by Daryl Slusher | May 1, 2024 | City Council 2024
Last week we examined the City’s legal shellacking regarding the Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ) for the Statesman PUD. In that article I mentioned that this is just the latest legal drubbing for the City and promised to discuss those legal losses in this...
by Daryl Slusher | Feb 28, 2024 | District Attorney Race
I really have to hand it to the ten “elected Democratic Officials in Travis County” who last week (February 21) sent out a letter demanding that Democratic District Attorney candidate Jeremy Sylestine “renounce Republican money and Republican attacks in the Democratic...
by Daryl Slusher | Feb 22, 2024 | District Attorney Race
Earlier this week I asked the question, “Where is José Garza?” I was specifically referring to Garza refusing to respond to written questions from the Austin Independent and not even responding to a request to his campaign for an interview. We are, however, far from...
by Daryl Slusher | Dec 19, 2023 | City Council 2023, Land Development Code/Zoning, Leslie Pool HOME proposal
As folks have probably heard, the Austin City Council passed the HOME (Home Options for Middle-Income Empowerment) initiative on a 9-2 vote at the end of the December 7 eleven hour plus public hearing on the matter. Council Members Alison Alter and Mackenzie Kelly...
by Daryl Slusher | Jul 5, 2023 | Police and Public Safety
It has been a few weeks since the Independent published and so there’s a lot of catching up to do. One thing that happened is that the Austin Police Department (APD) partnership with the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is back on, as of July 2. The initial...
