Mayor Steve Adler (in foreground wearing white shirt and black mask) joined a rally organized by the Austin Justice Coalition at Huston-Tillotson University June 7, 2020, protesting police violence.

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 ...

City will try to quantify racism’s economic harm Joe Biden During the 2019-2020 Democratic presidential primary, a handful of candidates backed the idea of paying reparations to the African-American ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1996 Watson’s first campaign hire was consultant was Alfred Stanley. Stanley told the Bulldog he hasn’t worked with Watson since then, but he still has fond memories. “He told me that ...

The current Austin City Council has made it a priority to boost funding for homeless services, but some mayoral and council candidates think the city hasn’t done enough, while others see the current ...

Order for scope of work will be finalized with staff before the Commissioners Court votes on issuing a request for proposals The Travis County Commissioners Court voted unanimously Tuesday to stick ...

Exporting LNG during Winter Storm Uri proved disastrous Editor’s note: This is the first article in a four-part series revealing how the exportation of natural gas adversely affected Texans during ...

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. District Judge Jessica ...

Senator Kirk Watson said to have admitted Central Health didn’t have legal authority to fund medical education Kirk Watson A decade ago, then State Senator Kirk Watson, who’s now running for mayor of ...

This story was updated at 2:45pm October 17th to add documentation that shows the City Attorney has taken no enforcement action or spent even one staff hour devoted to enforcement of lobbyist ...

Our analysis provides insights about patterns of giving Austin’s top employment sectors are healthcare, education, business services, and government, but you wouldn’t know it based on local political ...