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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Fall outlook looks warmer and drier than usual. -
In other action at their Tuesday meeting, commissioners will vote on funding for mental treatment, and on funding for voting pads, and on funding for an Asian community center -
Overall, Toyota sales did see a healthy jump in August. -
A cold front is expected to push into South Texas late in the weekend and collide with that tropical moisture to generate rain. -
A cold front is expected to collide with that tropical moisture over South Texas to boost rain chances. -
The Wittliff at Texas State University is known as a Selena resource and research center. -
There is a backlog of 34,000 Bexar County voters waiting to be registered. -
Despite beneficial rains this summer, the drought is far from over. -
Their meeting starts at 9 a.m. on Tuesday -
The local job market is outperforming many areas in Texas and across the U.S.
