'Don't have representation': City council member disproportionately missing meetings

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- When Austin City Council met Thursday to work through a more than 200 item agenda, District 1's Natasha Harper-Madison didn't attend. Her office told KXAN it was for "health reasons."

"CM Harper-Madison was off the dais today, like many of her colleagues have been before and will be at some point in the future. It happens," Sharon Mays, the council member's chief of staff, wrote.

But KXAN found it's not happening at the same rate. We went through every Austin...