Board of Directors today approved entering a seven-year contract that will supply data to improve accuracy of records for ...

Did the City of Austin “defund” the police? Did it cut its police budget by 5 percent or by one-third? What’s the truth behind these conflicting claims? Those are hot-button issues that play into the ...

Two long-time members of the Travis County Commissioners Court face progressive challengers this year in the Democratic primary scheduled for March 1 st, with early voting available through February ...

The theatre was full at the Austin Film Society cinema last Monday evening as director Steve Mims presented his new documentary project The Magic Hole: An Austin Convention Center Expansion ...

Travis Central Appraisal District’s Board of Directors on September 5 th committed a blatant violation of the Texas Open Meetings Act (TOMA). The board voted 7-1 to countersue 23 Travis County ...

District 10 incumbent Council Member Alison Alter is running for reelection against five opponents and stands ready to defend her record of accomplishments since first elected in 2016. “It is good for ...

During the 2019-2020 Democratic presidential primary, a handful of candidates backed the idea of paying reparations to the African-American descendants of slaves. Joe Biden was lukewarm on the idea, ...

This is a story about Kirk Watson, not me, but readers should know that nobody covered this candidate as closely as I did back during his first mayoral campaign in 1996-1997 and during his first ...

Kirk Watson, the highest-profile Democrat running to be Austin’s next mayor, has long ago been there, done that, and yet he wants another crack at leading city government. Which raises the question: ...

Allan McMurtry first got involved in 1977, when the since-relocated Allendale Baptist Church wanted to expand. They began buying up houses around their property and tearing them down, while also ...

You have a right to know. We make it easy. State laws and local statutes require public officials to file a variety of records about themselves. The Texas Public Information Act makes these records ...

A Travis County court issued a ruling to halt the use of future property taxes to subsidize luxury development of 118 acres of land within the South Center Waterfront District. The plan approved by ...