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 | 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...
by Daryl Slusher | Feb 22, 2024 | District Attorney Race
Earlier this week I asked the question, “Where is José Garza?” I was specifically referring to Garza refusing to respond to written questions from the Austin Independent and not even responding to a request to his campaign for an interview. We are, however, far from...
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...
