Browse News & Feature Stories

The QueQue: Taking on the standing roster: Reed and Adkisson

By the Current News Team

Published: 11/18/2009

Types: Cover Story, Second Story

Three-point shot The bench was deep at Monday night’s fundraiser for District Attorney candidate Nicholas “Nico” LaHood, and we’re not talking about the Spurs all-star lineup that showed. District Court Judge Ron Rangel, whom we spied talking to County Judge Ernest Acevedo Jr., reminded the Qu...[MORE]

The price of a nuclear divorce and the elephant in the room

By the Current news team

Published: 11/11/2009

Types: Cover Story, Second Story

Nobody puts Baby in a corner For two weeks now, the local press has been rife with speculation that the City might kill CPS Energy’s nuclear-expansion deal with NRG Energy. That agreement, to evenly split an 80-percent stake in two additional reactors at the South Texas Project in Bay City and...[MORE]

SeaWorld's body count and the DA's blood draw

By the Current news team

Published: 11/4/2009

Types: News

Sink or swim For the annals of unfortunate headlines: A beluga whale died during a “visit” to SeaWorld San Antonio this weekend. It makes the residency sound voluntary, first of all. Worse, we couldn’t get the image of whale-sized turnstile tragedy out of our heads. A better visitation s...[MORE]

PERF reforms stalled, Big Tex polluter stonewalls

By theCurrent news team

Published: 10/28/2009

Types: News

PERF recidivism A new contract with the police union is cooking and local human-rights activists are steaming over the City’s failure to reform SAPD’s Internal Affairs. A couple of years ago, shootings of unarmed citizens were in the headlines, use of force by San Antonio police had just...[MORE]

Food Stamp shortage, imminent eminent domain reform

By the Current news team

Published: 10/21/2009

Types: News

Stamp collection Our current scrambling over the food-stamp program didn’t come out of nowhere. Yet here in the state with some of the highest hunger rates and “food insecure” households in the nation, officials continue to blame the national recession for their backlogged and error-riddled syst...[MORE]

Closing out the Toxic Triangle, conserving gay history

By The San Antonio Current News Team

Published: 10/14/2009

Types: News

Nuke’m high Halftime score: 5-0. It wasn’t the usual opposition the QueQue has become familiar with during the past year, the “no-rate-hikes-for-nuclear” chanters, but the voice seated behind us at the special meeting of CPS Energy’s Board of Trustees (held Tuesday in a bunker at the Al...[MORE]

Connolly fights back, WAO cleans house

By the San Antonio Current news team

Published: 10/7/2009

Types: News

Def squad Suddenly last week, everyone cared about about the death penalty. All it took was one pretty-damn-sure innocent man (RIP Cameron Todd Willingham, executed February 17, 2004, charged with intentionally starting a fire that killed his three young children) and a poorly timed move by ...[MORE]

Bust: Grand Hyatt, 287(g), 210sa

By San Antonio Current News Team

Published: 9/30/2009

Types: News

Union-busting: outsourced A union vote was scheduled for housekeepers, bellboys, and other “domestics” employed at the San Antonio Grand Hyatt this past July, but organizers canceled it at the last minute, claiming that the hotel chain’s dissuasion tactics had been successful enough to queer th...[MORE]

Big Tex bailout, columnist dropout

Published: 9/16/2009

Types: Cover Story, Section Cover

Rock collection No good deed goes unpunished, and so the bill for the cleanup at the Big Tex site just south of downtown came due last spring — but it has yet to be paid, leaving the scenic plot in development limbo. Last December, the Environmental Protection Agency removed 1,200 cubic yards ...[MORE]

An unsolved murder, a dissident censored

By the San Antonio Current News Team

Published: 9/9/2009

Types: News

Searching for Dana Clair Edwards’s killer It’s been eight long months since Dana Clair Edwards’s parents lost their daughter, a vivacious and popular woman who collected top academic honors in high school and college before earning an MBA and entering medical school. Dana was the first Bexar Co...[MORE]

The QueQue

By the San Antonio Current News Team

Published: 9/2/2009

Types: News

The road to wellville Lydia Lopez, the San Antonio State Hospital nursing assistant who was severely beaten in June by a patient, is recuperating nicely and feeling upbeat, thanks to weeks of intensive therapy, a neck brace to hold her broken verteb...[MORE]

Vi Vi's remains, Alameda's $ pains

By the San Antonio Current News Team

Published: 8/26/2009

Types: Cover Story, Second Story

Summer shift Your local City-owned utility is dying — just as we suggested it should two years ago. Evidence: 14 megawatts of liberating solar power, to be constructed here in town by the end of next year, powering 1,800 homes. The deal, announced Monday, follows on the heels of a 27-me...[MORE]

Fitz resigns, the Lightning roars

By the San Antonio Current News Team

Published: 8/19/2009

Types: Cover Story, Second Story

From: Fitzgerald, BillSent: Monday, August 17, 2009 5:10 PM To: All Adult Probation Subject: Resignation I am respectfully informing you of my decision to resign effective January 4, 2010.? My tenure...[MORE]

The QueQue

By by the San Antonio Current News Team

Published: 8/12/2009

Types: News

Breaking bad The troubled Bexar County probation department’s top dog got whipped by the County’s Court at-Law judges Tuesday, when six of the misdemeanor black robes voted to give Chief Bill Fitzgerald the boot. [See “Urine trouble,” July 29.] The vote came during the first job evaluation...[MORE]

The QueQue

By San Antonio Current News Team

Published: 7/29/2009

Types: Cover Story, Second Story

Drive time All roads seem to lead to toll roads these days for the Metropolitan Planning Organization. How else to explain the contentiousness we’re seeing at the local agency, which controls the purse strings to more than $200 million in federal and state transportation funding? Two years...[MORE]

The QueQue

By the San Antonio Current News Team

Published: 7/22/2009

Types: Cover Story, Section Cover

Kickin’ the lata down the road Early July rumors that the Museo Alameda was tight on cash and might not make payroll were apparently true, but corporate citizen Valero stepped up a $50,000 pledge (and a $10,000 table donation for the August 20 gala, which will honor former Mexican President Vic...[MORE]

The QueQue

By the San Antonio Current News Team

Published: 7/15/2009

Types: News

Purple majesty Evolution is barely out of the woods, and who’s up on the Texas State Board of Education’s chopping block but Cesar Chavez and Thurgood Marshall. Having done its best to remove science from the science curriculum, the board has set its sights on Social Studies, and two of the “ex...[MORE]

The QueQue

By the San Antonio Current News Team

Published: 7/8/2009

Types: Cover Story, Second Story

Fission mathCPS’s leadership has unleashed its Nuke 2.0 public-relations campaign on San Anto. Salvo one: the pocketbook play, scores a direct hit. Last week, CPS Energy’s top brass announced to its board of directors that the two-reactor expansion of the South Texas (Nuclear) Project will cost...[MORE]

The QueQue

By the San Antonio Current News Team

Published: 6/24/2009

Types: Cover Story, Section Cover

STUDENT COUNCIL REPORT SA’s newest Council members got their swearing-in on Friday, June 19, but the lame ducks did not go gently into our tropical night. An entertainingly cantankerous Lourdes Galvan lit into Roderick Sanchez, director of Planning and Development Services, over the City’s...[MORE]

The QueQue

By the San Antonio Current News Team

Published: 6/17/2009

Types: Cover Story, Section Cover

D2 on the downlowContinuing the “East Side for Sale” theme of the past year, the City placed an ad in last week’s Express-News, announcing that it plans to deaccession some of the charming storefronts of St. Paul’s Square to the East Commerce R...[MORE]