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U.S. Rep. Chip Roy among Republicans refusing to support Scalise's speaker bid
During his five years in the House, Roy has built a brand as a bomb thrower more interested in disrupting than governing.
By Sanford Nowlin
Tags: San Antonio News, U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, House Speaker, Steve Scalise, Michael Cloud, Kevin McCarthy, U.S. House
Assclown Alert: Playing Racial Prop Master with U.S. Rep. Chip Roy
The Black congressman Roy nominated to thwart Kevin McCarthy's bid 'is not a historic candidate for Speaker. He's a prop,' one critic fired back.
Tags: Assclown Alert, Assclown Alert, Chip Roy, House Speaker, San Antonio, Austin, Texas Hill Country, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, Florida, Texas, racial equity, Kevin McCarthy, U.S. Rep. Cori Bush
San Antonio Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich takes jabs at Republicans George Santos, Kevin McCarthy
The comments came after the Spurs held a shootaround at Baruch College, a school Santos lied about graduating from.
Tags: Sports & Recreation, San Antonio Spurs, Coach Gregg Popovich, George Santos, Kevin McCarthy, humiliation, NBA, basketball, professional sports, San Antonio, Baruch College, Brooklyn, Republicans, House Speaker, President Donald Trump, Gov. Greg Abbott
Bill banning transgender students from playing sports fizzles out in Texas House committee
Tags: Texas Legislature, transgender children, transgender students, transgender athletes, Texas American Federation of Teachers, Zeph Capo, Senate Bill 29, SB29, House Public Education Committee, House Speaker, Dade Phelan, anti-LGBTQ, LGBTQ issues, Texas politics
Medicaid expansion picks up bipartisan support in the Texas House, but hurdles remain
By Karen Brooks Harper, The Texas Tribune
Tags: Nathan Johnson, Medicaid Expansion, Julie Johnson, health insurance, uninsured, House Bill 3871, Texas Legislature, texas politics, Steve Allison, San Antonio, Healthy Families, Healthy Texas, Texas, Senate Bill 117, Perryman Group, health care, Dan Patrick, Gov. Greg Abbott, House Speaker, Dade Phelan
Proposal in Texas House would give special committee oversight of governor's pandemic orders
By Cassandra Pollock, The Texas Tribune
Tags: Texas governor, Greg Abbott, House State Affairs Committee, Texas House, House Speaker, Dade Phelan, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Brian Birdwell, Granbury, House Bill 3, Dustin Burrows, Texas Disaster Act of 1975, executive overreach, pandemic orders, pandemic, COVID-19, COVID, coronavirus
Channeling Texans' feelings, former House Speaker tells Ted Cruz to 'go f—k yourself'
Tags: Ted Cruz, John Boehner, go fuck yourself, Axios, memoir, Texas politics, U.S. Senate, House Speaker, Congress, Cancun, Winter Storm, electrical outages, Lucifer in the flesh, miserable son of a bitch, Mexico trip, blackouts power outages
Analysis: Is the Texas Capitol a government building or a petri dish?
By Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune
Tags: Texas Capitol, Texas legislature, pandemic, covid-19, coronavirus, House Speaker, Dade Phelan, Joe Deshotel, Beaumont, Michelle Beckley, Texas House, Texas Senate, infections, Texas politics, quarantine
Member of Texas House tests positive for COVID-19 days into the new legislative session
Tags: Texas legislature, pandemic, covid-19, covid, coronavirus, Sid Miller, Dennis Bonnen, Texas Agriculture Commissioner, House Speaker, Joe Deshotel, Beaumont, Dade Phelan, Texas House, masks, quarantine, Texas politics
Recession cuts how much lawmakers can spend with the next state budget, but decrease isn’t as bad as feared
By Mitchell Ferman, The Texas Tribune
Tags: Texas legislature, budget, recession, comptroller, pandemic, covid, covid-19, coronavirus, Glenn Hegar, economic stabilization fund, Texas Water Development Board, Greg Abbott, Dennis Bonnen, Dan Patrick, governor, house speaker
Trey Martinez Fischer becomes second Democrat to announce run for speaker of the Texas House
Tags: Texas House, Trey Martinez Fischer, San Antonio, Texas politics, November election, 2020 election, Senfronia Thompson, Dennis Bonnen, Democrats, House Speaker, Mexican American Legislative Caucus, Texas Legislature, House Business and Industry Committee
Texas counties say Abbott cutting police funds while threatening them if they do the same
Tags: Greg Abbott, municipalities, funding cuts, police funding, public safety funding, tax penalties, Bexar County, San Antonio, Nelson Wolff, Texas Democratic Party, Dallas County, Tarrant county, Clay Jenkins, Glen Whitle, Dan Patrick, House Speaker, Dennis Bonnen, texas governor, defund the police, black lives matter, BLM, police brutality, police accountability, Dallas morning news, police budgets, Texas Legislature
Analysis: The 2020 election and Texas’ incremental blues
Tags: Texas, election, November election, 2020 election, democrats, texas legislature, Texas House, House majority, Legislative Redistricting Board, Republicans, courts, taking the texas house, Texas politics, house speaker, laws, bills
Republican Former Texas Speaker Joe Straus Urges Supreme Court to Protect LGBTQ+ People From Job Discrimination
Tags: Joe Straus, San Antonio, Texas, Texas House, House Speaker, Supreme Court, LGBTQ, gay, transgender, Republicans, bathroom bill, Dan Patrick, Civil Rights Act
The Texas House Speaker Was Accused of Plotting Against Fellow Republicans. Here’s What We Know
By Troy Closson, The Texas Tribune
Tags: Dennis Bonnen, House Speaker, Republicans, Recording, tape, texas legislature, Dustin Burrows, Michael Quinn Sullivan, Steve Allison, Empower Texans, Travis Clardy, Drew Darby, Tan Parker, Jonathan Strickland, GOP, San Antonio, Texas Scorecard
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San Antonio-based DeLorean Motors ReImagined has shuttered its headquarters
By Michael Karlis
Much-anticipated Pullman Market opening at San Antonio's Pearl complex this Tuesday
By Nina Rangel
Gunter Hotel to bring South Korea-based bakery, cafe concept to San Antonio
South Texas congressional candidate raffles off firearm to raise money
Taste of New Orleans returned to Sunken Garden Theater this weekend, bringing a taste of the Big Easy to Fiesta San Antonio.…
By San Antonio Current Staff
Legendary California punk bands Bad Religion and Social Distortion brought their anthemic sounds to Boeing Center at Tech Port on Friday night. Here's…
The 31st annual WEBB Party took place Friday at the Witte Museum as part of Fiesta 2024. The gathering is one of…
A sprawling Castle Hills estate built in 1972 has hit the market for $895,000, and it retains plenty of its funky vintage…
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