Texas has long been an anti-science state, one where state elected leaders cling to the 19th-century past and keep their heads planted in the soil rather than accept responsibility for governing smartly in the 21st century. There is no better examp…
Mayor Gina Jones may have found an issue that will deliver a significant, much-needed win with her colleagues on City Council. The mayor wants to move city elections in odd-numbered years from May to November in an attempt to overcome dismal voter t…
I am spending more and more time each week delving into the world of AI-powered search tools, and I know I am not alone. How about you? These tools — new ones are seemingly launching faster than I can test-drive the existing ones &mdash…
317 W. Jones Avenue was a fitting address for supporters of Bexar County’s Propositions A & B on the Nov. 4 ballot to gather and await vote returns Tuesday night. A former dilapidated warehouse is now the city’s new icehouse, simply …
It’s a noble gesture on the part of Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones and many of San Antonio’s major employers and charitable foundations to mount a $1.6 million emergency campaign to provide $150 H-E-B gift cards to an estimated 11,000 economical…
Week one of early voting in the Nov. 4 Bexar County election concluded with only 62,937 registered voters turning out to the polls. Another 2,600 mail-in ballots were received, and by the looks of it, even more mail-in ballots were returned to count…
If you’ve lived in San Antonio as long as my family, you probably recall the UTSA poll showing tepid support among voters for using the county’s “tourist taxes” to help fund a new arena for the San Antonio Spurs. I’m n…
San Antonio and Bexar County voters: This is no time to stop. Don’t do all the hard work to run a marathon and drop out halfway after hearing how hard it will be to finish. Let’s push through to the finish line and celebration. I am tal…
It was big news in 2002 when Trinity University announced the rebirth of Trinity University Press and the hiring of its new champion, the poet and publisher Barbara Ras. Backed by a $2.1 million grant from the Ewing-Halsell Foundation and an additio…
I had the honor Friday of serving as emcee at the Dee Howard Foundation’s 2025 San Antonio Aviation and Aerospace Hall of Fame luncheon at Port San Antonio’s Boeing Center at Tech Port. The annual gathering celebrates the city’s hi…
With municipal elections completed, San Antonio’s most anticipated and biggest investment in downtown in history takes center stage. It’s time now to give the public a more focused picture of the ambitious plan’s individual project…
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…