AltWeeklies Wire
Questions Linger Over Kelly AFB Contaminationnew
Purple wooden crosses that dot this south San Antonio community are starting to age, their paint chipped and faded. Planted in lawns next to mailboxes, fences, and trees, they point to a battle with cancer for someone inside.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
10-13-2011 |
Environment
Poor, Minorities Magnets for Industrial 'Sacrifice Zones'new
Grappling with how to own up to the toxic legacy of uranium mining and nuclear weapons processing in the United States, government officials coined the cold term "sacrifice zones" in the 1980s.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
10-12-2011 |
Nonfiction
Tags: steve lerner
Could the changeup at the E-N signal more consolidation with the Houston Chron?new
The quick exodus of the Express-News’ top two editors last week left a newsroom grasping for explanation.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
09-28-2011 |
Media
Austin’s Other Music Fest Celebrates its 10th Anniversarynew
After 10 years of Austin City Limits, you should know this by now: Get your tickets early. At press time, there are still a few individual tickets for Sunday, and if you look at the lineup (see ticket info box), you’ll realize the $90 tag is actually a bargain. Too late? Too bad.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas, Ashley Feinberg, Chuck Kerr and and Enrique Lopetegui |
09-15-2011 |
Concerts
GI Forum Accused of Shilling for Boeing, Big Oil, and AT&Tnew
Buried beneath mounds of court filings, alleging poor management and shoddy accounting, is a deep concern that GI Forum leaders have opted to trade the legacy of World War II veterans for corporate donations from groups like AT&T, Boeing, and fossil fuel energy companies represented by the American Petroleum Institute.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
09-14-2011 |
War
Bexar Commissioner Wants to Break Up the State of Sheriff’s Unionnew
Back in mid-August, Bexar County Commissioner Kevin Wolff toured the Haven for Hope campus with Haven CEO George Block and others for the annual budget-season “shakedown,” as Wolff terms it.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
09-08-2011 |
Commentary
Tags: kevin wolff
Do Private Prisons Save Money?new
Private-prison detractors have long accused businesses in the incarceration-for-profit game of cutting corners to boost revenue.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
09-07-2011 |
Policy Issues
Tags: Prisons
San Antonio Dissident Plays Advisor to the Libyan rebelsnew
Before he fled Libya 30 years ago, Mansour El-Kikhia remembers driving past bodies strung up in town squares across Benghazi.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
08-31-2011 |
International
I can haz No Kill?new
No-kill by 2012? No way.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
08-31-2011 |
Animal Issues
Lamar Smith’s Push to HALT the DREAM Actnew
Two bills snaking their way through Congress, both with equally catchy names, show just how polarized the debate over immigration has become.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
08-19-2011 |
Immigration
Dispatches From the Front Lines of Rick Perry’s Political Revivalnew
Before a throng of 30,000 faithful, Texas Governor Rick Perry delivered a message that was anything but apolitical. Amid the calls to defend marriage from homosexuals and end abortion, an even more fundamental refrain kept repeating: a call for the “faithful” to drive the nation and her leaders “back to God.”
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
08-10-2011 |
Politics
Methodist pastor opts for life of protest on the streetnew
After a week living on the street, Lorenza Andrade-Smith’s focus is drifting.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
08-08-2011 |
Civil Liberties
Hyatt Protests Escalate in San Antonionew
When I first started here, it was better,” says Elvia Claudio, reflecting on her three years cleaning rooms at downtown’s stately Grand Hyatt hotel.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
07-28-2011 |
Business & Labor
Will Efforts to Revitalize San Antonio's Core Draw Locals Back?new
Justin Arecchi remembers brainstorming with local developers and pioneers like Hap Veltman and downtown jazz staple Jim Cullum for hours at a stretch at the long-since shuttered Kangaroo Court restaurant and bar along the River Walk.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
07-27-2011 |
Economy
Tags: san antonio riverwalk
Preteen Lightning Rod to Lead San Antonio’s Gay Pride Paradenew
A simple act of classroom disobedience turned 11-year-old Will Phillips into one of the country’s youngest — and targeted — gay-rights advocates.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
06-29-2011 |
LGBT
Tags: Gay Rights, Will Phillips
