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A study predicts AI will crater San Antonio’s job market. Not everyone agrees.
AI could replace 150,000 jobs in San Antonio by 2027, according to a recent study.
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Bad Takes: San Antonio leaders shouldn’t shy from discussing Middle East conflict
There’s room for free discussion. Let’s continue to listen to each other instead of walking away.
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Task force recommends consolidating Edgewood ISD schools
Since the pandemic, the 19-school district has seen a drop in enrollment of roughly 2,000 students.
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San Antonio looks to harm reduction in opioid crisis while Texas clings to drug war
San Antonio City Council could soon vote on a plan to spend opioid settlement money on making Narcan more available and helping pregnant people struggling with addiction.
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Attention, conservatives: militaristic pushback against migration never ends well
Gov. Greg Abbott has wasted billions on Operation Lone Star, his constitutionally dubious effort to make the lives of migrants a living hell.
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Bad Takes: COVID disinformation won’t die, but people who ignore scientific facts just might
Beware of people, even popular podcasters, who downplay a virus that’s the third leading cause of death behind cancer and heart disease.
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San Antonio’s new flights to Europe came at a cost, and the money could be better spent
The city ponied up incentives worth $1.3 million — all for a few seasonal flights to one European city.
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Scaled-back launch plan, company silence raise concerns over San Antonio startup DeLorean
The company said it’s reintroducing an iconic ’80s car as an electric vehicle, but some people who paid deposits now question whether it can deliver.
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Bad Takes: Recent shootings of San Antonio cops should be wake-up call about guns
As local leaders point fingers about the cause of the shootings, we should take a serious look at Texas’ lax firearms laws.
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Texas’ lockdown of its overheated state prisons is worsening an already volatile situation
Experts warn that the crackdown, which began Sept. 6, will only exacerbate already inhumane conditions inside Texas prisons.
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San Antonio’s eyeing a sports district to revitalize downtown, but economists are skeptical
San Antonio leaders are talking about luring the Spurs and the Missions downtown, but economic booms don’t always follow such moves.
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Texas’ years-long refusal to accept the Medicaid expansion has dire consequences for the working poor
Texas is the nation’s most uninsured state, and San Antonio residents live with the consequences of leaders’ refusal to take federal money to expand coverage.
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CityScrapes: San Antonio’s ‘doom loop’ shows city’s downtown missteps
Downtown’s sky-high vacancy rate for prime commercial real estate raises troubling questions, both about the future of downtown and more importantly, about how we make public policy.
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Bad Takes: The Texas GOP’s book banning has nothing to do with protecting kids
This book-ratings regime has little to do with protecting schoolchildren from sexual trauma and predation.
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San Antonio’s budget boost for Animal Care Services not enough, critics say
Animal advocates assert that the city has allowed its stray-animal problem to fester for too long.
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Bad Takes: Jason Aldean’s claims of patriotism and victimhood both ring hollow
Fans of Aldean’s ‘Try That in a Small Town’ defend it as an endorsement of ‘law and order.’ But aren’t there constitutional protections afforded to symbolic speech?
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New advocates are calling for a San Antonio-Austin rail line, but we’ve been down this track before
A San Antonio-Austin rail connection could reduce traffic congestion on I-35 by as much as 20%, according to a recent report.
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Bad Takes: Worker deaths show that climate change is real and demands immediate action
Upwards of 20,000 adult deaths in the U.S. from 2008 to 2017 were linked to extreme heat.
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Bad Takes: Robert Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine claims aren’t just bullshit, they’re dangerous bullshit
During a recent installment of his show, Joe Rogan permitted Robert Kennedy’s busted sewer main’s-worth of hazardous falsehoods to gush out, un-fact-checked.
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The Wemby Effect: Wembanyama is putting his mark on San Antonio. It could be costly to keep him here.
‘My blueprint for the Spurs is do what you can to build a superteam around him, keep him happy and win a championship; that might be your best bet for keeping him around,’ one sports marketing expert said.