Did the City of Austin “defund” the police? Did it cut its police budget by 5 percent or by one-third? What’s the truth behind these conflicting claims? Those are hot-button issues that play into the ...

State legislators heard testimony Wednesday on a bill that proponents say would eliminate a “loophole” allowing the Austin Transit Partnership (ATP) to borrow billions of dollars without voter ...

Leana Mann, chief appraiser of the Travis Central Appraisal District, told the board of directors Thursday that property owners and agents filed 205,000 protests this year, rounding up from the ...

This is a story about Kirk Watson, not me, but readers should know that nobody covered this candidate as closely as I did back during his first mayoral campaign in 1996-1997 and during his first ...

The theatre was full at the Austin Film Society cinema last Monday evening as director Steve Mims presented his new documentary project The Magic Hole: An Austin Convention Center Expansion ...

This story was updated a fourth time at 2:06pm July 10th to clarify that the Design Workshop was authorized $600,000 for its work on the Zilker Plan. The $1.35 million paid to the firm, as stated in ...

Austin’s next city council elections are 21 months away but two incumbents elected in 2022 have wasted no time in building campaign war chests to boost their reelection campaigns in 2026. This early ...

Allan McMurtry first got involved in 1977, when the since-relocated Allendale Baptist Church wanted to expand. They began buying up houses around their property and tearing them down, while also ...

The 2026 Austin City Council elections won’t take place for 283 days but eight challengers have already appointed campaign treasurers to run for one of the five council seats that will be on the ...

Attorney Gary Lynn Bledsoe, 71, made it official by appointing a campaign treasurer late yesterday afternoon. He’s one of six candidates aiming to succeed Council Member Leslie Pool in the District 7 ...

After losing in two hard runs for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, attorney Michael John Weills Siegel (D-Austin) has lowered his political sights in hopes of winnning a seat on the Austin ...

Travis Central Appraisal District’s Board of Directors on September 5 th committed a blatant violation of the Texas Open Meetings Act (TOMA). The board voted 7-1 to countersue 23 Travis County ...