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City Staff Pay
9:45 am
Tue March 19, 2013

Is $85,000 Per Year Too Much For A City Councilman To Pay An Office Manager?

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District 5 Councilman David Medina joins Burbank High School students on the Alamo Colleges' Mobile Go Center in late Feb.
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A San Antonio resident is demanding an explanation from District 5 City Councilman David Medina for the salaries that he pays his staffers.

Democratic Party activist David Plylar filed a freedom of information request to the city of San Antonio asking for details of how much Medina is paying his top staff.

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Elected Officials
6:50 am
Tue March 19, 2013

El Paso Lawmaker Apologizes For Alleged Drunk Driving Incident

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  • Rep. Naomi Gonzalez apology before the House Floor for alleged DWI

After being arrested, booked and released from jail for allegedly driving while intoxicated, Rep. Naomi Gonzalez, D-El Paso, apologized to the entire Texas House.

During this year’s South by Southwest festival, Gonzalez is alleged to have been driving drunk when she hit another motorist, which caused a cyclist to be injured in process. 

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Community Health
1:58 pm
Mon March 18, 2013

Could City And Public Space Design Help Solve Obesity Crisis?

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Dr. Thomas Schlenker says buildings once encouraged people to climb the stairs by installing beautiful stairways like this one at the U.S. Post Office Bldg. in downtown San Antonio
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AIA New York Chapter director Rick Bell calls San Antonio's Riverwalk one of the finest linear green spaces in the U.S.
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Stairs provide frequent opportunities for exercise along the San Antonio River
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Health officials say beautiful stairways encourage more people to exercise
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The Texas Public Health Association's Built Environment Conference on March 19 will address concerns about the lack of exercise designed into public spaces, and how design may contribute to obesity in the 21st Century.

Architects and designers will come away with a toolbox of healthier design practices so that the people who use their buildings have a greater opportunity for moving around.

The new biggest killer in society is obesity.

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SXSW Music Festival
1:36 pm
Mon March 18, 2013

Look & Listen: World Music At SXSW 2013

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Gonzalo Deniz goes by the stage name Franny Glass and tunes up his guitar at the Uruguay Music Showcase at the Speakeasy on Wednesday night.
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Juan Campodonico (guitar), leads Uruguayan group Campo onstage with Veronica Loza and Martin Rivero
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A group of drummers joins Campo for a loud finale to the set.
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SXSW is tough for bands promoting on their own so places like Uruguay, Canada, and Great Britain host their own showcases in order to help promote the bands from their home country
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Tucson's Marianne Dissard, who said she is moving to Italy to do more work in Europe, performs at her label's showcase at the Brass House.
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Sammy Decoster, a singer-songwriter from Grenoble, France, performs at the Tucson Music Factory Showcase at the Brass House.
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Shugo Tokumaru from Tokyo, Japan, plays an entrancing set at Kenny Dorham's Back Yard on Austin's East Side Thursday afternoon.
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Chihiro Yamazaki + Route 14 Band play at the Japan Nite showcase Friday at Elysium.
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Though the lyrics are in Finnish, stars of the documentary "The Punk Syndrome" Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät had a captive audience at Headhunters Friday night.
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Since none of the bands get paid for official show performances, many, like Kao=S from Tokyo, do some busking to get more ears and sell more merch.
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With so many music groups in Austin for SXSW it is easy for any of them to get drowned out by all the noise, but luckily for World Music artists, their foreign musical stylings give them a uniqueness that audiences tend to stop and pay attention to.

The language barrier doesn't seem to matter

Many world groups sing in English in order to tap into the English-speaking market, but there is still a healthy demand for music sung in foreign languages.

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St. Patrick's Day
11:04 am
Mon March 18, 2013

Raising The Profile Of Irish Heritage In San Antonio

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Kevin Dowd, president of the Harp and Shamrock Society of Texas, prepares hundreds of pounds of meat for the Hooley celebration.
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Corned beef simmers on the stove at the Beethoven Maennerchor in preparation for the weekend celebration called the Hooley
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Hundreds of pounds of sausage and corned beef was prepared before the weekend St. Patrick's Day celebration
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Carolyn Dowd holds up a picture of the 300 year old St. Patrick to be restored by the Harp and Shamrock Society of Texas
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As members of the Harp and Shamrock Society of Texas began preparations for its annual St. Patrick’s Day Celebration, including a Saturday "Hooley," President Kevin Dowd reflected on the tradition.

