The San Antonio Botanical Garden is pushing back at Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones’ proposal to end public subsidies to the nonprofit as the city looks to rein in a looming $158 million budget deficit. During a meeting last week, Jones said she wants to drop the city’s subsidy to the garden from $1.2 million annually […]
Former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords and Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar on Wednesday threw their support behind San Antonio attorney and child advocate Katy Padilla Stout in her run to represent Texas’ 23rd Congressional District as a Democrat. The endorsements from Giffords, a prominent gun violence prevention advocate, and Salazar, who has served as the […]
Documents obtained Thursday by the Express-News indicate former San Antonio Spurs chairman and CEO Peter M. Holt, not his son, purchased 100 acres on Hawaii’s Big Island for $8 million. The revelation comes after the New York Post earlier this week reported that current Spurs owner Peter J. Holt made the 100-acre purchase. According to […]
U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, is calling for the release and reunification of another San Antonio youth detained by federal officials as part of the Trump administration’s sweeping anti-immigrant crackdown. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 13-year-old Leonardo Santiago “Santi” Soto Uribe and his father, Benjamin Lerma-Huipio, in June just outside of San […]
San Antonio’s Pegasus celebrated a special Pride event Wednesday night billed as Pride & Jorgeous featuring special guest Roxxxy Andrews. The show paired serious star power from two beloved contestants on Ru Paul’s Drag Race and also featured Layla Larue and Versa Mathews as hosts. How much glam can you stand, San Antonio? Photos by […]
Grammy-winning country legend Dolly Parton had a few choice words for Texas truck stop chain Buc-ee’s at the opening of her competing business venture, Dolly’s Tennessean Travel Stop. “I’m sure some of you are wondering why I wanted a truck stop,” Parton said. “Well, I couldn’t leave it to beavers.” Dolly’s Tennessean Travel Stop, located […]
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico is demanding that his opponent, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, “release the files” about a man indicted for child sexual abuse who spent just 29 days in a Texas jail after striking a deal with Paxton’s office. The renewed calls from Talarico — a Democratic state representative — for Paxton […]
A new wine bar from the Dallas-based restaurant group behind Whiskey Cake, Ida Claire and Haywire is slated to open in Northwest San Antonio’s La Cantera development on Monday, Aug. 10. Sixty Vines will debut its first San Antonio location this summer at 15900 La Cantera Parkway, according to officials with the concept. The chain […]
A 63-year-old man died in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Laredo this month, marking at least the fifth death in Texas ICE detention centers this year, a quarter of the nationwide total, as the fatalities have skyrocketed to a record pace not seen in decades. According to a notification ICE officials sent congressional […]
Texas students are inching closer to attending social studies and reading classes that minimize racial, geographic and cultural diversity while emphasizing the Bible. The majority-Republican State Board of Education on Thursday morning granted preliminary approval to a rewrite of Texas’ social studies lessons — leaving only a few courses pending — two daysafter initially authorizing […]