Soap Factory tenants will receive $2,500 relocation stipends before new year, city says

Tenants at the Soap Factory Apartments — the low-cost downtown housing complex slated for demolition — will get their long-awaited $2,500 relocation stipends before the new year, city officials confirmed Thursday afternoon. The city's release of a timeline for the payments may draw to close months o

Assclown Alert: Bragging about Texas’ dismal funding of public education with Gov. Greg Abbott

Assclown Alert is a column of opinion, analysis and snark. Amid Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest bilious bouts of border bluster, it might have been easy to overlook his recent spate of tweets congratulating himself for turning Texas’ education system into the pride of the nation. "Texas continues to be a

The big numbers attached to Project Marvel’s convention center expansion don’t add up

Cityscrapes is a column of opinion and analysis. The gradual — and remarkably partial — unveiling of the “Project Marvel” downtown sports and entertainment district continued earlier this month with the visit of two outside consultants and a few more details on the proposed expansion of the Henry B.

Civil-rights attorney Ben Crump sues San Antonio, county over jail inmate's death

Editor's note: This story was updated to include a statement from the city of San Antonio. Top civil-rights attorney Ben Crump filed a federal lawsuit Thursday accusing San Antonio and Bexar County of using excessive force that led to the death of jail inmate Daniel Pentkowski. The suit, filed in Sa