Leander mayor calls for regional transportation plan, bond

From Impact News, October 20, 2008...

Everyone seems to talk about Central Texas’ transportation issues. In downtown Austin many solutions have been offered: trolley cars, parking garages, rubber tires and/or steel wheels and the like. We treat traffic congestion like the weather; we act as if we have no control over it. I offer the following approach to solve our regional transportation issues.

I do not know if it’s best to dedicate lanes, synchronize traffic lights, go with steel wheels or rubber-tires, or implement some combination of the aforementioned. I do know for sure the traffic problem in downtown Austin is not solely Austin’s problem. Downtown Austin’s traffic problem is the region’s traffic problem.

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Mayor Reads About Own Death In Newspaper

From KEYE, October 1, 2008...

Imagine waking up to your morning coffee and paper and reading you had died. That happened to the mayor of Leander, after the Leander Ledger mistakenly reported the mayor was dead.

That newspaper mistake had folks at the Leander City Hall talking and the phones ringing.

Everyone wants to know if it’s true?

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Mayor Cowman Says All Is Great In Leander

From The Hill Country News January 29, 2008

Leander Mayor John Cowman has been known to have a flair for theatrics. So it was no surprise that he entered Central Baptist Church to the tune of The Troggs' “Wild Thing” as the beginning of his third annual Leander State of the City address, which immediately followed the Leander Chamber of Commerce monthly luncheon on Tuesday.

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