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Sexual abuse victims testify in Lackland hearingnew
In the summer of 2011, a single trainee came forward to claim she was raped by her instructor at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
01-30-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Confessions of a Revenge Pornographernew
Revenge porn has become a legal grey area. In the past, victims have sued websites over copyright infringement or privacy. But proprietors of revenge porn websites like Texxxan.com fall under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which provides that websites aren't liable for user-submitted content.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
01-30-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Murder City: Police stats show 2012 had more kills in San Antonionew
Nationally, homicides have continued to decrease steadily since about 2005. According to FBI stats and previous media reports, San Antonio's murder rate appears to have peaked in the mid-1990s
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
01-23-2013 |
Crime & Justice
LGBT Liaison in Julian Castro's cornernew
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.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
01-23-2013 |
LGBT
Tags: Julián Castro
Trollin' Ain't Easy, but is Banning Trolls Unconstitutional?new
As with most trolls, there are really two John Foddrills. Seated at a dining room table near his wife, Foddrill is personable, calm, and at times even dryly funny. But just wait till he gets to his computer.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
12-14-2012 |
Civil Liberties
Domestic Workers: Vulnerable, Underpaid, and Abusednew
Groundbreaking national survey finds domestic workers are often overworked, underpaid, abused, and excluded from protections that regulate other professions.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
12-07-2012 |
Business & Labor
Newsmonger: AG investigation into Daughters, Tracking chips and Devil marks, Climate bombnew
Buried in its 38-page report slamming the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, the state Attorney General's office hones in on what led to the group's years-long mismanagement of the Alamo...
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
11-28-2012 |
Education
Why Have Jail Suicides Soared in Bexar County, Texas?new
Up until 2009, suicides were rare at the Bexar County jail. More common were inmates dying from natural causes, like liver failure or complications from lung cancer.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
10-17-2012 |
Crime & Justice
What Texas Criminal Justice Reformers Could Teach the Booming Immigrant Detention Systemnew
GOP State Rep. Jerry Madden took the helm of the House corrections committee in 2005, just in time for a deeply distressing projection: booming incarceration in our notoriously tough-on-crime state meant Texas would need eight new prisons by 2012, at a cost of about $1 billion.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
09-20-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: jail, criminal justice
Can the Caravan for Peace force us to rethink the War on Drugs?new
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 poetry prize three years ago — Sicilia told mourners gathered at his son's funeral in May 2011 when he read his final poem: "No puedo escribir más poesía … la poesía ya no existe en mí."
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
08-30-2012 |
Drugs
Bad LGBT Parents? Bad UT study, audit findsnew
Are kids raised by gay and lesbian couples bound to struggle more in life than those raised by straight parents?
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
08-02-2012 |
LGBT
Going Down?new
Shoddy regulation, loose laws allow dangerous elevators to continue operating in San Antonio.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
07-20-2012 |
Features
Church-state watchdog claims taxpayer-funded charter school more parochial than publicnew
"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?" – Cheryl Washington
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
06-25-2012 |
Religion
Tags: charter schools
New policy lets DREAM Act students work, avoid deportationnew
Undocumented students across the country breathed a collective a sigh of relief Friday as the Obama administration announced an executive order to immigration officials to stop detaining and deporting DREAM Act-eligible immigrants while offering renewable two-year permits to legally work in the U.S.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
06-21-2012 |
Immigration
Green Party of Texas hopes to create viable alternativenew
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 republic: the Roman Senate.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
06-19-2012 |
Politics
Tags: Texas green party
