• New Cove Bar is the Latest to Step Up Craft Brew Offerings in SA Believe it or not, The Cove co-owner Lisa Asvestas was once a Coors Light drinker. “Seriously, Coors Light,” she said with a hint of contrition... | 5/15/2013
• Advocates say 'SunCredit' flap shows how CPS undervalued rooftop solar Last Thursday, CPS Energy CEO Doyle Beneby threw water on a controversy that burned for nearly a month, delaying a program that would slash how much the... | 5/15/2013
• In Texas, Juvenile Sex Offenders Get Virtual Life Sentence When Allen and his girlfriend moved into their Austin-area house, a woman down the street passed out fliers warning neighbors a monster... | 5/8/2013
• Muni Madness City and school elections, Fiesta’s official afterparty (we kid), technically begin April 29 when early voting opens. The early voting closes... | 4/17/2013
• City Council and Mayoral Candidate Questionnaires Once again we sent out a candidate questionnaire to everyone running in the 2013 City Elections that we could track down. Read our questionnaire... | 4/17/2013
• Texas abortion regulations, new and old, tout suspect science “While there are studies that have found an increased risk in developing breast cancer after an induced abortion, some studies have found no overall risk... | 4/17/2013
• Solar Flare Between CPS and Local Industry A report this year from the Edison Electric Institute, a trade group of investor-owned utilities, spells out how rooftop solar could lay waste to... | 4/17/2013
• Big Pharma's Troubling History of Pushing Drugs on Foster Kids Child protection workers found Jo Angel Rodriguez and her siblings living in a roach-infested home that reeked of urine and spoiled food. The kids... | 4/10/2013
• Interview with Lawrence Wright In his newest book, Going Clear, Austin-based journalist Lawrence Wright profiles Scientology, a new American religion that, while ubiquitous among the... | 4/10/2013
• Interview with Hipolito Acosta The Shadow Catcher: A U.S. Agent Infiltrates Mexico’s Deadly Crime Cartels | 4/10/2013
• Interview with Ricardo Ainslie Ricardo Ainslie frequented Juárez during its most violent years, as war between the Sinaloa and Juárez cartels raged and soaked the city in blood. | 4/10/2013
• Federal Judge Orders COSA to Lift Ban on Disgruntled Ex-employee In federal court last week, City Attorney Michael Bernard and SAPD Chief William McManus defended the city’s seldom-used practice of... | 4/3/2013
• The sour side of life in South Texas' Eagle Ford Shale Off-duty San Antonio cops directed a thick swarm of traffic outside the Panna Maria community center in sleepy Karnes County one evening last December... | 3/27/2013
• How to close abortion clinics under the guise of women's safety From the outset, state Sen. Donna Campbell was eager to help Texas pro-lifers pick up where they left off in 2011. During last year’s heated campaign to unseat... | 3/27/2013
• Union organizers claim shady tipping practices at city-owned Convention Center Local organizers with Unite Here, a union representing hospitality workers and the scourge of downtown's Grand Hyatt, smartly began to change gears last year... | 3/20/2013
• Activists claim new bill would gut minority history offerings in Texas colleges and universities | 3/20/2013
• Would a new state commission finally keep us from throwing innocents in prison? Gilbert Valdez, then 17-years-old, had been friends with the girl for over a year. Just days shy of her 16th birthday, she, like Valdez, had a rebellious streak... | 3/13/2013
• 'A Place at the Table' tackles the new face of hunger in America There's a set by comedian David Cross in which, during one of his many tirades (either on rednecks, 'Mericuh, or George Bush), he settles on the... | 3/13/2013
• A curious case of (alleged) police brutality A police report says Diego Martinez was swerving and switching lanes without a signal when San Antonio Police Officer R. McDaniel pulled him over... | 3/13/2013
• State of the City | 3/6/2013
• Lamar Smith chimes in on immigration… again. Low-risk, non-violent immigrants released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers?! Cue the outrage from Congressman Lamar... | 3/6/2013
• Civil rights group complains of exorbitant charging for records at the Bexar County jail At 8 p.m. on August 21, 2012, Thomas Reed Taylor turned himself in to the Bexar County jail, opting for time served on outstanding drunk driving... | 3/6/2013
• Former Jail Standards director on why Lyle Larson, and Joe Arpaio, are wrong on tent jails Before the Lege's 2011 session, San Antonio's GOP state Rep. Lyle Larson declared on his campaign website, “Sheriff Joe is right.” | 2/27/2013
