I sat through and covered every Austin City Council meeting and work session for five straight years, as well as most of the ...

While reporting during a five-year period 1995-2000 I sat through and covered every Austin City Council meeting and work session for five straight years,... The 2026 Austin City Council elections ...

On the morning of September 19, 2009, an Austin police officer pulled over Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell on a state highway and issued him a speeding ticket. Leffingwell later pled no contest, paid a ...

The Austin City Council in today’s work session voted 5-2 (Council Members Mike Martinez and Bill Spelman opposed) to put the 8-2-1 plan for electing council members on the November ballot. A ...

Don Zimmerman had a long history of filing lawsuits even before he won election to the District 6 seat on the Austin City Council last December. In fact, while a candidate he sued The Austin Bulldog ...

While reporting during a five-year period 1995-2000 I sat through and covered every Austin City Council meeting and work session for five straight years,... Faced with a December 1 deadline to ...

The Austin Bulldog electronically filed a lawsuit in state district court last night to sue the mayor and each council member in their individual capacity, and the City of Austin, for failure to ...

Did the City of Austin “defund” the police? Did it cut its police budget by 5 percent or by one-third? What’s the truth behind these conflicting claims? Those are hot-button issues that play into the ...

Allan McMurtry first got involved in 1977, when the since-relocated Allendale Baptist Church wanted to expand. They began buying up houses around their property and tearing them down, while also ...

The 2026 Austin City Council elections won’t take place for 283 days but eight challengers have already appointed campaign treasurers to run for one of the five council seats that will be on the ...

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 ...

This is a story about Kirk Watson, not me, but readers should know that nobody covered this candidate as closely as I did back during his first mayoral campaign in 1996-1997 and during his first ...