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Tag Archives: November 2016 elections
Candidates fail to file financial information
The Austin Monitor asked the Office of the City Clerk on Tuesday for all of the financial information statements filed by City Council candidates running for election and re-election on the Nov. 8 ballot. Although there are 14 candidates, the…
Elections • By Jo Clifton • Aug 31, 2016
Mobility bond talks turn to sidewalk regrets
City Council Member Ora Houston says fatigue, a lack of information and compassion for a colleague led her to a bad decision for her constituents toward the end of a late-night City Council discussion in June over the proposed $720…
Transportation • By Jack Craver • Aug 10, 2016
Gallo to remove opponent from Parks board
District 10 City Council Member Sheri Gallo has informed her appointee to the Parks and Recreation Board that she will be removed and replaced at today’s Council meeting. Alison Alter, who announced that she would run against Gallo in this…
Elections • By Jo Clifton • Aug 4, 2016
Ruben Becerra, downtown business owner, enters San Marcos mayoral race
Businessman Ruben Becerra filed paperwork today to enter the race for San Marcos mayor, setting up a spirited contest at the top of the Nov. 8 municipal election ballot. Becerra said he is a political moderate who is well-positioned to…
Elections • By Brad Rollins--San Marcos Mercury • Aug 4, 2016
PAC's poll shows big support for light rail
A grassroots effort to put a light rail referendum on the November ballot is adding one more curve to the course as City Council members sprint to decide whether to send Mayor Steve Adler’s $720 million mobility bond proposal to…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Aug 2, 2016
Corridors that cure cancer? Preventing it, maybe
Could streets be like doctors? A streetlight that diagnoses ulcerous colon. A sidewalk that administers chemotherapy. That question is what City Council Member Delia Garza levied at the oft-optimistic Mayor Steve Adler during the last Council meeting before members broke…
Transportation • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Jul 22, 2016
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Urban Transportation Commissioners dissect mobility bond proposal
Members of the Urban Transportation Commission aired doubts about Mayor Steve Adler’s $720 million mobility bond proposal and also clashed on the vision for light rail in Austin on Wednesday Tuesday night. Three appointees to the advisory body let fly…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Jul 15, 2016
Updated: Contribution reports show who's giving to City Council candidates
Today marks the deadline for filing contribution and expenditure reports for City Council members and candidates, and most have chosen not to file early. However, District 6 Council Member Don Zimmerman was among those who filed a report on Thursday,…
Elections • By Jo Clifton • Jul 15, 2016
Alter planning to run for District 10 seat
Alison Alter, a member of the city’s Parks and Recreation Board as well as the steering committee for the Rosedale Neighborhood Association, on Tuesday filed the first paperwork necessary to run for the District 10 City Council seat. That document…
Elections • By Jo Clifton • Jul 13, 2016
Why a little line on campaign websites might make a candidate look like a cheater
Natalie Gauldin’s backyard plays by its own rules. The grass tickles our calves and her almost 3-year-old daughter has left some toys scattered around. Dogs bark at us from inside her house in Austin’s District 7. But all these distractions,…
Elections • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Jul 8, 2016
Austin Monitor Radio: Getting into the Council transportation bond vote
Austin Monitor reporter Caleb Pritchard joins publisher Mike Kanin to chat about Council’s recent transportation bond vote. Post is embedded below:
Radio • By Michael Kanin • Jul 6, 2016
Council moves $720 million mobility bond forward
While most of Austin slept early Friday morning, City Council gave the green light to a mobility bond with little historical precedent. Just after 1:30 a.m., following a tortuous and fraught discussion marked by simmering tensions that at times neared…
