Commentary: Seeing the homeless, shocked by tragedy, haunted by questions
Mary M. Fisher, For the Express-News
May 14, 2021
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Juan Apolinar Jr. loved to read and had moved to Brackenridge Park after his mother died. Solving homelessness begins with seeing the homeless as peopleMary M. Fisher / Courtesy photo
While walking in Brackenridge Park on March 29, I came face to face with a late middle-aged man sitting on a rock wall just off Mulberry Avenue.
He was clean-shaven, wearing jeans and white tennis shoes, and sitting by a grocery cart brimming with plastic bag-wrapped belongings, which I took to be all his earthly possessions.
Where candidates in June 5 runoff election stand on policing, homelessness and cleaning up San Antonio
Early voting for the runoff is May 24-June 1; 5 council districts on runoff ballot
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SAN ANTONIO – Five of the San Antonio city council races did not have a clear winner during the May 1 City Election and will be decided in a runoff election on June 5.
The races that did not have a candidate receive more than 50% of the vote on May 1 now move to overtime in the form of a one-on-one runoff election. Those districts include:
District 1: Roberto C. Trevino vs. Mario Bravo
A clash over remembering the Alamo
Richard Webner, The Washington Post
May 8, 2021
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Members of the Sons of the Republic of Texas, a lineage society for descendants of the state s founders, gather beneath the Cenotaph monument on Alamo Plaza in March 2020.Photo by Tamir Kalifa for The Washington Post
SAN ANTONIO - The Alamo needs a makeover; on that, at least, everyone agrees. Plaster is flaking off the walls of the nearly 300-year-old former Spanish mission, the most revered battle site in Texas history. Its one-room exhibit space can hold only a fraction of key artifacts. And the surrounding plaza is a tourist circus, packed with novelty shops and a Ripley s Believe It or Not museum.
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
A clash over remembering the Alamo Updated: May 9 Published May 9
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Print article SAN ANTONIO - The Alamo needs a makeover; on that, at least, everyone agrees. Plaster is flaking off the walls of the nearly 300-year-old former Spanish mission, the most revered battle site in Texas history. Its one-room exhibit space can hold only a fraction of key artifacts. And the surrounding plaza is a tourist circus, packed with novelty shops and a Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum. But Texans are deeply divided over how, exactly, to remember the Alamo. A $450 million plan to renovate the site has devolved into a five-year brawl over whether to focus narrowly on the 1836 battle or present a fuller view that delves into the site’s indigenous history and the role of slavery in the Texas Revolution.