Adam Higgins

6 days ago | tspantx.com | Garrett Brnger |Adam Higgins |Madalynn Lambert

SAN ANTONIO – City council members approved a new requirement on Thursday for tobacco and vape shops to operate away from San Antonio schools. The motion forbids tobacco or vape retail shops from setting up a business within 1,000 feet of a school, daycare or institution of higher learning. The city council passed the regulation during Thursday’s meeting 8-0 with two council members abstaining. Councilmember Manny Pelaez was not present at the meeting.

1 week ago | tspantx.com | Garrett Brnger |Adam Higgins

SAN ANTONIO – Facing a widening budget deficit, the next San Antonio City Council may have to make some hard budget decisions. While city revenue growth is lagging more than expected, the city is facing a small deficit in the current budget’s general fund. Though city staff said the current budget year’s $2.4 million deficit is “manageable,” that gap is set to expand quickly in years to come as expenses outpace growth.

4 weeks ago | tspantx.com | Steve Spriester |Daniel Villanueva |Adam Higgins

>> Click here to view our interactive project. Fifty years is a long time. Memories fade, things are lost, history is forgotten. We did not want that to happen to the men and women from San Antonio who served in Vietnam. On Wednesday, April 16, KSAT aired the special, “50 Years After The Fall: From Saigon to San Antonio,” to highlight how the war in Vietnam affected veterans in the Alamo City and South Texas. Watch the full special here.

4 weeks ago | tspantx.com | Steve Spriester |Daniel Villanueva |Adam Higgins

SAN ANTONIO – Fifty years is a long time. Memories fade, things are lost, history is forgotten. We did not want that to happen to the men and women from San Antonio who served in Vietnam. >> Click here to view our interactive project. It is a country and a conflict that affected so many Americans. It shaped every conflict that came after, and haunted presidents from Lyndon Baines Johnson onward.

1 month ago | tspantx.com | Steve Spriester |Daniel Villanueva |Adam Higgins

SAN ANTONIO – Trinh Warner usually starts her survival story by talking about her grandmother, a woman she never saw again after Warner was put on a helicopter and flown out of Vietnam. Her grandmother ended up dying in a re-education camp, Warner said. Warner remembers the fall of Saigon, South Vietnam, well.