by Daryl Slusher | Dec 9, 2021 | City Council 2021
As noted last week, in the spirit of the season, we are focusing on some of the accomplishments of the Austin City Council that don’t get as much attention as some of their high profile misadventures. As a source we are using accomplishments that Mayor Steve Adler...
by Daryl Slusher | Nov 30, 2021 | City Council 2021
We are entering the season of looking back at the happenings of the year. In that spirit the Independent is going to look at some of the Austin City Council’s accomplishments as discussed by Mayor Steve Adler in his August 30 State of the City speech. At the time the...
by Daryl Slusher | Aug 10, 2021 | True Stories
Let’s begin with an update on last week’s column where we talked about Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza and County Attorney Delia Garza each sending letters to Interim Austin Police Chief Joseph Chacón charging that some “rogue” Austin Police Department...
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...
by Daryl Slusher | Feb 3, 2021 | City Council 2021
The City Council solved its Mayor Pro Tem dilemma last week, but otherwise 2021 is off to something of a rocky start. The early going has been largely dominated by the Council’s number one declared priority, “ending homelessness.” The view here is that the Council...
