A $180 million program set up to offer grants to tourism, travel and hospitality businesses affected by the pandemic is expanding to include more businesses of types that serve visitors to San Antonio. Gov. Greg Abbott announced this week that operators of boat and bus tours, charter buses, passenger car rentals and scheduled passenger air … Read more
Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios Before the end of the decade, the electricity powering San Antonio’s homes and businesses won’t rely on a polluting coal plant. But CPS Energy isn’t committing to all renewables just yet. Driving the news: The city-owned utility’s board voted 4-1 yesterday to choose a new portfolio of future energy sources that will … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk returned to federal court Monday in San Francisco to testify in a class action lawsuit filed by Tesla investors alleging he misled them with a tweet. The tweet resulted in a $40 million settlement with securities regulators, claimed he had lined up the financing to take Tesla private in … Read more
Spurs Sports and Entertainment, and local company Victory Capital Holdings on Jan. 18 announced a multiyear naming rights partnership with Victory Capital Management Inc. for the team’s new performance center being built at The Rock at La Cantera on the northwest side of San Antonio. Victory Capital has been named the official investment partner of … Read more
Little did San Antonio truck driver Rolando Denova Jr. know when he took his big rig into a service facility for maintenance that it would be the last time he’d see it. Denova, 31, alleges a “defect” in security at the Doggett Freightliner South Texas dealership in Converse allowed the truck to “be removed from … Read more
It’s already controversial among lawmakers.
Silicon Valley billionaires: the grass may not be greener in Texas for much longer. California lawmakers are considering a “wealth tax” that would not only introduce a 1.5% tax on net worth in excess of $1 billion by 2024, but also allow the state to pursue that tax for former residents who flee the state … Read more