What happens when 'broken' City Council confronts $158M deficit?
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What happens when 'broken' City Council confronts $158M deficit?

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 16, 202636 min

After weeks of sniping at one another both in public and behind the scenes, Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones and City Council finally vote on the city's $4.4 billion budget and its first property tax rate hike in more than three decades. The ENside Politics team examines how we got here and what's behind all the fighting. Suggested reading: Here’s what Mayor Jones wants to cut from the San Antonio budget City takes heat for cutting 39 library workers in next year's budget Nonprofits rally against San Antonio's proposal to cut $5.1M to...

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Welcome to Inside Politics, our weekly podcast on 158 million things you need to know about San Antonio politics. I'm your host, Greg Jefferson. I'm joined today by City Hall reporters, Megan Rodriguez.

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Hello. And Molly Smith. Welcome. Hi.

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All right. So we're going to call this edition the Toxic Workplace Show. It's all about city council. And we've had in the last week, two city council members take to Instagram to bemoan the brokenness

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