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Environments and water issues reporter Elene Breuss joins the show to discuss her articles on the return of mussels to the San Antonio river, invasive plants, and the conservation of Honey Creek Ranch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Investigative reporter Marina Starleaf Riker joins the show and talks about her time at the Children's Hospital of San Antonio, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Education reporter Danya Perez breaks down the evolving mask mandate issue and COVID-19 protocols across San Antonio as city deals with another surge of cases. Read: North East ISD board votes 5-1 to mandate masks following arguments against it from overflow crowd San Antonio ISD vows to require masks and employee vaccinations - with or without court backing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

Staff writer Mike Sutter joins the show to talk about his head to head comparison of Fred's Fish Fry and Sea Island as well as the ongoing 52 Weeks of Food Trucks series Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Samuel Igbo is a 15-year-old Boerne High School student who taught himself to play violin by watching Itzhak Perlman videos on YouTube. He's the focus of staff writer Vincent T. Davis latest San Antonio Stories column. Read: 'The Lord wants me to play' - Boerne teen violinist selected for Carnegie Hall orchestra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Investigative reporter Marina Starleaf Riker joins the show to discuss why the state of Texas denied the city's request for more nurses during the latest COVID-19 surge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Staff writer Sig Christenson discusses his recent trip to the border near Del Rio, Texas to report on Governor Greg Abbott's border fence. Read: Abbott's border wall is a chain-link fence, built by soldiers in a community tired of political games Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Staff writer Rene Guzman joins the show to discuss his latest article on a San Antonio area record shop owner whose illness has forced him to find a new home for his collection of over 100,000 vinyl records. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Texas Longhorns insider Nick Moyle breaks down the Longhorns' move to leave the Big 12 conference to join the SEC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Columnist Elaine Ayala joins the show to discuss her column on the painful history of Fiesta san Antonio and what can be done to cut those ties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Courts reporter Elizabeth Zavala joins the show to talk about the ongoing capital murder trial of Otis McKane, charged with capital murder in the shooting of Police Det. Benjamin Marconi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Suicides in the armed services hit a record 571 in 2020. The cause is a mystery to Pentagon officials. Senior reporter Sig Christenson talks about military suicides in the COVID era. Related reading: Military suicides in COVID era hit a new high Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Justin Vine delayed going to the hospital for as long as he could because he had no insurance. He endured weeks on a ventilator, a two-month coma, vivid hallucinations and the fear of what it all might cost him. Reporter Lauren Caruba and photographer Lisa Krantz talk about the year they spent covering Justin's story. Read more: COVID nearly killed this uninsured nurse. A year later, he's still re...

The harsh West Texas desert is claiming more migrant bodies as smugglers send more through the remote terrain. Correspondent Dudley Althaus talks about his latest report for the Express-News: Death in the desert.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special correspondent Jason Bush breaks down the federal trial of Jorge Juan Torres López, who served as interim governor of Mexico’s Coahuila state for much of 2011.  López is the first public official to be sentenced in a massive corruption investigation that began nearly a decade ago in San Antonio.    Read more: Three-year prison term for former Mexican governor who laundered bribe money in Te...

Express-News writer Guillermo Contreras lays out a kickback scheme that landed a Randolph civilian worker in federal court in San Antonio for wire fraud conspiracy. Even after Keith Alan Seguin retired from the government in 2017, the scheme is the largest military graft case to come out of San Antonio in at least a decade. Read more: Bribery case at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph has a major def...

Reporter Scott Huddleston lays out the ongoing confrontation between Bexar County commissioner, the sheriff and Black Rifle Coffee Co. over a $32,000 donation for a boat. Read more: Sheriff Salazar urges everyone to ‘chill’ in wake of social media firestorm over Black Rifle Coffee Co. donation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Staff writers Rene Guzman and Deborah Martin join the show to discuss the return to Fiesta.  Read more: Finally Fiesta: San Antonio's citywide celebration is back for a summer fling Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reporters Jeremy Wallace and Cayla Harris, from the Express-News Austin bureau, share their experiences during the “amazing 48 hours” inside the Texas House of Representatives as Democrats strategized the historical walkout against the controversial SB7. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Travel and tourism reporter Randy Diamond joins the show to talk about the tourism industry's struggle to employ staff as COVID-19 restrictions begin to ease. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Metro columnist Elaine Ayala joins the show to talk about Bridget McDermott Flood's new book "Blue Hole Wisdom" about the nuns who founded Incarnate Word University     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Express-News sports columnist Mike Finger reflects on Tim Duncan's career as a member of the San Antonio Spurs as well as his legacy in the pantheon of NBA all-time greats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Express News features reporter Rene Guzman joins the show to talk about his time with San Antonio rapper Southside Hoodlum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Staff writer Emilie Eaton joins the show to speak on the now defeated Proposition B.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Staff writer and part of the Express-News Taste team Mike Sutter joins the show to talk about the restaurant and bar boom on the near east side. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices