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The Rivard Report

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A weekly conversation about the people and stories shaping San Antonio. Hosted by Rivard Report Editor in Chief Beth Frerking along with longtime columnist and newsman Rick Casey. Expect the show weekly every Friday and never over 20 minutes long.
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THE GUEST Anne Cantera is an extraordinary designer specializing in AI/UX, Conversational AI, and VUI. With a focus on enhancing user experiences in education, healthcare, and hospitality, Anne has a proven track record of creating innovative and user-friendly AI-driven products. From developing the well-loved culinary chatbot Julia GPT to designin…
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For more on building AI products and careers, along with early course announcement and special pricing, subscribe to the AI Career Boost mailing list at https://aicareerboost.com/interested THE GUEST Hans Villamil is a dynamic and innovative product manager whose impressive career spans some of the most influential tech companies. Hans's background…
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THE GUEST Harsha Srivatsa is the Co-Founder and Head of Generative AI Products at a stealth AI startup where he is pioneering the use of Generative AI to transform mental health therapy. Previously, he led AI innovation at Indriya Innovation Labs, was a product advisor and AI fellow at Superbio.ai, and even built products for Apple! Harsha has a pr…
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A quick glimpse into what happened in the world of AI in May 2024! THE SHOW AI Afterhours with Polly Allen and Yuying Chen-Wynn is an irreverent attempt to 'edutain' about the latest AI headlines & tools! THE LINKS Recommendations Polly’s next free Masterclass - The Path to AI Product Manager: https://www.aicareerboost.com/master-ai-leadership Poll…
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THE GUEST Anne Griffin is a product leader and coach, and subject matter expert in AI, blockchain, tech ethics, and tech inclusivity. Over the last decade, she has championed a customer-centric approach to product management at both emerging tech startups and Fortune 500 companies. She also teaches about AI through O’Reilly and has guest lectured a…
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Like chapters of a book, each episode of the “San Antonio Storybook” will tell a different tale about the city we call home. The stories likely are ones you haven’t heard before – narratives about the lives of the people behind the headlines, the sounds you hear, and the places you see as you drive around San Antonio. Subscribe wherever you get you…
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“Finding Medina” weaves together the events surrounding the Battle of Medina with the modern-day search for the battlefield itself. Despite being the largest, bloodiest battle in Texas history, the Medina battlefield has eluded archaeologists for more than a century. By the end of this podcast series, we hope to change that. Subscribe wherever you …
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We may have been naive to be surprised that a San Antonio resort named La Cantera would be sued in 2018 for enforcing an "English-only" policy among Latino employees, but the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) this week filed just that lawsuit. Helping us understand the lawsuit and the procedures the EEOC goes through before filing such…
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The firefighters' union will have three controversial charter amendmentson the Nov. 6 ballot and each could have a significant effect on political decision making in San Antonio. This week, Iris Dimmick, who has been covering the firefighters' union contract negotiations for years, joins the podcast to discuss each of the three city charter changes…
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We talk with Gerry Schwabel, long-time head of international affairs for IBC Bank, which specializes in U.S. companies doing business in Mexico and Mexican companies doing business in the United States. Schwabel was present at the creation of NAFTA here in San Antonio and has closely monitored the current negotiations over updating the treaty. He j…
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked a federal court this week to void an Environmental Protection Agency finding that San Antonio has – like every other United States city of its size or larger – exceeded federal standards for ozone in its air. Paxton argued the finding would seriously hurt the city’s economy. Will it? And why hasn’t the City o…
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San Antonio City Councilman Manny Pelaez (D8) this week called for Bexar County District Attorney Nico LaHood to investigate the North Texas developer whose crews recently clearcut most of 38 acres of dense, brushy forest near La Cantera Parkway on the city's far North Side. LaHood called the move grandstanding. Pelaez joins me to discuss the crime…
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This week the most comprehensive study of San Antonio’s housing needs produced a detailed proposal to address a severe and growing problem. The Housing Policy Task Force Calls for 10-Year, $3.9 Billion Plan One statistic is particularly powerful: Paying the median rent for an apartment requires a wage of $18 an hour, yet 60 percent of San Antonio w…
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There is a growing consensus that Texas’ school funding system is broken – especially when well-run suburban districts such as San Antonio’s North East Independent School District are on the mat. San Antonio Democratic State Rep. Diego Bernal, who is vice chairman of the House Committee on Education, has recently expressed optimism that the Legisla…
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Frost Tower, the first downtown office high-rise to join San Antonio's skyline in three decades, has reached its full height and will open for business next year. Weston Urban CEO Randy Smith played a central role in negotiating the deal and selecting the world-renowned architectural firm Pelli Clarke Pelli and is overseeing construction. In today'…
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When prominent San Antonio restaurateur Viola Barrios of Los Barrios Restaurant was murdered a decade ago, her family’s passionate response was immediate and stunning. Literally listening to their mother, they obeyed the instructions she had given them over the years to forgive. Throughout her life, Barrios had not only preached compassion and forg…
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With the redevelopment the Alamo and its surrounding plaza at the center of recent public debate, I invited Lewis Fisher, one of the city’s leading historians, to share details about the iconic site’s past and ownership. Fisher is the author of Saving San Antonio: The Preservation of a Heritage, a book dedicated to tales of the city’s strength in p…
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When Nico LaHood, less than a month into his tenure as Bexar County district attorney, announced he wouldn’t seek the death penalty for a 25-year-old man who had killed the Bexar County city of Elmendorf ‘s popular police chief in 2014, it seemed like a radical move. But this week highly respected District Judge Sid Harle ruled the killer was not g…
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One year ago, just weeks after President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris climate accord, San Antonio’s brand new City Council and its new mayor voted 9-1 to join a coalition of cities determined to meet the accord’s goals for reducing the greenhouse gases that are causing climate change. The first step of the ambitious commit…
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Harvey Kronberg has been covering Texas political conventions at the Quorum Report for three decades. These gatherings don’t nominate candidates, but as Kronberg explains, they have plenty of drama. The 2018 Texas Republican Convention kicked off in San Antonio on Thursday, so Harvey and I explore the dynamics surrounding the party and event. Why d…
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This week in Just This Rick Casey talks with Iris Dimmick, Rivard Report managing editor and City Hall reporter, about the latest draft of plans for remaking Alamo Plaza. A team of national experts, under direction from the City of San Antonio, the Texas Land Office and the Alamo Endowment, took steps toward addressing issues passionately raised by…
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In Friday’s episode of Just This, Rick and I discuss several high-profile runoff election races this week that most impact San Antonio, including those for U.S. Congressional Districts 21 and 23; the contest to replace longtime Texas House Speaker Joe Straus of San Antonio (in Texas House District 121); and the very low voter turnout in them all. I…
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In today's episode of Just This, Rick and I discuss a storythat has rocked the San Antonio literary scene. Hailey Laine Johnson, now 31 years old, on May 9 posted on Facebooka description of a situation that she says happened to her when she was a 14-year-old creative writing student at the North East School of the Arts. In that posting, Johnson al…
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