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Category: Social Issues

City adopts three year $3.7 million plan to increase police presence in 28 violent crime "hotspots" around the city in an effort to reduce crime.
Posted inGov & Politics

City rolls out violent crime reduction plan

by Iris Dimmick February 1, 2023February 2, 2023

The hot-spot policing initiative is the first part of the three-pronged strategy to prevent and reduce violent crime.

Councilman Manny Pelaez (D8) on Thursday at City Council A Session.
Posted inGov & Politics

Sandoval accuses Pelaez of ‘tantrum’ as council mulls final pandemic relief funding

by Iris Dimmick January 27, 2023January 27, 2023
Councilwoman Teri Castillo (D5) speaks in support of a resolution to bring awareness to the rights of tenants in San Antonio.
Posted inGov & Politics

Council members move to boost renters’ awareness of their rights

by Iris Dimmick January 24, 2023January 24, 2023
Deshona Jernigan, a coach at the Boys and Girls Club of San Antonio, speaks to program participants at the Calderon Clubhouse on Monday evening.
Posted inHealth

Boys and Girls Clubs of San Antonio gets $840K to add mental health services

by Iris Dimmick January 23, 2023January 23, 2023
Bexar County has funded an approximately 20-month supply of the life-saving Narcan nasal spray, which blocks the effects of opioids.
Posted inGov & Politics

Bexar County to distribute more anti-overdose drugs to deputies

by Iris Dimmick January 20, 2023January 23, 2023
Astrid Truss, the psychiatry program manager and licensed professional counselor at Jewish Family Services sits in a counseling room where children can share their feelings through play.
Posted inSocial Issues

Many foster kids have to switch therapists over and over. These advocates want to change that.

by Iris Dimmick January 15, 2023January 17, 2023
Mike Siegel (far left), political director and co-founder of Ground Game Texas, and Ananda Tomas, executive director of Act 4 SA, hand over four boxes containing more than 38,000 signatures to City Clerk Debbie Racca-Sittre.
Posted inGov & Politics

Activists submit 38,000 signatures in effort to put policing issues on city ballot

by Iris Dimmick January 10, 2023January 11, 2023
Following the U.S. Supreme Court overruling of Roe v. Wade, the State of Texas became the authority on abortion laws as medical professionals adjust how they treat and care for high-risk pregnancies.
Posted inGov & Politics

San Antonio obstetrician: Abortion ban complicates high-risk pregnancy care

by Iris Dimmick January 5, 2023January 4, 2023
Many tents are set up as shelter under the I-37 underpass near Brooklyn Avenue. Photos taken on February 13, 2021.
Posted inOpinion

Will San Antonio follow NYC’s strategy to hospitalize more homeless people struggling with mental illness?

by Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje December 27, 2022December 27, 2022
A candle is lit for each of the 71 houseless individuals who died in 2021 during SAMMinistries' 15th Annual Homeless Persons’ Memorial Service last December. This year, that number has more than doubled.
Posted inSocial Issues

160 people died in San Antonio while unhoused in 2022 — more than double last year

by Iris Dimmick December 19, 2022December 22, 2022

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