As Republican rhetoric heats up over Texas House Democrats’ quorum-killing walkout, some high-profile state GOP figures have resorted to making racist remarks about state Rep. Gene Wu, who led the exodus. Among those engaging in the anti-Asian taunts are state Sen. Mayes Middleton, a Galveston Republican who also happens to be running for Texas attorney […]
San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones told the Express-News Wednesday that she won’t take any immediate disciplinary action over District 8 Councilwoman Ivalis Meza Gonzalez’s recent DWI charge. “There has been nothing that has been shared with me that would give us cause to act now,” Jones told the daily. “We just don’t have enough information.
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones during a marathon City Council meeting Wednesday proposed pausing negotiations between the city and Spurs Sports & Entertainment (SS&E) on a new $1 billion-plus downtown arena for NBA franchise. However, she faced pushback from both staff and the majority on the dais. Despite Jones’ concerns — which stem from questions surrounding […]
Senator John Cornyn, R-Texas, has triumphantly announced that the FBI has agreed to help him locate the Texas House Democrats who fled the state to break quorum, the Texas Tribune reports. Cornyn claimed on a local radio show operatives from the federal agency’s San Antonio and Austin offices have been assigned to the mission, according […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. WASHINGTON — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into whether Beto O’Rourke’s political group, Powered by People, is breaking laws by funding Texas Democrats’ out-of-state travel attempting to stop the […]
For the first four years of his life, all Hiroshi Shimizu knew was imprisonment. After Pearl Harbor, law enforcement arrested his mother and father because they happened to be of Japanese descent, and he was born a U.S. citizen in a concentration camp in Central Utah. The family bounced from camp to camp, including California’s […]
Alright, I admit it, I like to tell people that I enjoy the broader Asian film niche, but really, it’s for the hot girls. What can I say?
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An off-duty San Antonio police officer is under investigation for suspicion of drunk driving following a single-vehicle crash, KSAT reports, citing details from a Bexar County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) incident report and a blood-draw warrant. Around 4 p.m. Tuesday, Bexar County sheriff’s deputies responded to a report that a vehicle driven by David McCall, a […]
San Antonio actor Jonathan Joss, who died in a June 1 shooting outside his former South Side home, was honored with a tribute on the King of the Hill animated series, which was revived this week on streaming service Hulu. The show, which depicts down-home characters in the fictional Dallas-area suburb of Arlen, has returned after […]