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PdA on publishing hiatus

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We deeply appreciate your support during the past two years. You made possible candid, critical coverage of stories that might otherwise have gone unreported – like Jeffrey Wright's recent expose of H-E-B's business practices . PdA was first...

Dan Ramos' not so secret history

The Barrio Boys are big talkers.

The West Side political fraternity of retirement-age Latinos, which includes embattled Bexar County Democratic Party Chairman Dan Ramos, has a classic come-on line whic...

Glitter Political: Poll watcher 2011

Glitter Political 's Jade Esteban Estrada spent Saturday at the polls and election parties, talking to the candidates, voters, and ... some of the majority of San Antonians who apparently didn't even k...

Brilliant but canceled: Matthew Drutt leaves Artpace

It was early 2009 in a King William house filled with fabulous attractive-nuisance art. As the usual suspects disappeared and reappeared newly aglitter, the recent recipient of a prestigious internati...

The other Christian A. keeps winning elections

Last summer, Christian Anderson accepted an invitation from fellow political consultant Trish DeBerry to speak to a Leadership San Antonio class about what he does for a living.

In the days leading up ...

Subcontracting integrity

Mayor Julian Castro has proven himself adept at sidestepping thorny local issues in favor of big-picture idealism, so I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that he's suggesting the creation of an ethics...

Bonds and public art, by the numbers

At almost $600 million, the 2012 bond is not only the largest bond program in the city’s history, it includes the most money we’ve ever earmarked for public art in one haul. Thursday, City staff will ...