San Antonio may advertise itself as a “world-class” tourist destination, but some travelers apparently think our hotels don’t live up to that claim. A new study ranked San Antonio as having nation’s the sixth-worst hotels based on their number of lousy ratings on TripAdvisor. Some 16% of all reviews for SA hotels landed one- or two-star reviews […]
Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday said he would veto a toned-down version of a bill to offer school vouchers in Texas, and threatened to call legislators back for special sessions if they don’t “expand the scope of school choice” this month. “Parents and their children deserve no less,” he said in a statement.
Minority- and women-owned businesses received 53% of the City of San Antonio’s contracting dollars from 2014-2020, a new study shows. That’s more than twice the 23% amount reported in a 2015 report looking at the city’s spending record.
A former Bexar County jailer has received five years probation for assaulting and injuring an inmate, KSAT reports. A grand jury charged Eduardo Sanchez, 24, with aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury for striking an inmate while he was on duty in May 2020, according to the station.
Texas has taken a major step toward banning transgender minors from getting puberty blockers and hormone therapy — care that medical groups say is vital totheir mental health — after the state House gave Senate Bill 14 initial approval Friday. Trans Texans and LGBTQ advocates consider the bill one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in this year’s legislative session. […]
Although migrants lined up by the hundreds in El Paso and other border crossings as the public health order was winding down, a Biden administration official said there wasn’t a rush to the border when Title 42 was lifted. “We continue to encounter high levels of noncitizens at the border.
With home values higher on average than last year, the Bexar County Appraisal District is expecting another onslaught of residents protesting their property taxes. While the filing deadline of 11:59 p.m. Monday, May 15 is nearly upon us, here are three ways homeowners can get in last-minute protests to their property taxes. All three start with accessing […]
Even though only 10% of San Antonio voters cast ballots in last Saturday’s citywide election, coverage of those contests were clearly top-of-mind for civic-minded Current readers. Our No. 1 and No. 3 most-read stories of the week detailed, in respective order, the dismal failure of Proposition A and the outcome of the mayoral and city […]
This week’s top Current food news covered a wide breadth of topics, including new businesses, expansion of tried-and-true favorites and the end of a local barbecue era. Let’s jump in. Our top food story shared the news of a unique hybrid bar-cafe-hair salon that’s serving up fresh coffee and haircuts just south of downtown, followed […]
With Title 42 now expired, Austin city officials pledged to bus 250 asylum seekers out of San Antonio weekly to help with potential overcrowding at its Migrant Resource Center (MRC), Austin TV station KXAN reports. Austin announced the move Thursday mere hours before the expiration of Title 42, a Trump-era emergency order that allowed the […]