by Daryl Slusher | Apr 18, 2021 | Austin Elections
Monday April 19 marks the beginning of early voting in the City of Austin’s May 1 election. Early voting ends Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Election Day is of course, May 1. The two marquee items are the proposed rollback of the Council’s June 2019 repeal of the homeless...
by Daryl Slusher | Apr 14, 2021 | Strong Mayor Initiative
For today’s installment in coverage of the strong mayor proposal I want to return to the approach described in an article on the subject back in July. There, I laid out some principles to guide the Independent’s coverage, writing that “changing the form of...
by Daryl Slusher | Sep 16, 2020 | Strong Mayor Initiative
by Daryl Slusher The group pushing to change Austin’s form of government from Council-Manager to Strong Mayor, Austinites for Progressive Reform (APR), has announced its public input phase. Those meetings will run alongside an already very busy and fraught...
by Daryl Slusher | Jul 27, 2020 | Strong Mayor Initiative
by Daryl Slusher Mayor Steve Adler today responded to the Austin Independent’s question on whether he could guarantee he would not run if a recently announced effort to switch to a strong mayor form of government succeeds. In particular the Independent asked the...
