Texas can continue enforcing a law requiring app marketplace operators like Google and Apple to verify all users’ ages after the U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to intervene. Senate Bill 2420, which was supposed to take effect Jan. 1, establishes age verification requirements and mandates parental consent before a person under age 18 is allowed […]
Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to appoint former state Rep. Nate Schatzline as a senior adviser on election policy says as much about the direction of Texas Republican politics as it does about the state’s lack of seriousness about free and fair elections. Schatzline last week joined Abbott’s office, where he’ll work on what the governor […]
Hundreds of masked members of the Texas-based white supremacist group Patriot Front marched in formation through Washington, D.C., on Independence Day, the Austin-American Statesman reports. Patriot Front, which originated in the Dallas-Fort Worth city of Grapevine, frequently participates in “flash demonstrations,” or street marches in which its uniformed members don white face masks, according to […]
A GoFundMe set up for The Dakota East Side Ice House has pulled in more than $9,000 as it seeks to raise the $16,000 needed to keep the beloved San Antonio hangout open. Dakota regular April Pantheress Winn organized the effort on behalf of owner Kent Oliver, who late last month revealed he wouldn’t renew […]
Texas Rep. James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Texas’ contested U.S. Senate seat, is pushing back on speculation that U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s absence from the party’s state convention last month is a sign his former primary rival is refusing to back him. Some political observers speculated Crockett, who was reportedly invited to speak at […]
WASHINGTON — On the fourth anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, which overturned the constitutional right to abortion, Samantha Casiano carried a picture of her daughter, Halo, with her to meetings on Capitol Hill. The photo showed Halo without a fully formed skull and brain, leading to her death four hours after she was […]
The owner of the San Antonio Spurs NBA franchise is inviting the public to a series of open houses and community conversations about its proposed $1.3 billion arena at Hemisfair. Spurs Sports & Entertainment will hold 10 community meetings between July 13 and July 23 to gather community input on the planned hoops facility, part […]
The Alamo has reopened its Paseo del Alamo, a walkway connecting the historic Spanish Mission with San Antonio’s River Walk, officials with the monument said Monday. The scenic pathway joins a new welcome center and cannon exhibit in the updated southwest corner of Alamo Plaza. Covered with native shrubbery and thoughtfully designed landscaping, the redesigned […]
Despite securing millions in public dollars for a new arena, the San Antonio Spurs are looking to increase the number of home games they play away from their home base. The NBA franchise has asked Bexar County Commissioners Court for permission to play an additional home game elsewhere both this season and the next — […]
Trust U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz to make any moment awkward. The Texas Republican shocked people gathered in the Oval Office Monday into a “brief moment of silence” after openly acknowledging that President Donald Trump tampered in the FIFA World Cup tournament by asking the league to review a red card given to the U.S. team’s […]