SD14: Sarah Eckhardt 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. According to The Texas Tribune, the voter must designate a representative to submit the application and doctor's note in person to the countys early voting clerk before 5 p.m. on Election Day. Go check yourselves and let Malhotra use her actual expertise on this bench. 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. A one-stop voter guide for everything you need to know about the upcoming elections and voting in Texas - from KVUE in Austin, Texas 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. Support the free press, so we can support Austin. (Austin Westphal/News Staff) Election day: Tuesday, December 13 In order to be a candidate a person must: Be a U.S. Citizen; Below is your Republican guide: Note we said "new" rather than "next" we envision the trio of Casar, Lloyd Doggett, and Joaquin Castro superheroically strafing their bumbling GOP colleagues daily while also leading toward better workers' rights and wages, and health care for all. We trust their judgment regarding Eldridge, who deserves to serve despite attempts in two cycles now to use one of the minor contretemps that gets blown into scandal in this town to take her out. 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. Following months of discussion from Republican Gov. Round Rock ISDCandidates to participate in election forum at Kalahari Resorts. Information will continually be updated as we approach the January 2022 Election. 2021 May Election Calendar / Calendario Electoral de Mayo 2021 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. The Chronicle team slashed the normal slate of categories from the usual 50 to a trim 20. We hope that facing a legit primary challenge from Bob Libal former head of Grassroots Leadership, running to Shea's left on criminal justice, economic development, and the built environment will help Shea take her service to the next level. Follow her on Twitter @marisacharp. If you need help casting your ballot you are permitted to bring someone with you, including a translator. Hays can hopefully fix the mess Miller and the Lege have made of cannabis regulation while also picking up where the last Democrat to hold the office, Jim Hightower, left off to make the still-vital Texas ag industries more sustainable and equitable. Information is power. She's done a great job, and none of her opponents really pass the credibility threshold. Travis County Judge: Andy Brown Voters in Manor and Lago Vista are deciding whether to ax CapMetro. Here who's on the ballot in November's midterm election: Austin mayoral debate:5 things we learned from the candidates, District 1 race:Austin City Council incumbent Harper-Madison aims for second term, District 3 raceRunoff likely in District 3 election as six candidates battle for open seat, District 5 raceAustin City Council seat up for grabs with Ann Kitchen leaving office, District 8 raceAustin City Council incumbent Paige Ellis facing three challengers, District 9 race:Big field of Austin City Council candidates focused on city's housing policies. The deadline to apply to vote by mail is Oct. 28. We get it, justice reform means decarceration and restorative justice for everybody. The governor is up for election, Austinites are choosing a new mayor, and there are some notable bonds on the ballot, including one to fund affordable housing projects in Austin. This time, her opponents simply do not have the range to think about succeeding her. Also on the ballot: a $2.44 billion bond package for Austin schools, the largest in district history. Supreme Court, P5: Amanda Reichek In-person early voting: Thursday, December 1, through Friday, December 9 Travis Justice of the Peace, Precinct 2: Randall Slagle, Williamson County Judge: Blane Conklin Representation matters but so does showing up. Got something to say? 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. Let us be real and acknowledge that neither Watson nor Israel has as tight and powerful a grasp of the tools arrayed at City Hall as we hoped we'd see in this race. Marisa Charpentier is KUT's assistant digital editor. The mayor elected in this cycle will serve a two-year term, as opposed to four years. May 2021 City of Austin propositions voter guide There will be eight propositions on the May 1 City of Austin ballot. austin chronicle voting guide 2021 endorsements Posted at May 21, 2021 Chronicle Endorsements for the May 1 City of Austin Special Election. He got shit done when his ways were prepared by like-minded Austin voters, volunteers, activists, advocates, entrepreneurs, city employees, state and UT employees, elected officials just a whole bunch of people who had defined this baby big city as a place where nature, culture, and technology were all in balance and made everyone money. We offer detailed reasons behind our Editorial Board endorsements in the general election in this annotated version; this version is for voters looking to take a printed, streamlined copy to the ballot box. Alters made much of his detailed and prescriptive housing plan, which Bazan has subtly turned negative on him, positioning herself as a peer wholl lead through relationships rather than as an expert. Eric Goodman's Austin FC column, other soccer news, All questions answered (satisfaction not guaranteed). Sabino "Pio Renteria," who currently represents the district, has reached his term limit. Californians are voting on seven. The $350 million bond would go to acquiring land and building new homes, as well as repairing existing homes that would likely be demolished but for the bond's assistance. The League of Women Voters has put together a detailed guide to voting by mail for Central Texas voters here. Tom Sizemore, 'Saving Private Ryan' actor, dies at 61. The top four vote-getters citywide win the seats. 