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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 ...
Chief Appraiser Leana Mann told the Board of Directors of Travis Central Appraisal District yesterday that 2,593 homeowners will lose their homestead exemptions. That’s a result of the audit underway ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
District 7 runoff candidate Gary Bledsoe has something extra to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. The City of Austin answered the Bulldog’s request for how much money was in the Austin Fair Campaign ...
The Bulldog reported October 23rd that the Vibrant Austin political action committee paid for false advertising published on the Austin American-Statesman’s website. The ad wrongly stated District 10 ...
“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 ...
Travis Central Appraisal District’s Board of Directors on September 5 th committed a blatant violation of the Texas Open Meetings Act (TOMA). The board voted 7-1 to countersue 23 Travis County ...
A lawsuit has been underway for seven years in efforts to stop Central Health from transferring $35 million a year to the University of Texas for Dell Medical School (DMS). (Birch et al v. Travis ...
Betsy Greenberg, a former member of the City’s Ethics Review Commission, is nevertheless still concerned with whether mayor and council candidates comply with rules for campaign finance reporting.
District Judge Amy Clark Meacham will decide—based on a two-hour hearing held in her court Thursday—whether Central Health can continue transferring $35 million of the property taxes it collects each ...