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Mexican corruption probe tags former Tamaulipas governornew
Add cartel blood money to the list of inputs contributing to San Antonio real estate development.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
06-05-2012 |
International
Tags: mexico, tomas yarrington
Anatomy of a Wrongful Texas Executionnew
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 February 1983. At trial, prosecutors dismissed the idea, calling the other Carlos "a phantom" that didn't exist.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
05-28-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: execution, Carlos DeLuna
Preparing for Doomsdaynew
Paul Range and Gloria Haswell have enough food, water, and guns to see the apocalypse through. And you're not invited.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
05-14-2012 |
Features
Norah Jones: 'Little Broken Hearts'new
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, and key pieces of Tom Waits' crew...
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
05-08-2012 |
Reviews
As Border Apprehensions Fall, a Serious 'Minor' Problem Emergesnew
Soon after the number of undocumented immigrants nabbed at the border plummeted in 2011 — 340,000 caught compared to highs upwards of 1 million annually — we got news from the Pew Hispanic Center that migration from Mexico to the U.S. has essentially stopped, and maybe even reversed.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
05-02-2012 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration, Border Apprehensions
Air Force moves to shutter community board overseeing toxic pollutionnew
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 Base.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
04-20-2012 |
Environment
Air quality and the Eagle Fordnew
Where are we in terms of compliance with federal air quality standards?
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
04-02-2012 |
Environment
Why do lowest-risk detainees need to be detained at all?new
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 Immigration and Customs Enforcement's kinder, gentler approach to immigrant detention.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
04-02-2012 |
Immigration
The Great Shale Rush in South Texasnew
While it borders on the heretical to say it aloud, judging from very recent shale plays elsewhere in the country — like the Marcellus, the Barnett, the Fayetteville — this may not go down as the century of natural gas, after all.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
03-14-2012 |
Energy
Questions Over Testing Stall Bartee Executionnew
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 Cook's prized red Harley.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
03-02-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Anthony Bartee execution
Beating an Immigration System Slim on Second Chancesnew
Instead of listing specific deportation-worthy crimes, Congress has laid out sweeping categories of criminal offenses, including crimes of "moral turpitude," a blanket designation involving any drug charges.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
02-22-2012 |
Immigration
Scientology showdown reveals claims of torture, abuse of dissenting membersnew
Debbie Cook had already spent seven weeks confined in a facility known ominously as “The Hole” inside a small room with barred windows where she says she was forced to sleep on a bug-infested floor and served only bowls of inedible "slop."
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
02-16-2012 |
Religion
Tags: Scientology, Debbie Cook
Underage sex trafficking is everywhere, but will law enforcement budgets hold out?new
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.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
02-09-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: sex work, sex trafficking
George Rodriguez lays out his go-local approach for the Tea Partynew
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 lobbying group the American Action Network is spinning rebuttals by an assortment of GOP all-stars and conservative thought-leaders to President Obama's "liberal tax-and-spend agenda" over the bar's loud speakers.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
02-01-2012 |
Politics
Tags: san antonio tea party
San Antonio Group Pushes to End Corporate Personhoodnew
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, drowning us in breathless campaign-season attack ads.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
01-27-2012 |
Politics
