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5 hours ago, Orange&White said:

I understand that there are more now than there were 8-10 years ago, but what good is a law if it is not enforced or only selectively enforced? It's not like if the ban is reinstated all of this is going to magically disappear. Especially when the elected leaders will not allow the Police Chief to enforce.

 

I support reinstating the ban, but just placing another law on the book won't fix this. Changing out the elected leaders that allow it will.

 

So basically, we're fucked because Austin voters are idiots.

Yep, son, we have met the enemy and he is us.

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Over/Under on how long until she's indicted on corruption/fraud charges? (not counting the current ones)

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Posted
8 hours ago, Wally Pryor said:

The guys under the Ben White and Manchaca have upped their game over those near Strait Music.  The latter just have a big screen, the former now have a tv and pinball machine.  It's not a full sized one but still.  I don't see how they've gotten cable for either screen but with $65MM no reason we can't help them out there. 

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Posted
2 hours ago, RPM said:

Over/Under on how long until she's indicted on corruption/fraud charges? (not counting the current ones)

Do you seriously think a disaster scientist doesn't know how to cover up fraud?

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Just now, TexArcher said:

Do you seriously think a disaster scientist doesn't know how to cover up fraud?

That would take some Harvard level shit.

Posted
3 hours ago, Crapinon said:

Actually it takes about 12-24 hours for the Statesman to cover anything due to newsroom and operational cost cutting. 
 

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7 minutes ago, washparkhorn said:

What is the best news source for local Austin?  The Texas Tribune? https://www.texastribune.org

 

The trib can be good. 
I read Austin Monitor for local government, Jack Craver’s https://austinpolitics.net for local politics, and a hodgepodge of good reporters on Twitter. The Chronicle does OK. Probably KVUE on television. And the statesman has good reporters who can do good work when given time, resources and space. 
 

The worst source is KLBJ-AM. 

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3 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

The trib can be good. 
I read Austin Monitor for local government, Jack Craver’s https://austinpolitics.net for local politics, and a hodgepodge of good reporters on Twitter. The Chronicle does OK. Probably KVUE on television. And the statesman has good reporters who can do good work when given time, resources and space. 
The worst source is KLBJ-AM. 

Thank you.

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Posted
Just now, Pam Cummings said:

Can we start paying elected leaders serious money, so that we can stop having fucking retards like fitlump represent people?

That honestly is one of the biggest problems we face.  The pay attracts the wrong kind of people and excludes lots of really good people who decide not to run on that basis.

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10 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

That honestly is one of the biggest problems we face.  The pay attracts the wrong kind of people and excludes lots of really good people who decide not to run on that basis.

Yep. You wanna pay these people peanuts, don't be fucking surprised when the thing's a circus.

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Posted (edited)
3 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

Nah, don’t live in an incorporated area. 
Have close family in Austin who don’t complain on the internet, so I do it for them.

unincorporated? So you leach off Austin Tax payers. Great.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Pasken said:

unincorporated? So you leach off Austin Tax payers. Great.

Austin sewage spill poisoned my entire neighborhood sickening thousands of us including my dog & cat, so tough shitski.

We have our own law enforcement, fire protection, & road maintenance and get nothing from Austin except the above.

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4 hours ago, Pasken said:

unincorporated? So you leach off Austin Tax payers. Great.

Are all visitors to Austin leaches? When someone comes to town, pays for a hotel, eats in restaurants and buys stuff in stores are they a leach?

Should we close off Austin to anyone who doesn't pau property tax here?

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1 hour ago, blacklab said:

Are all visitors to Austin leaches? When someone comes to town, pays for a hotel, eats in restaurants and buys stuff in stores are they a leach?

Should we close off Austin to anyone who doesn't pau property tax here?

That's not the same at all. Look at all the bonds that Travis County proposes. They all serve the unincporated areas because "no one else serves those areas" and yet they are financed on the backs of Austin tax payers. Tourists pay their own taxes and I don't understand how you think they are relevant at all.

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Do any people from Austin drive on roads in the county but out of a city?

Taxpayers have to approve bonds, you city folk should gang up an vote any county stuff down to stick it to us rubes out in the country. 

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Do any people from Austin drive on roads in the county but out of a city?
Taxpayers have to approve bonds, you city folk should gang up an vote any county stuff down to stick it to us rubes out in the country. 
Voting city folk are doing a bang up job, hence the necessity of this thread.
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Posted
5 hours ago, blacklab said:

Do any people from Austin drive on roads in the county but out of a city?

Taxpayers have to approve bonds, you city folk should gang up an vote any county stuff down to stick it to us rubes out in the country. 

Lol you mean the county roads they also pay for through county taxes???

Posted
3 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Fitlump signed up to get covid vaccine on Tuesday.

Essential worker status and all.  

I’m shocked she didn’t get one already through the fire Dept.

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16 hours ago, Pam Cummings said:

Can we start paying elected leaders serious money, so that we can stop having fucking retards like fitlump represent people?

It's hard to imagine the world where throwing more money at them is the right solution.

 

I mean, I totally get and agree with the notion that we are punching down selectively, but think maybe we need a more sophisticated approach to right the problem. 

Posted
44 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

I mean, I totally get and agree with the notion that we are punching down selectively, but think maybe we need a more sophisticated approach to right the problem. 

High Tech and Low Life is no way to run a city.  That ends poorly.

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10 minutes ago, NOMAAA said:

wait, get the fuck out of here.  What page do i start on to get caught up.

There was this infected bat that somebody ate in something called a wet market.  Then Mackenzie Kelley heard the term "wet market" and thought that would be a good name for the donation tab on her site.  Then all the other shit in 2020 happened.  And her first Council meeting is 27 January. 

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7 hours ago, Anastasis said:

It's hard to imagine the world where throwing more money at them is the right solution.

 

I mean, I totally get and agree with the notion that we are punching down selectively, but think maybe we need a more sophisticated approach to right the problem. 

Do you wanna know why smart, dynamic people don't do politics? Because the pay is shit and the job attracts idiots. If you make the job desirable then more people who are worth a fuck will be interested in competing for it.

 

Or you can maybe propose this super sophisticated approach you speak of. Whatever.

Posted
8 hours ago, J.R. Juniors Junior Jr. said:

Avery Ranch?

Brushy Creek MUD.....just prior to the development of Avery Ranch.

The CoA had already taken ownership of the sewage line that ran down by the creek from the northwest.

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Posted
20 hours ago, Pasken said:

unincorporated? So you leach off Austin Tax payers. Great.

Maybe BC should toll all those Avery Ranch Austin carpetbaggers who speed down O’Connor right through the middle of our neighborhood on their way to work at Dell.

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7 hours ago, Anastasis said:

Fitlump signed up to get covid vaccine on Tuesday.

Essential worker status and all.  

First direct inoculation of the melon. Will have wide-ranging significance for the porpoise and beluga whale communities.

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Posted (edited)
8 hours ago, Pasken said:

Lol you mean the county roads they also pay for through county taxes???

I pay Travis County taxes. Do you pay Wilco taxes?

 

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Posted
3 minutes ago, smuggs said:

First direct inoculation of the melon. Will have wide-ranging significance for the porpoise and beluga whale communities.

Maybe it’ll stimulate the alien that dwells within to bust out?

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Posted
2 hours ago, NOMAAA said:

wait, get the fuck out of here.  What page do i start on to get caught up.

You don't need to catch up.  Just know this happened and this is the simulation continuing to fuck with us.

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On 5/7/2020 at 5:02 PM, Foggy Notion said:

I was at her graduation ceremony late last year.  My GF and I went to support one of her coworkers who was in the same class, and guess who’s there...

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