Chase Hoffberger
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Austin, TX, United States
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Beside the Point: When You Assume ...
I depart Austin for my native Baltimore in two weeks, yet have managed to attract a few new critics on my way out. In last week's issue, as a tack-on to our election coverage, I published a list "remembering some assholes" that included outgoing Austin ISD District 1 Trustee Ted Gordon, saying that even he would likely admit that he can sometimes be an ass. In print, this ran alongside a… → Read More
More Drama for Dusterhoft
A woman who was with Austin Police Commander Jason Dusterhoft on the night he is alleged to have assaulted his ex-girlfriend has told APD, via a sworn statement delivered today, that Dusterhoft procured cocaine for her after she mentioned that it was missing from their party. The woman, Chrysta Childers, is the former roommate of Dusterhoft's ex-girlfriend; she has communicated with APD's… → Read More
Election Coverage: Refitting the Dais
Mayor Steve Adler will be back, and so will Mayor Pro Tem/District 9 Council Member Kathie Tovo, and when the three run-off elections shake out (election's Dec. 11, early voting Nov. 29-Dec. 7), we'll have a better read on the next dais. It's possible that the body will continue with an even land use split – four by four, with three relative moderates in between. But that's not likely; it would… → Read More
Joel Baker Named Next Chief of Austin Fire Department
The Austin Fire Department should have a new chief on Dec. 10. City Manager Spencer Cronk announced Friday afternoon that retired Atlanta Fire Rescue Chief Joel Baker has been chosen from three finalists. His nomination will get considered by City Council on Thursday, Nov. 15. Baker will take over for Tom Dodds, who's been serving in interim capacity since Rhoda Mae Kerr left for her native Ft.… → Read More
Austin Police Restructure Cite-and-Release Standards
Austin Police redefine nonviolent arrestable offenses → Read More
Election Ticker: The Final Countdown
Vote-pocalypse now! → Read More
Sixth Street Shootouts
Austin Police are working to apprehend two suspects in a string of unrelated, nonfatal shootings that occurred Downtown last weekend. APD reported three incidents, each occurring after bars closed, and have made one arrest: 22-year-old Dominic Lopez, who, during an argument with an individual in the LAZ parking lot on Sixth & San Jacinto at 2:11am Saturday morning, shot at the person's feet.… → Read More
Election Ticker: Don’t Listen to Us!
Well, our endorsements are out, and wouldn't you know, we got every one of them wrong! The Chronicle got more hate mail this week than we did after putting an Armed White Male mask on the cover last Halloween, with many of the letters coming from the candidates (and their cohorts) we chose to not endorse. Some of those letters have been published in this week's issue (with more online, where… → Read More
Austin Water Issues Boil Notice
UPDATE: Boil notice could continue for "10 to 14 days" → Read More
Austin Water Issues Boil Notice
Careful with your drinking water. Recent flooding has forced the city into saying that it may not be totally safe. Via notice put out this morning by the Austin-Travis County Emergency Operations Center, silt levels in the water coming in from the Highland Lakes have slowed Austin Water's treatment facilities, and made it such that clean water can't get produced fast enough for city consumption.… → Read More
Fours on the Floor: Handicapping the next Council’s coalitions on land use
Handicapping the next Council's coalitions on land use → Read More
A Public Defender's Office in Travis County?
Public / Private Partnership? → Read More
Jason Dusterhoft: Bad Apple
Austin Police Commander Jason Dusterhoft has spent the past six weeks on restricted duty following allegations that he assaulted a woman at the Yellow Rose on Friday, Aug. 24. According to an affidavit for a search warrant filed on Aug. 31, the two had been dating since July, and they met at the Yellow Rose and began arguing, during which Dusterhoft "grabbed her by her face and mouth with his… → Read More
Michael Galvan Wants to Go to Trial ... Quickly
Michael Galvan has been in the Travis County Jail since May 24, when he was indicted for the 1979 cold case murder of 19-year-old Debra Sue Reiding – and now he'd like to get on with things. The 65-year-old has a pretrial hearing on Thursday, Oct. 25, so that District Judge Brad Urrutia can consider whether to grant his motion for a speedy trial, one argued largely on the grounds that if it took… → Read More
Election Ticker: Endorse-a-Rama
For the city elections, public forums are multiplying and candidates are proclaiming organizational endorsements. Thus far, incumbent Mayor Steve Adler's list includes labor groups AFSCME Local 1624 (city and Travis County employees), the Central Labor Council, the Firefighters and EMS PACs, Education Austin, and the Workers Defense Action Fund. Democratic groups include the Austin Young… → Read More
Election Ticker: Masters of Disasters
Lewis Conway Jr. fell ill on a trip to New York City last weekend with the nonprofit group Just Leadership USA and spent some time in the hospital. The City Council candidate for District 1 posted a photo of himself bedridden on Saturday, along with a caption asking for "support and positivity." Turns out it was nothing too serious, and by Monday he'd posted an update. "Not enough rest and too… → Read More
Election Ticker: Masters of Disasters
Lewis Conway Jr. fell ill on a trip to New York City last weekend with the nonprofit group Just Leadership USA and spent some time in the hospital. The City Council candidate for District 1 posted a photo of himself bedridden on Saturday, along with a caption asking for "support and positivity." Turns out it was nothing too serious, and by Monday he'd posted an update. "Not enough rest and too… → Read More
How to Jail the Poor
Travis County tries to fix its Driving While License Invalid issue → Read More
Election Ticker: You’ve Got to Be Joking
Now running on the Democratic ticket for the position of Texas lieutenant governor: your dad! (Or at least someone with his frame of reference.) Yes, Republican incumbent Dan Patrick is fully turrible, meaning anything positive that Dem nominee Mike Collier does is only extra credit – he's got our endorsement so long as he doesn't call us the Fake News. But if we could lay down a quibble, the… → Read More
Mikel Kane vs. the Medical Director
ATCEMS division chief suspended, demoted for waging war against MD → Read More