Josh Peck
City Hall Reporterjosh@tpr.org
Josh Peck is the City Hall Reporter for Texas Public Radio.
He was most recently the Technology & Entrepreneurship Reporter at TPR for a year and a half before beginning the City Hall Reporter role in 2024.
Josh has produced stories heard nationally on National Public Radio, interned at the investigative nonprofit ProPublica, and covered the Robb Elementary mass shooting in Uvalde for the New York Times.
As TPR's City Hall Reporter, Josh plans to focus on how city policies impact regular San Antonians and will also report on policing and labor issues.
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Erik Cantu Jr. demanda a San Antonio por la balacera policial que en 2022 cometió el ex agente James Brennand. -
Former SAPD officer James Brennand, who shot Cantu multiple times, is currently awaiting trial over two counts of aggravated assault.
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The council established a $500,000 Reproductive Justice Fund last year. But it faced criticism and a lawsuit over whether it could be used to facilitate out-of-state abortion care. -
The workforce development initiative has so far failed to meet its 80% job placement goals by nearly half for workers who complete the training program. -
The SAWOC is a local version of a national organization that has helped workers around the country organize unions since 2020. -
Nuevos fondos federales disponibles para mantener a flote el Centro de Recursos para Migrantes de San Antonio. -
El SAPD criticado por su participación en el concurso SWAT de Dubái con violadores de derechos humanos. -
Mayor Ron Nirenberg said there is no guarantee that the city will get all the money it needs to run the MRC from the federal government and that they expected to learn more in the coming weeks.
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SAPD’s SWAT team participated in the UAE SWAT Challenge for the first time this year, and human rights and police reform advocates say the decision was a major mistake.
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Texas voters passed a constitutional amendment in November that allowed municipalities and counties to extend between 50% and 100% property tax exemptions to certain eligible child care facilities.
