Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones’ recommendation to move city elections to November was a no-brainer. It will save money and most likely will increase turnout.<\/p>\n
Some City Council members wanted to delay this action and poll their constituents. This is nonsense. We live in a representative democracy where elected officials are empowered, and entrusted, to make decisions.<\/p>\n
I believe this was a delaying tactic to try to deny Jones even a minor victory. Nevertheless, the council approved it 6-5. This was a commonsense change. Next, debate about moving city elections to coincide with the general election years.<\/p>\n
There is a straightforward way to choose where speed reductions might occur.<\/p>\n
Invite historic neighborhoods, neighborhood conservation districts and organized neighborhoods without zoning designation to request lower speeds on their residential streets.<\/p>\n
There seems to be no reason to drive 30 mph instead of 25 mph for a few blocks from\u00a0 home to a thoroughfare and back.<\/p>\n
How much change can that make in \u201cdrive time\u201d when\u00a0 headed for work or to a Spurs game?<\/p>\n
As an alternative to rainbow crosswalks, how about bathing the Tower of the Americas in rainbow-colored lighting?<\/p>\n
This would literally and symbolically shed light on the misguided policies of\u00a0Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Attorney General Ken Paxton and all people who follow their demeaning rhetoric.<\/p>\n
The Tower of the Americas bathed in rainbow-colored lighting would be seen from miles away from San Antonio, whether from the road or from the air.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, everyone walking the streets of San Antonio will be able to see the beautifully lit Tower of the Americas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones’ recommendation to move city elections to November was a no-brainer. It will save money…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45911,45912,45910,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-99665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-edcity","tag-edelection26","tag-edletters","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\/99665","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=99665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}