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Pastor Charles Flowers says he plans to fight for his right to discriminate. That is, against “the homosexuals, the transsexuals,” and any other permutation of human sexuality that doesn’t fit the man+woman=child patch he and other supporters wore on their lapels in the City Council chambers Tuesday afternoon. After two years of pushing from...
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Texas Monthly’s BBQ Twitter sparked a rivalry of the meatier sort between Memphis and San Antonio this week, and San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro has gotten in on the fun. After a virtual nudge from the Texas mag, Mayor Castro decided to put his BBQ where his mouth is and wager tasty smoked meats from The...
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(photo courtesy sascorpions.com) In front of a crowd of 8,117 fans that included Mayor Julián Castro, the San Antonio Scorpions lost 0-2 to defending champions Tampa Bay Rowdies Saturday night at Toyota Field. Even though the Rowdies were clearly the better team, the Scorpions again showed their usual fighting spirit and did have several...
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San Antonio wonder twins, Mayor Julián Castro and Congressman Joaquin Castro are slated for a profile in Vogue’s esteemed March issue, the power issue, which this year features fellow Texan Beyonce on its cover. Photographed by the incomparable Annie Leibovitz and penned by Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief of the Slate Group and prolific political journalist, the piece entitled...
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It’s Fat Tuesday and Downtown Tuesday couldn’t be luckier to be celebrating its One-Year Anniversary on a day famed for food, beer, beads and mischief. “San Antonians need to know, if you haven’t been downtown in a while, you don’t know what you’re missing,” said Mayor Castro at the anniversary press conference at Ocho Lounge earlier...
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With recent ethical lapses casting a pall over City Hall, Mayor Julian Castro this month announced the creation of an ethics auditor. The new watchdog position would be responsible “for helping to achieve a high-caliber ethical culture and maintain that culture here.” The move came after Castro and City Manager Sheryl Sculley for months downplayed complaints...
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The Castro twins continue to play their role as national Democratic darlings, appearing Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation” with Bob Schieffer. After a couple minutes of light banter with Schieffer about being twins (like, did they try to deceive the 2005 River Parade crowd when Joaquin quietly filled in for Julian?), the Castros...
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Watch Jimmy Fallon's take on Mayor Julián Castro's keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention.
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As snippets of Mayor Julián Castro's speech at the DNC began to leak hours before his big showing beneath the bright lights of Charlotte's Time Warner Cable Arena, it was clear San Antonio would get a tase of a Castro we've never quite seen before: an attack dog with a partisan bite.
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When San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro unveiled his ambitious SA2020 vision for the City last year, I had mixed reactions. I really wanted to be jazzed. The idea as a whole is good one. I totally believe in creating community, collaborations, and making positive changes for the good of all our citizens. But, I...
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Carmen Tafolla is the award-winning author of more than twenty books, for both children and adults, and has received numerous recognitions and literary awards, the most recent being named by Mayor Julián Castro as the Inaugural Poet Laureate of San Antonio. San Antonio is the first major city in Texas to name a Poet Laureate....
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With the presence of City and team officials, including Mayor Julián Castro and team founder Gordon Hartman, the SA Scorpions held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Community Stadium to be inaugurated in 2013. The Scorpions are the latest expansion team of the North American Soccer League, the second-division professional league in the USA....
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