A heavy lift for a "lighter" site plan

City staff is digging in its heels.

What is the cost-benefit of Dirty 6th?

What does the nightly debauchery cost taxpayers?

Can Austin get some more tax $ from Airbnb?

Can the city get some more hotel

Trump's dumb transportation rules

Good for rich suburbs, bad for cities.

I started a podcast!

Introducing Urban Affairs.

The money doesn't belong to the hotels

Texas law has allowed hotels to steal billions from us.

How national should city politics get?

How much should local pols talk about Trump?

Overpromising, underdelivering on the corridors

We were promised smart corridors. Seven years later, they're still pretty dumb.

The rents will rise again

Sorry.

What are we really going to get for these I-35 caps?

Terrifying cost, unconvincing design.

The red shift in Travis County

Where did Trump do best in Austin?

The right right-winger wins

The new Texas House speaker is good news for Austin.