Houston’s Salvadoran janitors fight to increase pay, benefits
In Houston, more than 5,000 janitors are immigrants from El Salvador, which is roughly 10% of the janitorial workforce. Yet they are less than 3% of working people in the city.
View ArticleLike an old SNL sketch, county clerk helps Bexar DA in 'makin' copies' to...
The Bexar County clerk will cover the $1million in funding needed for the district attorney to comply with a mandate from the Texas attorney general's office.
View ArticleNot that Colorado: The muddy, winding story of how the Texas' Colorado River...
Many people wonder whether the Colorado River that runs through Texas is related to the other Colorado River that created the Grand Canyon. It's not.
View ArticleHow do you get siblings to be nice to each other? Latino families have an answer
Over the past few decades, psychologists have begun to understand how parents across many cultures teach their children to build deep, fulfilling relationships with their siblings.
View ArticleTCEQ hears from opponents and supporters of Corpus Christi desalination plan
People in Corpus Christi could be the first in Texas to drink treated seawater. Water scarcity in the state is a growing crisis, and ocean desalination is being touted as a solution. But community...
View ArticlePresident Biden signs law to ban TikTok nationwide unless it is sold
The measure was included in a foreign aid package providing support to Ukraine and Israel. TikTok vowed to challenge the law in federal court.
View ArticleTexas jails have an overcrowding issue. Is the state making it worse by...
Harris, Tarrant and Bexar counties say their local jails are backed up with convicted state prisoners. The state says it's following the law.
View ArticleRecent research on eyewitness memory may be Texas death row inmate's last hope
Charles Don Flores is on death row for a 1998 Farmers Branch murder. A professor says his and others' research on witness memory could prove Flores' innocence.
View ArticleStudents in San Antonio and Austin join nationwide protests supporting...
Dozens of protesters gathered at UTSA’s main campus for a 'Gaza Solidarity Action' organized by the Party for Socialism and Liberation San Antonio and Students for Justice in Palestine UTSA. At UT...
View ArticleCharreada is the beautiful San Antonio rodeo that both breaks norms and...
U.S. rodeos and Charreadas are both done on horseback. They are measures of the horses and their riders but they bear little resemblance beyond that.
View ArticleSan Antonio city and housing officials break ground on affordable apartment...
Vista at Reed will offer 56 two and three-bedroom units from $398 to $1,380.
View ArticleCounty commissioners invest in UTSA sports facility 'Roadrunners NEST'
Bexar County commissioners this week voted to invest $5 million in a UTSA sports facility that local residents will also have access to.
View ArticleWhat consumers should know about the milk testing positive for bird flu
Federal officials and scientific experts say the virus detected in retail milk samples may be inactive and unable to cause an infection.
View ArticleUT faculty hold rally to criticize protest crackdown — without police show of...
Faculty and staff gathered on campus to condemn the unprecedented response from law enforcement to student protests against the war in Gaza on Wednesday.
View ArticleRange of city charter proposals include council raises and uncapped city...
The Charter Review Commission's possible changes to the San Antonio City Charter also focus on the number of council districts and the establishment of an independent ethics auditor.
View ArticleTexas tax-free weekend is the best time to stock up on storm preparedness...
The tax-free sales for qualifying storm preparedness supplies begins at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, April 27, and ends at midnight on Monday, April 29.
View ArticleMatt Randolph — aka 'Mr. Global' — sets the record straight on the US oil and...
TPR’s Jerry Clayton talks to Randolph about the state of the oil industry, gas prices and more.
View ArticleWhere, when and how to vote in the May 4 election in Bexar County
Early voting ends on Tuesday, April 30. Election Day is Saturday, May 4.
View ArticleEl Niño has eased San Antonio's drought, and more rain coming this week
San Antonio's El Niño winter and spring has eased the city's drought conditions, but the impact of warm tropical waters from the Pacific Ocean on local weather are weakening.
View ArticleGov. Abbott orders Texas to ignore Biden administration’s new federal...
The new Title IX rules expanded the definition of sex-based harassment. Texas is also suing the Biden administration to block the changes.
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