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Before we started LIV, some of our founders gave the Austin Lobby a chance to end their dog and pony shows and give our communities a...

It's Official! Former Bastrop County Judge, Ronnie McDonald, has been certified for the November ballot to run as an independent for...

Don't let us spoil it for you. Click on the picture to check out this WFAA report about the hottest taxpayer revolt going on in Texas led...

In this edition: Mark Cuban Bullish on Ending Duopoly. Go here. Chapter 313 subsidies to clear-cut forest in Bastrop for solar farm?! Go...

Catch Mark Cuban's appearance on the CBS Mornings Show about Cost Plus Drug Company's entry into and "disruption" of the pharmaceutical...

Do the people who submitted a proposal for $20 million in government subsidies for a solar farm to clear-cut a forest south of Elgin give...

There's a billionaire in the hood in Central Texas. He moved his boring company into Bastrop County but apparently so fast, he forgot to...

Texas Senator Charles Perry (R-Lubbock), who was appointed by Lt. Governor Dan Patrick to chair the Senate Committee on Agriculture,...

A Texas Tax Code Chapter 313 (aka the Texas Economic Development Act) creates a state tax incentive program for certain large businesses...

Independent politics in Texas is blooming. Can we make it boom in 2022? Under what conditions might it happen this year? The federal...

The Republican establishment, and every lobbyist this side of the Pecos to DC and New York City, targeted Bastrop County Judge Paul Pape...

Volunteer at the Lee County Fair, May 19 thru 21 -- Thursday through Saturday. Join us for the parade on Saturday, 10 am. We'll be riding...

"No city can deal with the likes of the growth that's happening to Dripping Springs." A Vista Ridge Consultant. The "g" word isn't greed...

"I came to Driftwood from California last year expecting some peace. I can't believe what is happening to us." A petition signer at...

The purpose of the Rate Advisory Committee of San Antonio Water System (SAWS), San Antonio's public water utility, is to recommend a rate...

First things first -- please sign in again to our email list with your zip code to help us work with you on the very local level. Go...

The big news for LIV today is seen in House Speaker Dade Phelan’s recently released Interim Charges – the Speaker's directives to Texas...

Travis County Commissioner Pct. 4 candidate, Susanna Ledesma-Woody, running in the Democratic primary, had an Election Day shenanigan...

There's lots of primary news we'll be discussing at the LIV Forum -- moved from this coming Monday to Wednesday, March 9, 7 to 8 pm....

Have you noticed that candidates running in either party primary sound alike? They are too often the flip sides of the same coin,...