Check and balance?  “No thanks, trust city staff to give away your tax money.  We don’t need no stinkin’ oversight!”

This was, in short, what citizens got from City Hall on the recent passage of a hollow economic incentive ordinance which dismissed the concerns of 123,000 Austin citizens who voted to stop the Domain Mall tax subsidies last year.

Read it here at AustinPost.org and please share your comments — but keep it clean!

Mark your calendars, folks for our first quarterly meeting — November 7, from 3 to 5 pm.  Location to be announced.