Pflugerville residents: ACC expansion all tax and no campus

Pflugerville residents are not only stuck between a Rock and a weird place, but the median Pflugerville homeowner will be on the hook for a $200 per year tax increase if a proposed bond passes to include the city into a local community college district (and with no campus).

A new group, Pflugerville Residents for Responsible Taxation, is working to kill a proposed Austin Community College District expansion into the Pflugerville area raising about $40,000 per student, according to their press release (yikes!). Here are some other shocking assertions made by the new citizen-led organization:

It started as a joke: now city of Austin's name is racist, on chopping block

Now back to Waterloo, we suppose.

It finally happened. The city of Austin's very name is now racist and is on the chopping block of "Confederate memorials" within the Austin city limits.

What started as a joke has now become a reluctant prophesy. A GoFundMe page and petition to re-name both Austin and Travis County (in memory of homeless icon Leslie Cochran, if that tells you how serious it was) circulated around last year and raised a glorious sum of $25:

https://www.gofundme.com/austin-travis-county-name-change

Tucked into a City of Austin memo released yesterday is a recommendation for the city to explore renaming the very name of the City as one of several memorials to Stephen F. Austin, the father of Texas.

Frank Ward endorsed as Troxclair's successor; warns high taxes stripping away Austin's 'weird' vibe

Frank Ward, with family

The sole Republican on the Austin City Council last week announced she would not seek re-election for a second, four year term.

Today, Council member Ellen Troxclair announced her endorsement for her successor in District 8, which encompasses the southwest portion of the city. See below for an email from the Troxclair campaign:

Today, I am proud and excited to announce my endorsement of Frank Ward to succeed me in representing District 8 on the Austin City Council. 

Frank Ward is a thoughtful and principled man of character who we can trust to carry on the work that we have started at City Hall to reduce property taxes, address traffic congestion, and fight for effective and efficient government. Through his service on the City’s Parks and Recreation board and extensive involvement in our community, he has shown a clear understanding of the needs in Southwest Austin and a deep commitment to the people who call it home.