I doubled check just to be sure–the land adjacent to Camp Bullis is in district 8. Now, how is it that we have heard so little from the district 8 representative, Diane Cibrian, about the development issue? After all, this is the person who campaigned against development and it’s resulting congestion. This is the person [...]

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MySA.com: Metro | State
The City Council faces a $13 million shortfall in its 2009 budget, but it’s unwilling to cut existing programs or raise taxes to raise revenue for the coming budget year.
“How you do it, is basically you can’t do it,” Mayor Phil Hardberger said Tuesday. “You can’t make up a $13 million shortfall [...]

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Diane Cibrian for mayor?
MySA.com: City Council
While hedging on her Fiesta medal slogan, Cibrian did confirm that she has been exploring the idea ever since last fall, when she says a group of constituents asked her to consider running.
That would have been when she had logged less than six months on the council.
So what magnificent achievements [...]

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More on the South Side rezoning issue:
MySA.com: Editorials

Councilwoman Diane Cibrian is launching an effort to permanently add protection against similar mistakes in the future, and other council members are discussing preventive measures as well.
Cibrian wants an ordinance requiring that council be informed of any zoning decision impacting even nonbinding agreements and possibly an additional hearing.

Uhmmm, [...]

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MySA.com: South/East

Last month, City Council members shrugged off the recommendations of three advisory panels and city staffers as they granted a developer’s rezoning request to build a subdivision just over a mile from the center of Toyota’s pickup plant on the South Side.
And the council members thought this was a good idea because …? Given [...]

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MySA.com: Jaime Castillo | Politics

District 8 City Councilwoman Diane Cibrian said she’s “strongly considering” seeking the mayor’s office after only one term. On Friday, she said she’ll make a formal decision early next year.
So Cibrian wants to do for the entire city what she has done for District 8? Which is what exactly?
Property tax relief? [...]

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I received an District 8 email flash. It looks like someone wants to open a strip club in the now closed Hooligan’s Bar and Grill. Now let me say that I am in no way in favor of strip clubs in general and I would certainly choose not to live near one. And the [...]

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Some comments to my post on libraries last summer have been in the back of my mind ever since.
Dig Deeper Texas – Sometimes you have dig deeper to get past the bs » Libraries are a luxury

In all seriousness, if the Internet doesn’t satisfy, which is rarely the case, I find myself headed to UTSA [...]

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Interesting reading:
TTI: Urban Mobility Information: 2007 Annual Urban Mobility Report

The 2007 Urban Mobility Report builds on previous Urban Mobility Reports with an improved methodology and expanded coverage of the nation’s urban congestion problem and solutions.

According to the report, San Antonio would need to build 52 miles of new roads a year to maintain current levels [...]

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At least now we know why Cibrian wasn’t ever able to say during her campaign what programs she would cut from the budget.
MySA.com: Metro | State

Councilwoman Delicia Herrera, who supports the higher fees, said the council last year knew the extra $2 per month would turn up in the fiscal 2008 spending plan. “We all [...]

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