by Daryl Slusher | Sep 24, 2024 | City Council 2024
Well, let’s pick up right where we left off on the proposed City Charter amendments that would increase the powers of the Mayor and Council Members — at the expense of the City Manager and the citizenry. As noted in previous installments, the Austin Independent is...
by Daryl Slusher | Jul 16, 2024 | City Council 2024
There are two really big items posted on the July 18 City Council agenda which appear to be fundamentally contradictory to each other. Among other things, they raise the age-old question of does one hand know what the other hand is doing. In one item posted by...
by Daryl Slusher | Dec 4, 2023 | City Council 2023, Land Development Code/Zoning, Leslie Pool HOME proposal
Who knew? Council Member Ryan Alter is a developer; or at least he was until very recently. I just learned that this weekend. I was a little late to the news. The answer to my question — “who knew” — is Ken Martin of the Austin Bulldog. Martin reported the...
by Daryl Slusher | Feb 2, 2023 | City Council 2023, Land Development Code/Zoning, Police and Public Safety
Austin housing prices have made the national news in a new way recently, but there has been a paucity of local coverage about it. According to multiple national media outlets, the financial giant Goldman Sachs predicted that Austin will be one of four metropolitan...
