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Will Austin Join Cities Leading Efforts To Improve Democracy?

Bryan Jones - November 26, 2019

Much has changed in Texas's Implementation of democracy since September 5, 1836 when Sam...

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Gentrification is not a byproduct of planned urban growth, it is the plan

Barry Kahn - October 31, 2019

Among those living in Austin since the turn of the century, one is constantly confronted...

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How the old ‘all politics is local’ became today’s ‘all local politics are global’

Jeremi Suri - October 31, 2019

Thomas “Tip” O’Neill, a powerful speaker of the U.S. House of the Representatives four decades...

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