COPS/Metro Calls for Transparency and Accountability as Criticisms of 'SA Ready to Work' Mount
April 11, 2024
[Excerpt] “If the city paid for it, I would hope the answer is yes,” [Sonia] Rodriguez said after Thursday’s council meeting. “Because that’s the point — that people get the skills, get the certificates, get what they need to be able to actually reach a...
Read MoreCOPS/Metro Challenges San Antonio's Service Satisfaction: City's Neglected Infrastructure Still a Concern
April 03, 2024
Photo Credit: Linda Taylor, San Antonio Current[Excerpt] Miller points to the formation 50 years ago of Communities Organized for Public Service, now COPS/Metro, as a turning point in the city's willful neglect of low-income, non-Anglo neighborhoods. The grassroots group organized residents to demand drainage, sidewalks,...
Read MoreVatican official Dr. Emilce Cuda tours West Side with COPS/Metro
February 27, 2024
Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller and Dr. Emilce Cuda take a song break during a COPS/Metro dinner last week. COPS/Metro leaders welcomed the Vatican's Emilce Cuda, Secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, for a tour of San Antonio's West Side, followed by a two-day conversation...
Read MoreAs Ready to Work Graduates Enter Job Market, COPS/Metro Pressures City to Ensure High Quality Jobs Await Them
November 20, 2023
[Photo Credit: Ronald Cortes, San Antonio Express News] [Excerpt]"...not enough San Antonians are landing jobs through the city sales-tax funded program, say leaders with the interfaith grassroots advocacy group. The city has failed to meet its goal that 80% of Ready to Work participants will...
Read MoreCOPS/Metro Holds Memorial to The Lost Featuring "Stunning" Installation to Spur Change
November 16, 2023
[Photo Credit: Reform Austin][Excerpt]"More than a hundred people marched from St. Michael's Catholic Church to the Alamodome on Saturday to hang around 2000 t-shirts in front of the parking lot. Each shirt represented a life lost to gun violence in Bexar County. Most shirts had...
Read MoreCOPS/Metro March for "Lives Lost" Sends City Powerful Message
November 15, 2023
[Photo Credit: Today's Catholic Newspaper][Excerpt]"Along with Texas Impact and Mission Presbytery, COPS/Metro drew almost 500 working-class people from 61 groups all over the city to St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church on the city’s Southeast Side.In a prelude to events, or what they called an action,...
Read MoreCity Gun Buyback Program Follows Day After COPS/Metro Memorial to the Lost
November 13, 2023
On November 19th, the city of San Antonio ran a voluntary gun buy back program that allowed residents to safely dispose of firearms in an effort to reduce the number of gun related deaths in the city by reducing the concentration of firearms. The...
Read MoreKSAT Marks COPS/Metro History in Westwood Square
October 25, 2023
[Excerpt] [A] new coalition of neighborhoods, churches and others formed Communities Organized for Public Service, or COPS, in 1974.... “That was the perfect storm that planted the seed that allowed COPS to flourish,” said Father Mike DeGerolami, also a leader for COPS/Metro Alliance. ...Garza...
Read MoreCOPS/Metro Calls for Participation in 'Memorial to the Lost'
October 16, 2023
[Excerpt] COPS/Metro Alliance is calling for people to participate in the Memorial to the Lost, which aims to recognize all the lives lost to gun violence in Bexar County over the last five years.... Organizers hope to line the streets surrounding the Alamodome with...
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