Austin Monitor

Council Member Jennifer Kim filed a minor amendment to her campaign finance report on Wednesday in response to opponent Randi Shade’s call for clarification of Kim’s expenditures. Shade is trying to unseat Kim in the May City Council election.   On Tuesday, Shade challenged Kim‘s Jan. 15 filing because Kim reported more than $12,000 in […]

The campaigns of Council Member Lee Leffingwell and candidates Cid Galindo and Randi Shade got a boost on Tuesday as the unions representing Austin police, firefighters, and EMS workers issued joint endorsements in the upcoming City Council races. It is the first time all three unions have joined forces to issue endorsements.   “This is […]

Place 3 City Council candidate Randi Shade is calling on opponent Council Member Jennifer Kim to re-file her recent campaign finance report and to disclose campaign expenditures in full. Shade issued the challenge in a news release handed out at yesterday’s public safety endorsement news conference.   Kim’s political expenditures, as of Dec. 31, 2007 […]

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and most federal, local, county and state offices will be closed . The are a number of events honoring the civil rights leader, include a march and celebration between 9am and to 3pm today. The march begins at the Martin Luther King Jr. statue on the East Mall […]

Assistant District Attorney Mindy Montford officially launched her campaign for DA Thursday night with help from some of her family’s politically-connected friends and more than 200 supporters at Nuevo Leon. Montford, one of four members of the District Attorney’s staff seeking the top job, has been running campaign ads on TV and has already raised […]

The Austin City Council named Marc Ott as the next City Manager on Thursday, publicly voting to hire the Fort Worth Assistant City Manager to take over for Toby Futrell, who will retire next month after holding the city’s top job for nearly six years and nearly 30 years as an employee of the City […]

The Austin City Council has selected Marc Ott of Fort Worth to step into the shoes of retiring City Manager Toby Futrell, according to an official familiar with the Council’s deliberations. Council members are expected to make the announcement this morning at the regular City Council meeting.   That official, who spoke on the condition of […]

The City of Austin has purchased four tracts—three contiguous pieces of land near the intersection of RM 620 and Bullick Hollow Road plus a fourth tract in another location as open space to mitigate for the impervious cover – as a home for the itinerant Water Treatment Plant 4. City officials say they are confident […]

A Who’s Who of Austin political leaders – particularly those from the African American community – squeezed along with other interested citizens into a meeting room at the Palmer Events Center last night to meet and greet the two finalists for City Manager.   A standing-room only crowd of several hundred people packed into the […]

Austin City Council Member Lee Leffingwell launched his re-election campaign Tuesday night in front of a crowd of more than 100 supporters at Nuevo Leon. Leffingwell also got a boost from fellow Council Member Mike Martinez, who urged the crowd to open their checkbooks for Leffingwell’s campaign.   Leffingwell stressed his experience and his accomplishments […]

The race is on, and local entrepreneur Randi Shade, who is challenging Council Member Jennifer Kim in Place 3, is slightly ahead of the incumbent in the fundraising department. She has also managed to spend very little of what she has raised.   Shade reported $62,000 in donations as of the end of December, an […]

The Austin City Council has selected Marc Ott of Fort Worth as city manager to step into the shoes of retiring City Manager Toby Futrell, according to an official familiar with the Council’s deliberations.