• Judge recommends overturning former SAPD officer's child-rape conviction Frank Navarijo was still recovering from a surgery that removed his cancerous prostate when he was accused of raping his daughter in 1998. | 2/27/2013
• How Gemase Simmons chewed up and spit out young fame-hungry victims for years By fall of 2010, Andrea was 18 years old, fresh out of high school, and had just started her freshman year at the University of Texas – San Antonio. A communications major, she visited information booths lining the halls of the university’s Humanities and S | 2/20/2013
• Filmmaker to screen documentary-in-progress on wrongly imprisoned San Antonio women Anna Vásquez is still a prisoner of sorts. Paroled in November after 13 years behind bars, Vásquez was the first of her friends to re-enter the outside... | 2/20/2013
• Texas loses money by ignoring children's needs Advocacy group Texans Care for Children last week released a new year-long study finding that Texas spends $14.3 billion and $20 billion more... | 2/13/2013
• AG appeals Southtown building sale Apparently Rosario's owner Lisa Wong isn't the only one troubled by shady dealings behind the sale of her Southtown restaurant's... | 2/13/2013
• Council approves SAWS rate hike After hours of heated discussion, Council last week voted 8-3 to approve San Antonio Water System's requested 8.4 percent rate increase. | 2/13/2013
• Newsmonger: Strip-club regs stalled, military still mishandling sexual assault reports Strippers in local clubs can stick to their pasties, for now. The city this week had planned to start enforcing its new strip-club ordinance, which stipulates... | 2/6/2013
• Lawrence Wright paints a troubling portrait of Scientology In lawsuits, plaintiffs routinely file "interrogatories," questions defendants must answer as a case heads to discovery. By far, the strangest I've... | 2/6/2013
• Tarnation: Environmentalists, landowners and Valero await decision on the Keystone XL pipeline The town of Wells is easy to overlook, just a few blocks of homes and a school stretching along a busy state highway. Paths that shoot north from the... | 1/30/2013
• Confessions of a revenge pornographer When we first talked with East Texas attorney John Morgan a week after he filed his lawsuit targeting Texas revenge porn, the number of women signed on... | 1/30/2013
• Sexual abuse victims testify in Lackland hearing In the summer of 2011, a single trainee came forward to claim she was raped by her instructor at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. By the... | 1/25/2013
• Murder City: Police stats show 2012 had more kills in San Antonio Nationally, homicides have continued to decrease steadily since about 2005. According to FBI stats and previous media reports, San Antonio's... | 1/23/2013
• LGBT Liaison in Castro's corner When the Human Rights Campaign released its 2012 Municipal Equality Index, San Antonio scored a 48 out of 100, compared to Austin's and Dallas' scores of 91 and 76, respectively. As a reaction, Mayor Julián Castro last week appointed senior policy advisor | 1/23/2013
• Newsmonger: The loophole that keeps on giving, Exoneration Commission Last week the city's Planning Commission green-lighted more dense development over the Edwards Aquifer's environmentally sensitive recharge zone, a porous slice... | 1/16/2013
• Newsmonger: AF recruiter charged with rape, Chan targets Nexolon deal Air Force officials this week announced a litany of charges against a Houston-area recruiter, saying he raped and sodomized potential recruits, among other crimes. | 1/9/2013
• Welcome to the funhouse State Rep. Mike Villarreal (D-San Antonio) talks about the Texas Legislature much the way you would a carnival funhouse — filled with smoke... | 1/2/2013
• Newsmonger: The wheel of (in)justice, San Antonio's Finest In the quiet fight between judges and commissioners over how to tackle indigent defense in Bexar County, one side's starting to drop some troubling data... | 12/26/2012
• The Apoca-List: A look back at things that pushed us closer to oblivion in 2012, and a few that may have drawn us back from the brink. Wait, so they'll shoot at you from helicopters? That's the unnerving question we were left asking after a Texas Department of Public Safety sharpshooter, from his chopper, fired at a truck of Guatemalan immigrants speeding along a rural border road in Octo | 12/26/2012
• Our dearly departed: People who died in 2012 | 12/26/2012
• Boozing with the Angry Elephants Bartenders recalled a Superbowl-like hysteria inside the Angry Elephant during the last presidential debate, the amped up crowd cheering Mitt... | 12/19/2012
