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: ...

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 ...

State legislators heard testimony Wednesday on a bill that proponents say would eliminate a “loophole” allowing the Austin Transit Partnership (ATP) to borrow billions of dollars without voter ...

Right now local voters are of course focused on the Super Tuesday primary elections of March 5 th, but another election two months later should be of interest to all Travis County property owners. On ...

Austin’s top employment sectors are healthcare, education, business services, and government, but you wouldn’t know it based on local political giving. According to The Austin Bulldog’s analysis of ...

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 ...

Betsy Greenberg, a former member of the City’s Ethics Review Commission, is nevertheless still concerned with whether mayor and council candidates comply with rules for campaign finance reporting.

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 ...

Two factors have sparked renewed debate around the cost of Project Connect, the light rail and commuter bus project approved by Austin voters in 2020. The first is a draft law in the legislature, HB ...

Outgoing District 9 Council Member Kathie Tovo, who fought the CodeNEXT rewrite of Austin’s Land Development Code, could soon be replaced by a candidate with different views on development. Tovo was ...

City staff employed by the Convention Center Department could remain on the payroll for four to five years despite closure of the Convention Center itself, according to departmental plans. “We are ...

This story was updated a fourth time at 2:06pm July 10th to clarify that the Design Workshop was authorized $600,000 for its work on the Zilker Plan. The $1.35 million paid to the firm, as stated in ...