We’re over halfway through our City Council media forum series, “Ballot Boxing,” produced and sponsored by the Chronicle, the Austin Monitor, KUT-FM, Uni­vision, and KXAN-TV. For more info, including how to RSVP to attend, plus listings of other forums, see our Elections page at austinchronicle.com/elections. You can watch all the forums live­streamed on KXAN-TV and Univision (or watch the video archive at www.kxan.com); you can also listen live at KUT-FM (or hear the audio archive at www.kut.org).

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