UT-San Antonio lands $44 million contract to study health shortfalls in rural South

Chalk up another research win for UT-San Antonio. The university landed a five-year, $44 million contract from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the National Institutes of Health to study health disparities facing the rural South.   The project will make use of a custom-built, 50-foot

Texas took their licenses. Now these immigrant truckers face lost livelihoods, sense of betrayal

Veronica Viera loved watching Texas unfold from the driver’s seat of her bright pink 18-wheeler — the winding roads, the small towns, the sense of freedom — so losing her license in a government crackdown on legal immigrants was devastating. No more trips to and from Houston, listening to pop and Ch

San Antonio Zoo throws quinceañera for gorilla who turned 15

How often does one celebrate a birthday party for a Western Lowland Gorilla, let alone her quinceañera? And what in the hell do you wear? The San Antonio Zoo’s lovely Merry Leigh, a recent transplant from Atlanta, turned 15 this Saturday, and zoo officials invited the city to celebrate her right of

All the amazing culture we saw at Esperanza’s 17th Annual Paseo por el Westside

San Antonio’s West Side can’t be replaced. The Esperanza Peace and Justice Center on Saturday presented its 17th Annual Paseo por el Westside, celebrating the culture and history of the neighborhood and honoring the community’s struggle against destruction and displacement. More than 100 people gath