Interim City Attorney Deborah Thomas filed this Statement of Financial Information covering the year 2023 ...

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 ...

Austin’s next city council elections are 21 months away but two incumbents elected in 2022 have wasted no time in building campaign war chests to boost their reelection campaigns in 2026. This early ...

Adam Haynes on December 10 th filed a 19-page sworn complaint against District 7 runoff candidate Mike Siegel with the Austin City Clerk for consideration by the Ethics Review Commission. He also ...

The Bulldog reported October 23 rd that the Vibrant Austin political action committee paid for false advertising published on the Austin American-Statesman’s website. The ad wrongly stated District 10 ...

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 ...

“It is the policy of the City that the proper operation of democratic government requires that public officials and employees be independent, impartial and responsible to the people; that governmental ...

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.

District Judge Amy Clark Meacham will decide—based on a two-hour hearing held in her court Thursday—whether Central Health can continue transferring $35 million of the property taxes it collects each ...

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 ...

This chart shows the eight Austin city managers who served over the past half-century. Council members make policy. The city manager’s job is to implement those policies. A great city manager can get ...

With 2024 being a presidential election year—maybe a rerun of the 2020 election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump—we should be expecting record-breaking turnout in Austin voting. Add to that, for the ...