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VIA's original logo, used until 2014. VIA was created in 1977 when the citizens of Bexar County voted in favor of a one-half cent sales tax to fund the service. Subsequently, VIA purchased transit assets from the City of San Antonio and began operations in March 1978, taking its name from the Latin word for "road".
The NSA/CSS Texas Cryptologic Center (TCC), also known as the Texas Cryptology Center, Texas Cryptographic Center or NSA Texas, is a satellite campus at the Medina Annex, Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, operated by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).
The San Antonio Police Department's organization includes a chief of police a command and executive staff, [11] and the use of community crime mapping. [ 12 ] As of November 2018, the department had 2,358 officers of which 1,204 were Hispanic (51.1%), 1,003 were white (42.5%), 119 were Black (5.0%), and 32 other (1.4%).
Armando Montelongo Jr. is an American real estate entrepreneur and public speaker, best known for his role from 2006 to 2009 on the A&E reality TV show Flip This House. [1] He is the founder of "Armando Montelongo Companies", which presents real estate investment seminars.
He recommended a large shelter similar to San Antonio and St. Petersburg that wouldn’t turn away people who were drunk or high, and would offer services like drug counseling and haircuts. [11] "If you give cash out on the street" to homeless people, "about 93 percent of it goes to alcohol, drugs and prostitution," Marbut told NPR in 2014.
Headquartered in Texas and with national reach, RAICES, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formally known as the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, promotes migrant justice by providing legal services, social services case management, and rights advocacy for immigrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking people and families.
Established in 1940 as the Industrial Extension Service, the agency took on its current name when it joined The Texas A&M University System in 1948. The agency sponsors the state's primary urban search and rescue force, Urban Search and Rescue Texas Task Force 1, and operates the Brayton Fire Training Field. Brayton is the largest firefighting ...
In 2000, Bromley won the San Antonio Convention and Visitors Bureau account, becoming the first Hispanic agency to be named General Market Agency of Record for the city of San Antonio. This relationship lasted for 12 years and helped position San Antonio as a top vacation destination. [7]