Southwest Research Institute scientist uncovers evidence of sub-surface ocean...
Based on data from the Cassini spacecraft mission, a Southwest Research Institute scientist has uncovered evidence of a liquid internal ocean on a tiny moon of Saturn called Mimas.
View ArticleTexas Republicans trumpet their support for another Trump presidential bid at...
The rally in the Houston suburbs put on full display how much of a grip former President Donald Trump still has on Texas Republican leaders.
View ArticleYWCA plan to house women now under fire from city, neighborhoods
A plan to build a human services campus devoted to low-income women on the city's West Side is now 'inundated' with opposition.
View ArticleSan Antonio City Council approves use of $212M in COVID-19 aid for social...
In a 9-1 vote, the San Antonio City Council gave the green light to spending for more than $212 million over the next four years. The majority — about $200 million — comes from the American Rescue Plan...
View ArticleVeteran volunteers begin the largest effort ever to locate the site of the...
Volunteers are working in a small area behind the Losoya Middle School football field
View ArticleTexas Matters: The secret voter purge, the primary problem and the most...
Voting rights groups want answers about the secret Texas voter purge, so they are suing. Is the primary problem in Texas the Republican primary? How a tiny minority of voters has control over who...
View ArticleSan Antonio’s 'Ready to Work' prepares training with the backing of employers
The City of San Antonio’s sales-tax funded job training program “SA: Ready to Work” will begin taking job applications in the summer, and several dozen local and national businesses have pledged to...
View ArticleSan Antonio’s $1.2B bond package is now in the hands of voters after city...
The city council approved the $1.2 billion package of 183 projects Thursday. The projects range from major street repair, to drainage, new police and fire facilities, and includes a housing component.
View ArticleThe primary problem with Texas elections
Low voter turnout in the critical Republican primary election means the state ends up electing extremely conservative statewide office holders who don't represent the majority of Texans.
View ArticleTexas Matters: GOP goes pro-coup, Operation Lone Star flounders and wild...
How Texas Republican primary voters have a grip on political power in the state. Republicans for Voting Rights denounces the GOP’s move to authoritarianism. Gov. Abbott's Operation Lone Star is...
View ArticleSan Antonio’s Enrique M. Barrera Parkway becomes 'Old Highway 90' again
San Antonians are passionate about their neighborhood identity, and for people on the city’s far West Side, returning a stretch of road to its original name has been a six-year fight. They won that...
View ArticleHere's how to enjoy the Super Bowl, even if you don't follow football
If you're not a consummate football fan, here's what to look for to help enjoy the game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals.
View Article'We flip Texas, we flip the country’ — AOC stumps for Cisneros, Casar
Progressive New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared in San Antonio to support congressional candidates Jessica Cisneros and Greg Casar.
View ArticleBefore COVID, TB was the world's worst pathogen. It's still a 'monster' killer
It was under control. And then it wasn't. In her new book Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History, VIdya Krishnan shows how "we repeat the same disease-spreading mistakes over and over."
View ArticleGame was her middle name: The world was never ready for Betty Davis
Raucous, outspoken and empowered, Davis, who died last week at 77, always knew what she wanted her music to be — raw — and she took control of her career in an era when few Black women could.
View Article3 decades of turmoil bring Ukraine to perhaps its greatest crisis
Since its independence from the Soviet Union, Ukraine has wavered between the influences of Moscow and the West, surviving scandal and conflict with its young democracy intact.
View ArticleHere's how to enjoy the Super Bowl, even if you don't follow football
If you're not a consummate football fan, here's what to look for to help enjoy the game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals.
View ArticleSan Antonio Rep. Castro supports burn pits lawsuit before U.S. Supreme Court
LeRoy Torres sued the Texas Department of Public Safety after, he says, the agency forced him to resign from his job as a state trooper. It also did not provide accommodations for his breathing...
View ArticleShortly before the Super Bowl, the U.S. suspends avocado imports from Mexico
The suspension would not affect game-day consumption as those avocados had already been shipped.
View ArticleGame was her middle name: The world was never ready for Betty Davis
Raucous, outspoken and empowered, Davis, who died last week at 77, always knew what she wanted her music to be — raw — and she took control of her career in an era when few Black women could.
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