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Councilwoman Misty Spears talks ICE lawsuit, voting against SAWS rate hike
Oct 13, 2026 · 51:21

North Side Councilwoman Misty Spears talks with the ENside Politics team about why she voted a SAWS rate increase last week, why she's against the city's lawsuit to stop a planned ICE detention center on the East Side and why she's dead-set opposed to M

Think City Hall fight over affordability ended with tax hike? Nope.
Oct 6, 2026 · 39:59

Political consultant Andrew Solano talks with the ENside Politics team about the coming fight at City Council over whether to once again raise San Antonio's tax rate to underwrite a big bond package. Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones says no — but it's complicat

R.I.P. NIOSA?
Sep 29, 2026 · 34:48

Reporters Madison Iszler and Megan Rodriguez talk with host Greg Jefferson about why the Conservation Society cancelled next year's NIOSA, one of Fiesta's main events — and why some of the event's many diehard volunteers and fans aren't buying the s

What you need to know about plans for future of Brooks with CEO Leo Gomez
Sep 22, 2026 · 49:54

Brooks Development Authority CEO Leo Gomez talks with the ENside Politics team about what it took to land Industrial Electric Manufacturer, a utility equipment maker that will build a $200 million plant at the former Air Force base and hire 3,000 worker

What happens when 'broken' City Council confronts $158M deficit?
Sep 16, 2026 · 36:27

After weeks of sniping at one another both in public and behind the scenes, Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones and City Council finally vote on the city's $4.4 billion budget and its first property tax rate hike in more than three decades. The ENside Politics team