Progressive Teri Castillo offers a new direction for District 5
Jade Esteban Estrada for MySA
May 24, 2021
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After advancing to the June 5 runoff in the District 5 race for San Antonio City Council, Teri Castillo felt inspired to make a life change.
“I now have a driver’s license,” she says, smiling from ear to ear through my computer screen. “So now I don’t have to wait for the bus.”
Castillo, 29, says living close to an accessible bus route made it so easy to get around that she never felt she needed a license.
Her timing was perfect because what happened on Election Night certainly put her in the fast line.
In runoffs for San Antonio City Council, two progressive candidates make headway
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Jalen McKee-Rodriguez and Teri Castillo both have drawn the backing of the Democratic Socialists of America’s San Antonio chapter and the far-left Texas Organizing Project. Some worry their election could introduce division into a nonpartisan council.William Luther, Staff / San Antonio Express-News
A pair of young progressives could push the San Antonio City Council further left and form a left-wing coalition on the council should they win in the June runoff elections.
Jalen McKee-Rodriguez and Teri Castillo surged to the front of crowded fields in races May 1 to represent the East Side and near West Side, respectively. Both have drawn the backing of the Democratic Socialists of America’s San Antonio chapter and the Texas Organizing Project, a grassroots organization that heavily funded the recently failed Proposition B campaign to strip collective bargaining from the polic
San Antonio panel denies request to raze historic West Side building
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The Historic and Design Review Commission denied requests to remove historic landmark designation of the Whitt Printing Co. building and to demolish it.Madison Iszler / San Antonio Express-News staff
A city panel rejected a request to raze a historic building in the Cattleman Square neighborhood on the near West Side to make the property more appealing for development.
The Historic and Design Review Commission denied proposals Wednesday to remove historic landmark designation of the Whitt Printing Co. building near West Houston and North Frio streets and demolish it.