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Council Watchnew
The proposed Convention Center expansion, a massive expenditure that's been waiting in the wings for months, is set to hit City Council this week.
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
09-20-2012 |
Politics
Tags: council watch
The Apoca-List: Babies with syphilis, Guld Cartel leader captured, Anonymous hacktivist arrested in Dallasnew
Babies with syphilis, Guld Cartel leader captured, Anonymous hacktivist arrested in Dallas
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
09-20-2012 |
Features
Newsmonger: Congress will hold Lackland hearingsnew
The House Armed Services Committee announced last week it will hold hearings on the sex abuse scandal that has continued to widen at Joint Base San Antoinio-Lackland over the past year, following the committee chairman's much-criticized visit to the base just three days prior.
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
09-20-2012 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: sex scandal
Newsmonger: Residents oppose Newell Recycling move, Push and pull over Bexar County Jailnew
A smelly, metal-shredding neighbor may complicate ongoing plans to revive the iconic Lone Star Brewery to its former glory.
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
08-23-2012 |
Environment
Tags: green issues
Newsmonger: First Camp Lejeune, Next Toxic Triangle?, Inside closed Lackland briefingnew
Council last week gave unanimous blessing to Alamo Beer Co.'s plans to build a microbrewery on the east end of the historic Hays Street Bridge, approving a near $800,000 incentive package that lets Alamo Beer set up tables and chairs on the historic bridge deck rent-free.
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
08-10-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: toxic triangle, camp lejeune
Last Words: Build your own Castro campaign posternew
Now that he's scored one of the hottest speaking gigs in politics, September's Democratic National Committee keynote, what's next for Mayor Julián Castro?
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
08-09-2012 |
Commentary
The top five Batman villiansnew
The top five Batman villians
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
07-29-2012 |
Movies
San Antonio man sues feds, state to get God out of court (and off the bills), Real ID wrasslin' continues in D.C., New documents show where DPS wanted drones in South Texasnew
David Dornak wants to kick God out of court. Hell, he’d deport Him from the country if he could, for all Judeo-Christian religious belief has done for the county (not to mention the poor and starving of the world, kept poor and starving in part by “well-meaning” self-professed Christians in Congress denying aid for family planning, but don’t get him started).
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
07-20-2012 |
Commentary
Think Kink: San Antonio Fetish Ballnew
We sent our photo intern to the annual Easter weekend San Antonio Fetish Ball at the Korova on April 7. (Insert "he is risen" joke here.)
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
04-12-2012 |
Sex
Tags: San Antonio fetish ball
San Antonio Scientology spat may rope Cruise's best mannew
Last week saw a flurry of legal wrangling in the Church of Scientology lawsuit against a former leading member here earlier this year.
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
03-07-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: Scientology, sex trafficking
The QueQue: SA Sex Trafficking Exposed and Morenew
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.
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
12-08-2011 |
Commentary
The QueQue: State Centers for the Disabled: ‘Still Deplorable’, Bank Transfer Day a Boon for RBCUnew
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.
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
11-10-2011 |
Economy
The QueQue: Racist Gun Instructor Shame-Free and Other Storiesnew
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 before taking an abrupt racist, xenophobic turn – a rant that’s now become a YouTube sensation.
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
11-03-2011 |
Commentary
The QueQue: Pearl Railroaded, ACLU Sues ICE, CCA over Hutto Assaults, TCEQ Exposednew
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 (“Mayor Castro, do not railroad us!”) and Tea Partiers (“We don’t need a Solyndra in San Antonio”) to course down the tracks toward a “multimodal” future and our first urban rail project.
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
10-27-2011 |
Commentary
Occupiednew
Almost everyone likes a party in our fiesta town (though not necessarily every party). Give this one a try? The next Occupy San Antonio rally is a 6 p.m. Wednesday drum circle at HemisFair Park. Then on Saturday, a larger rally is planned from noon to 3 p.m. at South Alamo and Caesar Chavez. More info online at various FB pages, including Occupy San Antonio.
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
10-12-2011 |
#OCCUPY
