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The Travis County Commissioners Court continued to indulge budgetary squabbles between the county’s Justices of the Peace at its weekly meeting on Tuesday. There, over the objections of County Judge Sam Biscoe and Pct. 1 Commissioner Ron Davis, the court…
The Planning Commission shocked the development community Tuesday night when they voted 5-4 to deny a variance that would allow the removal of a heritage tree for a proposed high rise at Third and Bowie downtown. Attorney David Armbrust,…
The Lower Colorado River Authority agreed yesterday to put up the $5 million local match necessary to secure Bastrop County’s FEMA funding for clean-up efforts from the Labor Day wildfires. Bastrop County, which expects a slow painful recovery process,…
In Fact Daily has learned that former Pct. 3 Travis County Commissioner Gerald Daugherty will seek a return to his former post. Daugherty will announce his campaign this morning. Daugherty, a Republican, told In Fact Daily that he decided…
The potential shut-down of the last of the Travis County-owned water distribution points revealed a pending disaster for a small subdivision in the southeastern part of the county Tuesday. According to the residents of the Las Lomitas development the loss…
Monday’s CAMPO Transportation Policy Board meeting was proof that as soon as local leaders take one step forward in the name of regional planning, they’re just as likely to take two steps back. Members of the regional planning board…
Two years after Capital Metro discontinued free Dillo service downtown, City Council approved two measures at their Thursday meeting to fill in service gaps along or near two former Dillo routes with low-speed electric vehicles. The first measure amends city…
After two years of work, the newly renamed Austin Resource Recovery (ARR) Department came to the city’s Solid Waste Advisory Commission (SWAC) in search of a formal endorsement of its vision for the future of waste and recycling in the…
Council votes 4-3 for 3rd time for spring election. Political heavy hitters came out to support both November and May before final vote. Full story coming Monday.
Attorney Richard Suttle won rezoning of a series of properties along West Avenue near the intersection on Seventh Street at Council last night; no small feat given a valid petition had been filed to oppose the zoning changes. The…
An effort by Austin City Council Members Laura Morrison and Kathie Tovo to return the city’s Comprehensive Plan to the citizens’ task force set up to watch over it was delayed on Thursday. That move came in the wake of…
On Thursday, a bitterly divided Austin City Council once again argued, debated and heard testimony on whether to hold elections in May or November 2012, once again voting 4-3 for the traditional May date. Council will hold a specially-called…
