BDUB

local austin journalism enthusiast

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wild that nobody on council has commented on the Austin logo

They need their talking points soon , or prop Q will be a referendum on the logo

I recommend saying that it will be funded by hotel taxes which are legally required to be wasted on stuff like this

#atxcouncil

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Is it happening? Will the city of Austin officially launch its new logo and rebrand today ??

A ‘city of Austin brand initiative news conference’ is scheduled for 9:30 AM on ATXN 👀

#atxcouncil

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@JackCraver Follow the crumbs Jack

How much did the city spend on employee travel and conferences last year , what value is it providing?

Spoiler : it’s a not insignificant percentage of the proposed TRE tax raise funding

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@justicetracking If it’s gotta be art, select local high school artists and give them scholarships

That’s like a full ride for 100s

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@LoewyLawFirm I don’t think 4 can kill it, they’ll just keep it going with a new target for completion of 2075 or whatever

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@JackPosobiec Pour one out for the many journalists who had multi thousand word sob pieces on the price of coffee ready to go

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@LoewyLawFirm The argument for remote work would be alot stronger if even one city department was able to reduce budget because of it, or even increase their workload \ throughput

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@typesfaster Average attention span plummeted over past 10 years, nobody is sitting down to watch 80 3 hour games

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@brintash @LoewyLawFirm All the good granny flats were built like 50 years ago

Different era

So expensive to build now you will be renting it for like $1900 for the owner to break even

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@awilkinson When you see a company you like, how do you decide whether to buy it for tiny ltd or tiny fund?

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@CedGolden He had his best player get cancer and a couple others leave for money, and boosters were too impatient to let him reload

Although maybe if the slam dunk hire of beard wasn’t on the table they would have

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@LoewyLawFirm They need to increase the size of UT big time. The number of CS majors graduating from there is not much larger than it was in the early 90s

How does that make sense? And how does it benefit Texas?

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@bradswail Leslie pool would be interesting , I’ve never heard it explained how she changed from nimby to yimby

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@chamath Bruh, that episode aired when $SOL was 50% higher than it is today

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@Molson_Hart Vanguard, I get the feeling they don’t hire the best, could be some catastrophic IT or accounting failure

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@StevenRivas Bonds bro. Question Austin ISD taxpayers should be asking is after billions in bonds, why don’t our schools look like this?

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@paulg @AndyMasley The avg sat score of a Harvard legacy admit is 1520

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@Molson_Hart Indians are really passionate about early childhood education

Gandhi was big into Montessori

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@paulg Libraries will still require their librarians to have masters degrees for a long time

It’s kind of a hazing ritual at this point. If the elder librarians had to do it , the new gen must as well

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@Jennifer4Austin @JackCraver @TraceySchulz Yea in hindsight, the permanent tax instead of a bond was a very bad idea

Cost has ballooned because of inflation and redesigns

And the bond value that can be secured by this tax stream has crashed cause of interest rates