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La Prensa de San Antonio Publisher Nina Duran announced in a Facebook post Monday, June 11th that San Antonio’s largest bilingual newspaper is shutting down. The move came days after the paper announced they were planning to cease print operations. Not to be confused with the upcoming bilingual news source, La Prensa Texas, Duran explained […]
Dead Southsider Inspires UHS Tax Cut Who says that ordinary people can’t make a difference? Thousands of Bexar County senior citizens will receive a $10,000 dollar property tax exemption for University Health System (UHS) taxes, thanks to the late southsider Robert Koenig’s suggestion to Commissioner Tommy Calvert of Bexar County’s Precinct 4. In June of […]
A resolution was passed by SAWS Board of Trustees approving amendments to the SAWS Utility Service Regulations in favor of small businesses. The Single Customer Extension Payment Plan assists individual customers with the costs for SAWS’ extension of water and wastewater services to their residence or small business. This payment plan applies to single-family residential […]
The Bexar County Commissioner’s Court voted on Tuesday, June 5, 2018 to approve a 100 percent tax incentive for HEB lasting for 10 years. This move allows the grocery company to build a new distribution and manufacturing center in rural East Bexar County. The incentive will relieve HEB of over $3.8 million in taxes […]
Millions of dollars in business contracts from public tax institutions City of San Antonio, San Antonio Water System and VIA Metropolitan Transit were presented to a full house of minority business leaders at the Fair Contracting Coalition, FCC, monthly meeting Wednesday, May 29, 2018 at Atlas Paint and Body. The trio dropped this contract trove […]
The Life, Love and Legacy of “Marvelous Mel” The musical accomplishments of San Antonio’s own Blues Legend Mel Waiters is impressive, however, after a unanimous vote by the San Antonio Mayor and City Council in Chambers late last week it is clear his heart of gold was the driving force behind the street name changing […]
Petitions have been signed and now San Antonio Mayor and City Councilmembers are conducting the Final VOTE on honoring San Antonio “Hole in the Wall” Blue’s legend Mel Waiters. Join at Municipal Plaza to show your support this Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 8:30a.m., 114 W. Commerce St. Mel Waiters, a native San Antonian, was […]
San Antonio, Texas — Bexar County’s “Servant Leader” Philanthropist and Businessman Harvey Najim was live on KROVFM.com Thursday, May 10th with Host Tommy Calvert and Jim Eskin with Alamo Colleges to discuss social trends with nonprofit giving and corporations to moving the needle in our community with a workforce qualified to handle medical field and […]
The following write-ups describe the mural at the corner of E. Commerce and S. Mesquite Streets as was presented to the community on May 1, 2018-Artist Rudy Herrera Hattie Elam Briscoe—Top Right By Mario Marcel Salas According to documents at the UTSA Library, in the Special Collections Department of the John Peace Library, Hattie Elam […]
