AT&T: Telecommuting is for the masses

AT&T Moving Headquarters to Dallas - NYTimes.com
AT&T, the nation’s largest telecommunications company, said Friday it is moving its corporate headquarters to Dallas from San Antonio for easier access to customers and operations around the world.
Does anyone else find it ironic that a communication company that is in the business of bringing people closer together electronically […]

Haven’t they heard of the telephone?

AT&T is moving its headquarters from San Antonio to Dallas - San Antonio Business Journal:
AT&T Inc., the world’s largest telecom company, is moving its corporate headquarters from San Antonio to Dallas.
In a statement released this afternoon, AT&T says the move is meant to help it gain better access to its customers and operations throughout […]

Zen Center grand opening today

XMySA.com: Metro | State
The Zen Center will hold a grand opening celebration at 3 p.m. today at 1442 W. Woodlawn Ave., and teachers from the Austin and Houston Zen Centers will be present to dedicate the new site.
For more information and schedule visit San Antonio Zen Center.

Express News Readers Choice awards

Express-News Readers’ ChoiceI just couldn’t help myself. I personally wouldn’t put Whataburger on the top of burger chains in San Antonio but it did give my daughter a nice boost because she works there.

Don’t leave your phone number at Methodist

I just heard about a family where the grandmother had been in Methodist Hospital and had apparently accidentally activated the internet service provided in the room. I say accidentally because the woman was in her 90’s and had trouble figuring out the remotes and the phones.
One of the family members had left his phone number […]

Surely Cibrian knows the answer

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 […]

Saturday’s election results

Online

PRECINCTS COUNTED (OF 625). . . . . 625 100.00
REGISTERED VOTERS - TOTAL . . . . . 880,454
BALLOTS CAST - TOTAL. . . . . . […]

OLLU fire

MySA.com: Jaime Castillo | Politics
On the morning after, the onlookers crowded sidewalks, rode bikes and jammed into cars to take stock of Our Lady of the Lake University.
Like the one motorist who leaned a disposable camera out his window on a slow cruise by, the throng on the outside was trying to comprehend what […]

Voting on Saturday

KVIA.com El Paso, Las Cruces - Weather, News, Sports - San Antonio-area voters to decide on visitor tax
Bexar County voters will decide whether to extend a 1.75% tax on hotel rooms and 5% tax on short-term car rentals to fund four separate propositions. They would make improvements to the San Antonio River, build new […]

Cibrian for Mayor

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 […]