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WEBSep 29, 2024 — Investigative Reports. For more than a decade the Bulldog has published hard-hitting, in-depth investigative reports that have shaped civic discourse and public policy, resulted in criminal prosecutions, and enlightened voters about candidates' records. Here are a few samples of our work:
Welcome to The Austin Bulldog
WEBMar 30, 2010 — The Austin Bulldog is one of eight such startups that won a New Voices grant in 2009 for hyperlocal journalism focusing on our respective communities. Thanks to that grant, we have been able to use the past year to read about and research how vastly media has changed since we launched In Fact Daily …
About the Bulldog - The Austin Bulldog
WEBKen was an investigative reporter for the Austin Business Journal 1989-1990 and served as editor 1990-1994, a period in which the newspaper won numerous awards for journalistic excellence. In 1995, he started the In Fact weekly newsletter covering Austin City Hall and local politics. Beginning in 1998, while still publishing In Fact, he also ...
Court halts $354 million development subsidy - The Austin Bulldog
WEBApr 15, 2024 — City of Austin Mayor Kirk Watson, et al, Cause No. D-1-GN-23-002238.) The plan approved by the City Council was to divert $354 million in property taxes for infrastructure improvements on that land so that it would develop in the manner the council desires. To that end, the council established Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone No. …
Candidates offer competing visions on homelessness
WEBOct 18, 2022 — The current Austin City Council has made it a priority to boost funding for homeless services, but some mayoral and council candidates think the city hasn’t done enough, while others see the current efforts as misguided and ineffective. Among the six candidates running for mayor and the 28 running for council, some are promising more ...
What’s next for policing in Austin? - The Austin Bulldog
WEBNov 4, 2021 — The status of APD staffing and funding after the resounding defeat of Prop A. The defeat of Proposition A in the election November 2 nd repudiates Save Austin Now’s plan for a significantly larger police force while leaving considerable uncertainty around the future sizing of the force.. Austinites rejected the proposal for a minimum staffing ratio by a vote of 106,232 to 49,580, or 68.2 ...
Council candidates raised nearly $1.2 million
WEBOct 27, 2020 — In round figures the 18 active candidates running for the five seats on the Austin City Council raised a quarter-million dollars just in the last few weeks alone and they spent more than a half-million dollars during the same period. Total fundraising to date is nearly $1.2 million. Yet with eight days left before the election they still had ...
Reparations planning for Austin African Americans
WEBMar 16, 2021 — Joe Biden. During the 2019-2020 Democratic presidential primary, a handful of candidates backed the idea of paying reparations to the African-American descendants of slaves. Joe Biden was lukewarm on the idea, though he agreed that Americans “we must acknowledge that there can be no realization of the American dream without grappling with …
Council candidates have voting records too - The Austin Bulldog
WEBSep 18, 2020 — The Austin Bulldog obtained records from voter registrars in Travis and Williamson counties that provide the voting history of each of the candidates running for election or reelection to the city council. Our chart indicates each candidate’s age, the year in which each candidate first voted in a local election, the number of times the ...
The Austin Bulldog’s 11th anniversary
WEBApr 1, 2021 — The long-awaited broadband map of Texas was released to the public on June 16—well over a year since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Stimulus Package) was signed into law, with $7.2 billion in …