Concerned about Texas’ social studies overhaul, Democrats on the State Board of Education used a recent meeting to push for the inclusion of more Black and Indigenous perspectives and for young children to learn about the horrific nature of slavery. The post Texas’ social studies shakeup creates divide over whose histories to teach, and how […]
District 2 City Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez is calling on the public to help stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) reported plan to open a massive detention center on San Antonio’s East Side. In a Sunday Instagram video, McKee-Rodriguez urged residents to call and email Oakmont Industrial Group, the owners of a warehouse ICE is reportedly […]
Part of the problem likely comes down to the state’s high number of people without health insurance, the study’s authors said. The post Texas has nation’s fourth-highest rate of sexually transmitted infections appeared first on San Antonio Current.
Lawmakers and industry leaders gathered in Austin to discuss the future of the market. ‘We almost have to take it on,’ a Republican state House member said. The post Texas lawmakers: Cannabis is here to stay. And we will regulate the market in 2027. appeared first on San Antonio Current.
Texas Republicans intensified their attacks against Islam this week, playing on unfounded concerns that the state’s 300,000 Muslims are financing terrorist organizations and wish to implement Sharia Law here. On Friday, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick formally named “preventing Sharia law in Texas” among the state Senate’s top priorities in the 2027 legislative session. “Only state […]
The identities of the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents who shot and killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis were revealed in a ProPublica report — and both men are from Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. Government records identify the pair who fired on Pretti as Border Patrol Agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection […]
Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy detained in Minneapolis and sent to a detention center near San Antonio was released Saturday along with his father, according to U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro. The father and son are now back home in the Twin Cities, tweeted Castro, a San Antonio Democrat who pushed for their release. […]
The casual Italian eatery had been a Southtown staple for 30 years. The post San Antonio’s long-running La Focaccia Italian Grill has closed appeared first on San Antonio Current.
Nearly 100 demonstrators caravanned to the site southwest of San Antonio to call for the release of all children being held at immigration detention facilities. The post What we saw as anti-ICE activists demonstrated Sunday outside the Dilley detention center appeared first on San Antonio Current.
After a week of public outcry over the South Texas Family Residential Center’s treatment of young children behind its walls, the Dilley facility is experiencing a measles outbreak, according to immigration attorney Eric Lee. Lee, who went viral last week for capturing the moment a protest broke out inside the facility, told the Current that […]