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If Greg Casar wants more accountability for cops, the city’s gonna need to give the police union some more money

When it's 'good vs. evil,' political discourse is impossible

Words on the Jesus video, the Instrumental article, the Dance Festival, and other local points of contention.

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

City requests A.G. ruling to keep search confidential

Both sides appear satisfied with the recently negotiated employment contract for Austin police

If ATU 1091 rejects StarTran's offer – and they might – a strike could be on the horizon

The budget balances, and stitching is transparent

With contract negotiations suspended, Austin firefighters look inward for a change

Austin EMS employees likely to receive bargaining power – while the city looks to cut public safety spending.

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

The City Council kicked off its budget talks in earnest last week, with the least grim part of the FY2003 proposed budget -- public safety -- along with aviation, the Convention Center, and Solid Waste Services.

Last-ditch effort to negotiate new terms collapsed on Monday

EMS union expresses enthusiasm for Mark E. Escott hire

Park Police personnel record casts a harsh light on small law enforcement agencies

Safety in numbers

City Hall begins budget prep with a fair-to-middling forecast

Council poised to send city, ATCEMSA back to negotiating table

Complaint calls for Citizen Review Panel overhaul, Frasier's dismissal

The process is supposedly still open, but Travis Co. prosecutor Cliff Brown looks like a lock for the Police Monitor job

Send in the troopers

Adler tries to wrap his head around Austin's sanctuary city status

At both City Hall and the courthouse, it's all quiet on the fiscal front

May 15 Election

I want a new central library, and I want it now

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