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  • Texas to drug screen unemployment benefit recipients

    Individuals in Texas who receive unemployment benefits will soon be subjected to drug testing, as a result of the passage of Senate Bill 21. Small-business advocates in Texas are hailing the passage of a bill that would allow drug testing for recipients who receive unemployment insurance benefits. Business owners are paying into a fund thats become increasingly expensive, NFIB/Texas Executive ...

  • Palmetto Bank taps San Antonios IPI for wealth-management services

    Investment Professionals Inc. has been selected to provide wealth-management services for The Palmetto Bank. Investment Professionals Inc., a San Antonio company that offers of investment services to community banks, has landed a new client. San Antonio-based IPI will provide wealth-management services for The Palmetto Bank, a $1.1 billion community-oriented bank in Greenville, S.C. The bank is ...

  • San Antonio Spurs take 2-0 lead over Memphis Grizzlies in Western Conference finals

    United States San Antonio squandered a big lead in the fourth quarter and had Tim Duncan to thank for settling its nerves in overtime, as the Spurs ground out a 93-89 win over the Memphis Grizzlies and took a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference finals.Up by 14 points in the final quarter, the Spurs failed to score in the last four minutes of regulation and were pushed to overtime by the ...

  • NBA Tim Duncan lauds resilience of San Antonio Spurs

    NBA Western Conference finals to 2-0. Tim Duncan's 17 points included six of the Spurs' eight points in overtime, when he also delivered a key block to help San Antonio hang on after they let a 13-point fourth-quarter lead evaporate. "I hate that we gave up that big of a lead in that situation," Duncan said. "But we were resilient enough to go to overtime and not let ...

  • Toyota San Antonio Chamber Present STEM Project

    Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas is supporting the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber's CORE4 STEM project to the tune of $100,000, it was announced this week. Patricia Salas Pineda, group vice president, National Philanthropy and Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America Inc. made the presentation to Hispanic Chamber CEO Ramiro Cavazos and the chamber's chairman of the board, Alexander ...


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Shallow Hal

Pablo Picasso once stated that beauty was "a word without sense." That may be true, but much like what Justice Potter Stewart famously said about pornography, beauty is something that you may not be able to define, but you know it when you see it. As much as we are told that ideals about aesthetic beauty in other human beings are socially constructed--that is, they change from era to era and with ... ...

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  • Texas approves bill to guide fund water projects

    Legislation to tackle Texas' water woes was approved by the Texas Senate on Monday. House Bill 4, filed by State Rep. Allan Ritter, R-Nederland, would direct $2 billion into a water infrastructure fund that would offer loans for projects such as new water reservoirs, pipelines and conservation projects. The legislation will restructure the Texas Water Development Board to a three-member, ...

  • Lawmakers agree on $50 million for ETF

    The governor's office and legislative leaders have agreed to supply the Texas Emerging Technology Fund with $50 million over two years to continue operations, State Rep. Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, told the Austin American-Statesman yesterday. Gov. Rick Perry originally requested $69.5 million for each of the next two years. Lawmakers still must decide whether to strip the states top three ...

  • Pica Pica Plaza creating new event space in South San Antonio

    Pica Pica Plaza has launched a new Celebrations Event Center. Pica Pica Plaza, a 130,000-square-foot retail/entrepreneur incubator on San Antonios South Side is adding a new service the Celebrations Event Center. The newly completed event center will be open for any kind of event, be it formal or casual. Celebrations will also provide such services as catering, party planning and floral ...

  • Army major found dead at Texas military base

    Sam Houston in San Antonio, Army officials say. The officer was not immediately identified pending notification of family, and an Army statement did not give a possible cause of death, the San Antonio Express-News reported Tuesday. The base's firefighters discovered the officer about 7 a.m. Monday while responding to a call about a water leak, the statement said. He was found in his room ...

  • ATT U-verse TV named countrys leading video company

    AT&T U-verse TV has been named the leading video service in the country by Frost & Sullivan. Frost & Sullivan has named AT&T U-verse TV the market research companys 2013 Video Company of the Year. Frost selected AT&T U-verse as the leading provider due to excellence in customer value, innovation and growth. The company also won the award in 2009. Growing market share in a ...

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