By Andrew Oxford If students are less than energetic about returning to the classroom this month, at least a few young teachers hope to make up for that. Brandon Honore is one of them. “Teach for America brings a lot of energy to education,” Honore said. The Dallas native arrived in San Antonio with...
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David Dornak wants to kick God out of court. Hell, he’d deport Him from the country if he could, for all Judeo-Christian religious belief has done for the county (not to mention the poor and starving of the world, kept poor and starving in part by “well-meaning” self-professed Christians in Congress denying aid for...
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As the Lackland Air Force Base sex scandal continues to unfold, one-time whistle-blower and former navy lieutenant Paula Coughlin-Puopolo has filed a petition urging Congress to conduct its own formal investigation.
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North Texas fracking opponent Sharon Wilson, director of the Oil & Gas Accountability Project for the nonprofit environmental group Earthworks, received some startling insights into how some in the oil and gas industry view — and respond to — grassroots resistance to their work.
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State Rep. Miller doesn't think his understanding of climate change (or lack thereof) is relevent to his role as a state legislator.
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Bring a candle; make a sign.
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It’s true. Contrary to what others in the liberal media may want you to believe: “Ask a Mexican” is not universally loved by all. While I don’t savor making my grandmother angry (or getting the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce up in arms!), I do hope someone will take it upon themselves to do a...
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Diaz and others plan to rally at 1 p.m. tomorrow, Saturday October 15 at Columbus Park (corner of W. Martin and San Saba), and march through downtown to the old courthouse steps at 3:30 p.m.
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Our favorite (illustrated) letter to the editor (this year?). Speaking up for #occupysananto.
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The quick exodus of the Express-News' top two editors since Tuesday has, by all accounts, left a newsroom grasping for any real explanation. The day after executive editor Bob Rivard stepped down, sending a rosy email to staff that left more questions than answers, the paper's no. 2, Brett Thacker, quickly followed, emailing staff...
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Those Bastrop fires that have scorched 1,500 acres in Central Texas may also have also provided a killer blow to the endangered Houston Toad as the fires swept 60 percent of the toads' occupied habitat.
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The attacks of September 11 brought me back to the world. I had a year earlier retreated to a high desert outpost to run a startup weekly paper — ditching what felt like a natural progression from West Texas to Las Vegas with the goal of landing at some unknown major metro on one...
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2012 Best of San Antonio Food Winners List Best of 2012: 2012 Best of San Antonio Food Winners List 4/25/2012
¡Ask a Mexican! ASK A MEXICAN: Dear Mexican: Like many Americans, I’ve heard about the “Fast and Furious” scandal in which our own ATF was shown to be guilty and corrupt of... By Gustavo Arellano 5/19/2013
Stella Public House takes pizza and beer to the next level Food & Drink: The terms “wood-fired” and“brick oven pizza” have longbeen bandied about as guarantors of quality, though sadly they seldom ring true. What may arrive out... By Scott Andrews 5/15/2013
Chris Perez, husband of slain Tejana icon Selena, tells of romance, suffering Arts & Culture: In one of the final chapters of his book To Selena, With Love (out March 6), Selena's widower Chris Perez mentions that Abraham Quintanilla, his former father-in-law, once... By Enrique Lopetegui 3/7/2012
'The Flu Season' Arts & Culture: A quarter of the way through The Flu Season, Will Eno’s 2003 absurdist exercise set in a psychiatric hospital, patients in the TV room watch a report on how an entire family fell through early-winter ice and died. Skating on a thin dramatic surface, the pla By Steven G. Kellman 5/17/2013
2013 Tejano Conjunto Festival Explores The Genre's Family Tree Music: If San Antonio is the mecca of conjunto, then the Tejano Conjunto Festival serves as the genre’s hajj — a chance to pay homage to accomplished... By Jeffrey Wright 5/15/2013
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