AltWeeklies Wire
Political Boundariy Fight May Delay Texas Primary Electionnew
With the high-profile Texas redistricting case hitting the U.S. Supreme Court this week, there are still no legally approved maps to guide the state's April 3 primary, which continues to edge closer.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
01-11-2012 |
Elections
Tags: Elections, 2012 texas primary
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
The Apoca-Listnew

AKA The "We're Fucked" Index.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
09-21-2011 |
Commentary
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
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
The Apoca-Listnew

AKA The "We're Fucked" Index.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
07-27-2011 |
Commentary
Targeting a Kinder, Gentler ICEnew

Republican redistricting pushed Austin-based Congressmen Lloyd Doggett into a linear Congressional district — at least temporarily — stretching from Austin to San Antonio.
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
07-08-2011 |
Politics