AltWeeklies Wire
LGBT Liaison in Julian Castro's cornernew
When the Human Rights Campaign released its 2012 Municipal Equality Index, San Antonio scored a 48 out of 100, compared to Austin's and Dallas' scores of 91 and 76, respectively.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
01-23-2013 |
LGBT
Tags: Julián Castro
Trollin' Ain't Easy, but is Banning Trolls Unconstitutional?new
As with most trolls, there are really two John Foddrills. Seated at a dining room table near his wife, Foddrill is personable, calm, and at times even dryly funny. But just wait till he gets to his computer.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
12-14-2012 |
Civil Liberties
Domestic Workers: Vulnerable, Underpaid, and Abusednew
Groundbreaking national survey finds domestic workers are often overworked, underpaid, abused, and excluded from protections that regulate other professions.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
12-07-2012 |
Business & Labor
Newsmonger: AG investigation into Daughters, Tracking chips and Devil marks, Climate bombnew
Buried in its 38-page report slamming the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, the state Attorney General's office hones in on what led to the group's years-long mismanagement of the Alamo...
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
11-28-2012 |
Education
San Antonio talks of community, but continues to build the dividenew
San Antonio is often best understood from afar, by a distant observer who can realistically compare it to other places. Recent months have seen three new studies that place San Antonio in a larger context and can help educate us about our community.
San Antonio Current |
Heywood Sanders |
10-26-2012 |
Economy
Tags: San Antonio Economy
Cleaning up coal in West Texas expected to help fuel San Antonio and wring out the oil patchnew
There's a mean-sounding hiss emanating from one of a dozen pipes rising like stovepipe to feed into a desert-tan battery that intermittently flushes high volumes of fluids 4,500 feet below ground.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
10-26-2012 |
Environment
Why Have Jail Suicides Soared in Bexar County, Texas?new
Up until 2009, suicides were rare at the Bexar County jail. More common were inmates dying from natural causes, like liver failure or complications from lung cancer.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
10-17-2012 |
Crime & Justice
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
What Texas Criminal Justice Reformers Could Teach the Booming Immigrant Detention Systemnew
GOP State Rep. Jerry Madden took the helm of the House corrections committee in 2005, just in time for a deeply distressing projection: booming incarceration in our notoriously tough-on-crime state meant Texas would need eight new prisons by 2012, at a cost of about $1 billion.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
09-20-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: jail, criminal justice
Can the Caravan for Peace force us to rethink the War on Drugs?new
Javier Sicilia's words still ring of poetry, though he says he's stopped writing it. A renowned novelist, essayist, and poet — winner of Mexico's top poetry prize three years ago — Sicilia told mourners gathered at his son's funeral in May 2011 when he read his final poem: "No puedo escribir más poesía … la poesía ya no existe en mí."
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
08-30-2012 |
Drugs
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
From Neglect to Colony Member: Cat Companionship in Several Halting Stepsnew
Don't feed the stray cats!" they told me. Who? Everyone, it seemed — neighbors, acquaintances, the mail man.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
08-23-2012 |
Animal Issues
Critics of Animal Care Service Say Drive to Humane Care Misses Big Picturenew
In 2006, the City Council took on Mayor Phil Hardberger's challenge to become the country's largest "no-kill" community.
San Antonio Current |
Andrew Oxford and Scott Andrews |
08-23-2012 |
Animal Issues
Tags: humanity, Animal care
Texas Republican Party The Real 'Extremist' in Climate Fightnew
Hot? Dumb question. Unless you work in an ice factory, movie theater, or chilly data center, you know you are.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
08-23-2012 |
Environment
