Solid Advice for City Manager Erik Walsh: Talk to the Nun
April 13, 2021
Back in 1992, she was an organizer for COPS/Metro Alliance when the powerful community organization designed and persuaded the City to financially back Project Quest, which early on and to this day has been recognized as one of the most successful job training programs...
Read MoreCOPS/Metro Develops Leadership for Parish 'Fratelli Tutti' Study Groups
March 30, 2021
[Excerpts] A successful partnering of West Side parishes with COPS/Metro Alliance to study Pope Francis' recent encyclical, Fratelli Tutti (On Fraternity and Social Friendship), owes it all to Zoom-and the savvy leaders invovled. It began with an informal discussion on the encyclical between Father...
Read MoreToday's Catholic 'Food for Thought' Interviews COPS/Metro Alliance Leaders
March 12, 2021
Food For Thought host Father Jim Schellenberg talks with leaders Sonia Hernandez and Father Mike DeGerolami about COPS/Metro's track record in San Antonio.
Read MoreCOPS/Metro & Texas IAF Declare State Power Failure 'Act of Sheer Negligence' and Demand Accountability from Elected Officials
February 19, 2021
While state officials announced later in the day that power had stabilized and forced shutoffs were no longer needed, more than 300,000 households remained without power....Texas was especially hard hit because most of its power grid is isolated from the interconnected networks serving the...
Read MoreCOPS/Metro Partners with Southside ISD to Engage Community & Parents
February 09, 2021
[Excerpts] Leaders from the Southside Independent School District and COPS/Metro announced their new working relationship at a Dec. 3 physically distanced press conference. Together they plan a listening tour, including monthly gatherings where district officials can get direct input from learners, their families and...
Read MoreStatement on the Insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021
January 07, 2021
What happened Wednesday, January 6 at the U.S. Capitol disrespected, demeaned, and threatened the right of every citizen who peacefully engages in the democratic process in our country. Deliberation, debate, argument, compromise, deal-making; these are the means to advance interests in a democracy. The...
Read MoreCOPS/Metro Leaders Fight 'Bloated Bureaucracy' in City Implementation of 'SA Ready to Work'
December 04, 2020
[Excerpts] “That’s one heck of a bloated bureaucracy from the get-go,” said Sonia Rodriguez, a COPS/Metro leader who worked on Nirenberg’s Ready to Work campaign. The city’s ideas drew fire from Rodriguez and others at COPS/Metro — a local grassroots advocacy group that actively...
Read MoreBeatrice Gallego's Achievements as Early Leader of COPS Celebrated by Museo del Westside
December 01, 2020
[Excerpts] Beatrice Gallego has spent her life advocating for the communities that San Antonio city leaders often neglect. As a parent volunteer, a devoted parishioner at St. James Catholic church, and the second President of the Communities Organized for Public Service (COPS), Gallego has...
Read MoreCOPS/Metro Leverages 77% Support for 'SA Ready to Work,' Calls for Full Accountability in Implementation
November 27, 2020
[Excerpts] On Nov. 3, 77 percent of San Antonio voters approved Proposition B, Ready to Work SA, and 73 percent approved Proposition A, Pre-K for SA. These outcomes clearly indicate San Antonio’s desire to invest in its most important resource, its people. COPS/Metro and...
Read MoreCOPS/Metro's GOTV Effort Passes Groundbreaking "SA Ready to Work"
November 04, 2020
[Excerpts] A trio of sales tax measures to train San Antonio workers for new jobs, expand public transit and renew the city’s early childhood education program were passing by an overwhelming margin with a majority of the vote counted Tuesday night. The workforce and...
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