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Hypocrisy Times Two

A recent editorial in the Austin American-Statesman called for legislators to enact “common-sense” reforms of the state’s civil asset forfeiture

In September, the Austin American-Statesman published a three-part series on the growing conflict between the owners of some short-term rentals

The purported goal of land-use regulations, such as Austin’s CodeNext, is to plan the development within a community. On the

In the last post, we saw that Austin’s attempt to rewrite it’s land-use regulations (called CodeNext) has resulted in great

In 2012, Austin began the process of rewriting the city’s land-use regulations. The project came to be named CodeNext, and

I have previously written, albeit briefly, about both the economic and moral aspects of opposition to Austin’s CodeNext. The debate

In the last post, we briefly examined the contradictory goals of some opponents of Austin’s proposed new land-use regulations. The

For the past five years, the city of Austin has been working on a revised land-use ordinance called CodeNext. The