AltWeeklies Wire
State of the San Antonionew
Mayor Julián Castro had big shoes to fill delivering his State of the City speech last week –– namely, his own.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
03-06-2013 |
Commentary
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
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
Mormon Myth-Busting: Is the Book of Mormon the LDS Bible?new
The BoM was written by Joseph Smith, who claims to have translated it from a pile of gold tablets an angel hipped him to.
San Antonio Current |
Jeffrey Wright |
04-13-2012 |
Commentary
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 Apoca-Listnew
AKA The "We're Fucked" Index
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
12-08-2011 |
Commentary
The Apoca-Listnew
AKA The "We're Fucked" Index.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
11-16-2011 |
Commentary
The Apoca-Listnew
AKA The "We're Fucked" Index.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
11-09-2011 |
Commentary
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 Apoca-Listnew
AKA The "We're Fucked" Index
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
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
The Apoca-Listnew
AKA The "We're Fucked" Index
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
10-06-2011 |
Commentary
Jeremy Rifkin on San Antonio, the European Union, and the lessons learned in our push for a planetary-scale power shiftnew
n some ways the quest to transition off fossil fuels is a race for the future. A race that the United States is losing.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
09-29-2011 |
Commentary
