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Bad Takes: Running San Antonio’s government ‘more like a business’ isn’t a smart solution
Civics and commerce aren’t the same thing, and citizens deserve to have a say.
Kevin Sanchez
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Bad Takes: Texas GOP’s overzealous ‘election security’ moves are suppressing votes
The actions of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and others are undermining trust in elections.
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Bad Takes: Price controls aren’t communism, no matter how much the GOP insists otherwise
A majority of likely voters in battleground states favor caps on rent increases and cutting prescription drug costs.
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Bad Takes: Despite claims Trump is attacking the ruling class, he is the ruling class
For all his populist posturing, Don the Con is a vehicle for an economic status quo that rewards the wealthiest 1%.
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Bad Takes: If the U.S. values its Olympic athletes, they should receive a living wage
More than half of these high-performance athletes make less than $50,000 a year, and more than a quarter of them earn less than $15,000.
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Bad Takes: Right-wing extremists flock to YouTube for its persuasive power
‘These people might present themselves like jokes, but their ambitions are very very serious,’ said journalist and antifascist activist Ash Sarkar.
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Bad Takes: Recent Supreme Court decision punishes the homeless for being homeless
The court’s Ebenezer Scrooge-like decree is a symptom of the times, as evidenced by one San Antonio politician’s recent actions.
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Bad Takes: Time to switch off the hysteria about teens and their cellphone use
Many researchers argue teens face far worse threats to their mental health than excessive screen time.
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Bad Takes: Texas GOP, Democratic conventions more similar than some might think
The state’s Republican base has confused modern society with a John Wayne film, while Democrats are easily distracted from being the party of the working class.
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Bad Takes: Taking voting rights from people convicted of felonies is a form of ballot suppression
Disenfranchisement laws date back to the Jim Crow era, and they primarily targeted Black people, according to experts.
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Bad Takes: 50-year old movie classic Blazing Saddles skewers contemporary targets
As in the movie, corrupt politicians and their corporate backers employ the tried-and-true tactic of sowing racial discord to divide and conquer.
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Bad Takes: Texas Republicans sure love to invoke Orwell without understanding his work
The extreme new platform the Texas GOP adopted at its San Antonio convention is about anything but freedom and democracy.
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Bad Takes: Texas-sized tax breaks for movie productions are a glitzy new take on corporate welfare
Texas lawmakers approved $200 million to incentivize movie and TV production in Texas, but experts warn the economic returns don’t add up.
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Bad Takes: Not enough of us are paying attention to San Antonio’s city budget
Better oversight by everyday people is the way to hold city leaders accountable.
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Bad Takes: Texas Republicans’ war on DEI is a war on public institutions
The chair of UT’s Mexican American Studies program said those caught up in the layoffs are ‘largely Black and brown, queer and trans folks.’
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Bad Takes: It’s time for all of us to take potential environmental calamity seriously
Elected officials, including those in San Antonio, must pay attention to the air quality and climate threats faced by their constituents.
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Bad Takes: Dante’s Inferno has it right about liars and cons like Donald Trump
Those guilty of fraud end up on one of the lowest rings of Hell in Dante’s masterwork, yet many in the U.S. make excuses for the crime’s worst perpetrators.
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Bad Takes: Sylvia Gonzalez’s Supreme Court fight with Castle Hills is one worth waging
The grandmother arrested by the San Antonio suburb is fighting to ensure she and others can criticize government officials without fear of retribution.
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Bad Takes: Texas’ attacks on libraries are attacks on valuable public institutions
Recent religiously motivated campaigns in the Lone Star State seek to ban books and saddle libraries with onerous censorship regimes.
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Bad Takes: Leaders should dump Trump over his disastrous immigration plan
Dennis Nixon, chair of Laredo-based International Bancshares Corp., criticized the border wall and Operation Lone Star yet still backs Trump.