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PvilleStang

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  1. Saw that last night on the news. Only thing I can say is it's approved by council (but would bet MK voted against it)... Did anyone consider where they're going to host SXSW tech and gaming and such? Boat show?!
  2. Which one of you called the Golden Corral and had him paged to the white courtesy phone?
  3. I'm thinking it's more to do with regionality. Keep it closer to home, and try to steal more of the Houston market share from aggy and Texas. With us bouncing to the SEC, the Houston market is toast for the Big 12 if not for the UH grab. The WSU / Oregon argument brings me back to why I hated the WVU snag. Most of our teams were pretty well centered in the mid-west / Southwest area. Now you throw in a team way out there on the East Coast, makes for shitty away game experiences for every team. Now Big 12 deals with WVU, Cinci, BYU, UCF, and the time slot debacles to get their fan-bases engaged. Luckily BYU is Mountain Time, so between them and the east coasters, you're only looking at a 2 hour difference.
  4. Traffic light is out on Bee Cave Rd. Sheriff is at said light with his lights on and sitting in the vehicle doing jack shit. All the while, it took 15 minutes to get through the light because he refused to get out and direct traffic.
  5. Milkmen, racism, sexism, all great traditions to cling on to in collie station.
  6. Bet she's going to be really good at gaslighting and keeping secrets.
  7. but use them a lot when I travel. And Google shot me over the news story for NYC since I end up there for work.
  8. I'd say city council is doing a great job, then!
  9. Read about the fiasco in NYC dealing with STR bannings. They kicked out AirBnB and VRBO, only to have people listing on CraigsList and Marketplace. It creates a black market of STRs that are completely unchecked, and the only way to enforce it is to have the city police it properly. And they can't even control the homeless situation or 911 call centers, what makes you think the city will step in and enforce STR regulations? But, addressing the 70 day mark for YGIFS: you forget, we have 6-7 weekends a year for college football, NASCAR, USGP, MotoGP, SXSW, ACL, ROT Rally, Texas Relays, and other festivals and crap going on almost every weekend. You can also impose a 3 day minimum, which will also help. 70 days doesn't seem too outlandish, especially if you have a nice place in the right location.
  10. It's funny, because those that support the housing plan detest the i-35 expansion with the EXACT same thought. Let's do nothing because the proposal is not doing what we want it to do. I'm in the camp where the proposal is going to have adverse effects, e.g. higher end neighborhoods getting rebuilt with the new multi-family units and pissing off the NIMBYs, causing housing values to go down in general, and driving down tax revenue. And just because they're a third of the size, don't expect them to be a third of the cost. Anything new is going to be a premium!
  11. https://odysseyweb.traviscountytx.gov/Portal/Home/WorkspaceMode?p=0 It's usually hit or miss with these. I don't know exactly how they populate that data, as it's a county resource, but since it's prosecuted at the county level, the affidavits / reports usually land on there for unknown charges and other random reports.
  12. https://judicialrecords.wilco.org/PublicAccess/default.aspx
  13. Why stop at a sign? Upgrade it to a banner using the banner fund!
  14. Renting was just getting way out of hand.
  15. I had children just to skip over you group 1 pricks!
  16. You like the old two in the stink? a.k.a the Jeep wave?
  17. There's the other side of the coin. The Karen / Cancel culture where they blame cops for anything and everything. Again, doing your job correctly leads to an internal investigation for police brutality because some dumbass thinks they shouldn't have been pulled over for doing 20 over in a school zone. The inherent lack of respect for authority paired with the customer's always right mindset leads to crap like this. I know there are lazy / corrupt / bad cops, but I don't believe the entire APD force is conspiring to defraud the city of Austin for political carte blanche to bring about Marshall Law.
  18. I call BS on this... I think a huge part of the problem is the cops are afraid to do their jobs. One misstep, and Garza is dragging their ass through the wringer. There's also no morale around there given the city council has given them the finger numerous times by refusing their contracts. I put the blame equally on ACC and the DA. I do feel like the 400 open positions have led APD to be lazy and turn a blind eye under the guise of understaffing. That, along with complete department dismantling (motorcycle unit, DWI enforcement, etc) has led to less and less proactive policing and more reactive.
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