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Published 18 minutes agoPolitically diverse coalition launches to push back against Texas data center development
An eclectic coalition of organizations has formed against data centers in Texas, bringing together civil rights leaders, environmentalists, rural advocates and more in the mounting bipartisan resistance to the facilities as they proliferate statewide. The group, called We the…
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Published 29 minutes agoCook Political Report shifts Democrat Bobby Pulido’s House race to ‘tossup’ 5 weeks from Election Day
Tejano singer-turned-congressional candidate Bobby Pulido got big news this week after the Cook Political Report shifted its forecast in the race for Texas’ 15th Congressional District one more notch in his direction. The nonpartisan newsletter that analyzes federal elections,…
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Published 49 minutes agoLive Music in San Antonio This Week: Rodrigo y Gabriela, Cannons, Of Monsters and Men
San Antonio alt-country performer Very Old Morris also is playing a free show.
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Published 56 minutes agoMexico-based seafood restaurant Baltico coming to North San Antonio
The original Baltico is based in Torreón, Mexico, so this marks the concept’s first expansion into Texas.
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Published 78 minutes agoAbbott orders pause of air permits for data centers. Experts question whether he has the authority.
Texas' governor is continuing his about face on data centers, and environmental groups question whether he can legally carry out his latest order.
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Published 116 minutes agoAustin man shot by ICE agent charged with assault, resisting arrest
Federal prosecutors have charged the Austin man an ICE agent shot earlier this month with a single count of resisting and assaulting a federal officer, according to court documents. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a Venezuelan national, was shot by an ICE officer in Austin on Sept.…
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Published 1 hour agoElon Musk has spent more than $6 million backing Ken Paxton’s Senate race over recent weeks
The billionaire's super PAC is also named in a legal filing alleging it used a corporate shell company to funnel even more money into politics and to bribe voters.
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Published 5 hours agoDodging debates — and democratic engagement — with Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton
Assclown Alert is a column of opinion, analysis and snark. Texas Republicans have spent decades cultivating the image that they’re tough hombres. They pose with guns. They vow to fight Washington, cartels, socialists, wokeness and whatever else Fox News reports is menacing the…
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Published 6 hours agoSan Antonio Spurs aim to turn NBA Finals heartbreak into motivation this season
'I’ll use it as fuel to the fire for the whole year and for years to come,' point guard Dylan Harper said.
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Published 23 hours agoKen Paxton argues for more data centers in Texas, saying ‘there’s plenty of open space’
Apparently deciding he wasn’t polling low enough, Texas Attorney General and U.S. Senate hopeful Ken Paxton has come out strongly in favor of more data center development. The breakneck expansion of data centers is disproportionately affecting Republicans in rural Texas, drawing…
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Published 23 hours agoJardín de las Catrinas celebrates Dia de los Muertos at San Antonio Botanical Garden
San Antonio Botanical Garden planted 10,000 marigolds and tapped local artist Regina Moya to create larger-than-life sculptures of El Catrina.
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Published September 28Texas Republican Bo French once called for hanging Barack Obama, records show
Republican Texas Railroad Commission candidate Bo French is grabbing headlines again, this time for an old tweet calling for the execution of the nation’s first Black president. In a May 2020 tweet uncovered by CNN, French — using a since-suspended X account — called for the…