Monday, October 10, 2022

More than carpetbagging: GOP candidate to challenge Talarico for moving while still representing former constituents

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Rep(?) James Talarico saw the writing on the wall. Rather than running for re-election to Texas House District 52 in Williamson County, whe...
Monday, September 26, 2022

Candidates vow to replicate Southlake CRT resolution in Round Rock

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A press release today from a slate of five Round Rock ISD candidates is hopeful that successes in Keller ISD, Southlake ISD, and Grapevine I...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

City of Austin still not listening to neighbors re: Manor Road affordable housing proposal

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UPDATE: Council passes the development proposal by NHP/Capital A unanimously. As part of the city's expansion of affordable living optio...
Friday, July 22, 2022

Leander ISD Board President laughs after 'muzzling' departing Trustee

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Bode, left, and Johnson, right. The next round of 2022 school board elections in Central Texas got off to a confrontational start Thursday, ...
Monday, June 13, 2022

Zimmerman returns to ballot to avenge Round Rock ISD taxpayers, parents

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Former Austin City Council member, 2020 legislature hopeful, and longtime taxpayer advocate Don Zimmerman made his next step official today ...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

City Runoff results hint at conservative resurgence, relevance of shoe leather politics

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The results are in for Leander and Manor Municipal Runoff elections. While they're two different scenarios entirely, we can draw two les...
Friday, June 10, 2022

'Bombshell' report: Round Rock ISD was warned not to hire, reinstate embattled superintendent

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Thanks to the pressing of the Texas Attorney General's office, a March 8 report from an independent investigator the Round Rock ISD hire...
Thursday, June 9, 2022

State Bar President unlawfully holding office? Politics may be to blame according to Zimmerman

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Sylvia Borunda Firth The president of the entity responsible for the consistent practice of law in Texas is herself not legally elected. Thi...
Saturday, May 7, 2022

Your May 7, 2022, Election Guide

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While we didn't get a whole lot of input this year, there are nevertheless some very important contests on this year's Texas Constit...
Friday, April 1, 2022

'Purely for survival:' Musk to donate Gigafactory site for use as Travis GOP field office

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Travis County Republicans may have worked out of a spacious suite on the west side of Austin during the last election cycle, but 2022 is sha...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

How did Austin Republicans vote on issues compared to the rest of Texas?

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You know those 10 questions at the end of the Republican ballot? Assuming you were one of the 6% of voters who turned out for the GOP primar...
Saturday, March 12, 2022

'Which is it?' ask Candlewood critics: elderly facility, domestic violence shelter, or something else entirely ...

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Mayor Adler: he's no Monty Hall Perhaps the City of Austin is telling skeptical taxpayers "Let's Make a Deal" when it come...
Friday, March 11, 2022

Project Connect claims first victim: century-old campus diner Dirty Martin's

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UPDATE: The restaurant is circulating a petition here . It may have been only a matter of time in Austin's ever-changing economic clima...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

Beto holds candlelight vigil, croons 'Lean On Me' over 1 winter storm death per Texas county

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"We all have pain ..." During the Austin leg of Beto O'Rourke 's Keeping the Lights On tour, the Texas gubernatorial hopef...
Saturday, December 18, 2021

Both conservatives and liberals question choice of state monitor for 'out of control' Round Rock ISD

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The Texas Education Agency announced the appointment of former longtime Carroll Independent School District Superintendent David Faltys to ...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

'It alarms me:' Austin residents given 6-minute notice on 1-year COVID extension

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Extending the city of Austin's COVID-19 emergency orders for another year was placed on the agenda Friday, giving Austin residents until...
Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Austin community activist, businesswoman Rupal Chaudhari files for Travis County Judge

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Image from press release. Rupal Chaudhari , who for the better part of this year received a crash course in Austin/Travis County's lack ...
Monday, October 25, 2021

Move over, Napoleon Dynamite! Austin's anti-racists to dance their way to defeat Prop A

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"Heads up, Austin, we gotta talk ..." Move over,  Napoleon Dynamite !
Monday, October 18, 2021

Vote today: Your 2021 Texas Constitutional Amendment Recommendations are here

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Early voting begins 7 a.m. Monday, Oct. 18, in the 2021 Texas Constitutional Amendment and Local Election. While there is plenty to be conce...
Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Your November 2021 Travis County voting guide

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While Proposition A in Austin (to undo the damage done by an ill-advised and disastrous Defund the Police movement ) is in the spotlight, th...