Category Archives: Austin

(Austin City Council is) Breaking the Law, Breaking the Law

I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but the SuperGeniuses on the Austin City Council (along with allies among the Travis County apparatchiks) have gotten it into their heads that it’s just a swell idea to ban gun shows within the … Continue reading →

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Early Voting in Texas Starts Today

Early voting in Texas starts today and runs through Friday, November 2. Here are early voting locations and sample ballots for Williamson County. And here are the Travis County early voting locations.

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UT Evacuated Due to Bomb Threat

The University of Texas has evacuated campus due to a possibly Jihad-related bomb threat. At 8:35 a.m. the university received a call from a male with a middle eastern accent claiming to have placed bombs all over campus. He said … Continue reading →

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I’ll Be LiveTweeting The Cruz/Dewhurst Debate Tonight

Tonight is the last Ted Cruz/David Dewhurst debate before the election. (Hey Dewhurst, what happened to all those other debates you said you were up for?) Baring unforeseen technical difficulties, I will be LiveTweeting the debate from Cruz headquarters in … Continue reading →

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Amado Pardo: Murderer, Restaurateur, Heroin Dealer, Democratic Fundraiser

Dwight has been all over the story of Amado “Mayo” Pardo, owner of South Austin Mexican restaurant Joviata’s, who just happens to be a two-time convicted murderer (a third murder charge was dropped as part of a plea bargain for … Continue reading →

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Grady Yarbrough Snags an Endorsement!

OK, this is funny. The most invisible man in the Texas senate race campaign, Democrat Grady Yarbrough, has no website, no Facebook page, and no Twitter feed. But that didn’t stop him from being endorsed by The Austin Villager (warning: … Continue reading →

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Mailers. I Get Mailers.

If you’re wondering what this election year is like in Williamson County, I’ve saved all the political flyers I’ve gotten. As usual, click to embiggen. The most mail I’ve gotten has been for the Lisa Birkman vs. Lee Ann Seitsinger … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for May 27, 2012

Woke up entirely too early this morning, so here’s a big old bag of randomness: Wisconsin Democratic recall candidate Tom Barrett manicuplated crime figures as Mayor of Milwaukee. (Hat tip: Jim Geraghty.) Shades of Tom Leppert. Or Tommy Carcetti. I … Continue reading →

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Something Tells Me Lloyd Doggett Survives This Time Around

I always believe in telling the truth as I see it, no matter how uncomfortable. And my reading of the tea leaves (not the Tea Party leaves) is that, despite all the effort to redistrict him out of office, Lloyd … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for May 16, 2012

All sorts of news bubbling up, reportage of which is in various stages of completion. 49 headless bodies found in Mexico. Bork bork bork. Cherokee genealogist to Elizabeth Warren: “Your ancestors are found in plenty of historical records, and every … Continue reading →

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