Council did the right thing here -- beware the rogue who offers you a deal that you must take now or never. If a deal is so good, it will still be good after the public has had a chance to chew on it...

Can anyone provide soem insight as to why Mr. Galindo completely blew-off 1,000 working poor Austinites from schools and churches from across the community who organized the impressive Austin Interfai...

mdahmus, because of your oft-stated personal animus toward the only other candidate in this race, I suspect he could have drooled on the page and you would have embraced has responses as brilliant....

GrapeApe, see Mr. Weiss' answer to number 5, above. He seems to have a thing for 1850's Austin, perhaps that's the "glory days" he speaks so fondly of. ...

Assuming this is true, it's somewhat bizarre that Mr. Weiss would take the word of the person he hopes to replace as gospel, don't you think? Why don't you just admit that he is/was factually incorre...

Daniella, I just returned from an informative view of Mr. Weiss' website. I'm sorry to hear that Mr. Weiss has homeless signs, and I did find the discusion of "supple copier paper" somewhat unique an...

Please see comment number 4, above. If Las Manitas owned the property and not merely a tenant, they would not be being displaced by their landlord, who wants to redevelop the block with a massive hot...

LoudMouth, it's not that I disagree with you, but I just don't see the Texas Legislature embracing rent controls anytime soon. Most people think they should be able to do what they want with their la...

mdahmus, with regard to folks trying to get the music turned down, I think those who are most directly impacted and deserve some relief live along South Congress. They have owned homes in the neighbo...

"Nobody is suggesting that apartments downtown be affordable to low income people, I'd just like to see a cap on rent increases for older apartments or crummy apartments on bus routes." LoudMouth, i...

"From what I have heard, Las Manitas actually owned the property they were on." This seems to be a fairly fundamental misunderstanding (a.k.a. glaring admission) by Mr. Weiss of basic facts on an iss...

Seth -- I'm very hesitant to tag someone with the R word, even conditioned as "subtle" but it's fairly obvious that Mr. Meeker needs a better understanding of the the history and complexities of Austi...

Can someone help me understand what Meeker means with "we have gained so much as a city in embracing our musical heritage"? Correct me if I'm wrong, but our musical heritage seems to be in the Chitli...

OK, I understand now. Opt-out just shouldn't be an option, as it is under the current code, because the neighborhoods got McMansion. Seems to me your bitch is with the Council for creating the poten...

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. A just outcome was reached, including removing some of the incentives for all of these contested VMU properties. So I look forward to your criticism of the...

mdahmus, you need to be honest about the issue, the Judge's Hill VMU matter involved 4 lots -- hardly a sweeping pronouncement against VMU or in favor of sprawl. The situation was somewhat unique, in...