Texas Type As San Antonio considers building another stadium downtown — the next one being considered for either another Spurs stadium or its AA baseball team, the Missions — the Alamodome continues to stand out on the city’s skyline. The distinctive building with its design resembling a big top ten...

‘Robin Hood’ still takes, even when the district could use the money After our story last week on Fredericksburg Independent School District’s board of trustees adopting the option to use “virtual teachers” as a last resort, we heard “that’s stupid” more than once. The program would place cameras an...

STATE CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS By Gary Borders Customs and Border Patrol and reported by The Texas Tribune. Border Patrol agents apprehended 83,356 migrants in June across the southern border, down from 117,901 in May and the lowest since January 2021, the month President Joe Biden took office. “Recent bo...

My aging air-conditioning unit has been on my mind a lot lately. With two sons in their final year of college, the old savings account has been taking...

Robin Hood Every year since the mid-1990s, the State of Texas has “recaptured” some of the school taxes collected by “rich” school districts for redis...

Texas Type Tennyson said it’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Similarly, having Alcoa in my hometown — even having clos...