Since the defeat of the property tax increase known as Proposition Q, City Council Member Krista Laine has looked with fresh eyes at the expensive infrastructure projects Austin has committed to over the last five years. These include the creation of a ne... See more
Austin City Council members Vanessa Fuentes, José Velásquez, and Mike Siegel held a town hall in mid-November, two weeks after the defeat of Proposition Q, the proposal to increase property taxes to pay for public safety, social services, and other city n... See more
The Travis County District Attorney’s Office has dismissed the case of yet another person that judges say was wrongfully convicted of a major crime in Austin in the early 2000s. Marshall Moreno was found guilty of sexual assault and indecency with a child... See more
The city of Austin and its firefighters signed a new labor contract on Thursday, Dec. 18. The four-year, $63 million agreement approved by City Council and the Austin Firefighters Association increases pay, guarantees a minimum of four firefighters on eve... See more
Marti Bier, a nonbinary organizer with the Texas Freedom Network, spent the last three legislative sessions at the state Capitol trying to protect the trans community from a series of Republican attacks. “It has felt worse and worse as our humanity and di... See more
