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Orange&White

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  1. Is it though? Remember when the citizens voted to re-instate the camping ban and the City made a map that showed that they would re-locate all of the homeless to the neighborhood parks, even though that was illegal? Now, incorrectly counting votes to achieve their outcome is a bit cray cray, but making it difficult to vote for your neighborhood to be de-annexed is exactly the type of petty bullshit the city staff has shown themselves to not be above.
  2. The ETJ Dis-annexation thing is backfiring spectacularly already. All the people who lived out in the ETJ and wanted the cities to "just leave us alone" got what they wished for, and now developers can decide to leave the ETJ with no regard. Once those developers leave the ETJ of the city, there are literally no controls on what they can build. So now there are MASSIVE manufactured housing developments being developed with on site sewer treatment and wells, massive industrial complexes, etc, right next to some pretty spectacular properties. And those adjacent owners are completely shellshocked there is nothing anyone can do to stop it from happening next to their family ranch. It was obvious knee-jerk, ill written legislation that was basically a middle finger to Austin and it is now backfiring all around the state. It will all swing back the other way in a few years when everyone realizes how bad it is. Making it difficult for the cities to annex puts a huge burden on the counties. They are left to provide law enforcement and, ems in some cases, in little donut holes in and around cities which makes patrolling them and getting to them in an emergency a clusterfuck. They also get stuck with more ongoing road maintenance. I suspect the County lobbyists will eventually get some of this relaxed.
  3. My bet is he is heading to somewhere like NYC for Today show. Dude is the NBC Golden Boy.
  4. Holy Fuck was that guy a piece of shit. You could tell he lives in some sort Fantasy Utopian city planner wet dream and was wrong about just about everything eh stated but had the arrogance of Terrell Owens. Complete fucking shitstain. It is definitely not shock that he doesn't come around anymore since his fantasy land choo choo train has gone not even as bad as we told him it would, but actually worse.
  5. Just wait until you see the final bill on Project Connect. Its already doubled in cost and halved in scope and they haven't even turned a shovel yet.
  6. It's like in Red Dawn when the Russians chose to send their first paratroopers to invade the US into ......... Colorado. A State in the middle of the country and 1000+ miles from Canada, Mexico and the Pacific Ocean. Where did their planes take off from? How did they not get shot down before making it all the way to Colorado? It's all just a mystery.
  7. Sure, all of that may be true about Garza, but Sylestine is FUNDED BY REPUBLICANS!!!!!!!! You decide which is worse.
  8. As a noble man once stated, “It’s a good thing that the Russians are so fucking stupid.”.
  9. I get it, but my main point is that if you have limited officer coverage, and skyrocketing crime, maybe you should dedicate fewer officer to writing tickets and more of them towards assaults and thefts. But we all know why. They are more concerned about revenue than actually helping stop real crimes.
  10. Then why do they dedicate so many of them to traffic enforcement in the same three sections of Mopac all day long?
  11. A few years ago bozo blamed me for being a Bob and Todd fan because I said that the "official" homeless count from the CoA was obvious bullshit. https://www.fox7austin.com/news/austin-homeless-population-estimates-data-texas AUSTIN, Texas - New data shows a much larger homeless population in Austin than previously estimated. According to Austin ECHO, a January 2023 point-in-time count indicated a homeless population of about 2,300 people. The Austin Homeless Strategy office presented new data from ECHO in which the non-profit estimated in October there were about 6,600 homeless people in the city.
  12. I think Laura was the one that cut up the body.
  13. Of all of the crazy, coincidental, random shit that ended up having a direct connection to HFs/shaggy/surly over the years, my absolute favorite was that we had a poster who had fucked Laura Hall (Jennifer Cave murder) who confirmed to us that she was as legit crazy as she appeared to be.
  14. Blanton, Ransom Center, Elizabet Ney, LBJ, there are more than just the Bullock.
  15. So you want the city to use MORE taxes collected from citizens in the outer edges of town, in order to build MORE government owned stuff downtown, that uses more city taxes to run, and generates no property tax and removes more potential land for taxable uses, in order to lure more people to live downtown? So like tax subsidies to lure people to the already most expensive place in town to live? Makes perfect sense.
  16. So the Council tried to call a meeting to ask Garza (Jesus, not Jose) about the hiring of Acevedo and Garza threatened to quit. Being the council that they are, the missed the opportunity to get him the fuck out, but instead decided to capitulate out of fear that it would make hiring a permanent City Manager harder. Apparently the guy from Bozeman was on to something. This is the highest leadership of what bozo calls a "successful city".
  17. You've been preaching about this for at least a decade that I can remember and the city has collected and distributed billions of dollars in that time period and the issue has done nothing but get progressively worse. Are you saying we should just keep falling for the same banana in the tailpipe?
  18. The city manager of Bozeman dunking on your city is definitely a sign of a successful city.
  19. I think after you watch a bunch of your buddies die by Sergei's friends, you really don't feel bad fucking up Sergei.
  20. I completely understand all of that. However, when I drive through those places, they don't look like a cesspool of trash. The roads are in decent shape and the lane markings are not all worn off and barely visible. They are not losing billions of gallons of water to decaying water lines. Their electricity isn't failing in large swaths every time there is a wind or ice becaue there is not money to keep the trees around the lines trimmed. They aren't paying out hundreds of millions in lawsuits for stupid decisions their leader regarding airports or crime labs. They don't have a history of boodoggle, failed infrastructure projects. They don't have a history of overpaying for hotels and then letting them decay and burning tens of millions of dollar for empty hotels in the name of homelessness. The library in a vacuum is fine. Not in the face of the financial status that this city currently in. Ferraris are awesome cars, but you don't go out and buy a Ferrari while your kids are starving and you are living in a shack. But I guess the city needs to have more vanity so when the guests come to down, before they get murdered, they can stroll through some homeless camps, walk down some decaying streets and walk into our awesome library and check out an ebook to read in their hotel.
  21. Tell us the ways you find this city to be “successful”.
  22. If that piece of property had been sold to a condo developer it would have: 1. Been an immediate cash infusion to city coffers from the sale. Maybe it could have paid for like 10% of the botched Waller creek tunnel. 2. added tax tax revenue in perpetuity instead of being a non taxed piece of property in the most expensive part of town. Maybe that added tax could fix the leaking water pipes that lost billions of gallons of water per year 3. added housing units to the shortage that you mentioned. But thankfully people have a place to check out ebooks. As to bolverk’s statement about old courthouses on the square, I doubt they would have been built if the counties were in tremendous debt, decaying infrastructure, and unbalanced budgets. Don’t try to equate those times to current day Austin.
  23. She’s been in Atlanta for a few weeks. The cops say the body was bloated and had been there for a while. Sea bass last night ain’t covering this.
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