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From the Archives: COPS Launched Efforts in 1974 to Improve Basic City Services

December 20, 2018

[Excerpts below] In August 1974, the same month that President Richard M. Nixon resigned amid the Watergate scandal, COPS members marched on City Hall and demanded better drainage. Some areas of the city lacked paved streets, running water, sanitary sewer service, adequate police protection...

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Project QUEST Wins National $1 Million Grant for Training

December 05, 2018

[Excerpt below] Project QUEST, the nonprofit workforce development organization created more than a quarter-century ago by the COPS/Metro Alliance, has been awarded a $1 million grant that the organization says will allow it to serve more San Antonians with expanded job training programs. The...

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COPS / Metro Fights for Playground for Children

October 29, 2018

[Excerpt below] Victoria Cavazos, of Communities Organized for Public Service Metro Alliance, has a daughter in kindergarten at Beacon Hill Academy. Cavazos said the old building is not only cutting into the children's green space, but as of April, the children haven't been allowed...

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COPS/Metro Alliance Expands Into the Suburbs, Targets Congressional and Legislative Races

October 18, 2018

[Excerpt below] [COPS / Metro Alliance] hosted a town hall at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Helotes, and invited Republican and Democrat incumbents and challengers for state and Congressional offices that represent West Bexar County and San Antonio’s south and west sides...

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COPS / Metro Says "Vote No" on Prop A

October 09, 2018

[Excerpt below] This fall, the biggest loser of the amendments proposed by the firefighters union will be local democracy. While much of the rhetoric focuses on the city’s AAA bond rating and its capacity to govern, COPS/Metro is primarily concerned about the loss of...

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COPS / Metro Says, "Let the Children Play"

August 08, 2018

Early this year, 200 COPS/Metro leaders assembled to fight for the future of Beacon Hill Dual Language Academy.  One issue raised by leaders was the restriction of children from access to a playground that had been fenced off because debris from a vacant, crumbling building...

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