A picture is worth?

Sometimes, I really have to wonder about the Express-News. Today they’re doing a story on traffic that started on the front cover. I didn’t even start reading the text on the inside because I was stopped by a very large picture with the following description.
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Bandera Road at Loop 1604 on a recent […]

San Antonio City Council District 7

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City Councilwoman Elena Guajardo and challenger Justin Rodriguez are waging door-to-door combat across District 7 in one of this year’s most competitive city races.Unlike other candidates looking to unseat council incumbents May 12, Rodriguez isn’t running a cash-poor campaign and, as a board member of the San Antonio Independent School District, he’s already got […]

Early voting starts today!!!!

Bexar County Elections
Calendar of EventsApril 30, 2007
Early Vote Starts *
* Early Vote Calendar & Polling Locations
* Sample Ballot
Time to vote, time to vote, time to vote. The links above will bring you to pdfs with polling locations and a sample ballot. Early voting ends on the 8th. Vote smart people. […]

McCurdy doing a disservice to Christians

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A former pastor, he says the Almighty tapped him to run for mayor, and that part of the agenda God gave him is property tax relief.
McCurdy, 53, advocates cutting the property tax rate by 10 percent — though he isn’t sure where in the city’s budget to make up the lost revenue — and […]

District 8 - Diane Cibrian

Another case of garbage disposal service trauma.
 
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The cornerstone of Cibrian’s campaign has been providing tax relief by cutting the city’s property tax rate. She said it would be possible to do this without cutting services because the city’s tax base has grown exponentially.”
The city of San Antonio needs to accept less money […]

District 8 ramblings-Jacob Dell

So what happen to Districts 4, 5, 6, and 7? What can I say, we’ve been slacking off. And I happen to live in District 8.
 
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And so District 8 remains one of the most heavily contested races for an open seat, with six candidates of vastly different backgrounds: Gloria Sanchez, a retired […]

Perry playing with scare tactics

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AUSTIN — With the Texas House poised to consider a border security bill and state budget writers deciding how much to spend, Gov. Rick Perry told a Pittsburgh newspaper some border-crossers with al-Qaida ties have been apprehended.”The information that we have is that there have been individuals who have crossed, and some that have […]

Leon Valley will host voter forum

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Candidates for the Leon Valley City Council, Places 1 and 5, have been invited to a forum being hosted April 30 by the League of Women Voters.
The forum will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Leon Valley Conference Center, 6425 Evers Road. The election is May 12.
For more information, call (210) 921-5022.

Nice place to fish in San Antonio

MySA.com: Braunig and Calaveras lakes are easy on anglers - and the gas tank, too
San Antonio Express-News
Southeast Bexar County’s big backyard lakes, Braunig and Calaveras, offer a wide variety of fishing and camping experiences within 30 minutes of downtown San Antonio.
No revelation in that statement; more like a reminder that Central Texas residents […]

Sorry, no one has ever heard of Rackspace

MySA.com: Business
San Antonio’s fastest-growing technology company, Rackspace Managed Hosting, might move its headquarters to the Windsor Park Mall.
Or it might move out of state.
Other states are actively recruiting Rackspace, which has 1,612 employees including 1,250 in San Antonio, said Lanham Napier, Rackspace’s chief executive officer.
So give them Windsor Park Mall already, it’s still cheaper than […]