Trustees District 5 and
At-Large Place 8 seats, respectively, in Tuesday s election. Lugo and Boswell are two of four new trustees to join the board alongside D1 Trustee
Ofelia Maldonado Zapata and D3 Trustee
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UT Health Austin, the clinical practice for
UT Dell Medical School, was among the first four sites in Texas to receive the vaccine on Dec. 14. Seven additional providers in Travis County are slated to receive initial doses of the vaccine.
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1) Jan. 13: Red Guards Ambush Heidi Sloan The Democratic Socialists of America organizer and candidate for Congress in the TX-25 Democratic primary was waylaid and threatened by militants associated with the ostensibly defunct Maoist group Red Guards Austin, highlighting stress fractures at the leftmost edge of Austin politics even as the influence of DSA-aligned progressives surged in an increasingly deep-blue Travis County. Sloan would lose her race to the also very progressive Julie Oliver, who set up a rematch with GOP incumbent Roger Williams.
2) Feb. 23: Bernie Sanders Rolls Through Town As Texas found itself a pivotal state in the 2020 presidential primary, candidates with Austin connections, including (one-time UT prof) Elizabeth Warren and (friend of Mayor Adler) Pete Buttigieg, made late swings through town, but none drew a bigger crowd than Sanders, who was widely expected to pick up most of the locally awarded delegates and who, at this point, was the national front-runn
Lynn Boswell will be the new representative for
District 5 on the
Austin ISD Board of Trustees, after winning her run-off against
Jennifer Littlefield by a nearly 10% margin Tuesday night. Boswell had also finished first – albeit much more narrowly – in the Nov. 3 election against Littlefield and third-place finisher
Piper Stege Nelson.
All of the candidates addressed educational equity in their campaigns. I gambled that District 5 was looking for that conversation, said Boswell about the Westside district that s home to some of Austin s wealthiest neighborhoods. I think that the wisdom for a long time has been that someone who was willing to talk too openly about that was not going to be the voice in our district.
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.
Lynn Boswell and Noelita Lugo on Tuesday won their runoff races for District 5 and District 8 seats, respectively, on the Austin school board.
Boswell, a documentary filmmaker and former president of the Austin Council of PTAs, won the District 5 seat with 4,030 votes, or 54.83% of the 7,350 total votes cast in the runoff election, according to the Travis County Clerk s office. Jennifer Littlefield, a lawyer who ran against Boswell, garnered 3,320 votes.
Boswell on Wednesday told the American-Statesman that she looks forward to using her past experience working with parent organizations and other community efforts to represent the people in District 5, which includes much of Central and West Austin.