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Three-point seat belt law could cost Texas schools millions
1+ hour, 22+ min ago (1366+ words) " Local news that's actually local. Local school districts say it's not "financially feasible" to install three-point seat belts on all school buses, even though the state expects them to by the 2029-30 school year. "This is a classic, classic unfunded mandate,…...
No "silver bullet: Bexar County grapples with jail diversion costs
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (1129+ words) Get live education election results Amid a growing conversation on diversion, Bexar County officials say keeping people out of jail will take more than any single solution " as a wide-ranging discussion this week made clear there is no single "silver…...
Our kids are telling us they're hurting. Are we listening?
1+ week, 3+ day ago (544+ words) Something shifted in San Antonio's teenagers between 2022 and 2024. And we have available data because we asked them. That kind of insight is only possible when we are willing " and able " to ask the right questions through avenues like the 2026 Teen…...
Cornyation goes to town on San Antonio's City Council drama
1+ week, 4+ day ago (621+ words) It's the final hours of our spring campaign and we still need your help. Between now and tomorrow, every gift will be matched up to $5, 000. Will you help us cross the finish line? Editor's note: This story includes colorful language…...
City plans events to discuss past, future of affordable housing bond
1+ week, 5+ day ago (460+ words) It's the final hours of our spring campaign and we still need your help. Between now and tomorrow, every gift will be matched up to $5, 000. Will you help us cross the finish line? Last week, San Antonio City Council approved…...
How San Antonio schools are implementing panic button mandates
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (1389+ words) The halls of Shepard Middle School are calm on a recent Thursday morning: the bell rings, students move from one room to another without a hitch and teachers greet them at the door. Safety and ease blanket the campus off…...
From hotel to sub-surface transit: Gordon Hartman reveals plans
2+ week, 21+ hour ago (981+ words) The world's first ultra-accommodating hotel will open later this year even as another ambitious project is brewing beneath the surface of the former quarry in Northeast San Antonio. Construction crews have completed framing and started putting up sheetrock on Morgan's…...
Too few students: NISD paused bond projects at these schools
4+ week, 1+ hour ago (984+ words) " Local news that's actually local. Northside Independent School District is not making building improvements at nine of its more than 80 elementary schools. When voters in NISD passed a $992 million school bond in 2022, the district accessed funds for major facelifts, including…...
What to know about VIA Metropolitan Transit's growing police force
3+ week, 1+ day ago (745+ words) VIA Metropolitan Transit " the regional transit authority that operates bus service across most of Bexar County " has named a new chief of transit police of the relatively small but wide-reaching law enforcement agency. Joseph R. Rose, who most recently served in…...
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones revives plan to fine landlords rejecting vets
3+ week, 3+ day ago (660+ words) Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones wants to ban landlords from turning down people who pay their rent through a veterans" housing voucher, but colleagues on the City Council are hesitant to green-light a policy they say could put unfair requirements on…...