• Statewide, no-refusal is expanding and here to stay If late some night this week police suspect you of driving drunk, stop you and stick a needle in your arm, thank the enterprising cops of Hereford, Texas... | 12/19/2012
• Trollin' ain't easy, but is banning John Foddrill, and others like him, unconstitutional? As with most trolls, there are really two John Foddrills. Seated at a dining room table near his wife in their Northwest Side home this month... Ev | 12/12/2012
• Newsmonger: Hays Restoration Group sues city, Retaliation in exoneration case, Review panel recommends withdrawing UT fracking study A group of local activists and East Side residents continue to fight the city-approved deal to build a microbrewery next to the... This summer Council | 12/12/2012
• Newsmonger: Congress' newest science-denying Science Committee chair, Incarceration nation, Teacher suspended over supposed murder memoir House GOP leaders last week picked man-made climate-change skeptic Lamar Smith to lead the House Science Committee, reportedly after the congressman made his pitch... | 12/5/2012
• Groundbreaking national survey finds domestic workers vulnerable, underpaid, and abused In his keynote to the Democratic National Convention in September, Mayor Julián Castro spoke of his  grandmother, an orphaned immigrant from Mexico, who... | 12/5/2012
• Freeing the San Antonio Four Doctor Nancy Kellogg thought she saw Satan's hand in the unspeakable crimes described by the two young girls. Aged 7 and 9, the pair described in... | 11/14/2012
• Newsmonger: Q&A with Cecile Richards Should the courts rule that Texas must allow Planned Parenthood to remain a provider in the widely successful Women's Health Program, Governor Rick Perry would rather end the WHP altogether. Perry made that crystal clear at a Halloween press conference in G | 11/14/2012
• Newsmonger: Clinton stumps for Gallego,Pre-K 4 SA debated, Local lawyer vying for Supremes Former President Bill Clinton spoke to an overflow crowd at South San Antonio High School last week aiming to boost Democratic turnout at a crucial moment for... | 10/31/2012
• Why have jail suicides soared under Sheriff Ortiz's watch? Robert Rodriguez's behavior grew increasingly erratic his final days in lockup this summer. Arrested days before on misdemeanor drug and trespass... | 10/17/2012
• Vote God My first attempt to chat gay rights, women's rights, and freedom of (and from) religion with a participant at Saturday's Texas Leadership Coaltion rally abruptly... | 10/10/2012
• Newsmonger: Private gains, public pains In June 2011 staff at the South Florida State Hospital began to worry Luis Santana, who'd long battled mental illness, had slipped into another... | 9/26/2012
• Valero sticking with the Scouts While the Boys Scouts of America lost its largest corporate funder last week, San Antonio's Valero Energy Corporation, which gave about $189,000 to... | 9/26/2012
• What Texas criminal justice reformers could teach the booming immigrant detention system GOP State Rep. Jerry Madden took the helm of the House corrections committee in 2005, just in time for a deeply distressing projection... | 9/19/2012
• How judges, probate attorneys, and guardianship orgs abuse the vulnerable Mary Dahlman's problem is all about money. A lot of people want at the estimated $20 million trust Dahlman's deceased mother left to her and... | 9/5/2012
• Can the Caravan for Peace force us to rethink the War on Drugs? Javier Sicilia's words still ring of poetry, though he says he's stopped writing it. A renowned novelist, essayist, and poet — winner of Mexico's top... | 8/29/2012
• Bad LGBT Parents? Bad UT study, audit finds Are kids raised by gay and lesbian couples bound to struggle more in life than those raised by straight parents? Drawing from the small body of research compiled... | 8/1/2012
• Q&A with Gregory Kallenberg, director and producer of 'Haynesville: A Nation's Hunt for an Energy Future and the new Rational Middle Energy Series.' What sparked the Haynesville doc and eventually this new project?: I was actually back in Shreveport, Louisiana, which is my hometown, and I was... | 7/25/2012
• Shoddy regulation, loose laws allow dangerous elevators to continue operating in San Antonio Gloria Rodriguez hit the sixth-floor elevator button in the century-old historic Crockett Hotel on the River Walk. It was a few days after Christmas in 2011 and she was... | 7/18/2012
• Lackland's instructor-on-rainbow sex crimes, told by one who lived the nightmare Air Force veteran Colleen Bushnell says she barely survived Lackland Air Force Base. Soon after transferring from Nebraska to San Antonio in 2003, a male commanding... | 7/11/2012
