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Austin Monitor Radio: D1 candidates
In this, the most recent installment of our radio show, Austin Monitor freelancer Caleb Pritchard sits down with District 1 candidates Mitrah Elizabeth Avini and (write-in candidate) Misael D. Ramos. Why do they want to be on Austin’s City Council?…
Radio • By Austin Monitor • Nov 5, 2018
Austin Monitor Radio: District 3, Part II
This week, City Council candidates Amit Motwani and Susana Almanza join incumbent Pio Renteria for a … spirited … discussion with Austin Monitor freelancer Caleb Pritchard and editor Elizabeth Pagano. Tune in for a discussion about why each candidate is…
Elections • By Austin Monitor • Oct 23, 2018
Reporter's Notebook: Every dog has its day
And another thing… At the beginning of Thursday’s City Council meeting, Assistant City Manager Rey Arellano took a minute to update Austinites on the flood conditions in the city and efforts by the city to mitigate the issues caused by…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Oct 22, 2018
Austin Monitor Radio: District 3 candidates, Part 1
This week City Council candidates Jessica Cohen and Justin Jacobson sit down with Austin Monitor freelancer Caleb Pritchard and editor Elizabeth Pagano to talk District 3 and why they are vying for a seat on the dais. Austin Monitor Radio…
Radio • By Austin Monitor • Oct 15, 2018
Reporter's Notebook: Places and names
What do you say... The Austin street with the most confounding, or at least distinctively quirky, pronunciation could be headed for a name change. A public hearing scheduled for Thursday’s City Council meeting will focus on a request to rename…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Oct 1, 2018
Reporter's Notebook: Who stands alone?
You can’t say that… During a discussion at Thursday’s City Council meeting about a city home repair program for low-income households, Mayor Steve Adler took an opportunity to remind those watching about the $250 million affordable housing bond that will…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Sep 24, 2018
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Austin Monitor Radio: AISD East?
This week Roxanne Evans and Jim Harrington talk to Austin Monitor freelancer Caleb Pritchard and editor Elizabeth Pagano about their bid to save East Austin schools, their new manifesto designed to do just that, and why they are threatening a…
Radio • By Austin Monitor • Sep 24, 2018
Reporter's Notebook: Eyes wide open
Four-eyed and proud… On Aug. 28, the Parks and Recreation Board considered the Camelback PUD, a proposed mixed-use development on Lake Austin being led by Jonathan Coon, the founder of 1-800 Contacts, a contact lens company that he sold for…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Sep 10, 2018
Austin Monitor Radio: Fair chance hiring
This week, Austin Monitor freelancer Caleb Pritchard sits down to talk about the ins and outs of fair chance hiring with Gail McCant and Rochion Gregg, who work in the city’s Equal Employment and Fair Housing Office. Austin Monitor Radio…
Radio • By Austin Monitor • Sep 4, 2018
Austin Monitor Radio: Cap Metro's Randy Clarke
This week, Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority CEO Randy Clarke sits down with Austin Monitor freelancer Caleb Pritchard and editor Elizabeth Pagano to talk Remap, ridership, apps and Project Connect. To hear it all, tune in below. Austin Monitor Radio is…
Radio • By Austin Monitor • Sep 4, 2018
Reporter's Notebook: Payback
Adler strikes back… Mayor Steve Adler returned fire at Travis County Thursday over commissioners’ threat to challenge Austin’s authority to allow McKalla Place to be tax exempt after Precourt Sports Ventures takes over the 24-acre parcel to build a soccer…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Aug 27, 2018
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…
