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  • 2 days ago | sacurrent.com | Michael Karlis

    For three consecutive years, Newsweek readers have ranked the San Antonio Zoo among the nation's 10 best zoos. Now, this year, the zoo's leadership wants to to take the top spot, and its asking for San Antonians' help in achieving that goal. In a statement issued Tuesday, the San Antonio Zoo is asking fans to log onto Newsweek’s website and vote for it in the magazine's 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards Best Zoos competition.

  • 2 days ago | sacurrent.com | Michael Karlis

    AUSTIN – After intense lobbying from abortion-rights advocates, Texas lawmakers appear to be closing a loophole in a bill aimed at clarifying when doctors can legally perform abortions. That loophole could have allowed authorities to prosecute women who get an abortion out of state along anyone who assists them in obtaining the procedure, critics maintain.

  • 2 days ago | sacurrent.com | Michael Karlis

    Early voting in San Antonio's first wide-open mayoral election since 2009 gets underway Tuesday with more than 40 early voting centers operating across Bexar County. The early voting period will close Tuesday, April 29 before polls reopen from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. for the Saturday, May 3, election. The Bexar County Elections department maintains an online list of early polling sites.

  • 3 days ago | sacurrent.com | Michael Karlis

    A committee in the Texas House will hear a bill this week that would criminalize using “chemtrails” to alter the weather. A total of 17 House Republicans have signed on to sponsor the legislation, which invokes a repeatedly debunked conspiracy theory spread online by right-wing influencers. Sigh. Filed by freshman state Rep.

  • 3 days ago | sacurrent.com | Michael Karlis

    The man accused of carrying out a racially motivated attack that took the lives of 23 largely Latino Walmart shoppers in El Paso six years ago will spend the rest of his life behind bars. On Monday, more than 150 people gathered at an El Paso courthouse to watch Patrick Crusius, 26, enter a guilty plea to state capital murder charges and 22 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The charges are related to one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history. “On Aug.

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8 Apr 25

The “Cruz Curse” isn’t a theory anymore — it’s proven science.

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Ted Cruz is undefeated… as a JINX for the team from Texas.

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8 Apr 25

RT @sportsguyjose: Such a stupid way to lose a game.

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31 Mar 25

RT @MeaslesWatch: Texas kids treated for vitamin A toxicity after RFK Jr. said the supplement fights measles By @MichaelKarlis https://t.c…