San Antonio City Council voted 10-0 Sunday to censure District 10 Councilman Marc Whyte over his arrest last month on a DWI charge. Whyte was apologetic on the dais, saying that he’d make a mistake and even encouraging his colleagues to vote “yes” on the censure resolution. The first-term councilman argued that the resolution was […]
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 power grid operator is asking residents to conserve power Monday morning when a blast of cold weather is expected to bring temperatures well below freezing for much of the state.
San Antonio’s 2024 MLK March and Celebration, one of the largest in the nation, has been canceled due to freezing rain and icy roads. Originally, the event was to have started at 10 a.m., but following forecasts Sunday of inclement weather, officials with the city and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission pushed the start time […]
Self-described as a “gender-skewering comic ballet company,” Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo has been performing en travesti — a fancy theatrical way of saying “in drag” — and en pointe since 1974. The group formed in the wake of the Stonewall Uprising, performing on a makeshift stage belonging to the West Side Discussion Group, an offshoot of […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A woman and two children drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande, near the Eagle Pass park that Texas troopers have taken control over, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs […]
During a recent TV appearance, Austin-based actor Matthew McConaughey had big praise for San Antonio’s brand of hospitality. The Dallas Buyers Club star recounted his recent Alamo City adventure during a Thursday, Jan. 11, appearance on the Tonight Show, telling host Jimmy Fallon that he lost his mobile phone on a family trip to Six […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. WASHINGTON — For many of his fellow House Republicans, Chip Roy is so conservative that he demands a level of ideological purity from his colleagues that routinely threatens to stall his party’s agenda […]
A man aboard an Orlando, Florida-bound flight was arrested after agents say he was disruptive and made comments about flight attendants joining the “mile high club,” according to a criminal complaint. James Finnister was flying from Louisville, Kentucky, to Orlando International Airport aboard a Spirit Airlines flight Tuesday, the complaint said.
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. For more than three months, Republican Party of Texas Chair Matt Rinaldi has vigorously attacked critics of Defend Texas Liberty, and rebuffed calls to distance the state party from the powerful group over […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Biden administration has fast-tracked a student loan forgiveness program that could erase the debt of thousands of Texas borrowers with smaller loans.