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On 5/3/2025 at 9:13 AM, royiv said:

So the cops came out to investigate the accident, didn’t notice she was bombed and returned after someone reported she was acting erratically and then found her sitting in the backseat of the car? That’s some quality police work. She should have kept her mouth shut and not blown. 

 

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36 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Austin cleans out a homeless camp.  51 people removed....and almost TWO HUNDRED TONS of trash.  TWO.  HUNDRED.  TONS.  https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/homeless/homeless-encampment-govalle-park-colorado-river-wildlife-sanctuary/269-6a8f5743-65b5-48fd-b822-cd1054f013be

We've had this conversation 1000 times, and 1000 ways, but it sure as shit still comes down to "no sane place lets a handful of people fucking destroy the community."  Two hundred tons of trash.  Fuck that shit.  That's 8,000 lbs of trash per person back there.  Fucking enough of this shit.

But don’t spend $100m in a year to “fix” it. 

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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Austin cleans out a homeless camp.  51 people removed....and almost TWO HUNDRED TONS of trash.  TWO.  HUNDRED.  TONS.  https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/homeless/homeless-encampment-govalle-park-colorado-river-wildlife-sanctuary/269-6a8f5743-65b5-48fd-b822-cd1054f013be

We've had this conversation 1000 times, and 1000 ways, but it sure as shit still comes down to "no sane place lets a handful of people fucking destroy the community."  Two hundred tons of trash.  Fuck that shit.  That's 8,000 lbs of trash per person back there.  Fucking enough of this shit.

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David Gray, the city's Homeless Strategy Officer, said the closures were a priority because the encampments had grown within floodplains, posing risks to wildlife, public access and the the people living in the encampments. 

Never mind the safety risks to the family residents of the neighborhood, their quality of life and property.

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3 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

I am not buying the weight of the trash.

Did they actually weigh it ?
Doubtful.

Someone pulled that number out their ass.

Judging by the homeless camps up in my area, that number is probably low. Those folks love to collect garbage. 

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3 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Did they actually weigh it ?
Doubtful.

Someone pulled that number out their ass.

Not saying that it WASN'T pulled out of someone's ass, but actually....City garbage trucks actually have internal scales to weigh how much trash they have on board.  It's part of the regulatory requirements on landfills, recording daily volumes and such.  It's not as accurate as an ag department certified grocery scale, but it's close enough to satisfy regulatory requirements.

Now, someone STILL might be bullshitting you, because people do that shit.  But odds are they had a pretty good idea from the readings on the trucks as they headed off to the landfill.

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On 5/7/2025 at 9:25 AM, Brisketexan said:

Austin cleans out a homeless camp.  51 people removed....and almost TWO HUNDRED TONS of trash.  TWO.  HUNDRED.  TONS.  https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/homeless/homeless-encampment-govalle-park-colorado-river-wildlife-sanctuary/269-6a8f5743-65b5-48fd-b822-cd1054f013be

We've had this conversation 1000 times, and 1000 ways, but it sure as shit still comes down to "no sane place lets a handful of people fucking destroy the community."  Two hundred tons of trash.  Fuck that shit.  That's 8,000 lbs of trash per person back there.  Fucking enough of this shit.

Gotta love this place.  Because this particular camp endangered wildlife (allegedly), it was a top priority to go.  Camps endangering other humans?  Fuck 'em. 

At least we now understand the playbook.  I'll be bringing up the golden cheeked warbler in an attempt to get the assholes in the woods near us evicted before they start a southern CA style wildfire in our neighborhood.  If it stopped development in our area it can sure as shit be used to justify getting the useless junkie trash out of the woods. 

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AISD is advertising Burnet, Dobie, and Webb as “district-led restart” campuses. They are offering a $15,000 annual stipend. For teachers with more than 2 years of experience and good reviews, they can get an additional 5k. Sped and bilingual can tack on another 7k. 

I assume this means they are not going the charter route. It’s a tough job with a lot of uncertainty for anybody that takes it. You know it will all be about state testing, constant benchmark assessments, and admin living up your ass about your lesson plans, teaching style, and whatever flavor of the week initiatives they come up with. 

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On 5/3/2025 at 3:34 AM, Your Mom said:

Do Leanderthals belong in this thread?  

Assistant Principal blows a .282 BAC after hitting a guy on a bike right in front of her own school, on her way to work at 7:15 on a Monday morning. 

