Prop A Outcome Be More Similar to the Camping Ban Restoration or the Strong Mayor Initiative? An Election Preview
Looking back at the May municipal election propositions may be the best way to gauge the prospects for the current Prop A on police staffing.
COVID Deaths Reach Civil War Levels – Do General Grant’s Words Fit Today?
As COVID deaths near Civil War levels we ponder whether the words of General Grant can apply today. Plus an examination of the dominant media narrative on national Democrats.
Prop A Backers Low Ball Cost Estimate – It’s the General Fund. . .
Save Austin Now claims Prop A will be only a 1.2% increase, but 1.2% of what. First in an Austin Independent series on the upcoming election.
Texas Garners Multiple National Headlines – Human Toll from Abbott’s Pandering Mounts – There Goes Robert E. Lee
The casualty count from Governor Greg Abbott’s pandering mounts while Robert E. Lee finally goes down in Virginia.
True Stories
So Long Arnold Garcia
I want to begin today’s column with a few words about my friend Arnold Garcia, former Editorial Board Chairman at the Austin American-Statesman. Arnold passed away from pancreatic cancer on August 12. The Statesman did a superb job of giving him his due, in a story...
APD Still Pretty Mum on Charges from Garza and Garza – Watson May Run – Candlewood Update – Abbott Still Endangering Public Health
APD sort of responds to property crime questions. Candlewood purchase update. Abbott’s dangerous pandering. Watson may run again for Mayor.
What If Texas Were More Like France? At Least in August
Texas in August, Save Austin Now petition, Fued between TCo prosecutors and APD, Austin’s Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, COVID resurges locally
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