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Archives for Austin Metric

Tue 22 September 2026
More than meets the I
Thu 15 January 2026
Notes on CEA Committee Hearing
Wed 14 January 2026
Fixing the Comprehensive Efficiency Assessment
Tue 19 October 2021
Aggravated Deficits
Wed 11 December 2019
Engagement Rearrangement
Thu 08 August 2019
ASMP 2020
Thu 25 April 2019
Years or Fears?
Tue 09 April 2019
Money Shift
Thu 21 March 2019
The Cronk Capacitor
Mon 18 March 2019
Regrets, we've seen a few
Tue 12 March 2019
Paint Job
Tue 05 March 2019
Joint Pain
Thu 28 February 2019
Moving Priorities
Mon 01 October 2018
ART review
Thu 27 September 2018
Effective Transit Investment
Wed 26 September 2018
ART Audit Request at A&FC
Thu 02 August 2018
LDC Rewrite Success
Thu 28 June 2018
There's no free kicks
Thu 30 November 2017
City Bond 2018
Mon 17 April 2017
CodeNEXT Cake
Mon 20 March 2017
Housing Target
Wed 19 October 2016
Cars Count
Mon 12 September 2016
Tovo Connection
Mon 27 June 2016
Make Austin Roads Great Again
Mon 06 June 2016
Corridor Correction
Tue 31 May 2016
Corridor Prospectus
Wed 20 April 2016
Independent Majority
Wed 10 February 2016
Move People
Fri 25 September 2015
Judging the Courthouse
Mon 14 September 2015
Hailing Van Eenoo - Part 2
Fri 11 September 2015
Hailing Van Eenoo
Thu 10 September 2015
City Budget Day 2015
Wed 26 August 2015
Police Ratio
Thu 20 August 2015
Better Budget
Wed 19 August 2015
Patrolling Police Spending
Wed 29 July 2015
From the East to the West
Thu 18 June 2015
Courthouse Steps
Thu 04 June 2015
Save Our Mansions exemption fuels inequality
Fri 15 May 2015
Mansion Exemption Alternatives
Wed 13 May 2015
MoPac, Mo Problems
Wed 13 May 2015
Undoing HEx's spell
Wed 13 May 2015
Why you can't have bus service
Tue 10 February 2015
More than Four
Wed 04 February 2015
The Longest Chart
Tue 03 February 2015
All the Bright Moves
Tue 27 January 2015
Bus City Blues
Mon 26 January 2015
Homestead Exemption Effects
Thu 08 January 2015
Quantity & Quality
Wed 07 January 2015
Anti-growth pains
Wed 17 December 2014
Good Move
Wed 17 December 2014
The Homestead Exemption debate in 2 minutes
Tue 04 November 2014
Prop 1 in 1 minute
Mon 29 September 2014
Pro-Transit, Anti-Proposition 1
Thu 25 September 2014
Rail Risks
Tue 09 September 2014
Let's Go do rail like Houston!
Mon 25 August 2014
10 bucks or 10,000 homes
Thu 07 August 2014
Austin Identity
Thu 31 July 2014
City Budget Realities
Mon 28 July 2014
Better Billion
Wed 18 June 2014
A day late and a few thousand riders short
Wed 18 June 2014
CodeNEXT Pitch
Sun 15 June 2014
Trophy, Hammer, Lottery, Transit
Wed 04 June 2014
Peak Misinformation
Wed 04 June 2014
Time for plan B(RT)
Tue 03 June 2014
Transit productivity not political trophies
Mon 02 June 2014
Letter to Council on Project Connect's Transparency
Tue 29 April 2014
Rail Options
Wed 12 March 2014
Endow Universal Pre-K
Mon 03 March 2014
A New Balance for Austin Transportation Policy
Thu 27 February 2014
The Problem with Austin NIMBYnomics
Tue 11 February 2014
The Limits of Occupancy Limits
Mon 02 December 2013
Preferences versus predictions
Mon 25 November 2013
Highland Score
Fri 15 November 2013
Recommendation Reaction
Wed 13 November 2013
Sub-Corridor Selection Scoreboard
Tue 12 November 2013
Three Suggestions for the Project Connect Sub-Corridor Survey
Thu 26 September 2013
Rental registration targets
Wed 25 September 2013
More Rental Registration Realities
Wed 25 September 2013
Rental registration realities
Tue 10 September 2013
Kyle Keahey's Golden Rail Memo
Mon 09 September 2013
From data theatre to data-driven
Sun 16 June 2013
O BRT, where art thou?
Wed 01 May 2013
Transit, Turnout, and Trust
Thu 07 March 2013
CATS & DOGS
Tue 22 January 2013
Towards Ending Austin's 'Meetingopoly'
Tue 15 May 2012
'Austin Affordability: What Matters?'
Thu 10 May 2012
The advantages of a hybrid city council
Fri 30 March 2012
Apple seeds confusion around incentives
Thu 29 March 2012
Incentivizing Frustration
Fri 03 February 2012
Austin has seven Mayors, actually
Sun 29 January 2012
Is Ward Courtesy Likely to Happen with SMDs?
Sat 19 November 2011
What does empirical political science tell us about single-member districts?
Fri 23 September 2011
Why is empowering low-information partisans bad, exactly?
Mon 17 January 2011
Austin's homicide rate spike
Mon 15 February 2010
LegalZoom or LegalDoom?
Tue 09 February 2010
Really Need to Consider a Shift to Deliberative Polling and Citizen Juries
Mon 01 February 2010
We all want incentives
Mon 25 January 2010
How to improve Austin's public outreach and consultation process
Fri 23 October 2009
The Last Shots at the WTP4 Vote
Wed 21 October 2009
Some Final Thoughts on WTP4
Tue 22 September 2009
Renewable Energy is Unlikely to Force Grandma to Eat Catfood
Fri 18 September 2009
WTP4mania!!! Who won the big WTP4 debate?
Fri 28 August 2009
Laying Down the Law on the WTP4 Cacophony
Wed 26 August 2009
Austin Should Keep a Public Energy Utility
Mon 24 August 2009
Interpreting the Plummer Water Demand Estimate
Thu 13 August 2009
Regression and WTP4
Fri 07 August 2009
'Breaking: So, what happened with the WTP4 vote?'
Wed 05 August 2009
Water Treatment Plant 4 Claims get a Zebra
Mon 27 July 2009
Crowdsourced WTP4 demand projections?
Fri 24 July 2009
Problems with Peak Demand Justification for WTP4
Sat 04 July 2009
Ideas for Improving Capital Metro Oversight
Tue 23 June 2009
Budget Deficit in Context