Looking for a streamlined version? It's Election Day. Zwiener who upset Bell-Metereau four years ago to claim the Dem nomination and then win this Hays County seat has also benefited from the new map with a district now firmly anchored in the Buda/Kyle suburbs (i.e., far-far South Austin) and in the college community in San Marcos. The 2022 Texas primary election is Tuesday, March 1. Copyright 1981-2023 Austin Chronicle Corp. All rights reserved. But it's time for a change out here, and Del Valle ISD Trustee Ledesma-Woody is the most credible advocate for the people and places in outer Southeast Travis County now ground zero for the next decade's chapter of Austin's endless boom that's run for this seat in a while. 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Information will continually be updated as we approach the 2021 Election. We're talking to dozens of Hispanic voters before the November midterms about the top issues on their mind including what they want from candidates and their state government. Find that here. Travis County Judge: Andy Brown But Flores, who was narrowly upset by Rodriguez 20 years ago and has been making her mark as a community and civic leader ever since, rose to the top in our deliberations (which included ranked-choice voting among the Ed Board). We feel Hernandez is the best prepared to take on that role and even expand it beyond Mueller's already admirable achievements. 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At-Large Place 9: Arati Singh. Election Day is Tuesday, March 1, and early voting for the primaries runs from Monday, Feb. 14, through Friday, Feb. 25. Can't keep up with happenings around town? The two most challenging races for us to deliberate this cycle were probably the two commissioner contests. Singh championed a consent-centered revision of AISD's sex education curriculum that also sought to help LGBTQIA+ students, and led the board in developing accountability metrics for AISD police to reduce violence against Black and Hispanic students. Guerrero may be the better all-around option of these two. It was held on June 7, 2022, concurrent with the 2022 statewide primary elections. Mar 2, 2023. Filing in the Republican or Democratic 2020 primary. 2021 May Election Calendar / Calendario Electoral de Mayo 2021 SD25: Robert Walsh, House District 20: Raul Camacho Can't keep up with happenings around town? Janet Dudding is the actual accountant among the three candidates in the Dem primary. Round Rock ISDCandidates to participate in election forum at Kalahari Resorts. A note to readers: Bold and uncensored, The Austin Chronicle has been Austin's independent news source for over 40 years, expressing the community's political and environmental concerns and. We can help. Got something to say? Deadline to turn in your completed ballot: December 13, postmarked; December 14, received Council District 5: Ryan Alter Election Day is Nov. 8. Now more than ever, we need your support to continue supplying Austin with independent, free press. A note to readers: Bold and uncensored, The Austin Chronicle has been Austins independent news source for over 40 years, expressing the communitys political and environmental concerns and supporting its active cultural scene. 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Four seats are open on the Austin ISD school board. You can bring voting-day essentials like: Photo IDs Legal documents to use in absence of an ID Sample ballots Handwritten notes You can't have materials regarding a candidate or political party within 100 feet or inside a polling center, and you can't use these items within that perimeter: Cellphones Tablets Laptops Cameras 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. Visit austinchronicle.com/austin-music-awards to see winners. Election Ticker: As First Ballots Cast, Is Turnout Surging, Lagging, or Both? City of Austin Prop A: FOR, Trustee District 1: Candace Hunter HD48: Donna Howard Voters can go to any polling place in the county. Yet she offered nuanced and pragmatic approaches to the problems the district faces now without wavering on her values: "I'm not big on compromise for this one reason: That's how we got here, [and] we haven't even moved the needle for these children.". Voting locations will be open Monday-Saturday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 12 to 6 p.m. Where: Early voting locations include Austin City Hall, the Eanes ISD administration building. Find more November 2022 General Election coverage and voting information at our Elections hub. Video! Email her at mcharpentier@kut.org. District 6: Andrew Gonzales. Five seats on the Austin school district's Board of Trustees are up for election: How to sell a $2.44B school bond?Make sure voters know what they're getting. Support the free press, so we can support Austin. When we met with the candidates back in October, we invited her and Kirk Watson (and Jennifer Virden, who did not respond) in and had time to get answers from each to most of the questions that were going to steer our endorsement. There is absolutely no reason to replace him. In a Feb. 20 post on the Council message board, Watson wrote, "I . Bottom (left to right): Lesley Briones (D), Jesse F. McClure . Voters must have a certified doctor's note confirming the illness. 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. ), What the $350 million housing bond entails, Get caught up on the big issues facing Austin and its neighbors, Applications to be on the ballot are open, Updated: While feds investigate border initiative, he goes all in. Lots of action this cycle, as redistricting has changed the political map in ways that mostly work to Austin progressives' benefit. Ann Kitchen has been a reliably good Council member; her great reluctance to disempower neighborhood activists on land use issues has been offset by tremendous leadership on transportation, public safety, and public health. Starting. Voters may also apply for an emergency ballot due to a death in their immediate family that occurred on or after the fifth day before Election Day and causes them to be absent from their home county that day. Remember when this was a job where one needed to love Texas' lands, and not just political power and prospective Alamo profits and guns? Many counties have voting centers that allow early in-person voting, and ballot drop-off, in the month before election day. 