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Hills Snyder is a San Antonio artist and writer. In this tale, he takes us back in time...first 30 years, then 10 more. He goes back to Austin and then to…

According to a recently published review in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, what we think we know about what causes obesity — and why so little progress has been made in the field — is wrong and has been for years. And new data from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows that 1 in 6 young people ages 10-17 nationwide and more than 1 in 5 Texas youths are obese, with sharp disparities along racial and socioeconomic lines.

Early voting begins for SA and Proposition A, also known as the Justice Charter Amendment. Supporters of Prop A say it would decriminalize abortion and expand SAPD’s cite-and-release program to include graffiti and some nonviolent theft. Opponents claim it will make San Antonio less safe.

UT Austin assistant professor Belem López discusses the importance — and the implications — of the day-to-day informal language process known as language brokering.

Researchers have suspected that foods which cause inflammation speed up brain aging and cognitive decline, but UT Health San Antonio's Debora Melo van Lent wanted evidence.

Talks are beginning again with hopes to develop a San Antonio-to-Austin commuter rail. The previous Lone Star Rail District effort failed, but could new leadership make the difference?

Just 70 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border is a land littered with the dead who feel short in their attempt to find a better life in the United States. Brooks County, Texas is a barren scrub brush desert that U.S. immigration policy takes advantage of to raise the death toll for migrants. And the numbers of fatalities keep rising.

As President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump prepare to take the stage for Thursday’s presidential debate, will they address an important question: How will they tackle Alzheimer’s, the most pressing public health crisis of our time?

In October 1964, as the South simmered under the tensions following the signing of the Civil Rights Act three months earlier, First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, began a whistle-stop tour of the South. She shattered the expectations of a presidential spouse with speeches, diplomacy, and palpable compassion as she encouraged the South to leave Jim Crow behind.

Polling shows that many of President Donald Trump’s policies are not popular, and the Republican party would likely lose control of Congress after mid-terms. But according to The Brennan Center, Trump is taking steps to avoid that outcome — by undermining the midterm election in a number of ways.