Reporters’ Notebook
Reporter's Notebook: Chokeholds and other chaos
More here, more to come… On Friday, the Austin Monitor broke the story about a series of disturbing complaints at the city’s Neighborhood Housing and Community Development Department. As astute readers might have guessed, we weren’t able to include all…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Aug 1, 2016
Reporter's Notebook: Kitten tsunami
Ignorance and arrogance… In her bid to stall the creation of the WildHorse Ranch public improvement district, City Council Member Ora Houston found support this weekend from none other than the Austin American-Statesman. The editorial board of the Lady Bird…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Jul 25, 2016
Reporter's Notebook: TNC (and TNC-adjacent) battles continue
We’re here for your posts… If you checked out of the news over the weekend, the Austin Monitor has your back. Late Friday afternoon, the city’s Transportation Department attempted to enter the Matrix and track down the Facebook group for the…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Jul 18, 2016
Reporter's Notebook: Can't lose
Clear eyes, full hearts and… a sled… Mayor Steve Adler is hip with youth culture and he’s not afraid to show it. Last week, Hizzoner unleashed a small tweetstorm that focused on local music culture and also featured GIFs borrowed from…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Jul 11, 2016
Reporter's notebook: On sucking eggs
The etymology of egg-sucking… Trust us when we say that a lot of work goes on behind the scenes to bring our readers their daily Austin Monitor. And a lot of that work is done by our invaluable, East Coast-based…
Reporters' Notebook • By Elizabeth Pagano • Jul 5, 2016
Reporter's Notebook: It's about mobility, apparently
Pods, people… City Council’s ongoing discussion about potentially visiting upon voters this November a massive mobility bond has drawn from the woodwork advocates of just about every different mode of transportation. A public hearing during last Tuesday’s Mobility Committee meeting…
Reporters' Notebook • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 20, 2016
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Reporter's Notebook: Cactus Rose, mobility plans and... Benghazi?
Communicant bounced from “kangaroo court”…Something unusual happened at Travis County Commissioners Court last week. For the first time in months, the weekly segment of the agenda set aside for public communications was actually taken advantage of by residents with specific…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Jun 13, 2016
Reporter's Notebook: True Facts
Über Uber… Avid Whispers readers will note that, last week, we reported on an erroneous Uber claim that the Circuit of the Americas racetrack was outside of the Austin City Limits and drivers “could earn BIG” by driving people to…
Reporters' Notebook • By Elizabeth Pagano • Jun 6, 2016
Reporter's Notebook: Coming around
I told you so… City Council Member Don Zimmerman may not get his Council colleagues to embrace his libertarian beliefs, but he appears hopeful that there may be a day when they view city staff with as much suspicion as he…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • May 31, 2016
Reporter's Notebook: Chasing geese
Endless election… A quick survey of social media reveals that even more than a week after Prop 1’s landslide defeat, feelings are still a little tender over the fact that Uber and Lyft picked up their apps and left town. Mayor…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • May 16, 2016
Reporter's Notebook: Hi. It's the Monitor.
Colossal clash of titans on Twitter… Even as the entire city of Austin is deep into the febrile delirium of a bitterly contested election that will determine the fate of several lines of city code, one can usually rely on…
Reporters' Notebook • By Elizabeth Pagano • Apr 25, 2016
Reporter's Notebook: Could it be ... Satan?
The devil is in the details… It may be a while before City Council members are willing to accept amendments offered to their resolutions by Council Member Don Zimmerman, no matter how inoffensive they appear at first glance. On Thursday,…
