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VIDEOWe now know that not only did masks FAIL to stop the spread of Covid but they also are harmful to those wearing them. So what was the REAL reason for the mask mandates? Control. The people on San Marcos were ordered to wear their underwear on the outside for the purpose of government control and most of the rest of the world was mandated to wear masks for the same reason. Control. Oh, and also for Virtue Signaling. We can't forget that.

The city of San Marcos has settled a lawsuit over its handling of the October 2020 “Trump Train” incident involving a Biden-Harris campaign bus. The city said it “continues to deny many of the allegations” made in the lawsuit, but acknowledged that the police department’s response to the incident “did not reflect the Department’s high standards for conduct and attention to duty.” Campaign staffers and volunteers, including former state Sen. Wendy Davis, filed the suit in 2021, accusing the city of not providing assistance or a police escort when the bus was surrounded by a pro-Trump caravan on Interstate 35....

A White House staffer and former Texas state representative are among those suing several participants of a "Trump Train" that allegedly harassed a Biden campaign bus last October in Texas, claiming in a lawsuit filed Thursday that the Trump supporters engaged in coordinated, illegal political intimidation in violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act. The complaint was filed on behalf White House staffer, David Gins; former Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis; former Biden campaign volunteer Eric Cervini; and the driver of the Biden campaign bus, Timothy Holloway. The plaintiffs wrote in their complaint filed in the Western District of Texas...

Some workers don’t trust customers — or their co-workers — to be truthful about their vaccination status since most companies are not requiring proof. Others fear they will be judged if they leave their own masks on, even though their reasons for doing so are varied. [cut] Kroger, the country’s largest grocery chain, became one of the latest to announce that, starting Thursday, workers and customers can stop wearing masks [cut] William Stratford, 29, won’t be fully vaccinated until next month, but shoppers and co-workers at the home improvement store where he works had been coming in without a mask...

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Michael R. Bloomberg on Saturday did not rule out spending a billion dollars of his own money on the 2020 presidential race, even if he does not win the Democratic nomination, and said he would mobilize his well-financed political operation to help Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren win in November if either is the party nominee, despite their sharp policy differences. Mr. Bloomberg’s plans would effectively create a shadow campaign operation for the general election, complete with hundreds of organizers in key battleground states and a robust digital operation, ready to be inherited by the party...

AN MARCOS, Texas (KXAN) — The San Marcos Police Department has identified the man accused of shooting and killing Officer Kenneth Copeland as Stewart Thomas Mettz. Mettz, 51, owns the home at 177 Valero Dr., which is in the El Camino Real subdivision in southern San Marcos, off of Old Bastrop Road, according to the Hays County Appraisal District. The home listing shows Mettz is a disabled veteran.

A police officer in San Marcos, Texas, was shot and killed Monday afternoon when he was serving a warrant, police said. Officer Ken Copeland, a veteran of the San Marcos Police Department since March 1998, was serving a warrant in the El Camino Real subdivison of the city when he was fatally shot, Police Chief Chase Stapp confirmed during a press conference Monday night. Copeland — who was wearing a protective vest — and other officers were shot at by the suspect, "much like in an ambush type of situation." He was taken to the Central Texas Medical Center immediately...

Several key Central Texas highway projects — including expansions of U.S. 183 in North Austin, U.S. 290 in Southwest Austin and Interstate 35 through the heart of the area — are once again in limbo after Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick last week staked out firm anti-toll positions. “Right now there’s a billion dollars worth of projects on hold, between 183 and Oak Hill,” said Mike Heiligenstein, executive director of the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority. The I-35 project, estimated to cost $8 billion to add toll lanes and other improvements from Round Rock to Buda, was...

A sophomore at Texas State University died after being shot at an apartment complex near the campus early Sunday morning. Justin Douglas Gage, 20, died at University Medical Center-Brackenridge several hours after being shot in the torso and upper arm at The Retreat, an official student housing partner of Texas State Athletics located at 512 Craddock Avenue, less than two miles from campus. Police said he had gone into an apartment at the complex shortly before 3:30 a.m. with a friend. When the two went inside, they were followed by three men wearing masks, one of whom brandished a gun....

SAN MARCOS, Texas -- A police officer in San Marcos is in jail after arresting a pedestrian whom police say didn’t break the law. Corporal James Angelo Palermo, 40, conducted a traffic stop on May 29 during his midnight shift patrol near 126 S. Guadalupe Street. According to the arrest affidavit, Palermo stopped a Toyota Prius shortly after 1:00 a.m. for driving the wrong way on a one-way street and began questioning the driver. A pedestrian walking by was called over by Palermo and asked why she was walking by his traffic stop. He then asked for the woman’s identification....