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/crime/leander-isd-assistant-principal-dwi-hitting-bicyclist-reed-elementary-school/269-9798403f-a836-4e44-b412-322018103ae0?ref=exit-recirc

Career .282 in MLB will get you hall of fame consideration.  Thats a bonkers BAC at 8am.  She probably did go to bed at 330am but it wasn't 2 seltzers.  It was more like a liter of Popov.

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Not saying that it WASN'T pulled out of someone's ass, but actually....City garbage trucks actually have internal scales to weigh how much trash they have on board.  It's part of the regulatory requirements on landfills, recording daily volumes and such.  It's not as accurate as an ag department certified grocery scale, but it's close enough to satisfy regulatory requirements.
Now, someone STILL might be bullshitting you, because people do that shit.  But odds are they had a pretty good idea from the readings on the trucks as they headed off to the landfill.

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4 hours ago, Larry T. Spider said:

AISD is advertising Burnet, Dobie, and Webb as “district-led restart” campuses. They are offering a $15,000 annual stipend. For teachers with more than 2 years of experience and good reviews, they can get an additional 5k. Sped and bilingual can tack on another 7k. 

I assume this means they are not going the charter route. It’s a tough job with a lot of uncertainty for anybody that takes it. You know it will all be about state testing, constant benchmark assessments, and admin living up your ass about your lesson plans, teaching style, and whatever flavor of the week initiatives they come up with. 

Yep, this is where they landed.  It's a shame they didn't go "all in" (admin and board's phrase) on these schools before now.  You know better than I how they've been kicking this can down the road for many years.

I am sincerely hoping for the best, but I don't see how they will improve these schools in one year when all of the district's resources and energy have been spent on these same campuses already, including insane amounts of funding for special programs, specially trained staff, etc. to the detriment of students at other schools in the district.  Despite what some outside community organizer agitators, with no personal stake in this situation, have been spewing online and in their podcasts, these underperforming schools have had much higher budgets, better facilities, teachers with higher qualifications, etc., than the so-called "privileged" schools in the district. This move seems like magical thinking more than anything, especially when these campuses have already been on a specialized turnaround plan for a couple of years that has been failing.  I'm still operating under the assumption that TEA will be rolling in after next school year.  I hope I'm wrong, but I'll be ready to pull my kids out when the stormtroopers show up in 2026.  For now, I'm selfishly thankful that my kids' last year of middle school won't be ruined by the cockeyed plan that sawed off little superintendent tried to push through with his blatant lies. He needs to be shown the door after next year, no matter what happens. 

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4 hours ago, Cousin Strawberry said:

Career .282 in MLB will get you hall of fame consideration.  Thats a bonkers BAC at 8am.  She probably did go to bed at 330am but it wasn't 2 seltzers.  It was more like a liter of Popov.

That really is incredible.  Some days, you just gotta stay in bed and deal with the consequences.

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20 minutes ago, Samson's Wig said:

That really is incredible.  Some days, you just gotta stay in bed and deal with the consequences.

Yep, you spend the $20 to Uber to work, shut the fuck up and start drinking coffee or you call in sick.  If you're pounding liquor till 3am, you know you have a problem. Fucking plan ahead. No one can function at any job at a .28. Maybe assistant, freshman high school OL line coach.

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16 hours ago, Cousin Strawberry said:

Career .282 in MLB will get you hall of fame consideration.  Thats a bonkers BAC at 8am.  She probably did go to bed at 330am but it wasn't 2 seltzers.  It was more like a liter of Popov.

 

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Why do people refer to a metric ton when they're trying to emphasize the enormity of something?  I mean, sure, a metric ton is a little more than a regular ton.  1000 kg is about 2,200 lbs, while a regular ton is 2,000 lbs.  So a metric ton weighs about 10% more than a regular ton.  That's more, of course, but it hardly seems worthy of such breathless enthusiasm.  You're basically saying, "ZOMG!  It's so big, it's roughly 10% larger than a regular ton!"  Which seems pretty anticlimactic, really.

Now, if a metric fuckton is something like, I don't know, 37,000 lbs, then I could see the desire to use that particular measurement as emphasis for size.

Oh and back on topic, WTF is wrong with you, Austin?

