Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.” — George Orwell The ...

The 2026 Austin City Council elections won’t take place for 218 days but 20 candidates have already appointed campaign treasurers to run for one of the five council seats that will be on the November ...

Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell was the first of many people to address the 15-member Charter Revision Committee last Thursday, calling for unity in getting behind whatever recommendation is made ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a story about Kirk Watson, not me, but readers should know that nobody covered this candidate as closely as I did back during his first mayoral campaign in 1996-1997 and during his first ...

Two Travis County property owners filed suit Wednesday against members of the Travis County Commissioners Court, saying the group exceeded their authority when they voted to set the county tax rate in ...

A lawsuit has been underway for seven years in efforts to stop Central Health from transferring $35 million a year to the University of Texas for Dell Medical School (DMS). (Birch et al v. Travis ...

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 ...

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 ...

In September 2025,Travis County Constable George Morales III decided to resign and run for Commissioners Court. After representing Precinct 4 for nine years, Morales said he wanted to tackle issues ...