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Austin, TX Katılım Kasım 2014
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Austin Ideas@atxideas·
@data_atx This was a huge issue for us when we lived on the east side. We were surrounded by vacant lots. Some owners would try and help but others refused to do anything. Even with a supportive owner, the process to get a no trespassing order in place and enforced was a hassle.
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ATX data@data_atx·
This comes up a lot with vacant lots in Austin The police say they can't remove homeless or criminals from the lots because they can't find the owner Is this true? Can't they make the criminals prove they have a right to be on the lot?
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Austin Ideas@atxideas·
How does this “help all Austinites”? Who wants people driving around without license, insurance and registration? It makes us all less safe
Mayor Pro Tem Chito Vela, III@chitoforatx

Our Freedom City policies reduce the number of arrests for low level offenses such as possession of marijuana and driving without a license. These help all Austinites but especially immigrants for whom this type of arrest can lead to ICE detention. ilrc.org/community-reso…

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Ricky Booby@RickyBo43219563·
@atxideas Is Fat Fanny Flannigan still getting a check as lead grifter?
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Austin Ideas@atxideas·
That part of downtown would be better used for private development. It could be an extension of the Rainey st area. Instead it's a dead zone useful only for providing cushy jobs to local grifters.
ATX data@data_atx

This is one of the biggest ongoing scandals in Austin The convention center was sold to us as a massive driver of tourism and a benefactor of the arts Yesterday a commissioner went off on that because the Hotel tax numbers haven’t dipped at all since center has been closed

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Austin Ideas@atxideas·
Long overdue. Immigrants bring down wages in academia to the point where talented Americans don't even bother because we have better options. I got my PhD at UT Austin and was discouraged from trying to stay in academia due to extremely low wages and poor working conditions
Greg Abbott@GregAbbott_TX

Texans come first. I’m directing state agencies and universities to freeze new H-1B visa petitions. Texas taxpayers invest billions to train our workforce. Those jobs should go to Texans. Texas is the strongest economic engine in America. We’re going to keep it that way. houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas…

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Greg Abbott@GregAbbott_TX·
Texans come first. I’m directing state agencies and universities to freeze new H-1B visa petitions. Texas taxpayers invest billions to train our workforce. Those jobs should go to Texans. Texas is the strongest economic engine in America. We’re going to keep it that way. houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas…
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RE-OPEN THE SIZZLERS@SaladBarFan·
Abundance liberalism is completely doomed. Ezra would be better off joining the Republican Party and convincing GOP governors to own libtard mayors and city councils by taking away their land use controls.
James Solomon@SolomonforJC

Jersey City can't be a place where it's easier to build a highrise than to celebrate Filipino culture on our streets.We ran a campaign for the people, not the powerful. Now we're governing that way too.

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Austin Ideas@atxideas·
An under appreciated fact is that the City of Austin had much better leadership when local elections were held in May and it was an all at-large city council.
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Austin Ideas@atxideas·
@mdahmus I like Watson. Part of me thinks he let the council push this budget forward knowing voters would reject it.
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M1EK D (@mdahmus at all the other places)@mdahmus·
The wrap-up on Q is very simple: Voters noticed tens of millions of dollars previously spent to help the homeless didn't do anything to make the public spaces any safer or cleaner, until the very end when Watson did a performative last-second Hail Mary on it. It's Prop B II.
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Austin Ideas@atxideas·
@mdahmus Too bad voters elected the most progressive candidate in almost every council race. Happy to see prop q fail, but nothing is going to improve.
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M1EK D (@mdahmus at all the other places)
M1EK D (@mdahmus at all the other places)@mdahmus·
The average normie voter LIKES what Abbott did to finally clean up the Johnson Creek Hike&Bike Trail. Go ahead and call them 'ghouls' for it and see how far that gets you.
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Austin Ideas@atxideas·
@mdahmus We're filling cloud sales roles at my employer with H1Bs. They aren't even trying to find Americans.
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M1EK D (@mdahmus at all the other places)@mdahmus·
Today's visa insight: there is no job Americans won't or can't do; but it may not be at the price you prefer to pay. This may or may not merit action; but a lot of people are getting salty about economics while forgetting the very basic concept of a market-clearing price.
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Austin Ideas@atxideas·
This is good, but it would be a lot cheaper and more effective if we just arrested the people doing the vandalism.
Mayor Kirk Watson@KirkPWatson

Last week, Council passed an item making it easier to enforce and remove graffiti on private property. This has been a priority of mine, and I’m very happy we’re moving forward on this. Austinites want to live in a clean city. They want to experience Austin’s natural beauty without having to see vandalism or graffiti. With this council action and the graffiti pilot we funded in the approved FY25-26 budget, we’ll be able to investigate complaints, provide notice to property owners, and arrange for clean-up by a third-party contractor as needed, either at the City's expense or as part of abatement. We need to do more, but this is a good step forward. Learn more: services.austintexas.gov/edims/document…

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Austin Ideas@atxideas·
This point isn't true, but even if it were, it still leaves Americans worse off as we are now competing for housing, schools, and other limited resources with highly paid immigrants that wouldn't be here without the H1B.
sucks@powerbottomdad1

One point I'm hearing a lot is that if we didn't have H1Bs, than companies would just offshore instead of hiring local. 1. Doesn't that imply H1B is a cost saving thing? If they were the same price as locals, why suddenly switch to cheaper labor? 1/2

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sucks@powerbottomdad1·
I'm really all for bringing premiere talent to the US, but with youth unemployment at 10.5%, job growth flat, and a lot of these for junior roles, I don't really know how this is defensible? Their unexperienced engineers are so much better than ours? I don't buy it.
Amanda Goodall@thejobchick

Americans just want their jobs back.

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Austin Ideas@atxideas·
The urbanist/abundance people should start voting for republicans. Democrats will not fix things.
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