Archive for the ‘Follow-Up’ Category
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Iraq. Katrina. Pain at the pump. Unsafe food. Record debt. Real incomes falling for the first time since the Great Depression. A long list of failures trails the Bush administration as it limps through its final days.
But the saddest legacy of the saddest presidency may turn out to be the ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
A new poll purports to have predicted the vote in Austin’s Place 4 city council runoff five days before the election even though the firm didn’t release the results until this week, days after the actual voting took place.
Further undermining the pollster’s case is his misstatement of the margin of ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
A proposal by outgoing council member Betty Dunkerley that could force Austin homeowners to make expensive modifications to their houses in order to accommodate the disabled is scheduled to be heard during her last official council meeting tomorrow.
It seems to us, that at the very least the name of the ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Ten thousand Austinites (plus all those undocumented immigrants who keep flooding the polls) cast their ballots during early vote, and now it’s all over but the smearing of each candidate by the other between now and Saturday’s final round.
Galindo is a Republican — or at least that’s what Morrison claims ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
We got more bile in the mail today in the form of negative campaigning by Laura Morrison. This one even hits Cid Galindo's dad for giving money to Bush.
We wouldn't vote for his dad either. Too bad Cid didn't hire an opposition researcher to look into Laura's parents' past.
The funniest ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Though we haven't seen any real polling in a while, we assumed that Laura Morrison was leading going into the runoff against El Cid.
Her consultants must be seeing something in the numbers that they don't like, because we saw our first piece of negative advertising today.
It is a big foldout ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
The subterranean Austin city council runoff for the Place Four seat being vacated by Betty Dunkerly poked its head up this week when Laura Morrison, who led the voting in round one, criticized city leaders for awarding a contract to retool the Green Water Treatment Plant without sufficient public input. ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Leffingwell Beats Meeker, Looks Ahead To McCracken
Lee Leffingwell handily defeated challenger Jason Meeker, setting the stage for the Austin city council member’s expected race against colleague Brewster McCracken in next year’s mayoral race.
Leffingwell needed a big win to position himself for his next campaign — and got it. He ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Catholics are turning out in record numbers this year to vote in Democratic presidential primaries from Texas to Pennsylvania. But at least a dozen of them were turned away from the polls yesterday in Indiana under that state’s strict new voter ID law, which was upheld by the U.S. ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
It seems Culleton don't quit.
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
This almost reads like a story from The Onion
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Already more than a quarter million dollars in hock to local Hays County taxpayers, outdoor retailer Cabela’s may now be forced to cough up nearly half-a-million more to the Texas Enterprise Fund.
The controversial state business incentive fund pushed through the Legislature by Rick Perry in 2003 with an initial $300 ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Austin’s newspaper of record last week published an excerpt from a phony press release that it falsely attributed to this blog — in a story about the "controversy" surrounding a factual post on this same blog. This morning, the newspaper published a begrudging correction.
Here’s the bottom line: APR has never ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Austin Mayor Will Wynn said yesterday that he won’t be supporting a ballot initiative this year on single-member districts, after sitting on the fence for months. As the swing vote, Wynn’s public pronouncement effectively kills the stop-start effort, which has has had trouble finding a vocal proponent beyond council ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Austin City Councilman Uncle Lee Leffingwell’s campaign kicks off Tuesday evening at Nuevo Leon Restaurant on East 6th. No word yet on whether this party is for his re-election race this May, his already-announced mayoral campaign next year or both.
Political observers are wondering if the 5:30 p.m. start time ...
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