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Updated: Ethics complaints filed against petition PAC
While the city clerk still has not received a promised petition seeking the recall of Council Member Ann Kitchen, the Texas Ethics Commission has received four complaints filed against the group behind the alleged effort. Austin attorney Fred Lewis filed…
Austin • By Caleb Pritchard • Feb 5, 2016
Grant project spurs crime drop on Sam Rayburn Drive
Antonio Mancinas, 68, leans against a tree in his front yard. He lives in a house with his wife at the end of Sam Rayburn Drive in the Rundberg neighborhood. Despite having spent roughly a quarter of a century on…
Austin • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Feb 5, 2016
AISD teacher appraisals impetus for possible new salary structure
In a unanimous vote Monday, the Austin Independent School District board of trustees gave the green light to its new teacher appraisal system, which ties teacher appraisals to student performance on standardized tests. Kimiko Krekel, AISD’s executive director of educator quality,…
AISD • By Courtney Griffin • Feb 2, 2016
Kanin on Council: January 29, 2016
Austin Monitor publisher Mike Kanin talks with KUT’s Jimmy Maas about Austin City Council action from Thursday, January 28, 2016. Post is embedded below:
Austin • By Michael Kanin • Feb 1, 2016
Stakeholders to consider digital billboards
Billboard owners are asking City Council for permission to modernize their billboards by making them digital. On Thursday, Council approved a resolution setting up a stakeholder process to try to reach some agreement about whether the city should allow digital…
Austin • By Jo Clifton • Jan 29, 2016
Group calls for shake-up at CTRMA
An unlikely coalition of activist groups is calling on the Travis County Commissioners Court to shake up the board of directors at the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority. On Wednesday afternoon, attorney Fred Lewis led the group’s debut press conference…
Austin • By Caleb Pritchard • Jan 28, 2016
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Immigrant rights activists confront mayor over deportations
Mayor Steve Adler engaged in a courteous but tense public conversation over the city’s immigration policies with a group of immigrant rights activists outside of his City Hall office Monday afternoon. ICE Out of Austin – a group pushing for…
Austin • By Jack Craver • Jan 26, 2016
Kanin on Council: TNCs Negotiations, the Kitchen Petition & Impending Budget Negotiations
The Austin Monitor’s Michael Kanin joins KUT’s Jennifer Stayton to talk about Austin City Council negotiations with transportation networking companies, a petition to oust Council Member Ann Kitchen and the looming prospect of city budget negotiations. Post is embedded below:
Austin • By Michael Kanin • Jan 25, 2016
Mystery surrounds Kitchen recall petition
As Mike Blizzard describes it, Wednesday morning began like any other. Then came a knock at his door. “A lot of people come through the neighborhood trying to get you to replace your windows, and I thought that’s who it…
Austin • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Jan 22, 2016
Little clarity in TNC debate
Where there was once a clear path for City Council to revise rules for transportation network companies, there is now a plethora of possibilities. Council voted last month to require fingerprinting background checks of TNC drivers, and it is set to…
Austin • By Eva Ruth Moravec • Jan 21, 2016
What is at the core of Austin's TNC fight?
Without much pomp save for the “Shine On” T-shirt she wears, Monique Mitchell stands with fellow Lyft driver Mo Ratel at the edge of Austin’s Zilker Park, scanning the field below. It’s a sunny Wednesday afternoon; dogs and their owners…
Austin • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Jan 20, 2016
Transition panel reaches some conclusions
Mayor Steve Adler has proposed adding an extra week to the time between when an item is posted on City Council’s draft agenda and the day Council hears the item. Members of the transition committee – an unofficial Council committee…
