Brian Kirkpatrick
General Assignment Reporterbrian@tpr.org
Twitter: @TPRBrian
Brian Kirkpatrick has been a journalist in Texas most of his life, covering San Antonio news since 1993, including the deadly October 1998 flooding, the arrival of the Toyota plant in 2003, and the base closure and realignments in 2005.
He also served as news director and anchor at KTSA and Metro Networks, and was previously the "Morning Edition" anchor at Texas Public Radio. His early career included work as a news anchor and production assistant for the Texas State News Network/Dallas Cowboys Radio Network in Dallas, from 1988-1993. During his years at TSN, he helped cover the Luby’s mass shooting in Killeen and the Branch Davidian standoff at Mount Carmel. Kirkpatrick read his first newscast on a small radio station in the Hill Country as a teenager in 1981.
Brian returns to reporting after teaching high school journalism at Harlandale High School in San Antonio for the past seven years.
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It competes strongly with "cedar fever" as the city's worst allergen. -
Temperatures will dip to the upper 30s in San Antonio at sunrise on Tuesday. -
Spring breakers are expected to visit the city through at least March 22. -
Fans flocking to games for red hot Spurs. -
Supplies are limited. It's a good time to get some heat-tolerant plants in the ground this time of year. -
A cold could push temperatures into the upper 30s on Tuesday morning in the Alamo City. -
The power line would be 15 stories tall and run 200 miles. -
The Texas State Comptroller on Wednesday released sales tax collection figures. -
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Bexar County commissioners approved a resolution opposing the presence of an East Side ICE detention and processing facility.