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:. Celia Israel: This election is about who can afford to live here, and who gets to decide, A hospital-based pediatrician explains steps we can take to prevent the next tragedy, Nonprofit Texas Gun Sense responds to Uvalde, From Congress to land commissioner, here are our picks, Pro-legalization and pro-freedom folks see eye to eye on the May 7 ballot, Early Voting April 25-May 3 Election Day May 7, Yup. Election Day is Nov. 8. CCA, P6: Robert Johnson, State Board of Education, District 5: Rebecca Bell Metereau But Silva probably has more credibility with more of the southside portion of D3, which is largely East Riverside and Oltorf west to St. Eds lots of young people, lots of diversity, lots of renters. The bond would also help the college expand training capacity for jobs in health care and advanced manufacturing and would fund new sites in southeastern and southwestern Travis County. Of the four urbanists in the first round, Qadri seemed to us to be the least knowledgeable and engaged with actual land use politics, let alone the broader spectrum of City Hall business. 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. Six people are vying to be the next mayor of Austin. 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. Election day: Tuesday, December 13 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. Dec. 14, 2022 Kirk Watson Wins Austin's Mayoral Race By Fewer Than 900 Votes New Council comes into focus in run-off election Dec. 13, 2022 Chronicle Endorsements for Austin City Council. Support the free press, so we can support Austin. Information is power. Still and despite our admiration for all that state Rep. Eddie Rodriguez has done for Austin and Texas we agreed easily that Casar is the best choice to be Austin and San Antonio's new voice in Congress. If real news is important to you, please consider making a donation of $5, $10 or whatever you can afford, to help keep our journalism on stands. If approved, the bond would add two new campuses to South Austin and expand workforce development programs. 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. 2: Michelle Gutierrez Cohen. 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. A note to readers: Bold and uncensored, The Austin Chronicle has been Austin's independent news source for over 40 years, expressing the community's political and environmental concerns and . In November, a blue-wave election in Hays County swept out the prosecutors who had tried to convict Gray. 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. All rights reserved. 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. Travis County will let you vote until 9 p.m. on certain days during early voting. Austin voters' overwhelming approval in 2012 of both November elections and the 10-1 district system changed the dynamics of Council run-offs, which formerly saw steady or increased turnout as. But we expect the more assertive Gonzales a former AISD teacher and the son of another to take a stronger stance against inequities and unfair conditions for both teachers and students in a way that aligns with his passion for social justice. We can help. 8 statewide propositions on Texans' November 2021 ballot . It was a great parade for him to get in front of, and Watson's Green Machine era was the high point of Austin's 20th-century prosperity and influence. What's going on in the districts surrounding Austin? District 5 (dual): Ryan Alter, Ken Craig The 2022 San Francisco District Attorney recall election was a successful special recall election to remove San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin from office. (Despite some misleading literature from her campaign, we did not endorse her before.) Locally, Austin voters will chose a new mayor and select candidates for five additional City Council seats. Working all day? Copyright 1981-2023 Austin Chronicle Corp. All rights reserved. Austin American-Statesman 0:00 1:53 Voters will chart the future of their local community, and of Texas as a whole, on a ballot packed with important races and big-ticket propositions. Registered and eligible Austinites may vote at any early voting location. All information on this webpage is specific to the 2021 City of Austin Special Election and the Campaign Finance Filing Requirements. Voters can apply for an emergency ballot due to sickness or disability, between the last day of early voting on Nov. 4 and 5 p.m. on Election Day. HD49: Gina Hinojosa Support the Chronicle, One click gets you all the newsletters listed below, Breaking news, arts coverage, and daily events. 