This week, we try something a little different. Kicking off the Thanksgiving holiday, Austin Monitor editor Elizabeth Pagano struggled to find music that tackles Austin’s issues and songs that celebrate City Hall. Did she succeed? Tune in to the fairly noisy effort below! The Austin Monitor’s work is made possible by donations from the community. […]
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Austin Monitor Radio: Looking for the next city manager with Elizabeth Findell
This week, Austin American-Statesman reporter Elizabeth Findell sits down with Austin Monitor freelancer Caleb Pritchard and editor Elizabeth Pagano to talk about the (sometimes very exciting) search for Austin’s next city manager. Though City Council voted to release the names of the final candidates for the position, that was only after a hot pursuit by […]
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Austin Monitor Radio: The trouble with bonds
This week, Roger Falk from the Travis County Taxpayers Union and bond critic John Goldstone join Austin Monitor freelancer Caleb Pritchard and editor Liz Pagano to talk about their problems with (and praise for!) the upcoming bond election. To hear their take on the election, listen in below:
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Austin Monitor Radio: MoPac!
This week, Austin Monitor freelance reporter Caleb Pritchard sits down with Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority Director of Community Relations Steve Pustelnyk to talk about all things MoPac: milestones, delays, tolls and all the details you’ve been dying to know about Austin’s favorite north-south highway. Listen in below: The Austin Monitor’s work is made possible […]
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Austin Monitor Radio: CodeNEXT with Community Not Commodity
This week, Community Not Commodity’s Michael Wong and Barbara McArthur join Austin Monitor editor Liz Pagano to talk CodeNEXT. The discussion, which tackles the second draft of the code, how the rewrite could negatively impact neighborhoods and why the group is concerned about things moving too fast, is embedded below: Curious about how we got […]
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Austin Monitor Radio: The Aquatic Master Plan
This week, Interim Director of the Parks and Recreation Department Kimberly McNeeley sits down with Austin Monitor freelance reporter Jack Craver. Tune in below for a conversation about the Aquatic Master Plan, which is done after years of work and causing instant worry about the state of our pools. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/339777553″ params=”color=0066cc&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: The search for a new city manager with Laura Huffman
This week, Laura Huffman, the chair of the City Manager Search Advisory Task Force, sits down with Austin Monitor editor Liz Pagano to talk about that search, how it’s going and why it’s so darn important anyway. Audio of the show is embedded below. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/338759542″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] The Austin Monitor’s work […]
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Austin Monitor Radio: Capital Metro’s Todd Hemingson
This week, Todd Hemingson, Capital Metropolitan Transit Authority’s vice president of strategic planning and development, joins freelance Austin Monitor reporter Caleb Pritchard to talk transit – specifically Project Connect and a plan to put dedicated transit infrastructure on I-35, with a brief interlude to scoff at gondolas. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/337741984″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] The […]
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Austin Monitor Radio: Some thoughts
In this week’s edition of Austin Monitor Radio, freelance reporter Caleb Pritchard joins Austin Monitor editor Liz Pagano for an off-the-cuff discussion about the brand-new city budget, the upcoming county bond election and a whole bunch of other things we were somewhat unprepared to discuss. Listen in! Feel superior! Show embedded below. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/336763949″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” […]
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Austin Monitor Radio: Preservation Austin
Preservation Austin Executive Director Kate Singleton joins Austin Monitor editor Liz Pagano for a conversation about preservation, Austin’s growth and (of course) CodeNEXT. It’s all embedded below for your listening pleasure: [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/335527365″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] The Austin Monitor’s work is made possible by donations from the community. Though our reporting covers donors […]
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Austin Monitor Radio: City Demographer Ryan Robinson
City of Austin demographer Ryan Robinson sits down with Austin Monitor editor Liz Pagano to talk about demographic shifts, trends and even a few predictions about the future of this fair city of ours. Join us, with the embedded audio below: [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/330443364″ 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: County Commissioner Jeff Travillion
Travis County Precinct 1 Commissioner Jeff Travillion sits down with Austin Monitor reporter Caleb Pritchard to talk about affordability, transportation and other pressing issues facing the county’s northeastern quadrant. Audio embedded below: [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/329593430″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]