The huge pay raises City Council approved for Austin cops last year is hardly doing wonders for recruiting. More than half of the cadets of the first post-contract academy class have already dropped out. www.austinpolitics.net/what-did-hik...

Serious question: what is the point of bike racks like these? Are you supposed to put your wheel through the slots? I don't get it.

S. Lamar would be so much better for bikes if it were always under construction.

Are you looking to procrastinate? Find the addresses of these federal properties in Austin and put them on a map. Please & thank you.

FML.

Has UNO actually produced any housing that is meaningfully lower than market rate?

UPDATE: SIEGEL WINS BY 206 votes!!

Wow, Bledsoe is up by 87 votes after the early vote posted. Gonna be close…

Sigh.

The Murdochs inspired Succession, which in turn inspired the Murdochs.

Looks like many news networks have called it for the rebels, but the NYT has not yet.

A mailer from "Protect Austin," a group funded primarily by Kilroy Realty (owner of the Indeed Tower downtown) & Gary Farmer , attacks Mike Siegel in the District 7 runoff against Gary Bledsoe.

I just cannot believe how fucking dumb this is. Who the hell are these staffers who thought going on the country's biggest podcast was a bad idea?

www.ft.com/content/9292...

Thinking about the Tarrytown voter I spoke w/at the polls who told me she is voting for Trump because she is "very fiscally conservative."

reason.com/2024/11/13/t...

Just a few months ago city budget presentations showed the city on track for $60M deficit by 2028-29.

Now, advocating for the police contract that will significantly increase budget, there is no longer talk of impending deficit.

Never heard of "reverse coattails" until this week.
I was watching CBS 1976 election night coverage –– there was talk about "reverse coattails" of popular Indiana senate candidate Dick Lugar helping Gerald Ford.

An unimaginable concept in hyper-polarized/hyper-nationalized 21st century. Or is it?