A drawn-out struggle to write new rules that govern land use in Austin ended 2020 the same way it began: with a power-shifting victory for property owners who are resistant to multi-family homes popping up in their single-family neighborhoods.
A pair of game-changing events - a court judgement against the city in March and an upset in the City Council runoff election in December - have made it so that neither side in a multi-year fight on the City Council has much of an upper hand right now. That rebalance of power could lead to negotiations heating back up and the council hammering out an agreement in 2021.
Celebrate the holigays like a scream queen with Bulimianne (l) and Louisianna (Photo by Corin Smith)
As a friend of Dorothy, it s only a little fitting that one of my most played Xmas songs this season is Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. But seriously, Ms. Judy s lyrical longing for
Someday soon we all will be together/ If the fates allow is spot on for how many of us might be feeling. Though we don t celebrate the same traditions, this time of year feels especially fitting for time with lots of loved ones and time to decompress, but right now, that s not the case so much. I, for one, am pretty deflated in the cheer department (and that s not just because I wasted the better part of a Saturday night cringe-LOLing my way through
Letitica Moreno Caballero are squared off in the district-wide At-Large Place 8.
7:10pm And boom, the early vote in Travis County has dropped. That s an important distinction, because Council D6 also includes precincts in Williamson County that have not reported. In the Travis part of D6, Kelly leads Flannigan by just under 500 votes. out of nearly 7,000 early ballots cast.
in D10, Alter has a 373-vote lead over Virden out of more than 18,700 cast, so ahout 2%.
In the AISD races, Boswell has a solid 54%-46% lead over Littlefield in early voting (471 votes out of more than 5,700 cast), and Caballero and Lugo are basically tied: Caballero leads by 142 votes out of nearly 30,000 cast, so less than half a percentage point.