After backlash to a new public comment policy, Commissioner Wayne Christian refused to attend a legislative hearing and cursed at a member of the public. The post Texas oil and gas regulator doubles down and defies state legislature appeared first on San Antonio Current.
It may be easy to fall in love with a Queen Anne Victorian home recently listed for sale mere steps from the River Walk and the historic Guenther House. For one, there’s the price, at only $519,000. Sure, that’s more than many of us can afford, but that’s also far less than houses in Southtown […]
Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the state Department of Transportation to stop issuing permits for automated license plate readers. The post Texas freezes installation of Flock cameras along state roads appeared first on San Antonio Current.
The Railroad Commission candidate is under fire from fellow Republicans for a post that said a picture of college students celebrating a football victory shows ‘how many Americans have been displaced by foreigners.’ The post Top Texas Republicans knew Bo French’s history of racist comments. They supported him anyway. appeared first on San Antonio Current.
The toll is both human and economic, and it’s a shame we let it get this far. The post Trump’s war on immigration leaves us a weaker nation appeared first on San Antonio Current.
More than four months after one of its self-driving vehicles was swept away by floodwaters, ride-hailing company Waymo on Thursday said its vehicles are again carrying passengers on San Antonio’s streets. In April, Waymo put its Alamo City rollout on pause after one of its autonomous cars was carried off during a storm that dumped […]
Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is coming to San Antonio this Sunday to support a pair of South Texas Democrats running for Congress. Buttigieg will speak at a rally for former Bexar County Sheriff’s Deputy Johnny Garcia, who’s running to represent Texas’ 35th District, and former public school teacher Katy Padilla Stout, who’s […]
Texas public libraries generate nearly five times the value of the public money invested in them, according to a new statewide study released by the Texas Library Association. The report, Beyond the Stacks: Economic and Community Value of Texas Public Libraries, found that every $1 invested in the state’s public libraries generated $4.74 in community […]
San Antonio City Council on Thursday voted 7-4 to approve a 3.9% residential property tax increase next year to balance the city’s budget and plug its $158 million deficit. It’s the city’s first property tax increase in more than three decades. San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones, District 7 Councilwoman Marina Alderete Gavito, District 9 […]
Twitch streamer and political commentator Hasan Piker is scheduled to make an appearance at the University of Texas on Sept. 30. And, predictably, not everyone’s happy about it. Students are now accusing university administrators of attempting to “soft cancel” the event by forcing it to move off campus after a surge in both interest and […]