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Fred Lewis is an attorney who has spent countless hours trying to keep the City of Austin honest. He joins us again to us the latest updates to the South Central Waterfront District TIRZ and Central Health.
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Published 04/24/24
Danielle Fountain is the co-founder of The One Realty in Austin, TX. She joins to discuss some of the latest trends in real estate in Austin, investor/institutional buyers, the HOME initiative, and more!
Danielle on X: https://twitter.com/The_One_Realty
The One Realty Website: https://theonerealty.com/
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Published 03/28/24
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In the last of three episodes highlighting how DA Jose Garza treats victims and their families, Conny Branham, mother of Chris Branham, shares her story and experience dealing with DA Garza.
You have a choice. Primary election is Tuesday, March 5th, 2024.
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Published 03/04/24
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In the second of three episodes highlighting how DA Jose Garza treats victims and their families, Kristina Byington, cousin to murder victim Anita Byington, shares her story and experience dealing with DA Garza.
You have a choice. Primary election is Tuesday, March 5th, 2024.
Medium article detailing Krsitina's story
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Published 03/03/24
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In the first of three episodes highlighting how DA Jose Garza treats victims and their families, JR Lopez, father of murder victim Miranda Lopez, shares his story and experience dealing with DA Garza.
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Published 03/02/24
Jeremy Sylestine is a democrat candidate for Travis County District Attorney. He is currently in the primary against incumbent Jose Garza.
Jeremy on X: https://twitter.com/Jeremy4DA
Jeremy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Jeremy4DA
Jeremy's Website: https://jeremysylestine.com/
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Published 02/26/24
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Daniel Betts is a republican candidate for DA in Travis County. We discuss what is going wrong now under the current DA and what his goals are.
Website: https://bettsforda.com/
X: https://twitter.com/bettsforda
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Published 02/22/24
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Carmen Llanes Pulido is a candidate for Mayor of Austin. She is a community organizer, former city commissioner, and the Executive Director of GAVA (Go Austin/Vamos Austin).
Carmen's Website: https://www.carmen4mayor.com/
Carmen's X: https://twitter.com/Carmen4Mayor
Carmen's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carmenformayor
Carmen's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmen4mayor/
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Published 02/15/24
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Pierre Nguyen is a firefighter/EMT, coast guardsman, nonprofit professional, and candidate for Austin City Council District 7.
Pierre on X: https://twitter.com/nguyenforatx
Pierre on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nguyenforcitycouncil/
Website: https://nguyenforcitycouncil.com/
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Published 02/07/24
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Michael Bullock is the president of the Austin Police Association. He joins to discuss the latest with APD including morale, the staffing crisis, relationship with the Mayor, contract negotiations, Art Acevedo, and much more!
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APA Website
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Published 01/31/24
Taylor Blount is a citizen journalist currently working with DASH (Jamie Hammonds).
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Published 01/20/24
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"Streets R Watching" is a long time Uber driver here in Austin and joins to disucss why he and others are organizing an Uber protest on Feb. 5th here in Austin, which will be joined by drivers from across the state.
Streets chose to remain anonymous to prevent Uber from identifying who he is and punishing him for speaking out against company policies.
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ShameOnUberTX on X
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Published 01/10/24
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Alex Horowitz is the Director of Housing Policy at Pew Chartable Trusts. He breaks down research (lots of data!) on how density may help with housing costs.
www.pewtrusts.org
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2023/09/lot-size-reform-unlocks-affordable-homeownership-in-houston
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2023/04/17/more-flexible-zoning-helps-contain-rising-rents
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Published 12/30/23
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Rich Heyman is an Urban Studies professor at UT Austin. He joins me to discuss why cities succeed/fail, Austin's responsibility toward the homeless, why the HOME Initiative won't achieve what they say it will, and more!
Rich's bio: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/ams/faculty/rh22997
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Published 12/07/23
Timothy Bolding and Amanda Mansouri of Sunrise Watch discuss the impact that the homeless resource center located at the Sunrise Church in Sout Austin has had on the local community, including the adjacent Joslin Elementary school.
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Published 11/29/23
Arif Panju is the managing attorney for the Institute for Justice Texas Office, as well as a board member of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas.
Arif argues the virtues of the HOME initiative from the point of view of property rights, freedom, and anti scare tactics.
Institute of Justice Website
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Published 11/22/23
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Kevin Dolan is one of the organizers of the upcoming Natalism conference here in Austin at the Line Hotel on Dec. 1st-2nd. He is also the founder of Exitgroup.us.
Confernce website: https://www.natalism.org/
Natalism.org on X: https://twitter.com/natalismorg
Kevin on X: https://twitter.com/extradeadjcb
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Published 11/14/23
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Anne-Charlotte and Marc have worked with other community members to develop a moderate alternative to the HOME initiative.
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Published 11/06/23
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Bill Aleshire is a practicing attorney who is dedicated to keeping city hall honest and transparent.
Austin Bulldog Article
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Published 10/24/23
Michael Searle is the CEO of Searle Strategies. We discuss the GOP debate and where they go wrong, locally who can compete with Watson, which districts are up for grabs, the DA election, and winning/failing strategies.
https://twitter.com/MSearleATX
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Published 10/02/23
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Judge Glock is the director of research and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, as well as the author of Dead Pledge: The Origins of the Mortgage Market and Federal Bailouts, 1913-1939.
Manhattan Institute
Judge's Twitter
Judge's Book
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Published 09/24/23
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Nick Kantor is the brother of Doug Kantor, the man murdered by De'Ondre White in the 6th street mass shooting of June, 2021. This was recorded shortly before the sentencing part of the trial, and the morning after the guilty verdict.
https://twitter.com/kantor_nick3221
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Published 09/08/23
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Mackenzie Kelly is the councilwoman representing district 6 here in Austin. We discuss the allegations and controversy surrounding the Northbridge Shelter, Homeless Strategy Officer Diana Grey's resignation, auditing the homeless spending, the budget, and more!
https://twitter.com/mkelly007
https://twitter.com/MK6ATX
https://www.austintexas.gov/email/district6
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Published 09/07/23
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Michele Steeb is the author of “Answers Behind The RED DOOR: Battling the Homeless Epidemic," a story of her 13 years of experience of serving homeless women and children who actively addressed the root causes of their homelessness.
She is a former Vice President of the California Chamber of Commerce, a former board member of the California Prison Industry Authority (appointed by Governor Brown), a former Senior Fellow of the Texas...
Published 09/01/23