 

 

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16 hours ago, Larry T. Spider said:

AISD is advertising Burnet, Dobie, and Webb as “district-led restart” campuses. They are offering a $15,000 annual stipend. For teachers with more than 2 years of experience and good reviews, they can get an additional 5k. Sped and bilingual can tack on another 7k. 

I assume this means they are not going the charter route. It’s a tough job with a lot of uncertainty for anybody that takes it. You know it will all be about state testing, constant benchmark assessments, and admin living up your ass about your lesson plans, teaching style, and whatever flavor of the week initiatives they come up with. 

They are going with a restart approach, with a charter safety valve.

The schools are going to be restarted over the summer, with new administration.  They are going to use something like the ACE model (Accelerating Campus Excellence).  This will be their fifth year of possible F's in a row and they need a D to pause closure and a C to clear it for five years.

They are going to test the students at the middle of the year and see how it is going.  If it is not going well, they are going to seek an 1882 partnership with a charter school provider so that they can avoid getting the fifth F.  They have to initiate this change by mid-Dec if needed, so the students have very little time to show progress in the fall.

The ACE model does include hefty stipends, so it will cost an additional $1.7 million per year, per school, to implement.  The district already has a deficit over $100 million per year.  At their current spending rate, they will begin to violate their board policy of having 20% of costs in reserve this summer and will have no reserves by the summer of 2026.

They have a lot of schools that are 1-2 years behind these three in getting their fifth F in a row, so they may have additional schools in the same situation by the 2026-27 school year.

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1 minute ago, utee94 said:

Why do people refer to a metric ton when they're trying to emphasize the enormity of something?  I mean, sure, a metric ton is a little more than a regular ton.  1000 kg is about 2,200 lbs, while a regular ton is 2,000 lbs.  So a metric ton weighs about 10% more than a regular ton.  That's more, of course, but it hardly seems worthy of such breathless enthusiasm.  You're basically saying, "ZOMG!  It's so big, it's roughly 10% larger than a regular ton!"  Which seems pretty anticlimactic, really.

Now, if a metric fuckton is something like, I don't know, 37,000 lbs, then I could see the desire to use that particular measurement as emphasis for size.

Oh and back on topic, WTF is wrong with you, Austin?

 

 

It is an interesting function of linguistics…and English in particular. It is because four or five syllables in a cadence for some reason carries a weight with it that promotes emphasis. It weighs a ton does not connote the same type of interesting emphasis as it weighs a metric fuckton. You don’t get a lyrical cadence in the former so it sounds less exceptional. It is the same reason for the proliferation of white people using the term “literally” in front of any type of single syllable direct object for the purpose of emphasis instead of the proper use of the term (ironic). I am literally dead connotes so much more emphasis than I am dead. 

Anyway. Humans are weird. 

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9 minutes ago, sidis said:

It is an interesting function of linguistics…and English in particular. It is because four or five syllables in a cadence for some reason carries a weight with it that promotes emphasis. It weighs a ton does not connote the same type of interesting emphasis as it weighs a metric fuckton. You don’t get a lyrical cadence in the former so it sounds less exceptional. It is the same reason for the proliferation of white people using the term “literally” in front of any type of single syllable direct object for the purpose of emphasis instead of the proper use of the term (ironic). I am literally dead connotes so much more emphasis than I am dead. 

Anyway. Humans are weird. 

Hmmm, appreciate the thoughtful response.  And I agree with your analysis.   I was only musing but you've hit on it.

Literally a metric fuckton of people use weird, meaningless or incorrect extra words and syllables for emphasis or exaggeration.

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On 5/7/2025 at 10:22 AM, HenryJames said:

We should give every homeless person a garage so that they will have a place to store their trash like the rest of us.

It’s a grift

Austin will need nearly $101 million — about $33 million of which would come from partners — next year to adequately fund emergency shelters and support services for the city's homeless population, according to the city's homeless strategy officer.

 

https://www.kut.org/austin/2025-04-30/austin-tx-homeless-population-city-council-budget
 

we failed with hundred million. Gonna need another. 

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27 minutes ago, Texas Jeff said:

They are going with a restart approach, with a charter safety valve.

The schools are going to be restarted over the summer, with new administration.  They are going to use something like the ACE model (Accelerating Campus Excellence).  This will be their fifth year of possible F's in a row and they need a D to pause closure and a C to clear it for five years.

