Education
Compass Rose Academy Sets Course for Southeast SA
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Compass Rose Academy will move into a building formerly occupied by Brooks Estrella Academy on the city’s Southeast side.
Education
UTSA Pursues Progress Against Alzheimer’s, Cancer, and Biological Warfare
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UTSA scientists are making progress in prevention and treatment to greatly reduce the morbidity associated with Alzheimer’s disease, tularemia, and cancer.
Education
New Departments Herald Changes, Innovation for SAISD
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On the former Pickett Academy campus, SAISD will house two new departments: the Department of Family and Community Engagement and the Office of Innovation.
Gov & Politics
Amid ‘Bathroom’ Furor, Transgender People Want to Speak for Themselves
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Police officers, civil rights groups, and others have blasted the “bathroom bill.” But transgender people see one voice missing from the discussion: theirs.
Gov & Politics
City Leaders, Law Enforcement, Advocates Clear the Air on Immigrant Rights
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Elected leaders, San Antonio Police Department officials, and immigrant advocacy groups met to clarify local law enforcement’s role in immigration issues.
Education
New President Taylor Eighmy Sees UTSA as ‘University of the Future’
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The UT System announced Eighmy as the sole finalist for the position on June 30 after a 10-month search process.
Public Safety
Truck Driver Offers Doubtful Account of Migrants’ Tragic Journey to San Antonio
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The driver of a tractor-trailer that became a death chamber for 10 immigrants crossing into Texas from Mexico and left nearly 30 others suffering from heat-related injuries and trauma has given federal investigators an unconvincing account of events.
Gov & Politics
Calls for Compassion and Action at Vigil for Human Smuggling Victims
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A memorial service quickly turned political amid a rancorous statewide debate over Senate Bill 4, the so-called “sanctuary cities” bill.
crime
One More Immigrant Dead, Driver Identified in ‘Horrific’ Human Smuggling Incident
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Heat exposure and asphyxiation claimed the lives of at least eight people discovered inside a tractor-trailer in the parking lot of a Southside Walmart in San Antonio.
Gov & Politics
Nirenberg Testifies Against ‘Bathroom Bill’
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Speaking to the State Affairs committee of the Texas Senate Friday, Mayor Ron Nirenberg gave opposing testimony to legislation known as the “bathroom bill.”