This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on Facebook, X and Bluesky. Last month, Meenu Batra, 53, who has lived in the South Texas border colonia of Laguna Heights since 2002, was on her way to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to work another case. […]
The City of San Antonio has confirmed that Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones could use $5 million that Spurs Sports & Entertainment (SS&E) owes the city over the NBA franchise’s failure to lure a Major League Soccer (MLS) team here to plug holes in the budget deficit. That confirmation from city spokesperson Brian Chasnoff comes after […]
City officials and at least one downtown business owner are calling San Antonio’s South Alamo Street construction debacle a learning experience after the project wrapped up Wednesday … 18 months behind schedule. “There were a lot of lessons learned,” Michael Shannon, director of the City of San Antonio’s Capital Delivery Department, told the Current. City […]
The ‘relaxed yet refined’ dining spot will offer a seasonally driven, seafood-focused menu, according to its owners. The post Coastal Mexican restaurant (a)mar. launching next month at the Pearl appeared first on San Antonio Current.
Texas communities will need to spend $174 billion in the next 50 years to avert a severe water crisis, a new state analysis revealed Thursday. That’s more than double the $80 billion projected four years ago, when the Texas Water Development Board last passed a state water plan. The three-member board presiding over the agency […]
Night In Old San Antonio draws thousands of revelers annually while raising money for the SA Conservation Society. The post Diving into NIOSA, one of Fiesta’s best-loved food events, with organizer DeAnna Keesee appeared first on San Antonio Current.
Desperate for Daddy Don’s love, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, on Thursday introduced a new bill aimed bolstering the president’s sweeping immigration crackdown. As its name suggests, Cornyn’s “Sanctuary City Elimination Act” would mandate all state, local and federal law enforcement agencies nationwide coordinate with President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Specifically, the bill […]
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Jim Wright ran for the Railroad Commission of Texas six years ago as a reformer. But his reforms drew the ire of powerful oil tycoons who are now trying […]
With the impending closure of Southtown bar Lowcountry, San Antonio is set to lose one of its hippest watering holes. The business is scheduled to shut down at the end of May, according to a Wednesday afternoon Instagram post. “Big news, y’all. Lowcountry, my very favorite bar in the whole wide world, is closing down […]
For some reason, people love Chris Brown, the Grammy-winning R&B-singer, rapper and dancer who pleaded guilty in 2009 to felony assault of the singer Rihanna, and has faced a wave of troubling accusations since. That love explains why Brown is embarking on a co-headlined stadium tour with fellow Grammy winner and R&B hitmaker Usher. The […]