The Civic San Antonio

Accountability journalism for a growing, thriving San Antonio. Independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan.

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San Antonio has been five years away from becoming a major American city for as long as anyone can remember.

The Civic is the nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom trying to understand what's working in this city, what isn't, and what we could do better.

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San Antonio's mayor wants to cancel Ye's July 4 concert. There's only one problem: she has no power to do it and no legal ground if she tries.

This isn't her fight. In the face of a budget crisis, she should focus on what matters, not a concert she can't cancel anyway.

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San Antonio hasn't raised its property-tax rate since 1993.

But if it's raised the maximum rate, the city still needs $70M in cuts over two years. That doesn't solve a spending problem—it just defers the hard decisions another year.

The right answer is no, we haven't earned it.

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President Trump should attend a game in San Antonio

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President Donald Trump will attend the New York Knicks-San Antonio Spurs Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden on Monday night.

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@TraceySchulz @PhilipReichert @evansantoslaw So it’s a top ten city because..?

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Houston got a battery plant. Dallas is getting a tunnel. Corpus Christi got lithium refining. McGregor got rocket engines. Austin got the Gigafactory. San Antonio got nothing.

Texas's biggest builder is investing everywhere but here.

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@TraceySchulz @PhilipReichert @evansantoslaw 33rd in GDP… 24th in metro population… 3rd poorest major city…

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There's a hangar on San Antonio's Southwest Side big enough to hold 15 widebody jets, a Guinness world record. Every C-17 in the U.S. fleet comes through it. So does Air Force One.

This city spends a lot of attention on what doesn't work--Boeing does.

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San Antonio is the NBA's 27th-largest market. Project Marvel is the cost of remaining an NBA city and every comparable market has paid it.

The work of the next twenty years is making sure we don't have this conversation again.

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Should @elonmusk invest in San Antonio?

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Houston got a battery plant. Dallas is getting a tunnel. Corpus Christi got lithium refining. McGregor got rocket engines. Austin got the Gigafactory. San Antonio got nothing.

Texas's biggest builder is investing everywhere but here.

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San Antonio is the NBA's 27th-largest market. Project Marvel is the cost of remaining an NBA city and every comparable market has paid it.

The work of the next twenty years is making sure we don't have this conversation again.

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@MurraySuggests We want fiscal responsibility.

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San Antonio is the poorest major economy in the fastest-growing state in the country.

We have a $152 million gap coming next year and property tax hikes on the table for the first time in three decades.

The inaugural issue of The Civic is out now. Link below.

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San Antonio is the poorest major economy in the fastest-growing state in the country.

We have a $152 million gap coming next year and property tax hikes on the table for the first time in three decades.

The inaugural issue of The Civic is out now. Link below.

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One thing to do this weekend in San Antonio:

@Garrett_T_Capps, San Antonio’s musical ambassador and founding partner of @thelonesomerose, released I Still Love San Antone, his most gonzo record to date. It features Santiago Jiménez, Jr., the late, great Augie Meyers (of the Texas Tornados), and Paul Leary (of Butthole Surfers).

He’s throwing the release fiesta Saturday, May 9th, at The Lonesome Rose. Free admission, with Santiago Jiménez, Jr. opening. If you want to know what makes San Antonio music San Antonio music, it’s a damn good place to start.

Thanks to Chad Carey, @TheMontereySA

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REFRAME: San Antonio has an income problem that looks like a housing problem.

A handful of six-figure subsidized units won't put a dent in the problem, even at scale.

The fix is more well paying jobs, better education, & building more housing.

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One thing to do this weekend in San Antonio:

@Garrett_T_Capps, San Antonio’s musical ambassador and founding partner of @thelonesomerose, released I Still Love San Antone, his most gonzo record to date. It features Santiago Jiménez, Jr., the late, great Augie Meyers (of the Texas Tornados), and Paul Leary (of Butthole Surfers).

He’s throwing the release fiesta Saturday, May 9th, at The Lonesome Rose. Free admission, with Santiago Jiménez, Jr. opening. If you want to know what makes San Antonio music San Antonio music, it’s a damn good place to start.

Thanks to Chad Carey, @TheMontereySA

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22 things to do this weekend in San Antonio https://t.co/NrhZIk5pNW

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Austin, Dallas, and Houston aren't pulling ahead because they subsidize more units, though these programs exist everywhere. They're pulling ahead because they have higher wages and let builders build.

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REFRAME: San Antonio has an income problem that looks like a housing problem.

A handful of six-figure subsidized units won't put a dent in the problem, even at scale.

The fix is more well paying jobs, better education, & building more housing.

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Current tenants will be relocated while construction takes place. https://t.co/Da50yxLTw3

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Per a Harvard University report, San Antonio ranks 96th in GDP per capita among America's largest metros.

Census data consistently shows San Antonio as one of the poorest large cities in the U.S, and average net worth is outside the top-100 in a Synergos Technologies report.