Mayor Steve Adler and City Council Member Pio Renteria are on a two-pronged mission to Mexico this week – strengthening Austin’s economic ties with Mexico and championing efforts to combat climate change. In a prepared statement, Adler said, “Economic growth and environmental stewardship enhance one another in Austin. We thrive because we prioritize both.” Renteria […]
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Austin Monitor Radio: Election ’16 Wrap
Austin Monitor editor Liz Pagano, politics editor Jo Clifton, and contributor Caleb Pritchard join publisher Mike Kanin to analyze the local results of the 2016 November elections. Audio embedded below. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/293051219″ 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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Pool wins District 7
Tuesday night, incumbent Leslie Pool easily won her District 7 seat for City Council against challenger and political newcomer Natalie Gauldin. Early voting results Tuesday evening solidly placed her in the lead by 40 percent, giving rise to dinnertime cheers from her supporters. “Leslie has been a huge champion of workers,” said Jeremy Hendricks, business […]
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Pilot Knob could face yet another lawsuit
City Council is poised to move forward once again Thursday on the Pilot Knob/Easton Park planned unit development and affordable housing agreement that Judge Stephen Yelenosky voided in October. But Council members should know that the same civic activist who recently won a suit over the city’s failure to comply with the Texas Open Meetings […]
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Council votes to spay/neuter stray animals on first impoundment
A proposal that requires that stray dogs and cats be spayed or neutered so they can’t reproduce moved forward this week, despite questions over whether the measure actually addresses the problems it’s meant to solve. City Council voted 8-1 to pass a proposal that dogs and cats be spayed or neutered the first time they […]
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TickTock Austin City Council Meeting: 11.3.2016
ITEMS 6 26 27 29 41 53 66 TickTock for Friday, November 4, 2016 Participants: MKanin 157 eraycollins 1 lubomudrov 1 SomewhereinATX 1 Thursday, November 03, 2016 10AM checking in from #atxcouncil, where it may just be a light day #atxgov November 03, 2016 10:08 AM #atxcouncil under way #atxgov November 03, 2016 10:13 AM […]
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Austin Monitor Radio: Council Member Don Zimmerman
Austin City Council Member Don Zimmerman joins Austin Monitor publisher Mike Kanin to chat about his reelection campaign. Audio embedded below: [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/290660805″ 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 10.20.2016
This week’s TickTock is limited to last Thursday’s main event, the first reading passage of the Grove project. ITEMS TickTock for Friday, October 21, 2016 Participants: MKanin 38 JonBrewerATX 2 eraycollins 1 Thursday, October 20, 2016 12PM eraycollins "I gather @mkanin isn’t returning until The Grove has passed on third reading?" @eraycollins nah. Im back […]
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Austin Monitor Radio: Council Member Sheri Gallo
Austin City Council Member Sheri Gallo joins Austin Monitor publisher Mike Kanin to chat about her reelection campaign. Post is embedded below. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289591207″ 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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10-1: Commission representation by the numbers
Graphs and map by John Laycock. One of the arguments in favor of replacing Austin’s former at-large City Council with the new, district-based 10-1 system was that the former system didn’t adequately represent certain parts of the city. Nonetheless, although Council members must reside in the district they represent, the dozens of citizens they appoint […]
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Austin Monitor Radio: Council Member Delia Garza
City Council Member Delia Garza joins Austin Monitor Editor Liz Pagano to chat about Garza’s re-election campaign. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/288464351″ 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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Austin Monitor Radio: Council Member Leslie Pool
Austin City Council Member Leslie Pool joins Austin Monitor publisher Mike Kanin to chat about her bid for reelection. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286836386″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]