Thursday, January 26, 2023
Second anniversary of Candlewood pushback met with several surprises, announcements
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Security fence around the former Candlewood Suites. Wednesday marked the second year since Pecan Park Boulevard neighbors and business owner...
Wednesday, January 4, 2023
BREAKING: Elections law violation allegations may trail exiting Austin Mayor
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The new year may have originally portended a tan and rested Steve Adler , who did not seek re-election to a third term as Austin mayor. But...
Friday, December 16, 2022
Adler: I wrecked Austin to make homelessness 'visible' (UPDATE)
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In a final ask-the-mayor interview with KTBC-TV Fox 7, outgoing Austin Mayor Steve Adler finally laid down his cards regarding the strategy ...
Monday, November 14, 2022
TAYLOR: How to rise above manipulation of words
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By Dan Taylor Guest Contributor I want to think out loud about how our use of words has become so twisted in the modern world. The very defi...
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Statesman endorsement process of County Judge tilted in favor of Democratic incumbent, complete with mystery quote
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That the Austin American-Statesman did not endorse the Republican candidate at the top of the countywide ballot is no surprise. Even if the ...
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 ...
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