Early voting in the Saturday, May 3 city election commences in eight days. The majority of voters vote early, so if you are one of them (and I am), you will have April 22-29, eight days, to help elect a new mayor and your city council representative…
Is San Antonio always going to be a city where the future is seen as an unwelcome intrusion on the past? The question has never been more relevant. Last week, the San Antonio Conservation Society filed a lawsuit against the City of San Antonio and …
1. What qualifications support your bid for the job as mayor of San Antonio, and how are you reaching registered voters with a history of participating in local elections? (Please cite campaign fundraising, media buys, community events, mailers, etc…
1. What qualifications support your bid for the job as mayor of San Antonio, and how are you reaching registered voters with a history of participating in local elections? (Please cite campaign fundraising, media buys, community events, mailers, etc…
1. What qualifications support your bid for the job as mayor of San Antonio, and how are you reaching registered voters with a history of participating in local elections? (Please cite campaign fundraising, media buys, community events, mailers, etc…
1. What qualifications support your bid for the job as mayor of San Antonio, and how are you reaching registered voters with a history of participating in local elections? (Please cite campaign fundraising, media buys, community events, mailers, etc…
1. What qualifications support your bid for the job as mayor of San Antonio, and how are you reaching registered voters with a history of participating in local elections? (Please cite campaign fundraising, media buys, community events, mailers, etc…
1. What qualifications support your bid for the job as mayor of San Antonio, and how are you reaching registered voters with a history of participating in local elections? (Please cite campaign fundraising, media buys, community events, mailers, etc…
1. What qualifications support your bid for the job as mayor of San Antonio, and how are you reaching registered voters with a history of participating in local elections? (Please cite campaign fundraising, media buys, community events, mailers, etc…
Declaring that mainstream media is on life support and not expected to survive his second term in office, President Trump announced plans to convene podcasters from across the country at a White House summit in the coming weeks. “Or possible …
Not many of us will complete our careers with the certain knowledge our work has made San Antonio a better place to live, work and play and will endure. My work and privilege as a longtime journalist in this city has allowed me to meet many of the p…
An unexpected opportunity has developed for Mayor Ron Nirenberg in his final months in office, and other civic and business leaders, to grasp an olive branch extended by Gov. Greg Abbott in his Feb. 2 State of the State speech. In the speech, Abbot…
We’ve got questions for the 27 people who ponied up $100 to run for mayor in the May 3 city election. For those of you who sent in or shared questions, thank you. Several were placed into our final questionnaire, which we sent to the campaign …
🚨NEWS ALERT: Longtime Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff shook up the mayor’s race last Thursday with an enthusiastic endorsement of tech executive Beto Altamirano for mayor. That has to add serious energy to the campaign just days after the…
San Antonio has a problem with how it conducts local elections, namely the low $100 fee it requires of citizens who want to get their name on a local election ballot. As Andrea Drusch reported in the San Antonio Report last week, that fee has not ri…
I’m starting this week’s Monday Musings with a question for readers, and I hope you’ll share your thoughts. How deeply should our bigcitysmalltown podcast cover the San Antonio mayor’s race? What might seem like a question w…
Last Monday was Día de la Constitución in Mexico. As my wife Monika Maeckle and I gazed out the window of our northbound bus, entering the country’s Bajio on our way from Mexico City to San Miguel de Allende, we passed the UNESCO…
If there is a single facet of public opinion where perception often triumphs over reality, it’s crime. Examine any poll where local voters are asked to prioritize their concerns, and crime almost always finishes first. Even when it&rsqu…
If you are new to this newsletter, and aren’t we all?, I wrote ​last week​ about the importance of UTSA growth to the future of the city, and in particular, this year’s planned merger of the two institutions into a single, highly diversi…
Several readers of my inaugural Monday Musings newsletter circulated last week asked me who I was voting for in the May 3 San Antonio mayor’s race. That’s a premature question since the one-month filing period for candidates only opened …
Welcome to the inaugural Monday Musings newsletter from me, bigcitysmalltown host Bob Rivard. The weekly newsletter will arrive in your email inbox every Monday morning, an offering of comments and perspective on the latest local and regional…