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State grabs power to dictate local public safety budgets

Cops come upon donuts they don’t like

The cops are useless against COVID. But they have all the money.

“We want everything that can be done outside of the police, to be done outside of the police.”

We Fought the Law

The two candidates race to the left

Baroque, sugar-soaked fantasies, fueled by copaganda, litter our streets

Politicians are offering empty and symbolic gestures but no real and substantial change

A closer look at Austin's growing number of homicides

Austin Police Association spends big on scheme to screw up civilian oversight

Special election decides who will complete Greg Casar's term at City Hall

De-policing becomes partisanized, but who is really putting themselves at risk?

Workshops aimed at housing, employment discrimination

What exactly is a G File?

"I didn’t do a thing. I sat in my office and dispatched people. But I was part of it.”

The Lege limps across the finish line

The session will be remembered largely as an opportunity lost to partisan displays

Alpha males Abbott and Patrick can't get their red meat passed

Grading the Lege on women's health, drug policy, and criminal justice

How the 83rd did on water infrastructure, the budget, education, the environment, and transportation

Austinites call for schools to defund its police, too

Council: Reforms and budget cuts only the first step

Council unites behind prompt reforms, big APD budget cuts

Falling into the GAP

Nov. 2: By a more than 2-to-1 margin, Austin voters reject Save Austin Now’s second ballot initiative of 2021, a measure to increase the size of Austin’s police force

In the hot seats

The latest – and last! – news from the campaign trail before Election Day