Brant Bingamon

Austin police want you to know that reform is underway at APD. The department's leaders appeared at City Hall last week to show City Council members

Austin found itself in a familiar position last week as both Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton threatened the city over its latest progressive policy decision. The threats followed the Austin Police Department’s March decision to change its general orders to ban officers from arresting people on noncriminal arrest warrants issued by ICE, […]

The woman in the SAFE ATX video stares into the camera and describes the trauma of receiving a forensic exam in a hospital after being raped. “There’s the noise, the long waits, the lack of privacy, the feeling that your pain is just one more thing in a long line of other emergencies,” she says. […]

Austin residents and city leaders are organizing to stop or at least delay a plan to expand MoPac between Enfield Road and Slaughter Lane, saying it would pollute the water and air and kill endangered species living near the highway. The plan by the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority – a local entity overseeing toll […]

Hyde Park, with its orderly layout, Old Austin grace, and nearness to the University of Texas campus, is a very Kathie Tovo kind of place. Tovo’s campaign signs stand at the edges of lawns throughout the neighborhood. I followed the candidate on a recent April afternoon as she canvassed the area, knocking on doors in […]

This past February, Kathleen Harrington, an Austinite living on Ramsey Avenue near 49th and Burnet, wrote to Scott Boone of the Zoning and Platting Commission to try to stop a luxury apartment complex from being built across the street from her home, on the site of the former Rosedale Elementary School. “A 75-foot-high, six-story apartment […]

“Clarity, consistency, and affordability, that’s what this item is about,” City Council Member Krista Laine said last week, as Council approved a resolution laying the groundwork for an expansion of the HOME initiative. “Our code in Austin is an incredibly complex document that needs to be cleaned up. We must make it quicker and less […]

Death penalty opponents are waiting to see if the state will proceed with what they say would be an unconstitutional execution. Texas officials plan to put Edward Busby to death today, May 14, despite the agreement of at least two experts that he is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for the death penalty. Last week, […]

Austin's City Council approved an agreement last week to create a massive mixed-use development of more than 2,600 acres – over twice the size of Austin's Downtown – just east of the city limits.

Austinites Elect Montserrat Garibay to Represent Central Austin