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Throughout the week, we pick up bits and pieces from around town. Then, we put it in our weekly “We Hear” email.  So here goes this week’s version of  We hear … … the Mayor is nervous. … that according to our source:  “His dimwitted pollster can’t figure out why their nightly tracking polls are…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  In July, a second round of funds totaling $14 million was earmarked for the City of Austin to provide rental assistance to people in danger of being evicted due to the pandemic. To date, only $1 million of those funds have been distributed and the Department of Housing Authority of the City…

A straight on appeal to environmentalists. This piece of mail is all about the clean new green. Except. They don’t tell you that the City of Austin owns part of a power plant that generates electricity using COAL. Yup. Good ‘ol Power [sic] River Basin coal gets brought into this plant on diesel powered trains.…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE If Project Connect’s Proposition A passes in November, small businesses along construction routes can expect to experience another round of COVID-19-like setbacks, but this time without any hope of financial assistance. Capital Metro expects the construction of Project Connect’s rail lines to take about 13 years. But anyone who has gone through…

From KAZI-FM’s “AM Wake Up Call” with Richard Smith* 28:48 We as black people were born on a battlefield and we’re gonna die on a battlefield. 29:18 In every war whenever one side gets conquered by another, the other, the conquering side, occupies the conquered, the way we have been occupied for 400 years. And…

Austin Morning Line, 10/19/2020 The city concedes in their 8/7/2020 resolution (page 6) that Project Connect’s federal funding is dubious. Local taxpayers may find themselves accountable for the entire cost of Project Connect.  The city intends to collect the increased tax, regardless of the federal match, effective this year, even though light rail wouldn’t operate…

The South Austin Neighborhood Alliance (SANA) hosted a Facebook Live videoconference debate on Proposition / Project Connect on 15 October 2020. SANA’s host were Ken Jacob and Jeff Bowen. The “pro” position was presented by Scott Morris of Austin Coalition for Transit and John-Michael Cortez, special assistant to Mayor Adler. Gerald Daugherty of Our Mobility…

… We hear … … that paranoia has put Mayor Adler in a WWE worthy headlock.  Not everyone on the city payroll supports Prop A.  In fact, quite a few don’t.  The Mayor is now openly threatening all city employees, saying if they talk to the media … any form of media … they will…