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It took us a while to get here, what with a redistricting snafu that dragged Texas into the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court and all. But political primaries are...
5/16/2012
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For the would-be clean-tech capital of the universe, the report from a slate of nervous solar installers gathered at Council's Citizens to be Heard session last week was troubling.
5/9/2012
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In court Monday, Daniel Boone, 76, spoke of peering over the fence at his Southtown neighbor armed with a Radio Shack-purchased sound meter itching...
5/2/2012
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A group of Texas Planned Parenthood affiliates fired back at Texas last week, suing the state in federal court in hopes of blocking a new rule set to kick their clinics out of...
4/18/2012
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"I'm not inclined to be stepped on or stomped," Bexar County Commissioner Tommy Adkisson said this week, discussing his effort to keep emails from a private account in which...
4/11/2012
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More than a month ago two nurse assistants at Bandera Road's Princeton Place nursing home started noticing problems. Sandra Lujan, a four-year veteran of the...
4/4/2012
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Tuesday, San Antonio Water System employees were struggling to clean up a collapsed sewer main that sent 100,000 gallons of wastewater rushing into Rosillo Creek...
3/21/2012
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It was a dank, dark, drizzly Luminaria-less night, but a dozen-plus protestors trudged past the Federal Building downtown Saturday night with a banner calling on the few squinting drivers and...
3/14/2012
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For over two decades, the steps of the Bexar County Courthouse have played stage to a Valentine's Day mass marriage ceremony officiated by local pastor Joe Sullivan.
2/22/2012
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Whether with witty quips (like court orders riddled with sarcastic poems) or fiery rulings that sting ("benchslaps" as the legal blogs say), San Antonio judges...
2/15/2012
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Not one to roll around in misery all day, the QueQue likes to point out signs of progress. Exhibit One: A new ruling by a Travis County judge last week could force...
2/1/2012
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Friday night, after dozens of U.S. mayors declared their support for same-sex marriage equality at a D.C. press event, Major Julián Castro chimed in over Facebook...
1/25/2012
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Grassroots activism and loud criticism from the technophiles among us may have trumped Big Hollywood this time. Though the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) championed by...
1/18/2012
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On Christmas Day, an ex-Haven for Hope resident recently banned from the shelter stepped onto the tracks that edge the homeless services campus and into a moving train.
1/11/2012
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Two months of cooperation devolved with a 15-minute ultimatum Monday when a handful of arrests at HemisFair Park effectively quashed the rosy relationship that’s existed between...
12/21/2011
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Most of the young girls told similar stories: each started young, somewhere around 13-years-old, sold into sex slavery on San Antonio’s streets, often kept in line with violence, fear, and drug addiction.
12/7/2011
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In our pre-Thanksgiving political climate, you could feel bad blood simmering between longtime Democratic Congressman Lloyd Doggett and state Rep. Joaquin Castro, both entering what appeared to be
11/30/2011
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When the Marfa Sentinel broke the news in 2007 that Texas Parks & Wildlife officials were secretly shooting down wild burros inside the more than 300,000-acre Big Bend Ranch State Park...
11/22/2011
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It seemed like just one more Change.org petition. Honestly, it was just one more Change.org petition — one of an estimated 50,000 that have been started on the site since it launched in 2007.
11/16/2011
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A settlement between the state of Texas and the U.S. Department of Justice in 2009 should have at least started showing signs of improvement at 13 State Supported Living Centers, home to hundreds of residents with severe developmental disabilities.
11/9/2011
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Hill Country gun instructor Crockett Keller has become Texas’ latest racist heard ’round the country. “Attention. Be a victor not a victim,” begins his advert for concealed handgun courses...
11/2/2011
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Despite a no vote from District 10 Councilman Carlton Soules and District 5 Councilman David Medina’s no show, San Antonio’s Council bravely vaulted fringe objections from the Homeowner Taxpayer Association
10/26/2011
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Thanks to San Antonio activist Henry Rodriguez, the League of United Latin American Citizens took a strong swipe at the fluoridation of public drinking-water supplies in July.
10/19/2011
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Almost everyone likes a party in our fiesta town (though not necessarily every party). Give this one a try?
10/12/2011
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Taking a cue from the ambitious, ongoing protest in New York City aimed at shaking the foundations of the corporatocracy
10/5/2011
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As VIA officials shop their own streetcar vision to City Council today, they’re headed for a clash with Mayor Julián Castro and at least one councilman
9/28/2011
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Domestic partnerships pass split Council
9/21/2011
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Northside ISD sued in child’s shooting
9/14/2011
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Perry appointment push for nuke waste
9/7/2011
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SAPD’s Internal Affairs attacked
8/31/2011
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Protesting Canadian tar sands in Texas
East Texas resident David Daniel didn’t know anything about the planned 1,700-mile pipeline called the Keystone XL, planned to run tar-sands-derived oil (a sludge up to 70 times thicker than traditional crude oil) fr
8/24/2011
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8/17/2011
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State murder? Nothing to see here
8/3/2011
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The Brothers of Fallen Heroes were supposed to be providing a military salute at a fellow veteran’s funeral Tuesday night
7/27/2011
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Commissioners rejected a petition by a children’s movement calling on the state to take action on climate change
7/20/2011
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7/13/2011
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Doggett hits Westside march
Republican redistricting pushed Austin-based Congressmen Lloyd Doggett into a linear Congressional district — at least temporarily — stretching from Austin to San Antonio. And though he claims he has yet to start officially cam
7/6/2011
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6/29/2011
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Green unveiling
It may smack sustainable-city leaders in such affluent locales as Berkeley, Portland, or Chicago as an upstart challenge, but on Monday San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro minced no words in declaring that the Alamo City is now officially gunn
6/22/2011
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Camp Bullis: Trees today, trees tomorrow
If we had a Doomsday Clock at Current HQ (something we’ve been seriously considering — since, like, way before the last non-rapture rapture), some poor intern would be tasked with pushing the minute hand forward t
6/8/2011