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. Candidates for the midterm 2022 elections: Top (left to right): Beto O'Rourke (D), Alexandra del Moral Mealer (R) and Mike Collier (D). Six candidates are vying for this seat representing South Austin on the City Council. 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. Two proposed amendments one regarding religious . You can print out your own personalized ballot at VoteTravis.com. 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. 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. Support the free press, so we can support Austin. It's currently held by Council Member Ann Kitchen. We feel Hernandez is the best prepared to take on that role and even expand it beyond Mueller's already admirable achievements. Do you know who your Austin City Council member is? By Amy Wenk. Friday, Feb. 18 will be the last day to apply for mail-in ballots. Alter and Craig, who have much to offer in those areas as well, offer different ways of moving forward from where she leaves off. Usually, Travis County voters are pretty good about taking seriously their responsibility to elect good judges at all levels. Support the Chronicle, Zo Qadri, Ryan Alter, Jos Velsquez secure wins, Entering the era of Mayor Kirk Watson 3.0, New Council comes into focus in run-off election, Early voting runs Dec. 1-9 ; election day is Dec. 13, Endorsements, recounts, and money, money, money, Zo Qadri and Linda Guerrero go into overtime, On a wet, cloudy night, Greg Casar enjoys clear triumph, Manor officials would have preferred Uber, Abbott secures reelection, mayoral race goes to run-off, Election shenanigans erupt on Facebook over weekend, What to know about the voting experience youre entitled to. You cannot, however, use your cellphone or another electronic device at the polling site. 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. Implicit in all of our endorsements is our general presumption that unseating an incumbent is a higher bar to clear than staking a claim for an open seat. 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. She devoted herself to helping D3 residents during Winter Storm Uri and no doubt has bright prospects as a leader in Austin elected or otherwise. Support the Chronicle, One click gets you all the newsletters listed below, Breaking news, arts coverage, and daily events. Court of Criminal Appeals, P5: No Endorsement Voters in Northeast Austin have two great choices in this race, as Roxanne Evans and Candace Hunter each have a robust understanding of the challenges the district faces. But there are many more! Council District 1: Natasha Harper-Madison. Runoff elections can take place between the top candidates if no one reaches a 50% majority of the vote. So we invited the run-off finishers back for a more leisurely conversation. 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. 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. Now more than ever, we need your support to continue supplying Austin with independent, free press. We wonder how much or how little Talarico will need to adapt to his new district next session and beyond. (She's even a Chronicle "Best of Austin" winner!) CCA, P6: Robert Johnson, State Board of Education, District 5: Rebecca Bell Metereau 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. District 6: Andrew Gonzales. Laurie hosts the afternoon music show on KUTX from 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday and is the producer and voice of the Austin Music Minute, which shines the spotlight on live music shows around town six days a week. Greg Casar, DSA, and Palestine: Will It Matter? Estimates to run such . City Clerk November 2022 Election All information on this webpage is specific to the November 2022 City of Austin Election and the Campaign Finance Filing Requirements. And we have to admit that in the last two years incumbent Margaret Gmez has done more to reflect the Chronicle's values on important issues than ever before in her extremely long career. Attorney General: Rochelle Garza You can bring voting-day essentials like: You can't have materials regarding a candidate or political party within 100 feet or inside a polling center, and you cant use these items within that perimeter: There will be markers signaling the 100-feet perimeter. So, did y'all see that NBC is now turning old Dateline stories into scripted black comedies starring people like Rene Zellweger? We blew this call four years ago, thinking Ellis couldn't possibly go the distance against the seasoned Southwest activists in the race. This seven-candidate field (we talked to six) to succeed retiring Rep. Eddie Rodriguez, now running for Congress, is amazingly qualified, and we thought this would be for sure a double or even triple endorsement. The ID should be up to date or can be expired up to four years. Supreme Court, Place 3: Erin Nowell First, make sure youre registered. Can't keep up with happenings around town? Voters can go to any polling place in the county. If elected, we hope Leffler will be able to listen to the diverse array of voices in D9 and not just hear them. In Austin, voters will also elect a new mayor, choose candidates for five City Council and four Austin school board seats and consider three bond proposals. 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.". 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. 