4: Susan Cook Your Complete Guide for Voting in the Primaries- Reform Austin Elections Your Complete Guide for Voting in the Primaries By Staff - February 17, 2022 Early voting started on Feb. 14 and will continue until Friday, Feb. 25 for the March primaries in Texas. This year, Texans will be casting their votes to choose candidates for some major positions, including the governor, lieutenant . We normally just say, "Vote for the Democrats," when, as has been the case for the last 25 years, there has not been a Republican worth voting for, or a Dem who needed voting against. Information is power. Place 5: Amy Weir. If they, as we suspect, end up in a run-off (civil rights super-lawyer Lee Merritt is the third possibility here) while Paxton also ends up in a run-off, we'll have a new frame of reference to revisit this race. of his ex took the money his contribution, meant for the wedding and gave it to some else, which he . HD51: Lulu Flores Do we really understand why anyone is running against Lloyd in this late-career race to finally represent his lifelong neighbors in Austin? Not all of the bills are bad! The last day a candidate may file is Monday, August 19, 2024 at 5 p.m. 2: Brigid Lester The man behind "Fix the Damn Grid" has been running for this job now for eight years, coming quite close to unseating carnival barker Dan Patrick in 2018 and never breaking stride since. While incumbent Council members Natasha Harper-Madison (District 1) and Paige Ellis (District 8) won reelection, the rest of the contests weren't as clear. In support of informed voting, the Houston Chronicle Editorial Board interviewed candidates in more than 60 races to make the following recommendations in contested Harris County races. Since she and Ryan Alter also largely agree on goals, we asked them about change and influence how do you intend to get more housing and child care and climate action or whichever priorities you want to champion? The personal pre-voting for the elections on November 2nd will take place from Monday, October 18th to Friday, October . Sure, its 2019 and the Constitution is still relevant, but I do think we need . Austin Music Experience | All Austin musicians and artists | KUTX HD2, Texas Music Experience | Listen anytime at tmx.fm | KUTX HD3, A service of the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin, Meet the six candidates vying to be Austin's next mayor, Here's where candidates for Austin mayor stand on three big issues. Just because it is 2019, doesn't mean we can't still get into the swing of things in the election. It's a job that requires an enormous amount of political savvy at the moment, and Limon-Mercado, former chair of the county Democratic Party and the head of Planned Parenthood's Texas political arm, has plenty of that as well as demonstrated competence as an administrator. By Amy Wenk. District 4: Kathryn Whitley Chu Support the free press, so we can support Austin. Strategic Planning and Decision-Making for Public and. Find out who your representative is and whether that seat will be on the ballot this fall. Representation matters but so does showing up. BURBANK, Calif. (AP) Tom Sizemore, the "Saving Private Ryan" actor whose bright 1990s star burned out under the weight of his own . Hays County? SD14: Sarah Eckhardt 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. Eric Goodman's Austin FC column, other soccer news, All questions answered (satisfaction not guaranteed). We offer detailed reasons behind our Editorial Board endorsements in the general election in this annotated version; this version is for. Eric Goodman's Austin FC column, other soccer news, All questions answered (satisfaction not guaranteed). So we invited the run-off finishers back for a more leisurely conversation. Travis County: countyclerk.traviscountytx.gov/departments/elections or 512/238-VOTE (8683), Williamson County: wilco.org/departments/election or 512/943-1630, Hays County: hayscountytx.com/departments/elections/current-year-election or 512/393-7779. Support the free press, so we can support Austin. The Austin Chronicle's Austin Music Awards honor the local music community by recognizing Austin artists and industry leaders. Opinion: 19 Children Are Dead. The next day, the judge who had presided over the trial set Gray's bond at $70,000. You'll need to show ID if you go in person. News Sports Hookem.com Austin360 Opinion Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals Subscribe We've endorsed both Israel and Kirk Watson before, including when he was first elected mayor, but not when he was reelected (with 84%, against Leslie Cochran and others) in 2000. HD47: Vikki Goodwin Support the free press, so we can support Austin. The story is bizarre read more and will surely be amusing on TV, but Judge Catherine Mauzy is living it right now, y'all, and needs your support. Go check yourselves and let Malhotra use her actual expertise on this bench. Support the Chronicle, One click gets you all the newsletters listed below, Breaking news, arts coverage, and daily events. 2023 www.statesman.com. District 9 (dual): Ben Leffler, Linda Guerrero. Born and raised in East Austin, Velsquez's pride in his community has shone throughout his campaign. In the mayors race, that reconsideration was internal and brief; nothing about how the Nov. 8 election turned out, nor about the campaign thats unfolded since, made us rethink our support for Israel and for the reasons we laid out before. The list did not belong on our Endorsements page, and does not stand up to the standards weve set for ourselves in issuing endorsements, and for these reasons, weve removed the list from this page. Download the application for an emergency ballot here. First, make sure youre registered. 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 incumbent has provoked some folks with her ideas and exasperated some others with her approach to governing, but she has also risen to the occasion and shouldered the several burdens that City Hall and Austin at large felt a need to place upon the one Black Council member, and the most prominent Black woman in local politics, over a term made chaotic by pandemics and police racism and violence. You cannot, however, use your cellphone or another electronic device at the polling site. May 2021 City of Austin propositions voter guide There will be eight propositions on the May 1 City of Austin ballot. Election Day guide to the key races that California and San Francisco Bay Area residents will vote on in the Nov. 8 midterm election. STAND ALONE NARRATIVE. Our analysis of the just-begun 88th Texas Legislature. 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.

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