Robust civic engagement and meaningful community voices on Project Marvel and the Downtown Sports & Entertainment District are lacking.<\/p>\n
Yet, similar, successful advisory models already exist in San Antonio, including the San Antonio River Oversight Committee.<\/p>\n
As District 8 City Council Member\u00a0Ivalis Meza Gonzalez wrote, \u201cWhen we bring the right people together early, we produce stronger projects that are more equitable and more broadly supported.\u201d<\/p>\n
City Council should soon formalize a Project Marvel citizens oversight committee to participate at every major decision point over the next several years.<\/p>\n
If the city expects residents to embrace historic, generational downtown investments during a period of budget deficits and persistent inflation, it must ensure planning occurs in public, with regular stakeholder participation and meaningful opportunities for community representation and decisions.<\/p>\n
Public trust depends on transparency and representation because these are not occasional courtesies, they are continuing values and responsibilities.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s follow the call to action and bring people together so all voices can be heard.<\/p>\n
What a joy to read Bloomberg Columnist Abby\u00a0McCloskey\u2019s column in Friday’s edition of the Express-News.<\/p>\n
Nothing about President Donald Trump, Republicans, Democrats or all the stuff we are being bombarded by each day.<\/p>\n
I have had the good fortune to travel a lot in my life because of my connection with writing and technology. Her comments about changes in cognitive abilities thanks to learning new subjects is spot on.<\/p>\n
My decade of writing has allowed me to jump ahead of those who have been stationary for many months and years. McCloskey nails the issues about what older travelers have to deal with when traveling by themselves or with family, or in a country other than the United States.<\/p>\n
As so many at the\u00a0FIFA competition found, we are a country of plenty and technology. We should be thankful for that.<\/p>\n
Texas is one of most expensive states for healthcare in the nation.<\/p>\n
Texas Rep. Gina\u00a0Hinojosa, a Democrat running for governor, is pushing the Texas government to think outside the box and develop new ideas to help the working citizens in their struggle to cope with everyday prices for necessities.<\/p>\n
The same people have been running Texas for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n
The time has come for a new philosophy on helping the working class.<\/p>\n
It’s time to turn the page and sweep out the crusty people in control of our state and bring in new ideas for today’s way of life.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robust civic engagement and meaningful community voices on Project Marvel and the Downtown Sports & Entertainment District are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-397282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}