They are going to test the students at the middle of the year and see how it is going.  If it is not going well, they are going to seek an 1882 partnership with a charter school provider so that they can avoid getting the fifth F.  They have to initiate this change by mid-Dec if needed, so the students have very little time to show progress in the fall.

The ACE model does include hefty stipends, so it will cost an additional $1.7 million per year, per school, to implement.  The district already has a deficit over $100 million per year.  At their current spending rate, they will begin to violate their board policy of having 20% of costs in reserve this summer and will have no reserves by the summer of 2026.

They have a lot of schools that are 1-2 years behind these three in getting their fifth F in a row, so they may have additional schools in the same situation by the 2026-27 school year.

Amazing how taking a shit load of money out of district so rural schools can have sporting facilities that AISD can only dream of as well as all of the other goodies they get to have (as well as state just stuffing general fund) can lead to underperforming schools. 
 

Look AISD admin aren’t great but they also are getting robbed blind every year. 

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On 5/5/2025 at 8:44 AM, randomhorn said:

Elevated anything is going to be a nonstarter due to costs.

So the city needs to put on its big(ger) city britches. That means getting serious and start taking some of the streets out of use for cars and switching it over to train, bike, pedestrian use. It’s also going to mean encouraging denser development.

Or don’t. Everyone loves more sprawl, more highways, more strips malls and big box stores.

They've already taken away enough streets.  Why convert a street to rail to be used a few times an hour and prevent vehicular traffic the rest of the time when not in use.  It's like they had a solution to this a century ago and realized it didn't work (street cars / trollies).  It's time to realize that the public transit model is not the way forward and STOP investing in stale ideas.

It's fighting for taxis when Uber and Lyft are putting them out of business.  Or pushing for more hotels when AirBnBs are / were increasing market share.  Find a solution that is going to work, and don't just sell us on BS hopes and empty promises.

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37 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

It’s a grift

Austin will need nearly $101 million — about $33 million of which would come from partners — next year to adequately fund emergency shelters and support services for the city's homeless population, according to the city's homeless strategy officer.

 

https://www.kut.org/austin/2025-04-30/austin-tx-homeless-population-city-council-budget
 

we failed with hundred million. Gonna need another. 

This is my main objection to this bullshit. It's NEVER GOING TO END. Homelessness is a national and state issue. There are so many better ways of spending $100M for tax paying citizens of Austin. 

As it is, it's just throwing money down the toilet cause it's not gonna fix shit. The more we spend, the more assholes come here to camp out in the woods. The more assholes that come here, the more we spend.

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Also, I'd be curious on the "tons" of trash removed.  How much of that is valuable metals?  I'd bet there's a decent amount of copper, aluminum, etc.  The city and / or contractor really should scrap it and reinvest the proceeds back into their budget rather than shake down Austinites for more money.

I mean, my math might be off here, but with just shy of a million residents in Austin proper, we're investing $103 / person / year into homeless services.  Of that money, we STILL don't have an audit of where / how the funds are being used.

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This is my main objection to this bullshit. It's NEVER GOING TO END. Homelessness is a national and state issue. There are so many better ways of spending $100M for tax paying citizens of Austin. 
As it is, it's just throwing money down the toilet cause it's not gonna fix shit. The more we spend, the more assholes come here to camp out in the woods. The more assholes that come here, the more we spend.

This is not a solution, its a necessary safety net. It’s a stop gap. The assholes come here for the tourists, temperate weather, drugs, and lax policing.

You want to see metrics and results from social services, when they root causes cannot be addressed very easily. Welcome to fantasyland.

Between this topic and AISD’s funding crisis, you’re seeing Austin scramble to make the best bad decisions with the cards they’ve been dealt.
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16 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:


This is not a solution, its a necessary safety net. It’s a stop gap. The assholes come here for the tourists, temperate weather, drugs, and lax policing.

You want to see metrics and results from social services, when they root causes cannot be addressed very easily. Welcome to fantasyland.

Between this topic and AISD’s funding crisis, you’re seeing Austin scramble to make the best bad decisions with the cards they’ve been dealt.

For the homelessness decision, they should use the same approach for serial killers around Town Lake:

 

Spoiler

Ignore 'em and don't waste a dollar on them.

 

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27 minutes ago, PvilleStang said:

For the homelessness decision, they should use the same approach for serial killers around Town Lake:

 

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Ignore 'em and don't waste a dollar on them.

