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The University Health System will seek approval from the Bexar County Commissioners Court on Tuesday, July 12, 2022 for $500 million dollars for 2 new hospitals in northeast Bexar County and South Central Bexar County. The ball got rolling on both projects from two separate experiences about three years apart from Precinct 4 County Commissioner […]
Republic Golf Course, Southeast Baptist Hospital, Hotwells Park, UIW Medical School Part of Commissioner’s Turn Around Legacy In a video, posted Monday, November 15, 2021, Commissioner Tommy Calvert laid out the latest plan to ensure that blight is not the fate of the former Republic Golf Course, located on the southeast side. On September 14, […]
To Honor Indigenous People and promote reconciliation, Calvert selects a new monumentlocation, provides more funding, and creates a diverse Oversight Committee to promote unity Bexar County Commissioner Tommy Calvert Jr. will announce that Pletz County Park will be the new location of a Buffalo Soldiers monument. The monument and its process will initiate efforts to […]
El Paso, Texas (CNN)Luis Calvillo was so eager to see his girls running and chasing soccer balls that when he came home after being hospitalized for months, he just took a shower and got in the car again.But at the soccer practice, the head coach of the El Paso Fusion Soccer Club was moving slowly […]
I did not serve — and would not do it again — just so my country could turn into a nation that would rather build walls than bridges. My boots first stepped down on Vietnam’s soil in midsummer 1969, in between the Apollo moon landing and the Woodstock music festival. I had just wrapped up […]
WASHINGTON — Former U.S. Ambassador William Taylor, who’s emerging as an unlikely central player in the events at the heart of the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, arrived on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to testify. The retired career civil servant declined to comment as he entered the area for the closed-door hearing. But his testimony will […]
Veteran US Democratic congressman Elijah Cummings, who was heavily involved with the Trump impeachment inquiry, has died at the age of 68. His office said he had died as a result of “longstanding health challenges”. As chairman of the House of Representatives Oversight Committee, he had instigated several investigations into the Trump administration. He also […]
In light of the shooting tragedy in El Paso, Texas, Wal Mart’s CEO calls out Congress. (CNN)The world’s largest brick-and-mortar retailer says it’s time for Congress to act on gun control.The CEO of Walmart sent a letter to Congress on Tuesday demanding lawmakers “do their part.” It comes one month after a gunman killed more than 20 people in […]
In the wake of a shooting in El Paso, Texas , that left 20 dead and dozens more injured, people wasted no time heading to blood donation centers and stood on line for hours for the chance to help Hours later, another community was left reeling in the wake of a mass shooting, after a […]
In Local News – Bexar County Precinct 3 reserve constable deputy Calloway Lawson was suspended for one month after disparaging Facebook comments and threatening emails he left for a woman he thought reported him to Facebook. It all started with a post on social media. In December 2018, a conservative New Braunfels resident took to […]
