A month in which Austin's most durable institutions — its transit plan, its police oversight, its Vision Zero pledge, its soccer club — were measured against their own promises.
- Margin by which Austin voters approved Project Connect in 2020:58–42
- Elements of that transit plan now confirmed cut or deferred:The downtown tunnel. The Blue Line. What remains is a single truncated surface rail corridor of uncertain federal funding.
- Year Austin adopted its Vision Zero plan, targeting zero traffic deaths by 2025:2016
- The corridors that keep appearing on Austin's annual fatality map — North Lamar, East Riverside, William Cannon — share a recognizable profile: four to six lanes wide, long signal cycles, and turning radii engineered for trucks rather than caution. The city knows why they kill people. The fixes remain unfunded or unscheduled.
- 60 cases. 36 fatal.vsYears since OPO's previous report on the subject: 5
APD officer-involved shooting cases logged in Austin's first searchable public dashboard, covering 2018–2025:
- Cost of TxDOT's Loop 360 rebuild, which will eliminate the Pennybacker Bridge overlook parking:$68.4 million
- Status of the replacement parking lot Austin City Council approved in December:Does not yet exist.
- Height of the Modern Austin Residences tower, which topped out this month on Rainey Street:658 feet. 56 stories.
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- New residential permits issued in Dripping Springs between 2020 and 2024:More than 1,300
- Water rate increase Dripping Springs residents will pay as a result, beginning September:40%. Approved unanimously. Not a dollar set aside by the homeowners who were there before the growth started.
- 30+vsDays between his condemnation of forum shopping and documented use of it: concurrent / ongoing
Lawsuits Ken Paxton's office filed in counties with tenuous connection to the underlying cases — the practice he publicly condemned as 'a threat to judicial integrity':
- Texas cities that received Paxton warning letters implying specific tax violations had been identified:130+
- Number of those letters that identified the specific tax measure each city violated:Zero.
- Independent physicians who have reviewed Andrea Pedro Francisco's case and concluded she requires surgery for an ovarian cyst:9— Texas Tribune
- Number of times ICE has approved the surgery:Zero.— Texas Tribune
- ~500,000vsAnnual projected cost to Texas if Congress passes new SNAP cost-sharing rules: $826 million — a figure the Legislature has not budgeted a dollar for
Texans who have left SNAP rolls since last year — a decline the state calls routine fluctuation:
- Unidentified human remains still waiting at the UNT Center for Human Identification in Fort Worth — one of the nation's leading forensic labs:More than 4,400— KXAN