The City Auditor’s Office has released an Investigative Report accusing Nico Hauwert, probably the best- known geoscientist in Central Texas, of misusing city resources and committing fraud when he ...

City Auditor Ken Mory and his staff are doing their utmost to reach out to the public and provide information that would encourage Austin voters to apply to serve on one of the two bodies that will ...

Elected officials do a variety of things to carry out their official duties but more than anything else they go to meetings—lots and lots of meetings. They attend City Council meetings. City committee ...

The City Auditor’s Office has released an Investigative Report accusing Nico Hauwert, probably the best- known geoscientist in Central Texas, of misusing city ...

Don Zimmerman had a long history of filing lawsuits even before he won election to the District 6 seat on the Austin City Council last December. In fact, while a candidate he sued The Austin Bulldog ...

Janet Marie Jennings-Doyle was making $170,000 a year as chief appraiser of Montgomery Central Appraisal District. On April ...

The municipal legal career of Mark Sokolow has seen its ups and downs: Up: In 1991, Sokolow was hired by the City of League City, Texas. Down: In February 1996 he was fired as city attorney of League ...

Ken Martin, founder, editor and publisher: Ken got interested in journalism while a career officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. After serving more than 20 years on active duty, including a tour in ...

The recent flooding in Kerr County took center stage as the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas (FOIFT) hosted its annual conference last Friday. It started with a panel discussion focused on ...

The Library Commission meeting of February 26 left petitioners with unanswered questions about why City libraries cracked down on petitioners who were gathering signatures on library properties, But ...

This story was updated at 12:45pm August 23, 2025, to add a link to the audio recording of the Appraisal Review Board’s formal hearing of the valuation protest filed by Colorado River Project LLC. The ...

You have a right to know. We make it easy. State laws and local statutes require public officials to file a variety of records about themselves. The Texas Public Information Act makes these records ...