Austin Monitor editor Liz Pagano and publisher Mike Kanin chat about the year in City of Austin news. Post is embedded below: [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/240262375″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]
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2015: An Austin Monitor review
In 2015 the shift to single-member districts was finally realized, leading to big changes at City Hall. Now, almost a year later, the Austin Monitor is taking a look back at the past 12 months from our admittedly selective point of view. 10-1 takes the dais In terms of local politics, there was no bigger […]
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Tick Tock: Austin City Council Meeting 12.17.2015
Tick Tock is the sortable-by-item-number transcript of Austin Monitor publisher Mike Kanin’s Twitter feed from City Council’s Thursday meeting. Simply click on the item number to scroll to the corresponding. Votes are color-coded: Green for yeas, red for nays, et cetera. It’s embedded below. ITEMS 13 14 16 20 21 24 30 53 56 57 […]
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AM Radio: City Council Member Ellen Troxclair
Austin City Council Member Ellen Troxclair joins Austin Monitor publisher Mike Kanin to talk TNCs (ahead of this past week’s vote), as well as her first year in office. Post is embedded below. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/237884504″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]
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Kanin on Council: Council Passes TNC Framework
The Austin Monitor’s Michael Kanin joins KUT’s Jennifer Stayton to discuss the long debate at council last night over regulating ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft. Courtesy of our reporting partners at KUT News. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238125507″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]
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Development controversy looms at Palm School
Travis County Commissioners Court is setting the stage in downtown Austin for another high-profile thumb-wrestling match between the pro-development community and historical preservationists. As part of the emerging public discussion over the county’s ownership of the Palm School site at East Cesar Chavez Street and I-35, the court at its regular weekly meeting on Tuesday […]
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Onion Creek buyouts complicated by costs
The Austin real estate market is too hot. The city would like to speed up the Onion Creek home buyouts in order to move residents out of the floodplain as soon as possible, but it faces one major constraint – a lack of available homes in the Austin area. This makes it hard for the […]
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Seniors lead East Austin trike revival
As James Maxwell tells it, the first journey nearly broke him. “I almost gave up bike riding,” he said. “These are something else.” Maxwell, 68, stares down a line of five glossy, red tricycles. While at the moment they’re idling in the rear parking lot of East Austin’s Conley-Guerrero Senior Activity Center, later in the […]
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Committee votes to close living wage loophole
City Council’s Economic Opportunity Committee approved a resolution at its meeting on Monday that would effectively close a loophole that allows some city contractors to avoid paying workers a living wage. Both Bob Batlan, of Austin Interfaith, and Emily Timm, deputy director of Workers Defense Project, spoke in favor of the resolution. “This is simply […]
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Animal Services chief responds to department audit
Austin is a leader in animal shelter and care, but the common metrics used for auditing animal care facilities have not kept pace with its no-kill policy, Chief Animal Services Officer Tawny Hammond told the Audit and Finance Committee on Monday. “We have to have standards and accreditation for no-kill communities,” she said. “We need […]
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Austin Monitor Radio: Reporters’ Roundtable
The Austin Monitor‘s Liz Pagano, the Austin Chronicle‘s Michael King, and the Austin American-Statesman‘s Lilly Rockwell and Andra Lim join Monitor publisher Mike Kanin to look back on a year in Austin City Council coverage. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/237389664″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]
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Tick Tock: Austin City Council Meeting 12.10.2015
Tick Tock is the sortable-by-item-number transcript of Austin Monitor publisher Mike Kanin’s Twitter feed from Council day. Simply click on the item number to scroll to the corresponding. Votes are color-coded: Green for yeas, red for nays, et cetera. It’s embedded below. ITEMS 2 6 10 11 12 14 15 26 27 29 30 32 […]