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San Antonio residents have three more town halls to discuss $4 billion budget
Two of the meetings are scheduled for Thursday, and the last will take place Saturday.
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Fired San Antonio poet laureate sues the city over his removal
Nephtalí De León is seeking $7,000 in damages and for the city to retract its statement explaining his firing.
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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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Owner of San Antonio nightspot Bentley’s has 2 new concepts in the works
McFlys Bar and Just Like Heaven will share a nearly 5,000-square-foot structure at 829 N. Alamo St.
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Displaced to Death: Encampment sweeps increase death rates among the unhoused
Encampment sweeps in unhoused communities result in thousands of unnecessary deaths every year, a former City of San Antonio outreach worker writes.
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Critics want outside leader at San Antonio ACS, but two finalists are current staffers
San Antonio’s embattled Animal Care Services department is looking for a replacement for director Shannon Sims, who quietly retired last week.
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Bentley’s Bar shut down by City of San Antonio, pending code-violation, noise investigation
City officials delivered a cease-and-desist letter to the owner of Bentley’s downtown nightspots, a news site reports.
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San Antonio Food Bank CEO to lead 2024 Battle of Flowers Parade
The parade, themed ‘¡VIVA AMOR 2024!’ will take place April 26.
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New electric scooter company Veo rolls into San Antonio
Veo plans on deploying 1,000 scooters in San Antonio this fall, and some area already cruising downtown streets.
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More than 45 employers looking to hire at Goodwill San Antonio career fair
Amazon, the City of San Antonio, Marriott International and Zachary Construction Corp. will be among the employers present.
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Construction closing parts of San Antonio’s Lower Broadway until December
The project is part of the 2017 Lower Broadway bond project, scheduled for completion in Summer 2024.
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City of San Antonio sues Texas over newly adopted ‘Death Star’ bill
Houston has already sued over the Republican-backed law, which would strip municipalities of local control.
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San Antonio launches pilot program to reduce extreme heat risks with cool pavement installation
If successful, the program could be expanded to other areas of the city in coming years.
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San Antonio twins ridiculed on TikTok after calling out city’s most dangerous neighborhoods
Users mocked the pair for filming their clip while standing on what appears to be a quiet suburban street.
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San Antonio declares victory in bid to move Brackenridge birds. Wildlife experts question that.
Environmental experts question where the birds will go — or if they’ll just head to another part of the park.
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City of San Antonio widens effort to scare off migratory birds to Woodlawn and Elmendorf lakes
City officials said they’re unsure where the birds will go once chased away. Wildlife advocates said they’ll likely end up in neighborhoods.
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CityScrapes: San Antonio owes the public better transparency on its delayed construction projects
Too many delays and too many unexplained disruptions might well lead to far more ‘no’ votes on the next big bond program.
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Environmentalists blast San Antonio’s attempt to relocate Brackenridge Park birds
Large swaths of the near-downtown park are now closed to the public while work crews try to frighten away migratory birds.
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San Antonio Council OKs eminent domain takeover of Moses Rose’s to make way for Alamo center
The owner has held out for a higher price, saying officials behind the project never entered into serious negotiations.
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Moses Rose’s, Best Quality Daughter: San Antonio’s biggest food stories of the week
Most of our top food news stories this week focused on fun new tidbits for local foodies, but the most-read story wasn’t quite so lighthearted.
