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Published 8 hours 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 9 hours 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 8 hours 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 9 hours 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 10 hours 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 13 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 14 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 September 28Ken 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 September 28Jardín 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…
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Published September 28U.S. House hopeful Brandon ‘AK Guy’ Herrera says he wishes COVID killed more fat people
Controversial Republican congressional candidate Brandon “AK Guy” Herrera said on a podcast that resurfaced last week that he wished COVID-19 had killed more fat people. Herrera, a gun influencer who has millions of YouTube followers, made the remarks on Elijah Schaffer’s…
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Published September 28Texas Democrat James Talarico accepts invitation to CNN Town Hall
Cable news outlet CNN and digital media company Jubilee Media on Monday confirmed that Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico has agreed to a televised Town Hall in Texas. The political discussion will air at 7 p.m. CST on CNN and stream on Jubilee’s YouTube channel. “A…