Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones (TIRZ) have been around longer than most of these council members have been alive. Here's why talking about them is suddenly cool sanantonioreport.org/san-antoniocit…

Can blue San Antonio survive a partisan Army branch restructure? Rep. Tony Gonzales has a plan to make sure Military City is graded on its merits sanantonioreport.org/us-congress-pr…

In this week’s Ballot~ 💰A Texans for Nirenberg PAC 🎟️@mayor_GOJ raises $ at Club Giraud 🎙️ Rep. Gonzales talks new congressional maps 🗳️ Everything you need to know: From Props. A & B ➡️ TIRZ mailchi.mp/sareport/ballo…

New: Nirenberg joins the now suddenly long list of city officials & candidates to go before the Ethics Review Board sanantonioreport.org/ron-nirenberg-…

Teaching on the West Side after the 2011 education cuts is what got James Talarico into politics in the first place Tonight he returned to San Antonio a few hundred thousand social media followers richer — drawing quite the crowd at Backyard On Broadway sanantonioreport.org/james-talarico…

New: Bexar County isn't part of the Hemisfair TIRZ, but top county leaders plan to earmark the tax increment from the downtown sports & entertainment district — roughly $70-80M— for long-promised East Side redevelopments sanantonioreport.org/bexar-county-l…

Political openings abound on the West Side and South Side but former mayoral hopefuls Melissa Cabello Havrda and Adriana Rocha Garcia, Ph.D. both have new jobs 💼

New: Bexar County stuck with Votec in the face of problems, then slow-walked a request to move to VR Solutions Now it has to use a state voter registration the county has long resisted — which faces its own issues sanantonioreport.org/bexar-county-v…

Council members complained loudly about Gina Ortiz Jones's characterization of the Project Marvel NDAs on the campaign trail, but agreed unanimously to her plans to crack down on them going forward sanantonioreport.org/new-nda-policy…

San Antonio budget writers approached City Council about a tax rate increase in April, council said no But then they couldn't agree where to cut so the city is ramping up a bunch of fees & nixed its plan to mitigate a forthcoming CPS Energy rate increase sanantonioreport.org/san-antonio-fy…

In this week’s Ballot~ 🐘 Pacheco’s Republican reboot in #HD118 ⚖️ Ethics hearing set for Jones 🗳️Bexar Elections coming around on TEAM system 👟 Nirenberg teases what’s next, while his longtime political adviser takes a private sector job mailchi.mp/sareport/ballo…

Fmr asst city manager Lori Houston has seen many development ideas come and go. Though Project Marvel is among her favorites, she said it may lack a key ingredient for success sanantonioreport.org/lori-houston-p…

In this week’s Ballot 🏛️Sakai critics seek high-profile challenger ✏️Conservative think tanker joins #HD118 race 💰Spurs PAC & anti-arena campaign fundraising revealed 🗳️Still thousands of voter registrations to process before early voting on Props A & B mailchi.mp/sareport/ballo…

2 years ago San Antonio was the cheaper alternative to Falls Church, VA. Now it's the bluer alternative to Fayetteville, NC. “Having been on the other side of this, it’s about, how do we make sure folks understand we are ready and willing to partner?” sanantonioreport.org/fort-sam-houst…

New: Gina Ortiz Jones believes federal cuts could be a Covid-level disaster for San Antonio — a perspective not always welcomed by city leaders trying to build a $1.3B NBA arena sanantonioreport.org/mayor-gina-ort…

The first public polling on Nov. 4's Props A and B has the county's year-round rodeo grounds plan more popular than the Spurs arena, which is slightly underwater sanantonioreport.org/utsa-poll-proj…