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

Leana Mann, chief appraiser of Travis Central Appraisal District, told the board of directors that nearly a half million property owners will have soon received Notices of Appraised Value via the U.S.

The Austin Free Press published a profile of the Bulldog and me that celebrates the Bulldog’s 16 th anniversary: “Bite Back: Ken Martin has been Austin’s journalism ‘Bulldog’ for 16 years.” It ...

Nineteen candidates, including four incumbents, now make up the field of folks who want to be elected or reelected to the Austin City Council. That number will no doubt swell before the August 18th ...

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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 ...

Anyone who has been to the Austin airport can tell you that AUS, the official code for Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, is bursting at the seams, with more people flying in and out through the ...

Two Travis County property owners filed suit Wednesday against members of the Travis County Commissioners Court, saying the group exceeded their authority when they voted to set the county tax rate in ...

Janet Marie Jennings-Doyle was making $170,000 a year as chief appraiser of Montgomery Central Appraisal District. On April 30, 2024—after 16 months in that job—the board of directors voted ...

This story was updated at 12:45pm August 23, 2025, to add a link to the audio recording of the Appraisal Review Board’s formal hearing of the valuation protest filed by Colorado River Project LLC. The ...

In an old television ad, a man in a grocery store tells two women shoppers, “Please don’t squeeze the Charmin.” But the goal of a new documentary is precisely to squeeze Charmin. The tactic is to ...

Leana Mann, chief appraiser of the Travis Central Appraisal District, told the board of directors Thursday that property owners and agents filed 205,000 protests this year, rounding up from the ...