 

Couldn't we round up a few every night, take them down to Town Lake, and sacrifice them to Nicole?

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1 hour ago, Eskimohorn said:


This is not a solution, its a necessary safety net. It’s a stop gap. The assholes come here for the tourists, temperate weather, drugs, and lax policing.

You want to see metrics and results from social services, when they root causes cannot be addressed very easily. Welcome to fantasyland.

Between this topic and AISD’s funding crisis, you’re seeing Austin scramble to make the best bad decisions with the cards they’ve been dealt.

The current homeless crisis/explosion was a hand dealt directly by Greg Casar and the city council when they removed the camping ban. Even though it was reversed by voters in 2021, the grifting ground work was laid and the damage was already done. 

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2 hours ago, Texas Jeff said:

They are going with a restart approach, with a charter safety valve.

The schools are going to be restarted over the summer, with new administration.  They are going to use something like the ACE model (Accelerating Campus Excellence).  This will be their fifth year of possible F's in a row and they need a D to pause closure and a C to clear it for five years.

They are going to test the students at the middle of the year and see how it is going.  If it is not going well, they are going to seek an 1882 partnership with a charter school provider so that they can avoid getting the fifth F.  They have to initiate this change by mid-Dec if needed, so the students have very little time to show progress in the fall.

The ACE model does include hefty stipends, so it will cost an additional $1.7 million per year, per school, to implement.  The district already has a deficit over $100 million per year.  At their current spending rate, they will begin to violate their board policy of having 20% of costs in reserve this summer and will have no reserves by the summer of 2026.

They have a lot of schools that are 1-2 years behind these three in getting their fifth F in a row, so they may have additional schools in the same situation by the 2026-27 school year.

Call me pessimistic but I don't see how performance could improve enough between now and December for the Board to feel confident enough to not pull the charter school safety valve lever. Risking the 5th "F" is a decision borne from hubris or a complete failure in strategic risk management.

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21 minutes ago, swraith said:

Call me pessimistic but I don't see how performance could improve enough between now and December for the Board to feel confident enough to not pull the charter school safety valve lever. Risking the 5th "F" is a decision borne from hubris or a complete failure in strategic risk management.

Their only other "solution" was to cram all of the kids in underperforming schools into already overcrowded schools with better ratings.  At least we're not sacrificing the entire student populace this way.   But yeah, this plan will fail miserably and TEA will come knocking anyway.  There is no guarantee the state will even accept the mid year charter school option either.   

Those failing schools already have significantly more funding, programming, etc. than the schools that are performing better.  Throwing more money at it won't solve anything when 70% of the kids involved can't speak or read English but are tested only in English.  AISD is run by some seriously incompetent folks who get paid insane amounts of money for doing a very poor job, but the state has set them up for failure no matter what they do.  It would take some kind of Churchillian leadership to successfully navigate the conditions they are working under.  I don't want to excuse the incompetence, but it really doesn't matter much when the deck is stacked against you this badly.

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21 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Not saying that it WASN'T pulled out of someone's ass, but actually....City garbage trucks actually have internal scales to weigh how much trash they have on board.  It's part of the regulatory requirements on landfills, recording daily volumes and such.  It's not as accurate as an ag department certified grocery scale, but it's close enough to satisfy regulatory requirements.

It also doesn't differentiate between homeless trash and what's been illegally dumped out there for decades.  I have been riding that Southern Walnut Creek Trail for years and the homeless aren't responsible for a LOT of the stuff out there. They aren't bringing massive truck axles or stacks of tires.  That whole area has been an illegal dumping ground for a long ass time.  Glad someone went in and removed a bunch of it.

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2 hours ago, swraith said:

Call me pessimistic but I don't see how performance could improve enough between now and December for the Board to feel confident enough to not pull the charter school safety valve lever. Risking the 5th "F" is a decision borne from hubris or a complete failure in strategic risk management.

There is a lot of anti-charter sentiment in the public education world. This is especially true in AISD where they have pulled students away and made the funding crisis much worse. 

My guess is the administration wants to be able to say they tried everything before going that route. It’s a political move as much as anything.

