by Daryl Slusher | Nov 18, 2024 | Austin Elections, City Council 2024
If you like the current make-up of the Austin City Council then you should be really happy with the recent Council election results. In fact it looks like the Council “progressive” supermajority — the one that merged progressive politics with the best interests of...
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 | 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 | May 30, 2024 | City Council 2024, Land Development Code/Zoning, Leslie Pool HOME proposal
In yesterday’s post we partially reviewed the May 16 public hearing and Council vote on the HOME 2 initiative and related issues. We also examined the links from that initiative to the upcoming application for light rail funds from the federal government. Today we...
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...
