From your mouth to their ears

I now pronounce you enfranchised Americans

Web Exclusives : What do we want? A sane and compassionate law which recognizes the heart-and-soul unions of same-sex Texans! When do we want it? How soon is now? But marriage equality is a tou by Sarah Fisch

J is for jail

News: We don’t know how many children will celebrate July Fourth inside the T. Don Hutto “Residential” Facility’s fences, because Uncle Sam won’t say — although the official bed count, 512, gives us some gu by Elaine Wolff

Provisional vote

News: The Supreme Court’s recent eight-to-one opinion more-or-less preserving the Voting Rights Act gave an Austin utility district the option to seek an exemption from the legislation’s hotly contested Sec by Alicia K. Ramirez

Love means never having to check your .38

News: Guns and Texas isn’t just about image: It’s the real deal, y’all. We love ’em. We buy ’em. We trade ’em like. And when we really get excited, we shoot ourselves and other people with ’em. by Greg Harman

Free for all?

News: Texas, which celebrates its statehood December 29, is often remarked on for its outsized ego, which is credited variously to our unwieldy square mileage, our prior sovereignty, inbreeding, and too muc

Church ladies

Web Exclusives : Last spring, following reports of alleged child abuse phoned in anonymously from the road, Texas child-protection officials summarily removed more than 440 children from a ranch in Eldorado, Texas, ow by Amie Ninh

Stars and prison stripes

Web Exclusives : Texas doesn’t like you to burn its flag or Uncle Sam’s — disincentives run up to $4,000 and a year in jail. But the Supreme Court in Texas v. Johnson ruled that if you’re lighting up Old Glory to make by Haylley Johnson

Well-hung judges

News: The story of judicial elections in the United States is loaded with irony. In the 1830s, a wave of Jacksonian Democracy rebelled against the notion of big-money elitists making appointment decision by Gilbert Garcia

The way we were

News: I lost a good friend to God a while back. Pedro Saldivar* was a Mexican national, an undocumented worker who lived and worked on my family’s South Texas ranch. How he got there, why he stayed (ne by Name withheld by request

Citizen Benita

News: Thanks to a continuance granted in immigration court last month, Jefferson High School Valedictorian and St. Mary’s grad Benita Veliz will remain in the United States at least until her September 9 he by Alicia K. Ramirez

Streets paved with gold

News: There are those in San Antonio who still revere the youthful Emma Tenayuca, the firebrand champion of Mexican-American laborers who helped ignite the infamous 1938 strike against Southern Pecan Shelli by Greg Harman

Team Castro

News: The new mayor takes a page out of Hardberger's staff playbook | By Gilbert Garcia [6/24/2009]

The QueQue

STUDENT COUNCIL REPORT SA’s newest Council members got their swearing-in on Friday, June 19, bu... By the San Antonio Current News Team [6/24/2009]

The QueQue

D2 on the downlowContinuing the “East Side for Sale” theme of the past year,... By the San Antonio Current News Team [6/17/2009]

Land of the lost

News: Texas creates task force on sexual slavery as Bexar County’s first trafficking case wraps up | By Greg Harman [6/17/2009]

Free Speech Coalition will take Parade Ordinance suit to 5th Circuit

by: Elaine Wolff on 7/2/2009

Border Wall experience comes to San Antonio

by: gharman on 7/2/2009

Doggett denies reports White House pressured him into voting for climate bill

by: gharman on 7/2/2009

Heather Go Psycho

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LIVE & LOCAL

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Border Wall experience comes to San Antonio

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Border Wall experience comes to San Antonio

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The lighting thief

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Review: Bistro Bakery

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The way we were

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S'NUFF film

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Men at work: The Heroine say music's a gamble, and they're 'playing for keeps'

Frank castle: Around the dog in 80 ways

Restaurant Review: Coco Beach

Crazy sort of folk: Lansdale takes a 'Vanilla Ride'

Look before you eat: Food, Inc. filmmaker Robert Kenner on the high cost of a cheap meal