San Antonio Public Libraries received an additional $385,000 in funding for the Las Palmas Branch’s renovation, increasing the total budget for the upgrades to $6.4 million. The additional funding comes from two sources — donations from the H-E-B Foundation and a federal appropriation initiated by U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, according to library officials.
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is taking a break from blasting rockets into space to offer free preschool to underprivileged children. And who said all billionaires are evil? Indeed, the high-flying rich dude is opening 23 tuition-free preschools, including nine in Texas and one in the San Antonio area.
A Boston man claims to have survived an attack by an alleged serial killer in Austin, telling British tabloid The Daily Mail he was drugged and pushed off a bridge after a night of drinking. The report comes as a string of deaths around Austin’s Lady Bird Lake has fueled online speculation about the presence of a […]
During Sunday’s NBA lottery in Chicago, the San Antonio Spurs weren’t as lucky as last year, but the team still managed to secure the No. 4 and No. 8 picks in the upcoming draft. Indeed, the Spurs’ luck on Sunday was a best-case scenario. The Silver and Black kept their pick, which landed at No. 4.
Anyone needing more proof that Gov. Greg Abbott’s pricy border crackdown is more performative than practical got that Friday, when Abbott blasted a White House proposals aimed at more quickly overturning migrants’ asylum claims. President Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled proposals to hasten the rejection of asylum claims for migrants with past criminal convictions. The new […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. In 2021, Bryan Collier, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said that tablets would “fundamentally change” communication for the state’s more than 100,000 prison inmates. The devices, TDCJ officials said, […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Liany Serrano Oviedo crouched in her yellow graduation dress, stared at the mirror and carefully blotted her tears with a wipe. It was a rare moment for the 22-year-old University of Texas at […]
San Antonio Spurs phenom Victor Wembanyama is officially an alien. If his intergalactic play this season didn’t have you believing he was from another planet, Wembanyama, the NBA 2023-24 Rookie of the Year (ROTY), accepted the Wilt Chamberlain Trophy on Saturday afternoon at San Antonio College’s Scobee Education Center & Planetarium.
This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on Facebook and Twitter.
This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on Facebook and Twitter.