Texas restaurants are the latest businesses to warn that the Trump administration’s mass-deportation crackdown is cutting into the bottom line. A new economic report by the Texas Restaurant Association found that 36% of restaurants surveyed statewide said they lost employees this year due to increased immigration enforcement. Another 28% said they experienced a drop in […]
BROWNSVILLE — A federal judge Wednesday rejected Minnesota’s attempt to keep an immigration officer jailed in South Texas as the state fights to extradite the man to face criminal charges related to a January shooting. In a lawsuit filed last week, Minnesota officials sought to compel Gov. Greg Abbott to agree to extradite Christian Castro. […]
Comedian Alex Reymundo builds a lot of his material around Latino identity, which makes sense since he hit the national scene with an appearance in Paramount Pictures’ The Original Latin Kings of Comedy alongside Paul Rodriguez, Cheech Marin and George Lopez. However, during 30 years of working the road, Reymundo — who performs a five-show stand […]
Trish Simonite, a native of Norfolk, England, recently retired as a professor emerita from Trinity University, where she taught photography and digital art. Her art is peripatetic: her still life images and landscapes have been exhibited widely throughout the U.S. and Europe. For the new exhibition “Exquisite Entropy: Photographs by Trish Simonite, 1972-2025,” curator Paula […]
If a new survey is to be believed, recent Republican gains with South Texas voters may be as fleeting as a cold snap in Laredo. A poll released Wednesday by Texas Southern University’s Barbara Jordan Research and Survey Center asked 1,300 likely voters in deep-red South Texas congressional districts — the state’s 15th, 28th and […]
Considered one of screen legend Mary Pickford’s best films, Sparrows (1926), set to screen Thursday at Villa Finale Museum & Gardens, is a silent movie about a young woman who rescues kidnapped children from a baby farm. Pickford, America’s sweetheart of the silent era, was the most powerful woman in Hollywood at the time. She […]
District 1 Councilwoman Sukh Kaur’s town hall meeting on the city budget descended into chaos Tuesday after she barred residents gathered at the San Antonio Central Library from asking unauthorized questions. Constituents questioned Kaur’s professionalism, accusing her of using techniques more suited to disciplining unruly elementary schoolers to regain control of the room. They also […]
Online tributes to country music legend Dolly Parton have poured in since her death on Tuesday. But one from Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wasn’t exactly well received. In a Tuesday evening Facebook post, Patrick — known as one of the state’s foremost Republican culture warriors — reminisced about his time as a radio disc jockey […]
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that most of the claims former Alamo Trust CEO Kate Rogers made in her lawsuit against Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham can move ahead in court, the Express-News reports. Rogers filed her suit in U.S. District Court in San Antonio last fall, alleging the two Republican […]
A Silicon Valley company that builds power distribution and control systems will develop a $200 million manufacturing plant at the Brooks development that’s expected to create 3,000 jobs. Industrial Electric Manufacturing (IEM) will use the 1 million-square-foot plant to crank out engineered power equipment for data centers, the healthcare industry, energy companies and advanced manufacturing, […]