Janet Marie Jennings-Doyle was making $170,000 a year as chief appraiser of Montgomery Central Appraisal District. On April ...

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The recent flooding in Kerr County took center stage as the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas (FOIFT) hosted its annual conference last Friday. It started with a panel discussion focused on ...

This story was updated at 12:45pm August 23, 2025, to add a link to the audio recording of the Appraisal Review Board’s formal hearing of the valuation protest filed by Colorado River Project LLC. The ...

The clear leader in local government transparency at the moment is the Travis County Commissioners Court, whose members have unanimously said they would provide e-mails involving public business ...

Austin City Council Member Natasha Harper-Madison filed this Personal Financial Statement covering the year 2024. Download. Preview. File Type: pdf ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patrick Lee, M.D., was hired as Administrator (which is synonymous to President and Chief Executive Officer) of Central Health effective January 29, 2024. He succeeded Mike Geeslin, who had served as ...

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 ...

Mayor Kirk Watson spent more than $1 million to win reelection in 2024. That equates to 34 percent of the combined $3.1 million spent by all 22 mayoral and council candidates. To see the Bulldog’s ...