by Daryl Slusher | Mar 13, 2024 | City Council 2024, District Attorney Race
Yes, I know it’s Spring Break and SXSW and all that stuff, but I feel like I need to wrap up on the DA’s race. After that I’ll switch to a slightly lighter topic, Austin’s City Manager search. Then the Austin Independent is going to take a couple of weeks for spring...
by Daryl Slusher | Feb 15, 2024 | City Council 2024
Austin’s City Manager search has already claimed a casualty. However, it’s not the Austin City Council’s fault. As reported in several Austin media outlets last week, headhunters employed by the Austin Council contacted Bozeman, Montana City Manager Jeff...
by Daryl Slusher | Jan 25, 2024 | City Council 2024, Police and Public Safety
Art Acevedo’s return to Austin City government was over before it started. That’s literally true. Last Wednesday there were media reports that Acevedo was leaving his post as Interim Police Chief in Aurora, Colorado to return to Texas. Mysteriously there was no...
by Daryl Slusher | Jan 17, 2024 | Police and Public Safety
Happy New Year and thanks to readers for bearing with us while we took a few weeks off. I was working on several stories to begin the new year, and we’ll get to those. But, that was before the machete attack on the young man near Auditorium Shores. So that will be our...
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...