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. The Austin Chronicle only endorses in contested races. Comptroller: Janet Dudding The two not only spout know-nothing MAGAnational bullshit but also have tried to get the superintendent fired and the district taken over by the state. Here's what's in it. How much money can he spend, how fast? I married a man who has four kids with his ex, they never married ( the initial plan was to get married, but the elder bro. Both candidates would be fine judges, but we think the shoes of Lora Livingston, the county's longest-serving civil judge and administrator for that side of the docket, would be best filled by Lyttle, whose diverse background in medicine as well as law, and in immigration and business matters as well as family law, make her an asset to the bench. Some problems look unchanged from our past but are now quite different old ways of "taking on traffic" and "keeping Austin safe" have been exhausted, discarded, discredited. Candidate Scrubs Suspected Coup Planner From His Timeline. See the complete list of winners in the Austin Music Awards. That seat may be up for election. The latest proposed legislation on higher education in Florida is causing outrage among local students. Election Ticker: As First Ballots Cast, Is Turnout Surging, Lagging, or Both? 4: Susan Cook Six people are vying to be the next mayor of Austin. Travis County has extended voting hours at five polling centers on the Saturday and final day of early voting. Her opponent Andrew Hairston is also very qualified and credible, and if this is Williams' last campaign, as she has suggested it might be, we encourage him to run for this seat again in the future. In November, a blue-wave election in Hays County swept out the prosecutors who had tried to convict Gray. * Editors note, Friday, Oct. 28, 6:25pm: An updated list of recommended candidates to elect in Round Rock ISD has now been added. Here's what they're all about. If youre a registered voter in Texas, you can vote by mail if you: Travis County residents can print and fill out an application to vote by mail here. 2: Michelle Gutierrez Cohen But thats not because we didnt reconsider them. 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. Here's what you need to know. BURBANK, Calif. (AP) Tom Sizemore, the "Saving Private Ryan" actor whose bright 1990s star burned out under the weight of his own . Austin ISD has a big bond on the ballot. City of Austin Prop A: FOR, Trustee District 1: Candace Hunter Wilco County Clerk: Erica Smith AUSTIN, Texas - The November 2021 election will take place on Tuesday, November 2nd. Got a tip? Grumet:Grumet: Here's what Austin got from the 2018 affordable housing bond. All five of the other seats on the board are now up for election, and Weston and Bones allies the Round Rock One Family slate, including former Austin CM Don Zimmerman are truly steeped in evil as they try to QAnon their way into office. Election Day is Nov. 8. Find out who your representative is and whether that seat will be on the ballot this fall. Embattled Texas AG Paxton's fundraising was drying up. Chronicle Endorsements for the Propositions on the November Ballot November 2021 Statewide General Election and City of Austin Special Election Oct. 14, 2021 What You Need and Where to. SD24: Kathy Jones-Hospod Do we really understand why anyone is running against Lloyd in this late-career race to finally represent his lifelong neighbors in Austin? The presiding election judge will decide if the priority is granted. She'll have a few more degrees of freedom to operate than has Steve Adler, and she should use them to do things as bold as she says Austin needs to be and which she herself needs to keep being. Heres what we learned. In a perfect world. Austin ISD Prop A, B, C: FOR, Trustee Place 6: Steve Jackobs Leffler grew up working-class in Central Austin neighborhoods of the kind that now make D9 living so desirably out of reach; he has worked within the city bureaucracy and in a Council office; and he offers a compelling vision on how to ease Austin's housing crisis. A general election runoff was scheduled for December 13, 2022. His campaign coalition of labor unions, Democratic clubs, elected officials, and prominent community leaders will hopefully form a foundation for organizing to address not only housing and affordability, but transportation and public safety challenges in D3. We can help. What you can and cant bring to the polls. You didn't need us to tell you that. That wasnt true for the candidates in the three district run-offs, each for an open seat, who crowded into our conference room with all four, or five, or six of their fellow candidates. 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. Supreme Court, P9: Julia Maldonado 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. Instead, he's moving down the street (and across the Travis County line) to represent the somewhat less suburban (and less Anglo) North Austin neighborhoods in the seat held by retiring Rep. Celia Israel, now running for mayor. [1] [2] In the recall election, 55% of voters supported his removal, successfully removing him . A total of 5,009 people went to the polls Monday, a very solid turnout. Voters in Northeast Austin have two great choices in this race, as Roxanne Evans and Candace Hunter each have a robust understanding of the challenges the district faces. AUSTIN, Texas. Deadline to turn in your completed ballot: December 13, postmarked; December 14, received Born and raised in East Austin, Velsquez's pride in his community has shone throughout his campaign. Election Day is Tuesday, March 1, and early voting for the primaries runs from Monday, Feb. 14, through Friday, Feb. 25. Every other statewide executive position is also on the ballot. District 9: Linda Guerrero. 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). Find that here. Proposition B $275 million for a high school that would be expected to open in 2026. Starting. Someday, one of those movies will be made about Judge Madeleine Connor, the exception to Travis County's good judgment that proves the rule. Submit yours now at austinchronicle.com/opinion. He wants to move urgently to enact land use reforms to increase Austin's housing supply, but commits to seeking input from renters and homeowners in houses, four-plexes, dorms, and skyscrapers and takes a pragmatic stakeholder-centered approach. Ag Commissioner: Susan Hays The two frontrunners have made history as current Mayor Lori Lightfoot - who is the first Black woman and openly gay mayor - conceded the race shortly. 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