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On 5/7/2025 at 9:25 AM, Brisketexan said:

Austin cleans out a homeless camp.  51 people removed....and almost TWO HUNDRED TONS of trash.  TWO.  HUNDRED.  TONS.  https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/homeless/homeless-encampment-govalle-park-colorado-river-wildlife-sanctuary/269-6a8f5743-65b5-48fd-b822-cd1054f013be

We've had this conversation 1000 times, and 1000 ways, but it sure as shit still comes down to "no sane place lets a handful of people fucking destroy the community."  Two hundred tons of trash.  Fuck that shit.  That's 8,000 lbs of trash per person back there.  Fucking enough of this shit.

I've never understood why the "Save our Springs" people aren't more up in arms about this. All that trash goes directly into the waterways when it rains/floods. 

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On a different topic, years ago Bozo mentioned the Austin Monitor as a source of local news.  I liked their product and donated over the past couple of years.  Austin Monitor announced an asset sale to the Texas Tribune.  Even after reading the FAQ I still don't quite understand what is going on or why.  Other than I'm assuming the Austin Monitor had a funding issue.

The Austin Monitor joins forces with the Texas Tribune  - Austin MonitorAustin Monitor

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3 minutes ago, hornian said:

I've never understood why the "Save our Springs" people aren't more up in arms about this. All that trash goes directly into the waterways when it rains/floods. 

Because...and this is important....the "Save our Springs" movement is 100X more focused on performative, self-congratulatory bullshit than actually producing environmentally beneficial outcomes.  It's much more gratifying to just hate "developers" and all "development" than to actually examine the threats to the environment and water quality and tackle the low-hanging fruit.

Like many causes aligned with the traditional "left," being performative is more important than being pragmatic and getting the best result reasonably obtainable.  See, e.g., muslim voters in Dearborn, Michigan.

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3 minutes ago, Deej said:

That anti-development shit really worked out. 

Well, it kind of did....in the central city.  We can thank that broader movement for the fact that our roads and infrastructure suck shit through a straw and haven't changed very much in 30 years, for example.  And we can thank them for making sure no affordable housing gets built where it can actually help (you know....in the actual city).  Instead, all that Austin builds is $500k minimum one-bedroom apartments in downtown highrises.

Austin's death of affordability and ascent to the World Tech Douchebro Capital owes a giant debt of gratitude to the SOS crowd.

As does the explosive growth of the environs (Kyle, Buda, Dripping, RR, Hutto, Taylor, Manor, etc.)  Thanks, performative leftist NIMBYs!

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6 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Like many causes aligned with the traditional "left," being performative is more important than being pragmatic and getting the best result reasonably obtainable.  See, e.g., muslim voters in Dearborn, Michigan.

This.

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24 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said:

There is a lot of anti-charter sentiment in the public education world. This is especially true in AISD where they have pulled students away and made the funding crisis much worse. 

My guess is the administration wants to be able to say they tried everything before going that route. It’s a political move as much as anything.

I view TEA takeover of AISD as an existential issue.  It is likely the action that would require me to remove my children from AISD.  I have no desire for political moves that play around with that outcome.

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4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Instead, all that Austin builds is $500k minimum one-bedroom apartments in downtown highrises.

Gotta keep the riff raff out. Well, except for the homeless. 

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Just now, swraith said:

I view TEA takeover of AISD as an existential issue. 

It is.

Just now, swraith said:

It is likely the action that would require me to remove my children from AISD. 

You would surely have a crapload of company.

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3 minutes ago, swraith said:

I view TEA takeover of AISD as an existential issue.  It is likely the action that would require me to remove my children from AISD.  I have no desire for political moves that play around with that outcome.

Pucker up, because it's coming no matter what.  The only question is when.  If you have elementary-aged kids, there is almost no chance they won't see a TEA takeover.  Now is the time to start considering alternatives.   High school age?  They may skate through before it happens.  Middle school?  Probably not.  We've got 7th graders, and will probably not start them in high school in AISD knowing what is coming.   Given the voucher nonsense passing, AISD is about to take another major financial haircut.  Things will not get better but worse. And rapidly.   There is almost no chance of them turning around these schools, and I have zero faith that the state will be satisfied with just putting charters in place for the failing schools.  Too much money was made on the grift in Houston by taking over the entire thing. 

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1 minute ago, Larry T. Spider said:

And there is the states game plan in a nutshell.

The state (GOP) has been winning for years.  Their success appears to be accelerating in terms of momentum.  I don't see that stopping any time soon.

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