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Push the rail back on track
A letter I just wrote to the three councilmembers on the CAMPO TWG (I think Mike Martinez is among them, at least): Councilmembers and Mayor, After returning from a long vacation, I finally...

One injured in Northeast Austin shooting
Travis County Sheriff’s deputies said one person was injured at the shooting, which happened at 13201 Dessau Road around 3:15 p.m. on Thursday.

1 dead, 1 injured in Northeast Austin shooting
One person is dead and another is critically injured in a Northeast Austin shooting.

2 dead in Northeast Austin drug-related shooting; children in...
A shootout at a Northeast Austin mobile home park Thursday afternoon killed two men and put several children in danger.

Taxing land rather than buildings
The Overhead Wire points to this at the ULI blog: How about restructuring the property tax across America to install a two-tiered system? More tax on those horizontal pieces of empty land and...