On Sunday, Bo French, the Republican candidate for Texas Railroad Commissioner, posted a series of xenophobic social media posts taking aim at students of color celebrating at the University of Texas football game, and prompting a wave of intra-party rebuke just weeks before the November election. The morning after the Texas Longhorns pulled off a […]
Editor’s note: My Chemical Romance denied the Current’s request to photograph its set, but the band’s team said it would send along its own shots. Once we receive those, we will include them with this review. Photos of the crowd and the Mars Volta are by Jaime Monzon. Legendary emo rock band My Chemical Romance […]
ODESSA — The Public Utility Commission of Texas on Friday gave its approval to a controversial, 370-mile-long transmission line project, pending two transmission companies work with landowners to make modifications. The Howard Solstice transmission line, as it is known, will transport electricity through South Texas to the oil and gas industry in the Permian Basin. […]
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. A gas export terminal on the Gulf Coast of Texas has routinely violated air pollution permits for years with little consequences from state regulators, according to a report released […]
The only overtly decorative element in the otherwise taut, tailored and blond wood-wrapped interior of San Antonio ramen spot Kaedama Battleship is a poster for the 1985 film Tampopo. Often referred to as a “noodle western” for its almost mythic ride-in-on-a-white-horse aspects and as an avatar of “food porn,” the charming Japanese comedy depicts, among […]
By now, Americans have grown accustomed to one of President Donald Trump’s most frequent refrains: “It was that other guy’s fault!” To be sure, Trump leaned heavily on that excuse when trying to explain the lackluster crowd size this week at the GOP’s unprecedented midterm convention in Dallas. However, he managed to find a new […]
DALLAS — Senate Leadership Fund, the super PAC affiliated with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, is coming off the sidelines in Texas’ U.S. Senate race, placing its first ad buy of the general election in support of Ken Paxton. Texas PAC, a new group connected to SLF, on Friday purchased an initial tranche of some […]
Texans receive the nation’s second-highest number of parking tickets, according to a new study based on nationwide parking violation data. It’s anyone’s guess whether that means Texans are especially bad at parking or that our authorities here are especially happy to slap tickets on a windshields, though. Texans receive an estimated 17 million parking tickets […]
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Jon Rosenthal, a Democratic state representative from Houston, is facing off against Bo French, a far-right Republican culture warrior from Fort Worth, for a seat on the commission that […]
A home for sale in San Antonio’s Monte Vista neighborhood is one of the earliest designs credited to Atlee Ayres, the renowned architect behind the McNay Art Museum, Municipal Auditorium, Smith Tower and other local landmarks. It’s also worthy of note because it was built for a prominent businessman who quite literally shaped San Antonio, […]