Information will continually be updated as we approach the January 2022 Election. Voters in Northeast Austin have two great choices in this race, as Roxanne Evans and Candace Hunter each have a robust understanding of the challenges the district faces. That includes: People may wear things representing former candidates, presidents or any political figure that is not a part of the election. Just because it is 2019, doesn't mean we can't still get into the swing of things in the election. Jay Kleberg does, and he has that love, and has shown it to Texans as a conservationist and environmentalist for a long time (offsetting the right-wing tilt of his prominent family, owners of the King Ranch), and has the sustainability to put up a credible challenge in November. Coupled with the long, hard hours he has put in meeting with organizers, business owners, and advocates inside and outside the district, we feel Velsquez is best positioned to navigate the complex challenges facing D3, the vanguard of gentrification in Austin both north and south of the river. City of Austin Prop A: FOR, Trustee District 1: Candace Hunter Can't keep up with happenings around town? Governor raceNRA, anti-Abbott groups spend big in the Texas governor race, Attorney general race:Abortion emerges as key issue in Texas attorney general race for Ken Paxton, Rochelle Garza. Eric Goodman's Austin FC column, other soccer news, All questions answered (satisfaction not guaranteed). Early Voting Information for the March 2022 Primary, Answers to Your Questions About Voting by Mail. Below is your Republican guide: Pflugerville ISD has eight props on the ballot. We know Zo is sincere and has the right values, but those are not a substitute for actual experience. Place 3: Amber Feller. An Old Austin survivor who's also lived in D9 her whole life, Guerrero has put in decades of volunteer service in leadership roles on city boards and commissions and with a broad array of community causes, and would walk into City Hall with all that knowledge and a powerful coalition already behind her. LOVE, POVERTY, WAR AND Also by Christopher Hitchens BLOOD, CLASS AND EMPIRE: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship A LONG SHORT WAR: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq WHY ORWELL MATTERS LEFT HOOKS, RIGHT CROSSES: A Decade of Political Writing (edited with Christopher Caldwell) LETTERS TO A YOUNG CONTRARIAN THE TRIAL OF HENRY KISSINGER BLAMING THE VICTIMS: Spurious Scholarship and the . (Austin Westphal/News Staff) Craig, who has worked in Kitchen's office for five years, would move much more deliberately but would champion and, most likely, bring to fruition the small-area planning that Kitchen's side of the Code Wars has sought for decades opening the door for a mapless code scenario that can fix problems with Austin's regulatory regime in general without provoking protests from angry property owners. Remember when this was a job where one needed to love Texas' lands, and not just political power and prospective Alamo profits and guns? Support the free press, so we can support Austin. Copyright 1981-2023 Austin Chronicle Corp. All rights reserved. Voters can submit ballots by mail or vote in person early or come to the polls on Election Day.. Of the remaining candidates, Jennifer Virden has some credible housing ideas, but is Republican enough that she stands too close to the treason and racist violence and is thus disqualified. So that's good, and she's right that DWI is an area that hasn't yet been impacted that much by justice reform. Voters in Northeast Austin have two great choices in this race, as Roxanne Evans and Candace Hunter each have a robust understanding of the challenges the district faces. 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For this new civil court, we will go through the usual exercise of electing a Democrat to replace the appointed Republican Cleve Doty and we wish Eiserloh, who is now a familiar face and name all over town from her 2020 campaign for county attorney (where we endorsed her and then co-endorsed in the run-off), the best of success on this bench. Support the free press, so we can support Austin. 3rd Court of Appeals, P4: Rosa Lopez Theofanis, Senate District 5: No Endorsement Starting near the top is the marquee race of this election cycle: Republican Gov. Early voting starts Monday and continues through Nov. 4. Election Day is Nov. 8. Please contact Elections@austintexas.gov for any election related questions. will be away from your county on Election Day and during early voting; are confined in jail, but eligible to vote; or. Got something to say? Please contact Elections@austintexas.gov for any election related questions. See the complete list of winners in the Austin Music Awards. Alters made much of his detailed and prescriptive housing plan, which Bazan has subtly turned negative on him, positioning herself as a peer wholl lead through relationships rather than as an expert. Election Day is Tuesday, March 1, and early voting for the primaries runs from Monday, Feb. 14, through Friday, Feb. 25. December 2022 City of Austin Runoff Election: Voter Resource In November, Austin voters turned out to cast ballots in the mayoral and City Council elections. We can help. Someone Should Do Something. Find more November 2022 General Election coverage and voting information at our Elections hub. Both candidates