To judge by the number of publicity touts for new restaurants that scroll across my screen in any given week, you’d think San Antonio’s a culinary hotbed. But in the immortal words of Aretha Franklin, “Chain, chain chain…” The vast majority of those promotions are for serial outlets — some from within Texas, such as […]
A 2023 Texas law that lets state police arrest people suspected of entering the country illegally can go into effect after a federal appeals court on Friday lifted a lower court ruling that had stopped it for years. The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the temporary injunction without weighing in on the underlying […]
San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones is pushing ahead with a proposed ordinance to ban local landlords turning away denying veterans using housing vouchers to secure a roof over their heads. Even so, one member of council told the Current that the mayor, who previously served as U.S. Under Secretary of the Air Force, is […]
Elected county judges in every county along the Texas-Mexico border have signed a letter to a top White House official urging the feds to better communicate their border wall plans with local communities. The letter, sent April 21 to new Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, was signed by fourteen judges along the 1,300-mile […]
A mid-century marvel for sale in San Antonio’s Monticello Park neighborhood was designed by an architect from the famous firm that built the Tower of the Americas. Emmit Tuggle was an architect in O’Neil Ford & Associates, the firm responsible for designing or building a variety of local landmarks, including the renovation of La Villita, […]
Indoor pools are a rare find in San Antonio’s real estate market. And an indoor pool for less than $1 million? Even rarer. But an indoor pool for less than $400,000? Unheard of. That is, until now. A two-bedroom, two-bath home recently listed for sale in the River Oaks neighborhood of San Antonio seems almost […]
The Texas Supreme Court lifted temporary injunctions protecting three families and members of PFLAG, Inc., after CPS cases were dropped. The post Texas child abuse investigations over gender-affirming care no longer blocked appeared first on San Antonio Current.
Revelers at Night In Old San Antonio (NIOSA), one of Fiesta’s best-attended events, got a surprise Thursday night when State Rep. James Talarico, Texas’ Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, showed up unexpectedly. Talarico has been on something of a campaign hiatus since winning the Democratic nomination against U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett this spring. His team has […]
The El Gamal family has been released from Dilley’s South Texas Immigration Processing Center after 10 months in the San Antonio-area detention facility. That stint that makes them the family detained the longest so far under the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown. Hayam El Gamal and her five children, ages 5 to 18, were released […]
The drainage district that commissioned the test has now sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Elon Musk-owned carmaker’s operations, near Corpus Christi. The post Independent testing where Tesla’s lithium refinery discharges wastewater found toxic metals appeared first on San Antonio Current.