A compatibility waiver
A good idea to create a lot more housing.
Jack Craver
Two Council members raising concerns about DPS
The two DPS skeptics: There has been relatively little public pushback from Council members about the partnership between APD and the state Department of Public Safety that Mayor Kirk Watson abruptly announced a few weeks ago. A number of Council members, including Chito Vela, the lead opponent of the police
Unpardonable cowardice
Abbott puts Fox News in charge of our justice system.
A valid petition –– to protect density
A developer fights a rezoning that threatens their apartment plans.
TxDOT threatens an urban trail with a highway
You see a trail. TxDOT sees another highway.
Cop politics
Some early reactions to DPS: Rick Cofer, who has been active for years in local Democratic politics and has worked on both sides of criminal law, as both a prosecutor and now as a defense attorney, believes that it's a big mistake for APD to ask for from
The Lege might do some good. Seriously!
The GOP legislature might do what liberal urbanists couldn't.
Actually, who did call the troopers?
Did Watson ask for state troopers –– or merely accept them?
Cap Metro's silly defense of the I-35 expansion
I get y'all don't wanna piss off TxDOT, but c'mon.
Making Austin's libraries greater
We need libraries more than ever.
Watson calls in the troopers
Correction: Yesterday I accidentally wrote, "The opposition from Butts and the Windsor Park neighborhood association, however, did sway Chito Vela, who represents the area, from supporting the rezoning." It should have said didn't sway. Yesterday, out of the blue, Mayor Kirk Watson announced a new "
Watson throws the NIMBYs a bone
The mayor names two reform opponents to the Planning Commission.