Jo Clifton
Politics Editor at Austin Monitor
Politics Editor @Austinmonitor (previously known as @infactdaily), married to Roger Duncan. Fan of rainforests, murder mysteries.News junkie.
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austinmonitor.com | Jo Clifton
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 by Jo Clifton The city has made some progress in handling discrimination, harassment and retaliation complaints by city employees, but some investigations still fail to follow basic rules for conducting such inquiries, according to an audit conducted by the City Auditor’s Office. Members of the City Council Audit & Finance Committee heard about the audit, which followed up on an audit from 2017, during Monday’s committee meeting.
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3 weeks ago |
austinmonitor.com | Jo Clifton
Friday, May 16, 2025 by Jo Clifton In a lawsuit over regulations related to development of the Statesman PUD, the plaintiff Save Our Springs Alliance, the defendant City of Austin, and the Intervenor property owner all asked Travis County District Judge Jan Soifer to rule in their favor on Thursday. After nearly 3 hours of arguments, the judge told the lawyers she would take the matter under advisement and let them know her decision.
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austinmonitor.com | Jo Clifton
Thursday, May 15, 2025 by Jo Clifton The city, interested members of the public and HHM & Associates, Inc. have been working on a survey of historic downtown and near downtown buildings, trails and bridges to identify what landmarks might attract history-minded tourists to Austin. The survey includes neighborhoods that are bordered by MoPac on the west, I-35 on the east between Lady Bird Lake and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
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3 weeks ago |
austinmonitor.com | Jo Clifton
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 by Jo Clifton The Save Our Springs Alliance and the City of Austin will be in Travis County District Court on Thursday afternoon to joust about what the city may and may not do with the old Statesman site. Almost a year has passed since the Austin Monitor reported that SOS had sued the city over the Planned Unit Development that was to be built on the site previously occupied by the Austin American-Statesman.
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3 weeks ago |
austinmonitor.com | Jo Clifton
Travis County vs. City of Austin: This time it’s baseball Tuesday, May 13, 2025 by Jo Clifton Sometimes Austin and Travis County get into a little competition. But it’s not often you see them publicly fight. This Sunday, starting at 2pm, however, Travis County and the City of Austin will face off in a charity baseball game. All proceeds from the sale of tickets will be donated to the Sobering Center. The battle will be at The Long Time Austin. Tickets for the event can be found here.
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