There is nothing traditional about this political season in San Antonio. Early voting concludes Tuesday before the Saturday, June 7, runoff election. For the first time in my lifetime, two candidates who did not emerge from City Council service are …
City Council took a big step forward in its campaign to bring the San Antonio Spurs back to Hemisfair with its Thursday vote to expand the convention complex plan as described in the original Project Finance Zone (PFZ) to include a sports and entert…
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 …
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…
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…