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West Side natives looking to bring cannabis craft grower to Austin Previous such efforts stalled By IGOR STUDENKOV Staff Reporter
Event organizer and Austin native Juan Teague is teaming up with fellow West Sider Rawle Stewart to try to open a cannabis craft grower business at the long-vacant Austin Moo & Oink location, 4848 W. Madison St. Craft growers are smaller-scale cultivation facilities that sell their products to dispensaries rather than to customers directly. While multiple entities have tried to open cannabis craft growers and other cannabis businesses on the West Side, most of them haven’t succeeded. Austin Weekly News has not been able to get much information on the applicants, and Teague did not respond to a request for comment by deadline. But Teague and Stewart will hold a community meeting about their proposal on March 16 at West Austin Development Center, 4920 W. Madison St. The meeting begins at 6 p.m. See CANNABIS on page 8
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Aldermanic candidate CB Johnson (left) and Congressman Danny Davis stand outside the city election offices Sunday.
Taliaferro heading for a runoff Two candidates tied for third 15th police district council seat
By IGOR STUDENKOV and MICHELLE MEYER Staff Reporter / AustinTalks
Incumbent Ald. Chris Taliaferro (29th) is poised to go into a runoff
against activist and former supporter C.B. Johnson after the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners counted the write-in votes, shrinking his lead. In order to avoid the runoff, one of the
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candidates must earn at least one more vote than 50% of all votes cast. While Taliaferro was above that threshold on See 29TH DISTRICT on page 2
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