Sunrise Beach elects City Council
Sunrise Beach elected Tommy Martin, Frederick W. Butler and Bill Murphy to its City Council.
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Mayoral debate draws crowd
Mayor Mike Reagor and challenger Mikel Virdell went
toe-to-toe last Tuesday in a bid for the city seat listed on the May 11 ballot. Read more... |
Llano County jail gets new chief
Llano
County Commissioners on Monday approved the permanent filling of the new
position of jail captain. They also discussed the job’s description and salary. Read more... |
Burn ban remains off
Llano County Commissioners Monday voted unanimously to keep
the burn ban off and voted 4-1 to approve the master site radio communication
system interoperable cooperation agreement between the city of Austin and Llano
County, with Commissioner Raschke voting against it. Read more... |
TxDOT discounts implosion danger
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has said only
one business faces any possibility of damage from using explosives to demolish
the old US 281 bridge, and a public hearing to explain the process and take
questions from residents and business owners will not be held. Read more... |
Sales tax revenue on increase
Both Burnet and Llano counties have started 2013 off with
some good economic news, as both will see increases in the amount of December
sales tax allocations they receive this month compared to last year. Read more... |
Texas comptroller releases biennial revenue estimate
Texas Comptroller Susan Combs released the state’s Biennial
Revenue Estimate, showing the state is projected to have $101.4 billion
available for general-purpose spending during the 2014-15 biennium. Read more... |
Miller terminated as GShoals CM
In a special meeting Thursday night, the Granite Shoals City Council exercised a contract option to terminate the city manager at the end of a year. Read more... |
Average employer unemployment insurance rates decrease
AUSTIN – The
Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) has announced the average Unemployment
Insurance (UI) tax rate for all employers will be
1.82 percent for Calendar Year (CY) 2013, down from 1.96 percent in CY 2012. Read more... |
Cornyn, Abbott on law to protect children against sexual predators
AUSTIN—U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, Friday joined Texas
Attorney General Greg Abbott to highlight a new federal law to enhance federal,
state, and local efforts to fight child pornography, sexual predators and human
trafficking. The bipartisan Child Protection Act of 2012, sponsored by
Sen. Cornyn and U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., in the Senate and U.S.
Reps. Lamar Smith, R-TX, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-FL, in the House, was
signed into law Friday by President Obama at a White House signing ceremony. Read more... |