• Anti-gay crimes rarely prosecuted in Texas by name When Ruth Clattenburg found her son inside the apartment they shared off West Bitters Road the morning of February 21, 2010, he'd been dead for hours. Shot... | 6/27/2012
• New policy lets DREAM Act students work, avoid deportation Undocumented students across the country breathed a collective a sigh of relief Friday as the Obama administration announced an executive order to immigration... | 6/20/2012
• Bus or bust Yes, "Everything's bigger in Texas." I get it. The sheer size of this state is daunting to a bleary-eyed driver. We may long for cheap, fast commuter rail linking Texas... | 6/20/2012
• Church-state watchdog claims local taxpayer-funded charter school more parochial than public "Because God has positioned me and put me in this garden called San Antonio, he has given me the jurisdiction to operate with dominion in San Antonio, amen?" | 6/20/2012
• Green Party of Texas hopes to create viable alternative to red, blue politics David Collins walked to the front of the Hill Country cabin with a green toga draped over shirt, tie and slacks, a throwback, he said, to mankind's first... | 6/13/2012
• Mexican corruption probe stretches to SA, tags former Tamaulipas gov Add cartel blood money to the list of inputs contributing to San Antonio real estate development. A money laundering probe stretching from Nuevo Laredo to San Antonio... | 5/30/2012
• Columbia Law School team publishes anatomy of a wrongful South Texas execution Until the day Texas executed him in 1989, Carlos DeLuna insisted another Carlos stabbed and killed 24-year-old Wanda Lopez at a Corpus Christi gas station in... | 5/23/2012
• Qburgers trending at Culinaria Capping Culinaria's five-day run this year, hundreds of tipsy meat eaters swarmed a corner of the Pearl grounds Sunday soaking in midday sun, beef, barbeque, and booze. | 5/23/2012
• Food security conference to take on SA's food deserts Our state ranks next to last in food security, meaning that in 2010 over 4 million Texans experienced outright hunger or ditched healthy food for cheap... | 5/9/2012
• Paul Range and Gloria Haswell have enough food, water, and guns to see the apocalypse through. And you're not invited. Paul Range and wife Gloria Haswell sleep atop a mountain of food inside their welded-steel box, rifles within reach. More akin to a fortified castle than... | 5/9/2012
• As border apprehensions fall, a serious 'minor' problem emerges Soon after the number of undocumented immigrants nabbed at the border plummeted in 2011 — 340,000 caught compared to highs upwards of 1 million... | 5/2/2012
• Norah Jones: 'Little Broken Hearts' Norah Jones has tried branching outside the pop-jazz that made her so very successful a decade ago before, calling on the likes of Dolly Parton, Ryan Adams... | 5/2/2012
• Air Force moves to shutter community board overseeing toxic pollution at Kelly AFB Robert Alvarado is a decades-long veteran of life in the so-called Toxic Triangle, the small fence-line community that bumps up against the now-shuttered Kelly Air Force... | 4/18/2012
• Air quality and the Eagle Ford: a Q&A with Peter Bella, AACOG natural resources director Where are we in terms of compliance with federal air quality standards? | 3/21/2012
• ICE's 'soft' detention strategy at new immigration facility begs the question: Why do lowest-risk detainees need to be detained at all? This month, the first asylum seekers and border crossers landing in the sparkling new Karnes County Civil Detention Center will be among the first to experience... | 3/21/2012
• Why the Great Shale Rush in the Eagle Ford may be over sooner than you think A line of oil and gas industry insiders speaking at the sold-out Eagle Ford Consortium's inaugural conference this month in San Antonio praised the potential of the South Texas... | 3/14/2012
• Questions over testing stall Bartee execution The night of August 16, 1996, gunshots rang out from David Cook's East Side home shortly before neighbors heard someone take off down the street on... | 2/29/2012
• 'Naz' beats an immigration system slim on second chances Armed immigration agents woke Nazry Mustakim and his wife, Hope, as dawn broke on March 30, 2011, banging on the door of their North Waco home. Even as they handcuffed... | 2/22/2012
• Scientology showdown reveals claims of torture, abuse of dissenting members Debbie Cook had already spent seven weeks confined in a facility known ominously as “The Hole” inside a small room with barred windows where... | 2/15/2012
