Last night, almost 250 attendees celebrated the photography of more than 100 Bexar County youngsters during the 2013 Picture Your World Youth Photography Contest award ceremony. More than $1,000 was awarded to two division (age group) winners and four runners-up. Sherry Christensen is program manager for the Picture Your World (PYW) Photography Project, organized by the [...]

It’s a fact: Highly educated, tech-savvy immigrants are vital to the nation’s entrepreneurial economy. Yet many who come to U.S. colleges and universities to hone their skills find themselves unable to stay after graduation because of outdated immigration laws. The face of innovation and entrepreneurship in the United States is clearly changing, making skilled foreign [...]

“What do you think of your teacher winning $5,000?” Judy Geelhoed, Executive Director of the SAISD Foundation, asks the students in Sarah Powell and Oralia Lopez’s first-grade classes. The room erupted into pint-sized pandemonium as students cheered their teacher. The grant, awarded by the SAISD Foundation will be used to purchase sketchbooks for every student [...]

Eat, drink, buy: Red Dot elevates artist profiles while enhancing the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum’s balance sheet. The annual fundraiser supports contemporary artists while cultivating patronage in the community, explained Blue Star President and Executive Director Bill FitzGibbons. This Wednesday visiting and local artists are invited to display a single work, while patrons are offered [...]

“You don’t look a day over 52,” he said to me with a purposeful wink. Bill Sinkin, who celebrated his 100th birthday last night at the University of Incarnate Word‘s Rosenberg Skyroom, speaks barely above a whisper but his wit and passions are loud and clear – and have been for a majority of his [...]

All great communities are ultimately defined not by their profits or product, but by their contributions to society, in culture, art and creativity—these are the things that transcend time. There is a direct tie between the growth and success of the cultural arts and economic development of a community. It is no accident that the [...]

To his credit, Texas Gov. Rick Perry last year called for Texas colleges and universities to offer a $10,000 baccalaureate degree. Several other governors and state legislators are following this lead, which is driving innovation as many colleges and universities are responding with creative strategies to achieve the goal. In fact, the Alamo Colleges, in [...]

Since 2008, the story of workers looking for jobs has become part of the narrative fabric of our media lives. At least if you listened to NPR during the nadir of the recession. But another story runs parallel to this one. The story of jobs unfilled, because the workforce cannot meet the educational and technical [...]

Like a lot of parents, I’ve absorbed the message: Music can make kids smarter. Learning to play an instrument could increase my daughter’s IQ. Reading music might enhance her math abilities. Listening to a little baroque could help her focus when she studies. And then there’s just the simple joy of music, of course – [...]

. Dedicated to Rosie Castro, mother of our Honorable Major, Julián Castro hey no digan que es chisme caliente cuando se juntó la gente un diá en el market square pa’ celebrate a las moms por ser a toda madre ¡y también bien padre! it was the unveiling of a mural the mother of the [...]