So now they will probably be getting out the books, looking at a Conservative government coming in and seeing how the department fits with the platform objectives of the incoming party. They would have had briefing books in order and they'll be tailoring them now.

It's always more difficult for a government coming in fresh than for a government returning.

Each of those stories will be original, ... It's a good outlet for ideas I don't use in the books.

This charter amendment will bring Austin to the forefront of a national movement for accessible, online government and participatory democracy. Information that is critical to your everyday life -- whether you want to build a garage apartment or protest the next big tax giveaway -- will go online in the next year. This will save you time and the city money.

What we are doing is nothing compared to the suffering of Iraqis. We hope that our government will wake up to the fact that thousands of innocent people are dying because of their political ambitions.

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.