A mysterious mailer lambasting first-term San Antonio Councilwoman Ivalis Meza Gonzalez for a drunk-driving charge she picked up nearly a year ago showed up this week in mailboxes across District 8, which she serves. The ad, which presents itself as a “Urgent Community Notice,” includes a mugshot from Meza Gonzalez’s July 24 arrest, a link […]
A fully intact cannonball from the Battle of the Alamo was unearthed in San Antonio earlier this month, according to the historical site’s archaeology team. The team unearthed the find on March 5, which also just so happened to be the eve of the 190th anniversary of the famous battle that helped spark the Texas […]
Schools were also directed to cancel or change celebrations of the late civil rights leader amid allegations of sexual abuse. The post Texas Education Agency orders public schools to remove mentions of César Chávez from lessons appeared first on San Antonio Current.
The school is the 17th the district has closed over the past three years as it struggles against declining enrollment. The post San Antonio ISD board votes to shutter West Side’s Rhodes Middle School appeared first on San Antonio Current.
After launching a first brick-and-mortar operation in Alamo Heights, the San Antonio couple is launching a second in Castle Hills. The post Thai Bird’s David Gilbert and Kristin Alvarez talk about community and growing their concept appeared first on San Antonio Current.
Nostalgia will play big this week as Woodstock-era favorite Santana reschedules a show, ’70s AOR staple Styx brings its latest tour to town and emo-punk biggies Hawthorne Heights celebrate the 20th anniversary of their second album, If Only You Were Lonely. However, if you’re more apt to explore something recent, there’s also room for that […]
The pastor of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s home church in Tennessee last week said on a podcast that he wants Texas Democrat and U.S. Senate hopeful James Talarico to die, the HuffPost reports. Evangelical Pastor Brooks Potteiger, who’s been described as Hegseth’s closest spiritual adviser by The Guardian, repeatedly attacked Talarico on the podcast Reformation Red Pill, […]
Two congressman accuse the Department of Homeland Security and the Texas Department of Public Safety of covering up ICE’s involvement in the shooting. The post House Oversight members want probe into death of San Antonio man Ruben Ray Martinez appeared first on San Antonio Current.
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. Reporting supported by the Water Desk at the University of Colorado, Boulder. BROWNSVILLE — An experiment unfolding at the southernmost tip of this state could irrevocably change the iconic […]
The City of San Antonio wants public input on a potential name change for César E. Chávez Boulevard in the wake of troubling allegations about the labor icon. An online survey is open now until 5 p.m. Thursday, April 2, to offer suggestions on what to rename the major thoroughfare, which bisects downtown between Southwest […]