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Why your speeding ticket doesn’t pay for what you think it does: Audio from KUT
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 by Joy Diaz
Travis County and the City of Austin take part in a regular fiscal dance with the State of Texas over who pays the costs of government. Over the next three days, KUT News and the Austin Monitor will look at key examples of that interaction in our series, “The Buck Starts Here.” Today, we take on Austin’s Municipal Courts.
The audio portion of this report aired on KUT. It’s embedded below:
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