by Daryl Slusher | Oct 8, 2024 | Austin Elections, City Council 2024
Say what you want about Mayor Kirk Watson, but the guy is a skilled political pro. By that I don’t mean the derisive “professional politician” label which is generally used to charge that someone has never done anything else but be a politician and earns their living...
by Daryl Slusher | Sep 12, 2024 | City Council 2024
In our last installment I reported that the 13 City Charter amendments proposed by the Austin City Council won’t be on the November because the Council was found to have violated the Texas Open Meetings Act, again, when they set the ballot. The Mayor and Council...
by Daryl Slusher | May 29, 2024 | City Council 2024, Land Development Code/Zoning
If the long time battle over the City of Austin’s Land Development Code were a television series, May 16, 2024 would be a season ending episode and possibly the end of the series. It would now be that period where fans are left to wonder whether there will be an...
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 | 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...
