Molly Smith
City Hall Reporter at The San Antonio Express-News
City Hall reporter @ExpressNews | previously on the border @elpasomatters @elpasotimes @monitornews | 📧 [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
expressnews.com | Molly Smith
Councilman Manny Pelaez has pumped $324,000 of his own money into his campaign for mayor in order to match the fundraising prowess of three City Hall outsiders also vying for the city's top post. That infusion of cash leaves the North Side councilman with nearly $300,000 in his campaign bank account heading into the final stretch of the campaign - more than the fundraising front runners have on hand, based on new campaign finance reports. The reports, which were due Thursday, cover Jan.
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3 weeks ago |
expressnews.com | Molly Smith
City Councilman Manny Pelaez lobbed lighthearted, softball questions to two of the architects of the city's proposed multibillion-dollar downtown sports and entertainment district Wednesday before a group of North Side residents. The outgoing District 8 councilman and mayoral candidate framed many of his questions as a chance for City Manager Erik Walsh and Assistant Manager Lori Houston to bust what Pelaez described as myths he's heard from residents about Project Marvel.
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1 month ago |
expressnews.com | Molly Smith
The Republican Party of Bexar County has come out against the use of local tax dollars to build a new Spurs arena at Hemisfair. A majority of the party's executive committee of precinct chairs on March 16 passed a resolution denouncing Project Marvel, which is the code-name San Antonio officials gave the massive, multibillion-dollar downtown sports and entertainment district. They have been working on plans for the district since 2023, but didn't go public with the project until late last year.
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1 month ago |
expressnews.com | Megan Rodriguez |Molly Smith
Councilman John Courage is adding a new employee to his City Hall staff: the campaign manager for Angela "Angi" Taylor Aramburu, who's one of seven candidates vying to succeed him in District 9 - and who has the four-term incumbent's enthusiastic endorsement. The North Side councilman, who's at the end of his term limits and is running for mayor, endorsed Taylor Aramburu in early January, and has been promoting her candidacy ever since.
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1 month ago |
expressnews.com | Molly Smith
City officials have been abundantly clear about one aspect of their proposed multibillion-dollar downtown sports and entertainment district: they won't raise property taxes to pay for it. Rate hikes are never popular with voters. But for many San Antonians, the notion that their property taxes could help fund a new Spurs arena, or other elements of the district, is also a no-go.
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RT @datawithleila: One way to look at what San Antonio mayoral candidates care about is to look at their campaign websites. We used AI to…
With only a few weeks before the April 22 start of early voting, @MannyforSA has pumped $324,000 of his own money into his mayoral campaign to counter out-of-state and Austin-based PAC spending in support of challengers Rolando Pablos and Gina Ortiz Jones. https://t.co/wdLYEydDhF
RT @LizTeitz: Moving SAWS' water plant for Project Marvel will cost millions. Who will pay? https://t.co/k6KO5TG0uC via @expressnews