• Underage sex trafficking is everywhere local law enforcement looks, but will their budgets hold out? On any given day, the 19-year-old takes to the streets, turning tricks for cash to feed her heroin habit. She's long bounced between sex work, jail, and unsuccessful stints in treatment. | 2/8/2012
• Incendiary local Tea Party president George Rodriguez lays out his go-local approach The mostly elderly, mostly white Tea Partiers inside the Northside sports bar sit with eyes trained on the wall of TV screens as a conference call organized by right-wing... | 2/1/2012
• Local group pushes to end corporate personhood Saturday marked the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision that wrenched open the spigot on corporate cash... | 1/25/2012
• Texas awash in ALEC influence Lawmaking by corporation started well before Citizens United ruling | 1/25/2012
• Obama Administration touts rule change to aid undocumented families This month the Obama Administration announced plans to tweak a long-standing immigration rule, rolling out the newest partial fix that, if implemented, could help thousands of mixed-citizenship families caught in immigration limbo. | 1/20/2012
• Fight over political boundaries may delay Texas primary election again | 1/11/2012
• Texas' failure to fund mental health treatment leaves hundreds stranded in jails around the state Nearly four years ago, "Sam's" paranoia had grown so intense that he believed spies followed him in the shadows everywhere he went. | 1/4/2012
• Recall: Decade of Downtown, Year One To be sure, downtown needs some love. The most recent U.S. Census data shows residents fled the city center in droves over the past decade. | 12/28/2011
• Recall: Texas vs EPA As 2011 dawned, state leaders were openly refusing to abide by new nationwide greenhouse gas emissions standards. | 12/28/2011
• Recall: Texas vs women Jeffrey Hons, president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Trust of South Texas, says he refuses to turn the page on 2011 in anger, frustration, or disappointment. | 12/28/2011
• Censored scientist John Anderson on how to restore sound policy-making in Texas and (maybe) save the Texas coast Two months of sustained outrage from scientists, academics, and newspaper editorial boards may have changed things at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality... | 12/21/2011
• Winners, losers, and unanswered questions in smoke-free SA When the city rolled out its sweeping smoking ban this summer, eager to make the Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights list of smoke-free cities, the winners and losers were obvious. | 12/14/2011
• Will Bexar County’s no-refusal blood draws dismantle the effectiveness of traditional DWI defense? District Attorney Susan Reed has been on a steady crusade for over two years to push Bexar County into full-time no-refusal territory, setting up a legal framework to draw blood from any suspected drunk drivers who refuse a breath test any day of the week. | 12/14/2011
• Walking Wounded: The VA missed serious warning signs that presaged local vet’s violent breakdown Early in the morning of May 27, 2011, Adan Castaneda grabbed his .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol and called a taxi to drive him from his San Antonio apartment to his mother’s Spring Branch home, roughly 30 miles north of the city. | 11/30/2011
• EPA regional administrator Al Armendariz on environmental justice, Texas' (and the GOP's) war against his agency, and the recent environmental summit in Corpus Christi What does EPA hope to accomplish at summits like this, and are there similar EPA efforts across Region 6? | 11/22/2011
• ICE policies leave overburdened foster-care system in their wake A sustained federal crackdown made 2011 a banner year for deportations. A record 397,000 undocumented immigrants were sent packing. | 11/16/2011
• Pushing Haven option, Council mulls more restrictions on homeless residents Kenneth Smith and I sit at a table in the center of Prospects Courtyard, the front doorstep to downtown’s sprawling Haven for Hope homeless services campus, as the late-afternoon sun starts to fall and the cold sets in. | 11/9/2011
• Bond package projects coming out of woodwork for a share of anticipated $596 million There’s this quiet, almost collective groan out of City Hall when talk turns to our largest-ever bond package starting to take shape. | 11/2/2011
• Natural-gas production linked to quakes in England, Arkansas, and North Texas, but more study needed Late last week, the region’s largest earthquake on record rattled the heart of South Texas oil and gas country | 10/26/2011

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