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Commissioner Moody is our most recent addition to the Commissioners Court, and InfuseSA is delighted to introduce him to you.  In future newsletters, we hope to also bring you interviews with our Commissioner’s from Pct. 1 and 2 and with our County Judge. Commissioner Moody serves Pct. 3, which covers a large area of northern…

This budget season, we attended all 9 budget townhalls, in addition to tuning into council budget work sessions, and perusing the budget itself.  Below you’ll find our sights, news and notes from the last few weeks (all of which was available in near-real-time on our socials). One thing we noticed after the first few townhalls,…

InfuseSA previously highlighted that sheer incompetence at the hands of City of San Antonio Animal Care Services Director Shannon Sims has resulted the deaths of two residents this year.  Since then, a couple of senior citizens have fallen prey to other unrestrained dogs, both sustaining horrific injuries: one is set to have a leg amputated,…

Recently, San Antonio District 6 City Councilwoman Melissa Cabello-Havrda proposed a “bold,” “decisive,” “powerful” alternative to the likely request from CPS Energy to raise rates: decrease the city‘s take of its revenues from 14% to 11%. This is an interesting idea, but we have some questions. First, a few months ago she said losing the…

Homelessness.   Would you agree that this is a problem of great concern to probably a majority of our citizens?  If you do, please read on.   We’d like to introduce you to a remarkable effort to address chronic homelessness in a very productive way, an effort that has been and continues to be supported by many…

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…

It was probably inevitable that landing the #1 pick in the NBA draft would spawn chatter about a new arena for the San Antonio Spurs.  As usual, the preeminent concern is tapping the taxpayer to foot part of the bill.  And as usual, that should be a no-go.  Alas, appeals to emotions are probably not…

Though the property tax reform standoff took multiple special sessions to resolve, the fight over Texas HB 2127, the childishly nicknamed “Death Star” bill, looks likely to continue in the courts now that San Antonio has joined Houston in suing the state. This is the legislation that prevents local laws from imposing more burdensome rules…