Archive for August, 2007
Thursday, August 16th, 2007
The San Antonio Express News is reporting this rainy morning what we told you yesterday. Brian Flood has resigned after not being reappointed by the Rickster.
Lets just hope he knew before he read it here!
Here is a link to the SAEN story
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Hans Klinger, the appropriately named spokesbot for the Texas Republican Party, was in Hays County today. The mission: find fellow travelers who might agree to attend the party’s straw poll, scheduled for the end of this month in Fort Worth. At their own expense.
There were six takers. Either Hans forgot ...
Posted in State, News | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Congrats to RG4N on achieving a temporary slowdown to the Northcross Walmart! KXAN reports that Lincoln properties will halt demolition and and tree removal at least until the trial begins on November 13. A small victory, but a victory nonetheless.
The story also suggested that RG4N communications guy ...
Posted in 2008 Elections, Growth, City Council, News | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
From his well-appointed Austin office, the state’s inspector general is supposed to root out waste and abuse in the Texas health and human services system — well-appointed being the operative term here.
The office’s current occupant, Brian Flood, may be forced out this week by the same man who appointed him ...
Posted in State, News | 1 Comment »
Sunday, August 12th, 2007
Politicians like to say government should be run like a business. So it makes sense that the Austin City Council created a store that reflects its own style of doing business — shifting costs that shouldn’t have been incurred in the first place to taxpayers.
Blindly following the lead of ...
Posted in City Council, News | 1 Comment »
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
Councilmember Lee Leffingwell surprised everyone yesterday — even himself — by offering a motion to stop a water treatment plant he had championed until only minutes earlier. The flip-flop seemed to come over the noon hour, as council aides furiously drafted the motion to delay Water Treatment Plant 4 at ...
Posted in City Council, News | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
The controversy over Las Manitas’s $750,000 relocation loan will not be replayed in the case of Escuelita del Alma, the daycare center right next door, which has secured a Small Business Administration loan to move to a new $2 million facility.
The Las Manitas loan will be eligible for forgiveness five ...
Posted in Growth, City Council, News | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Austin’s brand new top cop Art Acevedo missed the fun last year when the city had to kick in an estimated $2.5 million to close a gap on the police department’s books. Seems that money seized in federal drug seizures was used to pay salaries and supplement other expenses ...
Posted in Cops 'n' Robbers, News | No Comments »
