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Texas Matters
4:31 pm
Fri October 12, 2012

Latino Voter Turnout, Gun Control, Planned Parenthood and Celebrity Drug Busts

Credit Chris Eudaily / Texas Public Radio

Increasing voter turnout in the Texas Latino community - Ben Philpot, a reporter for KUT Austin and the Texas Tribune, explores some of the issues. Ted Cruz and Paul Sadler are trying to position themselves as defenders of a great Texas tradition: gun ownership. What happens if Texas Legislators win their court battle and zero-out state dollars for the Planned Parenthood clinics? A celebrity tour bus rolls into the West Texas town of Sierra Blanca and the there’s a drug bust that makes national headlines.

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Toyota San Antonio
11:30 am
Fri October 12, 2012

Truck Made in San Antonio Pulls Space Shuttle Endeavor to California Science Center

Credit Brandyn N. Moore / Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas, Inc
Toyota team members in San Antonio handed out postcards to commemorate the Tundra pull of Space Shuttle Endeavor.

Team Toyota members in San Antonio are making history, along with Space Shuttle Endeavor. On Friday, a Toyota Tundra truck made in the Alamo City will pull the 96-ton shuttle to its final resting place at the California Science Center.

The Tundra will pull the shuttle a quarter of a mile across the 405 Freeway on West Manchester Boulevard through the streets of Los Angeles.  

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Child Abuse
9:27 am
Fri October 12, 2012

Childhood Abuse and PTSD Cause for Concern in Bexar County

Credit San Antonio Children's Shelter

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can affect kids as well as adults, and often occurs in children who have been abused or neglected; the San Antonio Children's Shelter is co-hosting a special town hall conference on Childhood PTSD and Depression this week.

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Local Elections
5:22 pm
Thu October 11, 2012

Donna Campbell and John Courage Debate for Texas Senate District 25

Credit State of Texas District Viewer
Texas Senate District 25 includes areas of six different counties.

Following the primaries, Tea Party favorite Dr. Donna Campbell and Democrat John Courage emerged as the contenders for the Texas Senate District 25 seat.

The primary knocked longtime Senator Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio, out of the running, along with challenger, former Railroad Commissioner Elizabeth Ames Jones.

Perhaps one of the only issues Campbell and Courage agree upon is opposition to toll roads, but they have vastly different views on health care, education, and energy.

So how does a physician plan to serve full time in the Senate?

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Online Teacher Resources
4:06 pm
Thu October 11, 2012

Generation TX San Antonio Launches Teacher Resource Website

Credit Jennifer Whitcomb / Generation TX San Antonio
SA Ready teacher and Texas Teacher of the Year Finalist, Theresa Heim, speaking at the luncheon about developing and implementing the college-and-career readiness lessons in her classroom.

Together with the nation's leading expert on college and career readiness, Generation TX San Antonio and Dr. David Conley launched SA Ready, a website to offer teachers a targeted curriculum to prepare students for college.

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East Side Redevelopment
3:52 pm
Thu October 11, 2012

New Housing Development Another Piece of East Side Redevelopment

Credit Ryan Loyd / Texas Public Radio
The Park at Sutton Oaks will open in the spring of 2013 and is an energy leader among multi-family, mixed income developments.

Phase two of a $29.4 million mixed-income housing development will be constructed on the East Side off I-35 and Walters, near Woodard Park.

The money, coming from the City of San Antonio, the federal government's Department of Housing and Urban Development and the San Antonio Housing Authority, will build 208 units in total: 49 public housing units, 113 affordable units, and 46 market rate units.

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Joint Base San Antonio
3:42 pm
Thu October 11, 2012

Military and Bexar County Sheriff's Dept. Investigating Stolen Equipment

The Air Force Office of Special Investigations said it has arrested two people in a conspiracy to steal and resell military equipment.

The OSI doesn’t describe the stolen property, or which branch of Joint Base San Antonio the equipment came from, but Joint Base Spokesman Brent Boller said seven federal search warrants were executed at a San Antonio tattoo parlor Tuesday afternoon.  

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Fronteras Desk
1:27 pm
Thu October 11, 2012

Voter Fraud, NAFTA 20 Years Later And Maria Berriozabal

Credit Jude Joffe-Block / Fronteras
Bill Jordan in his company's Mexicali plant.

A look at how widespread election fraud really is -  who is trying to stop voter fraud and how they’re doing it. The complex collaborations between manufacturers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Texas Public Radio’s David Martin Davies speaks with San Antonio trailblazer Maria Berriozabal about her new memoir, leadership and overcoming discrimination.

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Downtown Art
11:19 am
Thu October 11, 2012

Artspace's 9th annual Chalk It Up Festival This Saturday, Oct. 13

Credit Kimberly Aubuchon / Artpace
View of Artpace’s Chalk It Up on Houston Street downtown on October 8, 2011.

On Saturday the grey streets and sidewalk of Houston St. will be replaced with art murals made with chalk. For nearly a decade, Artpace’s Chalk It Up festival has gathered artists to express their talent on a canvas that people normally literally walk all over. 

Artpace Deputy Director Mary Heathcott said that  holding a show like Chalk It Up allows for a much larger audience.

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Big Brothers Big Sisters Inspire U
10:43 am
Thu October 11, 2012

Big Brothers Big Sisters Take Middle and High School Students to Work

Big Brothers Big Sisters
Credit Joey Palacios / Texas Public Radio
Littles from Big Brothers Big Sisters pose for a photo. This group from an SAISD middle school spends time with mentors on the job several times throughout the month.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas is expanding into the workplace with its Inspire U program which places ‘Littles’ with “Bigs’ on the job.

Inspire U isn’t new, but it is growing. Part of the SA2020 Initiative, the program enhances the little brother and sister experience by taking middle and high school students paring them with someone in the working world.  

President and CEO of  South Texas Big Brothers Big Sisters Denise Barkhurst said Inspire U is like 'mentoring plus.'

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