Good news for Hegelheads

Some big personal news: I'll be moving to London in January for the Sir Harry Evans fellowship in investigative journalism at Reuters and Durham University. Excited to begin this new chapter!

Analysis: Republicans gained ground in Bexar County in 2020 among Hispanic voters -- Waylon Cunningham San Antonio Report
sanantonioreport.org/analysis-repub… Great comments and analysis by my UTSA Political Science and Geography colleague Milena Ang!

Obsessed with this photography project showing civil servants aIn different countries.
First, Bolivia:

Wow they actually did it!

Follow up: Some bar owners today met with city staffers in what will be the first of many regular meetings about the project

'Sorry, can't talk now, I'm at the illegal annexation.'

Rackspace promotes chief financial officer to CEO; Kevin Jones steps down Waylon Cunningham San Antonio Report sanantonioreport.org/rackspace-prom…

I sat down for KLRN’s reporter round table to talk about Bexar County PPP loans and my colleague Raquel Torres ’ reporting on the trafficking of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard

My latest, answering how the Florida governor flew 50ish mostly Venezuelan migrants out of a military airfield #RonDeSantis #MarthasVineyard sanantonioreport.org/kelly-field-sa…

Terrible news. Henry was a gem of a teacher and a wonderful editor

San Antonio’s resource center policies spit out Venezuelan migrants to sleep on the streets, as my colleague Raquel Torres showed with brilliant on-the-ground reporting sanantonioreport.org/san-antonio-mi…

Today Leon Valley is executing a search warrant at the property, where a river of sewage flowed through earlier this month. 'DO NOT CALL CODE INSPECTORS FOR REGULAR OR EMERGENCY WORK ORDERS,' recent leases instructed new tenants.
sanantonioreport.org/leon-valley-su…

foreignaffairs.com/world/william-…

Got a weird alert for my name. I've been quoted in an International Business Times article about National Women's Day alongside Michelle Obama & Margaret Thatcher. Apparently, I said: 'Women’s chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.” Sounds wise, but I've never said that.

Birds give up the complexity of song for volume in noisy places - so they sing louder but less interesting (to both humans & mates) songs in cities. When traffic noise in San Francisco fell due to COVID, birds began to sing more complex, quieter songs like they did 50 years ago!

New from Alejandro Serrano and me: The wave of book reviews and removals that swept across Texas in the last year was driven more by politicians than parents, a Houston Chronicle analysis found.

Story w/ database of 2,080 book reviews, challenges and bans:

houstonchronicle.com/news/investiga…