In this week’s radio show, City Council candidate Mariana Salazar joins Austin Monitor freelancer Caleb Pritchard and editor Elizabeth Pagano to talk about why she wants to represent District 1, and how her background led her to seek public office. Listen to the whole show, which is embedded below. The Austin Monitor’s work is made […]
District 1
District 1 is one of the largest districts by area created by the commission, being bounded by Interstate 35, bumps up against Pflugerville on the north, SH 130 on the east and reaches down into the eastern parts of downtown and the University of Texas campus. It includes a variety of neighborhoods, such as Copperfield, Harris Branch, University Hills, Colony Park and Rosewood. It also contains Decker Lake Park and some of the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction.
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Houston withdraws, and Harding enters, in race for D1 Council seat
Austin’s City Council District 1, which is made up almost entirely of portions of East Austin, will definitely have a new representative in 2019, with current Council Member Ora Houston announcing Wednesday she will not seek re-election. Houston’s decision came less than a week after she hosted a State of the District event at the […]
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Austin Monitor Radio: District 1 candidate Natasha Harper-Madison
This week, Natasha Harper-Madison joins Austin Monitor freelancer Caleb Pritchard and editor Elizabeth Pagano to talk about why she’s running for City Council’s District 1 seat and what led her into local politics. To hear her take on local issues, listen in below, where the whole show has been embedded. The Austin Monitor’s work is […]
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Austin Monitor Radio: District 1 candidate Lewis Conway Jr.
This week, District 1 City Council candidate Lewis Conway Jr. sits down with Austin Monitor editor Elizabeth Pagano and freelancer Caleb Pritchard for a conversation about why he’s running for office, why there is some question about whether he can serve and what he thinks District 1 needs. The whole thing is embedded below, for your […]
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Houston stays true to her district
Council Member Ora Houston sums up this past year as “very interesting.” Speaking to the Austin Monitor, Houston started her review of 2017 by stressing her continued commitment to outreach in her district, which informs the work she does downtown at City Hall. “When I ran, I said I was going to represent all of […]
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Community activist launches campaign for District 1 seat
Council Member Ora Houston is the first representative of the city’s first district and she’s also the first incumbent to draw a serious challenger in the 2018 election. Last Monday afternoon in East Austin, community activist Lewis Conway Jr. announced his bid for Houston’s District 1 seat. “In order to serve the people of District […]
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Music Commission gives support to East Austin arts hub
The Music Commission gave its approval Monday to a request for support from Mosaic Sound Collective, an East Austin project that has been proposed as a future hub of music and jobs for Austin musicians. Mosaic organizers are currently preparing a rezoning request from office space to mixed-use commercial that could allow it to open […]
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Houston eyes community engagement in 2017
Before taking a look back over the past year, City Council Member Ora Houston wanted to make one thing crystal clear. “I consider myself a public servant, not a politician,” she said. “So I don’t talk like, I don’t do like, I don’t think like the expectations of a politician.” Houston starts the conversation where […]
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Ora Houston recalls challenging but rewarding year
In an interview with the Austin Monitor, City Council Member Ora Houston called her first year on Council “extremely rewarding” but said that the job had a “steep learning curve.” In addition, the changes to city government that 10-1 promised may take much longer to materialize than advocates of the new system expected. Certain advocacy […]
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Council hears appeal of affordable housing case
As its first land use case, City Council heard an appeal of a conditional use permit for an affordable housing project Thursday. One thing Council members learned immediately is how difficult fulfilling all of their campaign promises might be, especially when they stand in direct opposition to each other. On one hand, there is a […]