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 ...

Update March 27, 2025: The Kansas City Star reported today that the City Council of Kansas City, Missouri, voted unanimously to terminate the employment of City Manager Brian Platt. The City of Austin ...

The University of Texas Law School provided the venue for a fourth public debate over the question of whether—or even if—the Austin City Charter should be amended to allow for some form of geographic ...

The theatre was full at the Austin Film Society cinema last Monday evening as director Steve Mims presented his new documentary project The Magic Hole: An Austin Convention Center Expansion ...

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0 Less than four months after graduating with a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin, Jose “Chito” Vela took a job in April 2005 as an assistant attorney general. He left that job in ...

Allan McMurtry first got involved in 1977, when the since-relocated Allendale Baptist Church wanted to expand. They began buying up houses around their property and tearing them down, while also ...

Austin’s next city council elections are 21 months away but two incumbents elected in 2022 have wasted no time in building campaign war chests to boost their reelection campaigns in 2026. This early ...

On a cold night in downtown Austin, local dignitaries and city workers gathered for a highly organized event in the city hall chambers to celebrate the inauguration of the mayor and newest slate of ...

In separate preliminary hearings, attorney Bill Aleshire, who represented complainants Duchen and Kelly, presented evidence of Ganguly and Laine’s violations. (Disclosure: Aleshire represents the ...

Adam Haynes on December 10 th filed a 19-page sworn complaint against District 7 runoff candidate Mike Siegel with the Austin City Clerk for consideration by the Ethics Review Commission. He also ...

“I think this might have been a collective idea from a number of volunteers and organizers,” Carmen Llanes Pulido said with a smile as cars, cyclists, e-scooter riders, and tourists whizzed across the ...