Austin Energy agrees to start planning coal plant retirement

Two key environmental groups announced their support Thursday for a settlement to the Austin Energy rate review, the public process the city goes through periodically before setting new electricity rates for the city-owned utility’s commercial and residential customers. Sierra Club…

Energy • By Jack Craver • Aug 26, 2016

Does Austin need a bigger convention center?

City leaders are considering a plan to expand the Austin Convention Center, but some question how much the entire city would benefit from the project. The convention industry is sort of like an invisible arms race among cities. Who can…

Austin • By Syeda Hasan • Aug 26, 2016

Guadalupe amendment moves to Council without endorsement

Sometimes it’s easier to say what something isn’t than to say what it is. For example, not many people know what an “activity corridor” is under the Imagine Austin plan. But, for the time being, a section of Guadalupe is…

Planning • By Elizabeth Pagano • Aug 26, 2016

Democratic DA pick talks cross-party maneuver

The Democratic nominee for Travis County district attorney is vigorously defending her decision to offer a Republican judge potential control of the office’s embattled Public Integrity Unit. Margaret Moore told the Austin Monitor that she is convinced that 450th District…

Local Politics • By Caleb Pritchard • Aug 26, 2016

Council digs into hiring process for new city manager

The candidates for Austin’s next city manager will be vetted by nearly a million people. At least, that’s how necessary City Council members and city staff have said public input is to the process of hiring Austin’s newest city manager…

City Hall • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Aug 25, 2016

Spay and neuter proposal continues to simmer

The City Council Health and Human Services Committee took a look at the results of a survey on Tuesday that asked whether a spay/neuter initiative could help reduce animal intake for local shelters, but it is holding off on a…

Austin • By Elizabeth Pagano • Aug 25, 2016

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CAMPO proposal could dilute voices of Austin and Travis County

Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt is pushing back against proposed reforms to a key part of regional transportation policy planning that could cost both the county and the city of Austin important seats at the table. At issue is a…

Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Aug 25, 2016

Commission split on mixed-use zoning near Lamar

The Planning Commission urged a property owner and his neighbors to try to reach a compromise Tuesday after a hearing in which both sides of a contentious zoning case accused the other of duplicity. “They’re traumatized; I’m traumatized,” said John…

Zoning • By Jack Craver • Aug 25, 2016

Central Health presents its budget, faces criticism over transparency

The Travis County Commissioners Court heard details about Central Health’s proposed budget for 2017 on Tuesday during a lengthy hearing that also featured organized criticism of the county hospital district’s approach to transparency. The court learned that the district is…

Travis County • By Caleb Pritchard • Aug 24, 2016

Austin Energy gradually reforms Customer Assistance Program

For nearly two years, Paul Robbins, a longtime environmental and consumer activist, has been hounding Austin Energy about its operation of the Customer Assistance Program, which is intended to give energy discounts to low-income households. Robbins, who earns groans as…

Energy • By Jack Craver • Aug 24, 2016

Bastrop's Pine Forest legal fees still rising

The city of Bastrop has paid nearly $652,000 to the attorney representing the city, Bastrop County and the Bastrop Independent School District to wrangle with Robert Leffingwell, the other owners of the Pine Forest Investment Group LLC and the homeowners…

Local Government • By Jo Clifton • Aug 24, 2016

New balcony approved for Ma and Pa Ferguson house

Though it took a reluctant Historic Landmark Commission two votes to approve it last month, the Ma and Pa Ferguson House gets to have a nonhistoric balcony. Again. The home at 1200 Enfield Road was once home to Ma and…

Preservation • By Elizabeth Pagano • Aug 24, 2016

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