Archive for August 2023

When San Antonio City Manager Erik Walsh presented the proposed budget for fiscal year 2024 on August 10, colorful pie charts served to distract from his astounding $3.7 billion spending spree, a 9% increase from last year. However, in a rare moment of transparency, Mr. Walsh effectively admitted what many San Antonio residents have known…

Every minute the City of San Antonio spends on the ineffective, wasteful Ready to Work program could be spent trying to whip Animal Care Services into shape. Every minute it spends policing citizens via ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’, or trying to foist the non-discrimination ordinance on neighborhood associations, or breaking up card games, could be…

This month, we’d like to introduce to you Tommy Calvert, one of our distinguished Commissioners on Bexar County Commissioners Court.  Commissioner Calvert, has represented Precinct 4 since 2014, and is the longest serving member of the Court. It was a delight to meet him and enormously instructive to learn about all he and the Court…