Austin-based political consultant Emmy Ruiz is headed to the White House to serve as President-elect Joe Biden’s director of political strategy and outreach. Get the latest Austin Whaley news, stats, photos, and awards at MLive.com. But the thing is, these routes are just the beginning of what should be a long-term transformation in transportation and land use. The 2019 estimate showed a decrease of 5,700 Black people while the 2018 estimate showed an increase of nearly 9,000. After last year’s protests, Council, as part of its “reimagining public safety” thing, cancelled three cadet classes –– one that was scheduled for last November, one this spring and one next summer. Alas, if Adler has an even greater fault than excessive caution, it’s that he’s vulnerable to peer pressure. Carrie Austin, 34th, speaks during a City Council meeting in 2019 at Chicago City Hall. And why aren’t we offering transit where people live? There was nothing illegal about Hillary Clinton making gobs of money speaking to Wall Street banks as she prepared to run for president. Over on Twitter just about every Statesman reporter/editor I follow has expressed support. First Name. Are there other reforms aimed at boosting housing supply and reducing sprawl that she will support? It’s like they sat around thinking about the most elitist, out-of-touch thing to do and then did it. “Just because the path to equality isn’t straight doesn’t mean we’re not on the right path,” he later said. For example, the 1999 C&P overshot 2012 reported VMT by more that 22 percent—almost 11 extra states’ worth of driving. Unfortunately, a lot of Prop A supporters jumped down his throat and ridiculed him, rather than engaging more constructively in shaping the coverage. It’s fitting that this news came only hours after I’d been expressing frustration at some of Joe Biden’s brain-dead appointments. to. And then of course there are the clueless decisions made by Joe Biden and the previous Dem nominee, Hillary Clinton. The “healing” comment was Bidenesque, although the rest wasn’t particularly conciliatory. According to a federal affidavit, he was pulled over for “numerous traffic violations” at 2 a.m. on June 3 near the site of protests downtown. Nevada, for instance, is RTW but is nevertheless home to extremely powerful unions that are credited with winning middle-class wages & benefits for unskilled workers in the gaming industry. An oft-cited fact by those who opposed delaying the cadet classes was that the most recently-cancelled class was the most racially diverse in the city’s history. He feared that lower-cost apartments serving black tenants would reduce property values. The first question is whether Fuentes would side with the five other anti-LDC folks in trying to get the city to stop appealing the court ruling, which a fair number of insiders believe has a decent chance of getting overturned. No, we already have big parts of the city that are transit-friendly and generate high bus ridership, notably the Lamar/Guad/SoCo and Riverside corridors that are being targeted for light rail. Although you only need a majority of workers to vote in support of unionization, the goal is generally to have a much stronger majority. But it was monumentally stupid and completely discredited her as somebody who is going to work for regular Americans. Enough time has passed by now that 61 yearly projections can be compared to the reported VMT. That sense of safety is what protected bike lanes and urban trails provide. “I look forward to serving another four years representing District 10. Or was he charged but simply not detained? In Travis County, TX 65.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 27.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 7.1% voted Independent.. Travis county voted Democratic in the last four Presidential elections, after voting Republican in 2000. As I indicated in yesterday’s analysis of early vote figures, there was a particularly big increase in the number of voters with no history of voting in primaries, which made it hard to project their party/ideology. Cortez replied that our lackluster transit ridership reflects the fact that we simply aren’t offering transit where people live. Vote YES on Prop AOpponents of Project Connect levy numerous arguments against Prop A, but perhaps their most appealing one to otherwise liberal voters is this: “Now is not the time.”. The FBI affidavit also claims that Hunter was in regular communication with Steven Carrillo, a fellow Boogaloo who has been charged with the May 29 killing of a contract Federal Protective Service officer in Oakland, Calif. and the June 6 killing of a Sheriff Deputy in Santa Cruz, Calif. Four hours after the killing of the FPS officer, Carrillo allegedly exchanged Facebook messages with Hunter: A repeated assertion by opponents of Prop A is that it will increase your property taxes by 25%. Neera Tanden, who he has named to lead the Office of Management and Budget, and Rahm Emanuel, rumored to be a frontrunner for the Dept of Transportation, are both cartoons of the entitled and ethically flexible political class. Will Democrats ever learn? Natasha Harper-Madison: Single-family zoning is rooted in racism, Why Project Connect deserves your support, TxDOT will soon be done building new highways, There’s no evidence Austin’s Black population is declining again. There may be some nuances I am not accounting for. Back in 2002, the plan was for the expansion to be complete in 2020. Maybe she’d even be willing to support some relatively big reforms if they weren’t accompanied by the political baggage associate with the LDC rewrite. He said he was proud to be the first openly gay man on Council and the first Williamson County resident. Even after pro-Trump rioters lay siege to the Capitol, several Texas members of Congress were unswayed in opposing some state tallies. All municipal offices will close on Monday in observance of the holiday, and some city services will be rescheduled. "This reckless act, a political stunt by the city council pandering to the radical left, will do nothing but endanger the people of Austin," TMPA said in a statement on its Facebook page. 1/19/2021. There’s very little you can do to change someone views on national/state partisan politics, but you can have a big impact on how your friends and family vote in down-ballot races such as Prop A and Prop B. IU wrestling dropped its second dual meet of the season Sunday against No. And yet, some Dems were still confident that they’d win both runoffs, perhaps easily. In a blog post, the organization mocked the projected, deriding the income-restricted housing for being available to those “earning over 250 percent of the Montopolis neighborhood’s median family income.” The post further quotes an anonymous neighbor who describes the project as a “displacement scheme.”. By signing up you agree to our privacy policy Real. Jan 19, 2021 — By Mimi Swartz. And that includes right here in Austin, Texas. This helps explain why our transit ridership, although it increased mightily in the first 20 months following the service changes in June 2018, has generally been stagnant over the past 30 years. In the midst of a deep recession and uncertainty about if and when the pandemic will end, is it really the time for a 4% property tax hike? You can read more about Prop A in this lengthy Chronicle article I wrote the other week. What about Vanessa Fuentes?Or do we? You’ve got two days left to tell TxDOT what you think about expanding I-35. The Senate on Friday confirmed President Biden 's Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in a big bipartisan vote, marking the first time an African American will lead the Pentagon in U.S. history. Practical because this type of infrastructure is extraordinarily cheap but, if done right, can have a meaningful effect on the number of people who walk or bike instead of drive. This article, by the way, described the plan, which had been in the works since the late 80’s, to expand I-35. This is just a small sample of what you get EVERY weekday if you subscribe to the Austin Politics Newsletter. The idea was that training shouldn’t resume until it is reformed, but in response to a wave of retirements and resignations, the mayor and Council are under increasing pressure to re-open the academy. Here’s the slightly condensed version of what she said: “So he and the other developers, they got the city to do something that no other city ever had: they made it illegal to build anything other than a single-family home on a single lot in certain neighborhoods. CNN. But we must work to make it better. 1/19/2021 Abbott discussed the importance of supporting law enforcement, combating efforts to defund the police and working towards bail reform. The Latest News and Updates in brought to you by the team at KXAN Austin: ... More Political News Headlines Biden aims for unifying speech at daunting moment for US The look of a Race other reforms aimed at “ protecting ” certain low-income areas gentrification/displacement... 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