San Antonio.-  El entrenamiento se realizará los días 18 y 19 de mayo en el 8300 Pat Booker Rd, Live Oak, sin costo alguno, y a los participantes se les entregará un certificado/diploma al finalizar el curso.

San Antonio.- acgonzalez@laprensasa.com  Carol Alavedra está muy entusiasmada. Está a punto de graduarse con el título de asistente social de Navarro High School. Y pronto empezará sus estudios superiores en la Universidad del Verbo Encarnado (UIW, por sus siglas en inglés).

San Antonio.- According to the U.S. Department of Education, in 2009, less than 2 percent of all PhD’s granted in the United States were earned by Latinas. That’s about twice the rate of success Hispanic women had thirty years ago in the 1980’s, when Dr. Norma Cantú, Graduate Advisor of Record for the PhD Program in English at the University of Texas-San Antonio, earned her doctorate.

San Antonio.- As early voting opened Monday on the proposed $596 million bond, Mayor Julian Castro didn't quite beg voters to vote yes on the issue, he vigorously encouraged the idea. The Mayor cited that this proposed bond invests in the “nuts and bolts” of San Antonio.

San Antonio.- In the wake of the racially-charged Trayvon Martin case, First Assistant Bexar County District Attorney Cliff Herberg discusses the “Stand Your Ground” law in Texas at the most recent Lighthouse Luncheon. He explained that these cases are always more difficult because police can only get one side of the story, the survivor’s side.

San Antonio.- Mayor Julián Castro declared that May is Bike Month in San Antonio in celebration of the success of San Antonio’s bike-share program, San Antonio B-Cycle.