🚓 What’s in the latest police contract?

🎙️ How to Two-Step in Austin

What makes Austin’s two-stepping style unique? Keighley Voorheis documents Austin’s dancing scene, and is on the City Cast Austin podcast today talking about two-stepping field trips, Austin’s style, do’s and don’ts, and the local dance floor circuit. [City Cast Austin]

💰 Watson Outraising Opponents in Mayoral Race

With less than a month until Election Day, Mayor Kirk Watson has raised nearly $1 million since the start of the year, leading his four challengers. [KXAN]

• The latest campaign finance reports show Watson raised roughly $216,000 since mid-July. Kathie Tovo was second among the field, raising nearly $20,000 in the same time frame. [Austin Monitor]

🎼 Where Austin Opera Is Moving

Austin Opera will open a new 16,000-square-foot headquarters next fall in Southeast Austin, at 5811 Trade Center Drive. The new space will include a 195-seat theater and rehearsal space, a costume shop, conference center, outdoor event space, and more. [Austin Opera]

🤔 Experts: Paxton’s Suit on DA Garza’s Security Has Merit

Government transparency experts said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lawsuit claiming that Travis County violated the Texas Open Meetings Act when approving security for District Attorney José Garza could mean a more open government in the state. [Austin American-Statesman]