Williamson County

Well, that's not true.

I actually voted for the current police chief of Williamson County because the old guy literally murdered a dude on the side of the road on camera and got away with it.

So I went ahead and voted for his opponent.

That was the last time I voted.

Yeah.

Well, that's the issue that I understand happened in the primary in Dallas and Williamson County.

But sometimes I get a lot of fear talk from my friends and they say they see all the things, you know, like they're all the things that the president is saying.

They're fearful that about their vote not counting that they got stuff about people being intimidated, maybe ICE is going to show up.

He does two years of Teach for America, teaching sixth grade English on the west side of San Antonio.

He runs a nonprofit for a bit, and in 2018, at 28 years old, he flips a Republican state house seat in Williamson County.

The Democrats flipped another conservative stronghold nearby, Texas House District 52.

James Tallarico, a 29-year-old nonprofit director, won the seat

Come hear more about the candidates vying to represent Northeast Austin and about the other things folks in Travis County will be deciding.

Plus, Williamson County is one of the fastest growing across the entire country.

So what's voter turnout looking like there? And what are the big races on the ballot? More about those stories coming up on today's show.

The Austin Signal is a production of KUT News, hosted by Jerry Quijano.

So if you want to hear what the candidates say about the ICE immigration enforcement surge in Austin or hear one candidate's dire assessment of the city's pension plan, you can find it at KUT.org. I'm Mos Buchel in Austin.

All righty, here to tell us more about what's on the ballot in Central Texas, we're joined by a pair of KUT's county reporters.

Katie McAfee covers Travis County, and in Williamson County, Kaylee Hunt is the one who keeps us informed.

They're with us in the studio now.

options, yes.

You worked for a Williamson County option list.

Yes.

It was actually in Bell County that I deferred.

He did all that kind of stuff.

He won't take credit for Dell, but he deserves the credit for Dell being where they are.

and the reason taxes are lower in Round Rock and Williamson County, that's Charlie Culpepper, and he is maybe the premier parrot head in our area.

Maybe, maybe.

I mean, take 183 North.

Forever, you really couldn't get the added lanes that you really needed coming from the northwest part of Austin, kind of the southwest part of Williamson County.

But what were they doing? They were coming to Austin.

And Austin for so long never wanted to really put money into projects.

Yeah, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, they'll review air permit applications, moderate compliance for the on-site generators.

Williamson County stated they cannot zone or prohibit data centers.

They've got no authority out there.

The city's development agreement outlines protections for nearby residents and sets stricter requirements on what could exist if the project stayed in an unincorporated area of the land.

But you can only go so far out before you're in a completely different part of the state.

But that's going to be your only option if you want to continue to just see absolutely nothing but farmland.

could have put a landfill there.