This past February, Kathleen Harrington, an Austinite living on Ramsey Avenue near 49th and Burnet, wrote to Scott Boone of the Zoning and Platting Commission to try to stop a luxury apartment complex ...

“Cleveland is having a moment,” Williams says, laughing at the added coincidence that Swift’s song debuted on the same day as ...

At today’s City Council meeting, the dais will consider a proposal that would direct City Manager T.C. Broadnax to include geographical data in future reporting on social services so that the city can ...

Generation ATX, or GenATX, is an initiative launched by Mayor Kirk Watson last fall, with the goal of “making Austin the best place in America to be a kid.” Now that the program has hired its first ...

As voters peer at Proposition I on the ballot this November, they may wonder, “Doesn’t the city already conduct efficiency audits?” And the answer is yes, Austin has two audit frameworks. The first is ...

Travis County Clerk Dyana Limon-Mercado displayed voting equipment to members of the press on Oct. 14 before early voting began Credit: Sammie Seamon It’s the first week of early voting for a ...

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Recent pieces in The New York Times, NPR, Reuters, and Votebeat detail how election officials across the country are ...

Major League Soccer’s most musical matchup took place over the weekend when Nashville SC of “Music City” battled Austin FC in “The Live Music Capital of the World,” appropriately during ACL Fest. For ...

Esperanza premiered last weekend as the first Reyes production in nine years. Afterward, I was able to witness both writer/director Rupert and producer JoAnn’s induction into the Austin Arts Hall of ...

Indeed, as a public official, Paxton has behaved as though he is auditioning to become a cartoon villain on Adult Swim, perhaps under the name “Crapton.” The animators would barely have to use their ...

Dille, a former AISD Teacher of the Year, AISD parent, and UT education professor, decided that she was going to run for the South Austin District 6 seat anyway. Twelve other individuals have also ...