The San Antonio Police Department announced Monday it' [...]
edited by: Ted McLaughlin,
Texas Editor
The San Antonio Police Department announced Monday it' [...]
Researchers at Texas A&M University believe the key to saving lives in battle may lie in the state of metabolic depression known as hibernation.
Under an 18-month, $9.9 million Defense Department grant, the university will examine ways to control blood loss, including stimulation of a [...]
Checks and balances, not so much.Joint polls will be conducted for the first time for an effort sponsored by the Houston Chronicle, Austin American-Statesman, The Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and San Antonio Express-News. [...] "Poor TxDOT has no money to build and maintain roadways" Despite Governor Rick Perry's promise to remove the Trans-Texas Corridor and additional toll roads from future plans, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) intends to build 37 toll roads in the San Antonio area of which [...]
I’m sure House Speaker Joe Straus is looking ahead to the 2011 session and stockpiling the Maalox and Excedrin.
Among the “interim charges” to 31 committees handed out by Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio – issues for lawmakers to study and consider – are examinations of tax changes that could [...]
If you're in San Antonio, even if you're not in Commissioner Precinct 4, please take some time tomorrow to swing by and meet Anna Campos
Wednesday, December 2nd
5:30 - 7:00 pm
Azuca
713 S. Alamo
San Antonio, TX 78205
More Texas Democrats are coming forward today in praise of Obama's Afghanistan policy.
Rep. Chet Edwards of Waco's stance isn't far from that of many Republicans: a troop surge is good, an arbitrary deadline for withdrawal is not. Rep. Charlie Gonzalez of San Antonio, called the Obama plan a "strong, well-reasoned'" [...]
Hard-nosed Texas prosecutor John “Marty” Bradley supports the death penalty. His mother, Shirley Bradley, remains a fervent opponent of it.
Her oldest son, John “David” Bradley, is an outspoken Republican leader among [...]
Fort Worth businessman Tom Schieffer is expected to drop out of the Texas governor's race later today, and Houston Mayor Bill White then will join the fray, according to a reliable source.
We now have a second reliable source telling us that White's switch to [...]
'Gaps for consumers in Democrat health care bills'
The Dallas-based law firm of Haynes and Boone saw two of its partners tapped by Speaker Joe Straus recently to serve on the Sunset Advisory Commission: Rep. Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas; and Lamont Jefferson of San Antonio (right), the brother of Texas Supreme Court [...]
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan faces a pretrial confinement hearing today at the San Antonio Army post where he lies paralyzed in a heavily guarded intensive-care unit.
Meanwhile, there are growing questions about the FBI's explanation for why it didn't investigate the psychiatrist months ago after' [...]
Council member Ron Natinsky has been elected to the National League of Cities board of directors.
Natinsky was elected at last week's meeting in San Antonio and becomes one of 23 board members with the league, an organization dedicated to advocating on behalf of [...]
"Adding to death penalty debate," is the title of Scott Stroud's column in today's San Antonio Express-News.
The death penalty is widely considered a settled question in Texas, but the arguments both for and against have rarely been more valid than now. And yet there are lessons for us here.
Gov. Rick Perry's [...]