Email 0Share 0Tweet0Share0Print...... Eight of 15 cities with the fastest growth in the United States are in Texas, according to the latest data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Estimates released Thursday also show that half of those cities in the nation with the largest total population increases are in Texas. And Houston added more than 34,500 people to reach 2.2 million inhabitants — only second to New York City in total population gains in the year that ended last July. The Central Texas town of San Marcos is the fastest-growing city in the U.S., increasing by 4.9 percent. It...

Texas State University’s student government has become the first in Texas to endorse carrying concealed handguns on campus. The group voted 24-10 on Monday to pass a resolution backing a proposed bill that would allow anyone to carry a concealed handgun around campus if they are 21 or older, have a concealed carry license, and have undergone training and background checks. Previous concealed carry bills have had little success in the Legislature. Newly elected state Rep. David Simpson, R-Longview, has filed a new bill this session. Advocates say the bill would allow students to protect themselves in the event of...

SAN MARCOS, Texas -- Violence on college campuses is a growing concern among students, and some say it's time to take protection into their own hands -- by carrying guns. Mike Guzman, a senior at Texas State University-San Marcos, is among 30,000 members of Students For Concealed Carry on Campus, a group dedicated to a nationwide effort to make it legal for students to carry concealed handguns on campus, San Antonio television news station KSAT reported. "It's a tool that we're allowed to use across the street in larger society, so why not on campus?" Guzman said. Concealed handguns may...

1 day ago PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis. (AP) — A former elk farm owner was found not guilty Friday of releasing wild pigs into the western Wisconsin countryside after a judge said the witness against him wasn't credible. Robert S. Johnson, 55, was charged with one count of illegally stocking wild animals, a civil offense. State investigators had accused him of bringing 31 wild hogs from Texas to Crawford County in 2002, spawning a feral hog population that has caused thousands of dollars in crop damage. The state Department of Justice was seeking $31,000 in forfeitures — $1,000 for each...

San Marcos — At her first meeting as part of a citizen advisory committee on the Trans-Texas Corridor, San Marcos Mayor Susan Narvaiz plans to listen before she speaks. “I want to be better educated about where they are now in terms of the timeline,” said Narvaiz, who was appointed to the board by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) on Thursday. “I want to hear from the people who put this together, what their intent was, why they figured their alignment the way they did.” The 18-member committee will advise TxDOT in the planning of TTC-35, which will roughly...

Alan Keyes calling for America’s move back to the ‘Kingdom of God’ By Nick Georgiou Staff Reporter San Marcos — GOP Presidential Candidate Alan Keyes considers himself the complete conservative. He's against abortion, gay marriage, the welfare system and the income tax. And he believes America has moved from “the kingdom of God to the kingdom of darkness - of lies and deception.” Keyes was in San Marcos Friday to discuss this issue and gain support as part of a six-week grassroots tour of Texas. He is no stranger to government. For almost three decades, Keyes, who earned a doctorate...

I received this in an email from my sister: On Friday, September 21st at 6PM, there will be a musical tribute and presentation in support of a local solider MIA. It will be held at the San Marcos Plaza Park stage. San Marcos is just south of Austin. Here is the message attached from the Mayor of San Marcos: All: Please help bring our community together in support of the San Marcos mother of missing soldier Pvt. Byron Fouty. This event will be filmed to send to Pvt. Fouty’s fellow soldiers to show support for our troops. The Blue Star...

Could high-speed rail service with a stop in the Hillsboro area be a reality by 2020? That is the goal set by the Texas High-Speed Rail and Transportation Corporation (THSRTC) following the final planning and design charrette in Fort Worth. The charrette preceded the 10th annual Transportation Summit held in Irving Tuesday through Friday, August 7-10. THSRTC board members met in Houston in May at the Continental Airlines headquarters for the first of the charrettes. Attending were eight international suppliers of high-speed rail for nine different systems in France, Germany, Korea and Spain. In addition, 14 consulting firms of varying...

SAN MARCOS — A police officer here shot and killed a 19-year-old man Wednesday as the man sat on his mother's chest, stabbing her with a dinner fork, in the street outside their home. The woman, Rosita Pineda, called police at about 10:45 a.m. and told the dispatcher that her son, Christopher Gonzales, was acting strangely and was armed with a butter knife. When officer Tracy Frans arrived at the house in the 1000 block of Gravel Street, he saw Gonzales in the street, holding a fork to his mother's neck, said San Marcos Police Chief Howard Williams. Williams said...

They're coming whether we build it or not. That was the message about the Central Texas portion of the Trans Texas Corridor (TTC 35) delivered to the Governmental Affairs Committee of the San Marcos Area Chamber of Commerce Thursday by a representative of an engineering firm advising the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). Between 1990 and 2000, the state's population as well as the number of vehicle miles traveled in Texas has outgrown existing lane capacity. “With some roads (the philosophy) has been build it and they will come, but the need for the TTC is here today,” said Paul...