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Council, police, and providers confront camp challenge

Editorial: In city runoffs, Viagran and Lopez get the nod May 19, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Voters wait in line on May 1. It’s almost that time again. Early voting for the runoff election starts Monday.Marvin Pfeiffer /Staff photographer In the field of 12 candidates who hoped to succeed outgoing District 3 Councilwoman Rebecca Viagran, the two making it to the runoff are the ones whose names already are familiar to South Side voters. Phyllis Viagran, the incumbent’s sister, earned 22 perc...

I had hoped to not need to write again about the hash we have made of our communitys attempts to end homelessness, but I did not expect City Hall to whiff so badly in its first at-bat since laying out its strategy to comply with the voters verdict on Proposition B. Our man Sanders gets to the heart of the policy dilemma and the facts on the ground – the unhoused poor who are living without shelter in Austins public realm have nowhere else to go. Not much we can do in the next few weeks will t...

New data obtained by KSAT 12 from the Bexar County Elections Department showed how each precinct voted on Proposition B.

Demonstrators set up tents outside City Hall on May 3 to protest the passage of Proposition B (Photo by Jana Birchum) The return to the pre-2019 rules on where and how Austin­ites without homes can live in public places, prompted by the victory of Proposition B on May 1, officially took effect Tuesday, May 11. But city leaders made clear that the public encampments in parks and under bridges that fueled the Prop B campaign will not disappear overnight, as they laid out a fou...

Proposition B would have stripped police of collective bargaining rights. It was defeated...

San Antonio police union quietly spent $600K to defeat Prop B; activists cry foul FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 James Dykman, Fix SAPD data and policy analyst, and Ananda Tomas, deputy director of Fix SAPD, react to voting numbers during an election results watch party with members of Fix SAPD and supporters of Proposition B at The Friendly Spot in San Antonio on May 1, 2021.Lisa Krantz, Staff / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less 2of2 Danny Diaz, president of the San Antonio Police Officers Assoc...

Some 57 percent of residents surveyed in a recent poll commissioned by the city say...

Aus­tinites for Progressive Reforms " strong mayor" proposal (Proposition F) was failing spectacularly. Bo Delp, organizer with By the People ATX, called it a "repudiation" of Prop Fs provision that a future strong mayor could veto decisions made by City Council, the main message his team had been using to urge Austinites to reject the proposal. Others, such as labor leader Jeremy Hendricks, pointed to a lack of authentic community engagement from APR as it crafted its proposals last fall: ...

Skip to main content Currently Reading A wake-up call for the union: Close race on Prop B signals need to address discipline in contract, experts say FacebookTwitterEmail People celebrate the defeat of Proposition B, which would have stripped the police union of its ability to collectively bargain with the city, at Blue Cares, the nonprofit community outreach arm of the San Antonio Police Officers Association.Billy Calzada /Staff photographer Voters’ rejection of Proposition B notched a signi...