by Daryl Slusher | Nov 6, 2025 | Austin Elections, City Council 2025
Mayor Kirk Watson was well prepared on election night, with a pre-written concession speech. It was an unprecedented defeat for Watson and the entire Council, except for Marc Duchen who refused to go along with the crowd. Duchen voted against putting Prop Q on...
by Daryl Slusher | Oct 13, 2025 | Austin Elections, City Council 2025
As the election on a City property tax increase (Prop Q) nears, opponents are beginning to hammer the point that the increase will affect the “affordability of Austin” — particularly for residents already on the verge of not being able to afford to live within the...
by Daryl Slusher | Oct 18, 2021 | Police and Public Safety, Prop A November 2021
In yesterday’s installment we looked at whether the Prop A election — Save Austin Now’s petition driven referendum on whether to require two cops per 1,000 residents — will more closely resemble May’s election on the reinstatement of the camping ban (Prop B) or or the...
by Daryl Slusher | Oct 17, 2021 | Police and Public Safety, Prop A November 2021
For anyone wanting to assess the possibilities in the upcoming Prop A election, studying the results from the May 2021 municipal election is a good place to start. Prop A is the costly, high stakes, petition driven referendum on whether to require two cops per 1,000...
by Daryl Slusher | Oct 6, 2021 | Police and Public Safety, Prop A November 2021
As the election nears on Prop A — a petition driven measure on the November 2 ballot which would require Austin to have 2.0 police officers per 1,000 people — the Prop A campaign is reassuring citizens that their measure would only raise the City budget by a tiny...
