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Reporter's Notebook: Disagreement and understanding
I know you are but what am I?… On Saturday afternoon, Council Member Leslie Pool, the lead critic of the proposed soccer stadium deal, posted a message on Facebook taking aim at the arguments that Mayor Steve Adler and others…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Aug 13, 2018
Reporter's Notebook: Valuable lessons
In other soccer news… Precourt Sports Ventures and the other parties involved in their ongoing lawsuit in Ohio – Major League Soccer, the city of Columbus, and the state of Ohio – will have to file updates every two weeks…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Aug 6, 2018
Austin Monitor Radio: District 1 candidate Reedy Spigner
This week, City Council candidate Reedy Spigner joins Austin Monitor freelancer Caleb Pritchard and editor Elizabeth Pagano to talk about why he’s running for the District 1 seat, and to explain what issues he hopes to tackle if elected. It’s…
Radio • By Austin Monitor • Aug 6, 2018
Austin Monitor Radio: Shoal Creek Conservancy
Shoal Creek Conservancy Executive Director Joanna Wolaver visits the show this week to discuss the Shoal Creek Vision to Action Plan, long-term goals, short-term plans, and everything else Shoal Creek with Austin Monitor freelancer Caleb Pritchard and editor Elizabeth Pagano.…
Radio • By Austin Monitor • Aug 6, 2018
Reporter's Notebook: Communication
They don’t want to talk to you… Staff from the Development Services Department repeatedly told members of the Zoning and Platting Commission at their Tuesday meeting that they were legally obligated to approve a site plan for the controversial Champion…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Jul 23, 2018
Reporter's Notebook: Gooooooooooooals
Different goals… Politics, as they say, is (are?) a full-contact sport. Unlike men’s soccer, which mostly has a bunch of grown men flopping around like children at the slightest breeze (women’s soccer, we’ll note, is far less lame). Nonetheless, Austin…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Jun 25, 2018
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Reporter's Notebook: Throwing side eye, catching rides
Side eye, or stink eye?… What exactly is the name given to the withering glances occasionally dished out by City Council Member Ora Houston toward her colleagues on the dais? Council Member Leslie Pool learned directly on Thursday during discussion…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Jun 18, 2018
Reporter's Notebook: Soccer games
Bound for Cow Town?… Another new wrinkle in Austin’s (never-ending?) professional soccer saga developed slowly last week after ESPN soccer analyst Taylor Twellman opined, during a segment on Sacramento recently losing out on a Major League Soccer expansion bid, that…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Jun 11, 2018
Austin Monitor Radio: District 8 candidate Paige Ellis
In this week’s radio show, City Council candidate Paige Ellis joins Austin Monitor freelancer Caleb Pritchard and editor Elizabeth Pagano to talk about why she wants to represent District 8, and where she differs from her opponents on city issues.…
Radio • By Austin Monitor • Jun 11, 2018
Reporter's Notebook: Don't speak
Once more, away from the breach… For decades, those who work with digital data have learned to encrypt it in defense against potential breaches. Unfortunately, according to Khalil Shalabi, Austin Energy vice president of strategy, technology and markets, data protection…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Jun 4, 2018
Austin Monitor Radio: Mayoral candidate Travis Duncan
On this week’s radio show, mayoral candidate Travis Duncan joins Austin Monitor freelancer Caleb Pritchard and editor Elizabeth Pagano to talk about why he’s running for office, what led him to the campaign trail, Ubuntu Contributionism and … other things.…
Radio • By Austin Monitor • May 29, 2018
Austin Monitor Radio: Austin B-cycle
Everyone may be talking about dockless bikes and scooters these days, but this week we check in on Austin’s B-cycle bike-share program. B-cycle’s Executive Director Elliott McFadden talks to Austin Monitor freelancer Caleb Pritchard and editor Elizabeth Pagano to discuss B-cycle’s…