"The Irish will fight to the death for what they believe in," he said as he cut hundreds of sausage links at Beethoven Maennerchor Hall on Pereida St. "Right or wrong, that's just the way we're made."

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Texas Legislature
8:05 am
Mon March 18, 2013

Proposed Bill Ready To Push Back Against Federal Gun Legislation

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Texas state capitol in Austin where the 83rd Texas Legislature is debating issues like gun control, medicaid expansion, water conservation, and education funding.
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With the support of the Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, a state lawmaker has filed a bill that would block pending federal assault weapons ban from affecting Texas gun owners. 

Rep. Steve Toth, R-The Woodlands, said "The Texas Firearms Protection Act" draws a line in the sand when it comes to the ongoing debate in Washington over ban of assault-style weapons like the AR-15, the same type of weapon used in both the Newton, Conn. and Aurora, Colo. mass shootings.

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Arts & Culture
8:46 am
Sat March 16, 2013

F.I.S.H. Exhibit Gets Needed Repairs After February Windstorm

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A fish out of water. One of the 25 F.I.S.H.es was knocked off its hanger and fell into the San Antonio River. River Authority staff fished the big guy out and he is to be re-installed this weekend.
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Artist John Grant, center, and Stuart Johnson, Project Manager with the San Antonio River Foundation, watch artist/fabricator Mike Kirkhart seal together the two halves of one of the damaged F.I.S.H. S.A. River Authority staff assist in the repairs
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Stuart Johnson of the S.A. River Foundation points out one of the newly-constructed braces that will add strength to the F.I.S.H. structures in case of future severe wind events
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The F.I.S.H. exhibit under I-35
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It's time this weekend to go back down to the Museum Reach and see the repaired F.I.S.H. art exhibit.  Artists from Colorado and Florida are in town to repair the fiberglass art installation damaged in February’s windstorm.

Sustained winds over a 16-hour period and gusts of up to 64 mph on February 25th knocked out power and damaged trees and buildings. Stronger than the force of some tropical storms, the wind also battered the F.I.S.H. exhibit along the Museum Reach of the San Antonio Riverwalk.

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Government
4:15 pm
Fri March 15, 2013

In D.C., Governor Perry Reiterates Stand On Medicaid Expansion

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Texas Governor Rick Perry reiterated his stance on Medicaid expansion during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington D.C. this week:

“I say Medicaid doesn’t need to expanded it needs to be saved and reformed.  We care about our poorest Texans. We want them to have the best care possible and that cannot happen with a program that is on its way to bankruptcy.”

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Government
3:52 pm
Fri March 15, 2013

Caught With Pot? One Lawmaker Suggests A Ticket, Not Jail

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Could marijuana possession soon be the equivalent of a traffic ticket? A Texas House member wants it that way. Current law dictates that anyone caught with under an ounce of marijuana is subject to being convicted of a class B misdemeanor which can equal jail time, but Democrat Rep. Harold Dutton of Houston would like to change that, dropping that criminal charge down to a Class C misdemeanor, which would be punishable by a fine similar to the average traffic ticket.

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Community
3:31 pm
Fri March 15, 2013

New Beacon Hill Basketball Court Is A Place To Shape Young People

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The Beacon Hill basketball court opened in late 2012 and is phase one of park construction plans in the Beacon Hill neighborhood.
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The basketball court in Beacon Hill is almost always in use, especially on evenings with perfect weather. BHNA treasurer Cosima Colvin says it was worth the wait.
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The Beacon Hill Neighborhood Association meets at the Beacon Hill Presbyterian Church on Woodlawn.
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The "beacon" in Beacon Hill, at the intersections of Fulton and Blanco, is an obelisk art installation that gives the neighborhood an eclectic feel.
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Beacon Hill is an eclectic neighborhood just north of downtown San Antonio. Victorian-style homes line the streets, but suburban sprawl attracted people away from the area, leaving many of those homes and parks in decay.

Now, Beacon Hill is on the rebound with a new playground and basketball court, helping to breathe life into the neighborhood.

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