Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Texas Senate early Saturday morning approved a new congressional map gerrymandered to maximize Republican representation, sending the plan to the governor’s desk after weeks of intense partisan clashing.
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Shelley Hall, like any excited expecting parent, already had a name picked out for her daughter and had her sonograms posted on her fridge.
Texas State Sen. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, plans to delay final passage of the Republican-backed redistricting map in the Texas Senate with an overnight filibuster. Alvarado announced her plans on social media Friday afternoon. “Republicans think they can walk all over us.
After San Antonio City Council shot down Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones’ proposed pause on negotiations for a new Spurs arena, the mayor unveiled yet another potential hurdle for the project: that the financing should be put to yet another public vote. After Thursday’s contentious meeting, Jones said she wants to get council backing to put […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A bill that would let Texas law enforcement agencies keep unsubstantiated complaints against officers private is gaining momentum in the Texas Legislature.
Gov. Greg Abbott is making sure Democrats pay for fleeing the state to break quorum. Texas House Democrats are posting letters they received in the past 24 hours from the chamber’s Republican leadership stating that they owe thousands of dollars in fines for decamping to Illinois, Massachusetts and New York delay the passage of the […]
Now that the redrawing of Texas’ political maps to favor the GOP is all but a done deal, multiple San Antonio Republicans are eyeing runs for Congress, the Texas Tribune reports. Under the state’s new map, the newly created 35th Congressional District would include parts of the Alamo City along with outlying rural counties that […]
Legendary gospel and R&B vocalist Mavis Staples and jazz bassist extraordinaire Stanley Clarke are among the performers taking part in the 2025-26 season at San Antonio’s Carver Community Cultural Center. The center’s upcoming performance season, which gets underway Oct. 11, will include a total of 11 music, dance and theater artists ranging from dance troupes and […]
My whole life, people have made fun of me for my deep and abiding love of horror movies. When I was a kid trying to explain the plot of Evil Dead II to my family, they would not only question what kind of people come up with such disturbing ideas but what kind of kid […]
As longtime instructors in the metals department at UTSA Southwest, formerly the Southwest School of Art, Laura Quiñones and Alejandra Salinas Pérez have fostered the talents of many aspiring jewelry artists. While both maintain strong ties to the school’s community education program, they have teamed up to bridge a creative gap with Flame & Form […]