Cities & Counties
New Braunfels wants to improve its downtown parking experience
By Edmond Ortiz New Braunfels officials are exploring how best local residents and downtown merchants could benefit more from the city’s fledgling managed downtown parking program. A parking system overview Council was briefed Feb. 23 on the city’s 6-month-old downtown managed parking program, which has gotten mixed reviews from New Braunfels residents and affected business…
San Antonio council votes 8-1 to formally censure mayor
By Edmond Ortiz Eight San Antonio City Council members voted Feb. 27 to officially censure Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones for violating the city’s code of conduct and workplace anti-harassment policy. What you should know The reprimand comes less than one month after a widely reported Feb. 5 argument between Jones and District 1 Councilmember Sukh…
Boerne proceeds with designs for new animal shelter, police dispatch center
By Edmond Ortiz The city of Boerne is partnering with onr architectural company on two separate projects that will yield a new municipal animal shelter and a new police dispatch area. New animal shelter Boerne City Council on Feb. 24 passed consent agenda items covering the two projects. Council authorized city staff to execute a…
News Briefs (Feb. 25): VIA says no to free fares; Selma to build public safety training center; Leon Valley OKs monument site, sustainability pledge
By Edmond Ortiz A decision by San Antonio’s mass transit agency to not pursue a free-fare program highlights this round of news briefs. Elsewhere, Selma is getting ready to build a fire and police emergency training complex, and Leon Valley has both finalized a location for a public veterans’ monument, and opted to continue a…
Converse seeks to fill City Council vacancy
By Edmond Ortiz Eligible Converse residents interested in joining the City Council have until 5 p.m. March 9 to apply for a vacant council position. Sylvia Meyer, who had been elected to Place 4 council seat in 2022 and re-elected in 2024, recently departed her council post. Whomever is appointed to replace Meyer will fill…
City Council to vote on censuring the mayor Feb. 27
By Edmond Ortiz Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones will face a censure vote Feb. 27 from City Council for allegedly violating the city’s code of conduct. Following a two-hour closed session discussion Feb. 23, the council proceeded to schedule the censure vote. That meeting begins at 10 a.m. Five council members sent a memo to city…
See who is running for a council or school board seat on May 2
Feb. 13 marked the end of the filing period for the May 2 local elections, and more than one dozen San Antonio-area cities and school districts will have contested races. Local government entities such as New Braunfels and the Alamo Heights Independent School District will have multiple contests while voters in Kirby, Shavano Park, the…
Nirenberg/Sakai match headlines county elections among San Antonio-area primaries
By Edmond Ortiz A contest between San Antonio’s previous mayor and the current Bexar County judge is among the San Antonio-area county races that are featured in local Democratic and Republican primaries, which are set for March 3. More than 12,000 Bexar County voters participated in the first day of early voting, Feb. 17, ahead…
Early primary voting underway in 11 San Antonio-area Texas House, Senate districts
By Edmond Ortiz Voters in 11 San Antonio-area state legislative districts began casting votes Feb. 17 ahead of the March 3 Democratic and Republican primaries. State Senate District 19 Democratic incumbent Roland Gutierrez has no challenger in his effort to continue representing a state Senate district that covers east, south and far West San Antonio,…
41 San Antonio-area Congressional candidates enter early voting ahead of March 3 primaries
By Edmond Ortiz Early voting begins Feb. 17 for the March 3 primaries, and 41 Democrats and Republicans are eyeing four San Antonio-area Congressional seats, two of which are considered by political observers as being wide open for the taking. U.S. Representative, District 21 Republican Chip Roy is running for the GOP nomination in a…