- Democratic District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg: The Star of the Anointed
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A District Attorney tries to use her position and connections to escape arrest for drunk driving. She fires the employee who points out that this is conduct unbecoming a District Attorney, and indicts the governor who argues that this is conduct antithetical to the head of the Public Integrity Unit. The real problem: capital cities attract corruption. - Kirk Watson emerges from cave after 200 years of isolation
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Former Austin mayor confused, faint because of new laws that presume adults are children. - Proposition 3: Slowly chipping away at Austin’s permanent political class
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Texas proposition 3 removes the requirement that state officers join the Austin political class and instead lets them live in surrounding communities—that more closely resemble Texas.
- Round Rock Chalk Walk
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We walked up to downtown Round Rock on Saturday for the annual? Chalk Walk. There were food trucks with fried cheese sandwiches; fresh ice cream from Maggie Moo’s; local music; and, after the show, beer at The Brass Tap and college football.
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- Review: Joy of the Whole Table
- This Unitarian cookbook from Austin is basically hippy-lite. When it comes to cookbooks, that’s a good thing. The recipes here straddle the world of church potlucks and seventies counterculture.
- On Austin’s $95 M Bond Proposal
- “The Austin city council looks like it will put a massive $925 million bond package in front of voters in November which would be ‘the largest in Austin’s history.’ If approved, the near-billion dollar proposal would raise the city’s property tax rate by another 2 cents per $100 of value, further putting the squeeze on struggling families and businesses.”
