A close reading of the last week of Jessica Witzel’s life reveals predictable failures by public agencies, facilitated by the dehumanization housed residents often direct at unhoused neighbors. It also reveals possibilities for neighbors banding together to meet all residents’ ‘true level of need.
As climate drought intensifies, San Antonio Water System’s 2025 termination of a conservation program popular among local eco-yard proponents highlights tensions between conservation and accessibility in the utility’s struggles for future water security.
Jessica Witzel’s autopsy report raises an important question: How many other heat-related deaths among unhoused residents are being erased by the failure to collect and report accurate data on climate-related mortality?
While a legal decision that could reanimate a federal lawsuit may take until summer, the City of San Antonio is expected to move ahead with tree removals at Brackenridge Park as soon as it gets clearance from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Despite its technical packaging, efforts to reform metal recycling codes reveal the complex and emotional political dynamics that produce—but also disrupt—environmental injustice.
We could know what happens to people after they are evicted. Just like we could know how many people are dying from extreme heat. In the struggle to stay housed, organizers must push against powerful entrenched forces that demand unknowing.
As the heat index drops below advisory levels in South Texas, my brain finally has energy to reflect back on how my dogs and I survived–and didn’t—the increasingly deadly heat of these past two summers.
Members of the Lipan-Apache ‘Hoosh Chetzel’ Native American Church have been granted a rehearing of their federal lawsuit that could force the City of San Antonio to reconsider its policies targeting migratory birds and elder trees.
To best navigate our climate crisis, the people of greater San Antonio need their City Council to seize the controls of our wayward City-owned utility.
