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The City of San Antonio quietly launched a financial assistance program at the end of 2020, in which 1,000 low-income families were given $400 every quarter over two years. San Antonio is the most impoverished city in the United States where individuals don't have enough to make ends meet.

Cash without conditions: San Antonio’s experiment with guaranteed income

by Iris Dimmick July 19, 2022October 13, 2022

CBD, hemp, delta-8, medical marijuana: Here’s what you need to know about Texas’ pot laws

by Megan Munce and Megan Menchaca, The Texas Tribune July 18, 2022July 18, 2022

Family members and friends participate in a July 10 march in support of those killed and injured in the school shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde.

‘Systemic failures’ far beyond local police, Texas House report on Uvalde says

by Zach Despart, The Texas Tribune July 17, 2022July 17, 2022

Traffic passes by a migrant resource center in North San Antonio on Friday.

Behind San Antonio’s decision to open a migrant resource center

by Andrea Drusch July 17, 2022September 27, 2022

Inmates wait to be processed at the Bexar County Jail on Friday.

‘State of disrepair’: aging Bexar County jail struggles with more dangerous inmates, less staff

by Iris Dimmick July 17, 2022October 6, 2022

The UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures on Saturday.

The future of the Institute of Texan Cultures will help determine Hemisfair’s redevelopment

by Robert Rivard July 17, 2022July 17, 2022

Q Wilson, 9, cools off in the splash pad at Lincoln Park in July. Triple digit temperatures continue to plague South Texas in a record-setting summer of heat.

Texans asked to conserve energy to protect the grid for the second time in a week

by Mitchell Ferman, The Texas Tribune July 13, 2022July 14, 2022

Bexar County Commissioners approve a roughly half a million dollar budget to replace broken locks at the Bexar County Jail.

Almost 400 broken locks at Bexar County Jail to be repaired

by Andrea Drusch and Iris Dimmick July 13, 2022July 13, 2022

San Antonio residents who are enrolled in a payment plans with SAWA and who can prove that they are behind on their water bill payments due to hardship from the pandemic are eligible to apply for a $700 assistance payment through September.

Clock is ticking as SAWS works to give away final $2 million in pandemic relief for past-due bills

by Lindsey Carnett July 12, 2022July 12, 2022

Fermina Brizo Pavón sits with her children, Angel and Valeria Mejia Brizo, at a downtown shelter on Thursday. Pavón and her husband were granted asylum in the United States after living near the border in Mexico for a year.

Bexar County creates $1M immigrant legal services fund

by Andrea Drusch July 12, 2022July 12, 2022