Blogs: Newsmonger

If you find yourself wandering the River Walk or downtown streets in the coming days, chances are you’ll run into one of these ballot box-strapped organizers (pictured above). Mostly downtown service workers and organizers with Unite Here!, here’s a very crude breakdown of what they’ll ask: When you get a “service charge” on your bill,...
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  Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is calling for an investigation into a dolphin injured at SeaWorld San Antonio, filing a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Tuesday. PETA provided photos an anonymous visitor took during a Dec. 9 trip to the park showing a bottlenose dolphin with...
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San Antonio lost a bright light in the local art scene yesterday. Krisanne Frost, well-known local artist and the gallery liaison at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, died December 6 from cancer at age 61 after being diagnosed just weeks ago. Born in Houston, she spent much of her youth in the Hill Country....
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A group of local activists and East Side residents continue to fight the city-approved deal to build microbrewery next to the Hays Street Bridge, filing a lawsuit in Bexar County Court Thursday claiming the City of San Antonio violated an agreement with a local community group to turn the area into a park. In...
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City Council Thursday is set to consider tighter restrictions for strip clubs and other so-called sexually oriented businesses, just the latest move in the city’s years-long fight to crack down on San Antonio’s naked club scene. The proposed changes drafted by San Antonio Police Chief William McManus and Council’s Public Safety Committee would increase...
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State Rep. Mike Villarreal, D-San Antonio, has again filed a bill that would ban Texas employers from discriminating against LGBT workers. Villarreal’s HB 238, filed Monday, would keep companies from discriminating against workers because of their sexual orientation of gender identity/expression. (Read the top of Villarreal’s bill if you need further explanation for “gender...
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A 19-year veteran of Texas’ highest criminal court has a warrant out for his arrest for refusing to pay a 4 year old $193 speeding ticket, reports the Austin American-Statesman this morning. The warrant stems from the years-long battle Lawrence Meyers, the longest serving member of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, has fought...
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When Monica Caban first came to in a hospital bed, doctors told her there was little chance she’d ever walk again. A triathlete weeks away from competing in the Arizona Ironman, Caban, 39, was in the best shape of her life when an elderly driver struck her from behind while biking with a friend...
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Over the past four years members of the Congressional drone caucus, which continues to push for open U.S. skies for unmanned aerial vehicles, have drawn nearly $8 million in campaign contributions from drone makers, according to a new investigation from Hearst Newspapers and the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. Drone-related companies have used the...
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What connects a bunch of San Antonio-based evangelicals to Mideast foreign policy? Answer: John Hagee.
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Saluté International Bar, closer than ever to obtaining landmark status. It is now up to City Council.
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  At a protest last month, John Jay High School sophomore Andrea Hernandez called the school’s newly-mandated student-tracking system a violation of her religious rights. “I feel that it’s the implementation of the Mark of the Beast,” she told Infowars.com, the brainchild of Austin-based libertarian and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. For months Hernandez and...
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