would be fine judges, but we think the shoes of Lora Livingston, the county's longest-serving civil judge and administrator for that side of the docket, would be best filled by Lyttle, whose diverse background in medicine as well as law, and in immigration and business matters as well as family law, make her an asset to the bench. Confronting a long list of races at the polls can be daunting. Primary contest between Margaret Gmez, Susanna Ledesma-Woody heats up, In the battle for Texas' attention, Dowd and Mackowiak each amble toward the center, Off to the races with Greg Casar, Eddie Rodriguez, and Jose "Chito" Vela, The 2022 primaries are months away, but these Travis County commissioners are already drawing competition in their reelection bids, Vela wins District 4 special election in a landslide, Israel kicks off quest to make history in mayoral race, plus more news, Special election decides who will complete Greg Casar's term at City Hall, One click gets you all the newsletters listed below, Breaking news, arts coverage, and daily events. Support the Chronicle, One click gets you all the newsletters listed below, Breaking news, arts coverage, and daily events. Texas 2022 Primary Voter Guide: May 24 runoff election Texas Runoff Election Voter Guide A roundup of the candidates and key state and local primary races that your vote will decide in. Land Commissioner: Jay Kleberg The Chronicle regrets the error; more in the Oct. 28 edition of Austin at Large.. The 2022 San Francisco District Attorney recall election was a successful special recall election to remove San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin from office. Grumet:Grumet: Here's what Austin got from the 2018 affordable housing bond. Four seats are open on the Austin ISD school board. Instead, he's moving down the street (and across the Travis County line) to represent the somewhat less suburban (and less Anglo) North Austin neighborhoods in the seat held by retiring Rep. Celia Israel, now running for mayor. CCA, P6: Robert Johnson, State Board of Education, District 5: Rebecca Bell Metereau There is no currently active politician whose career has been more interwoven with the Chronicle's advocacy journalism than Brigid Shea, the hero of the Save Our Springs movement and a highly productive disruptor at City Hall in the 1990s. Our land use policy and practice is still weak, obsolete, and broken, not just creating suboptimal outcomes as in the Nineties but imposing immediate and grievous costs on people who literally cannot find a place to live. This time, her opponents simply do not have the range to think about succeeding her. Attorney General: Rochelle Garza A ballot measure passed in May 2021 moved Austin's mayoral race to align with presidential elections in an effort to increase voter turnout. Chronicle Endorsements for Austin City Council Run-Off Election Early voting runs Dec. 1-9 ; election day is Dec. 13 7:00AM, Wed. Nov. 30, 2022 Tweet print write a letter Election day:. San Marcos Proposition A: FOR, Mayor: Celia Israel She devoted herself to helping D3 residents during Winter Storm Uri and no doubt has bright prospects as a leader in Austin elected or otherwise. Support the Chronicle, What you need to stay home and vote in Texas, One click gets you all the newsletters listed below, Breaking news, arts coverage, and daily events. The field is set in Austin's mayor's race and in five additional City Council races with seven candidates now officially competing to succeed Mayor Steve Adler. The Chronicle Editorial Board makes these recommendations. State Board of Education, District 5: Rebecca Bell-Metereau, 3rd Court of Appeals, P4: Rosa Lopez Theofanis, Travis County Justice of the Peace, Precinct 2: Randall Slagle, Hays Commissioner Pct. STAND ALONE NARRATIVE. Laurie hosts the afternoon music show on KUTX from 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday and is the producer and voice of the Austin Music Minute, which shines the spotlight on live music shows around town six days a week. I just wish to clear some things that have been weighing heavily off my chest. Eric Goodman's Austin FC column, other soccer news, All questions answered (satisfaction not guaranteed). TX-17: Mary Jo Woods Some problems look unchanged from our past but are now quite different old ways of "taking on traffic" and "keeping Austin safe" have been exhausted, discarded, discredited. No, we do not. The Chronicle welcomes opinion pieces on any topic from the community. He wants to move urgently to enact land use reforms to increase Austin's housing supply, but commits to seeking input from renters and homeowners in houses, four-plexes, dorms, and skyscrapers and takes a pragmatic stakeholder-centered approach. Travis County Clerk: Dyana Limon-Mercado Last year, two-thirds of voters supported Proposition D, which moves the citys mayoral elections to the same year as presidential elections. To find out what exactly will be on your ballot and to read about each candidate, check out the League of Women Voters Vote 411 guide. I married a man who has four kids with his ex, they never married ( the initial plan was to get married, but the elder bro. Council District 9: Linda Guerrero. Here's what you need to cast your ballot in Central Texas. Her opponent Tanisa Jeffers is also right that we could restore CCL5 to its former status as a mental-health-focused court (which doesn't exclude DWIs for those with substance use disorders), but we think Espiritu is better prepared to do that than Jeffers is to reform DWI adjudication. Place 5: Amy Weir. Someday, one of those movies will be made about Judge Madeleine Connor, the exception to Travis County's good judgment that proves the rule. Wilco Commissioner Pct. Now more than ever, we need your support to continue supplying Austin with independent, free press. We hope that facing a legit primary challenge from Bob Libal former head of Grassroots Leadership, running to Shea's left on criminal justice, economic development, and the built environment will help Shea take her service to the next level. In another Texas county? Alter and Craig, who have much to offer in those areas as well, offer different ways of moving forward from where she leaves off. Austin Community College has a $770 million bond on the ballot this election. Subsidizing income-restricted housing at the $350 million level of this (third) bond in the last decade is just something we must do, and/but it's only about a third of what we and the new Council need to initiate. A Special Session on Guns? Information is power. But people who came to Austin in this century year after year, decade after decade, from everywhere, doubling the metro area look at Israel now and hear her speak, and see and hear their own feelings about Austin today, and about our nation and our identities today, reflected back at them feelings of righteousness and belonging and fear, of urgency and need and gritty commitment, articulated by voices not heard before. Hear directly from the candidates as they make their case for why they should be the next councilmembers. 1-minute voter guide to the top statewide races Five questions with Austin mayoral candidate Jennifer Virden Five questions with Austin mayoral candidate Kirk Watson Five questions with Austin mayoral candidate Celia Israel Austin bonds on November ballots total more than $3B Get more local stories in your inbox with Axios Austin. Talarico, elected at the same time as Zwiener, has impressed the heck out of everybody as the House's youngest (32) member, including Republicans who the Capitol crew thought would treat him better in redistricting. District 4: Kathryn Whitley Chu Heres what we learned. In a Feb. 20 post on the Council message board, Watson wrote, "I . The city also held a special general election for the District 4 seat on the city council on January 25, 2022. The Chronicle welcomes opinion pieces on any topic from the community. To see wait times at these locations, go here. But there are many more! Having taught in AISD until last year, Chu has the most recent experience in its classrooms and deep convictions about the working conditions teachers deserve. In a perfect world. Voters can ask an election officer to bring a ballot to their parked car in the designated curbside voting location. Implicit in all of our endorsements is our general presumption that unseating an incumbent is a higher bar to clear than staking a claim for an open seat. City of Austin Prop A: FOR. Voters 70 or older can bring a photo ID that has been expired for any length of time. It may indeed take two A.G.s to undo all the damage done by the worst villain in Texas state government, incumbent Ken Paxton, and either of these two super-lawyers former ACLU legal champion Garza or former Galveston Mayor Jaworski would be our pick for first chair. 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January 2022 Election Calendar / Enero 2022 Calendario Electoral So we invited the run-off finishers back for a more leisurely conversation. PublishedOctober 19, 2022 at 2:15 PM CDT, If you found this reporting valuable, pleaseconsider. Place 6: Tiffanie Harrison. His campaign coalition of labor unions, Democratic clubs, elected officials, and prominent community leaders will hopefully form a foundation for organizing to address not only housing and affordability, but transportation and public safety challenges in D3. Who Will Be the New Council Voice for District 9? This is the court that Brandy Mueller is yielding after 12 years to run for the 403rd, but it will likely remain focused on youthful offenders (17- to 21-year-olds) of whom there are currently more than 1,000 in the Travis County system to help them avoid being damaged for life by a permanent record. Candidates for the midterm 2022 elections: Top (left to right): Beto O'Rourke (D), Alexandra del Moral Mealer (R) and Mike Collier (D). It's a shame that common-sense solutions to longstanding problems have been deferred to exactly when land and labor are most expensive, but students in Austin's aging and economically fragile outer-ring neighborhoods really will need these things. A one-stop voter guide for everything you need to know about the upcoming elections and voting in Texas - from KVUE in Austin, Texas Where candidates running for Austin City Council District 1 stand on three big issues, Watch: Where candidates running for Austin City Council District 3 stand on three big issues, Watch: Where candidates running for Austin City Council District 5 stand on three big issues, Watch: Where candidates running for Austin City Council District 8 stand on three big issues, Watch: Where candidates running for Austin City Council District 9 stand on three big issues.
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