Last year, your Chamber facilitated the approval of Proposition 7 by hosting a press conference with Texas House of Representatives Speaker Joe Straus supporting transportation funding measures. Last week, the Texas Transportation Commission ...
On February 17, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, Joe Straus, addressed a packed room as the first event of your Chamber’s Road to Session Luncheon Series. Speaker Straus identified important priorities that are expected to be key ...
On February 19, Sheriff Susan Pamerleau addressed an audience of 200 about Bexar Counties latest initiatives on public safety and assistance programs. She noted that in 2015, her department responded to 105,000 calls for service. To address this ...
Along with local ISD Superintendents and representatives from the San Antonio and North San Antonio Chambers of Commerce, U.S. Senator John Cornyn and U.S. Representative Will Hurd hosted a roundtable discussing the latest federal legislation ...
During our December Board of Directors Meeting, the Board unanimously approved a position statement in support of the restructuring of the San Antonio Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) to become a designated not-for-profit 501c(6). Last week, San ...
On Tuesday, the State of Texas House Committee on Urban Affairs hosted a public hearing on cybersecurity at the University of Texas at San Antonio. The hearing came as a result of direction from the Speaker of the Texas House for the committee to ...
Last week your Chamber hosted the newly appointed Regional Director for the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), Hope Shimabuku. Mrs. Shimabuku’s visit coincided with her keynote address at the State Bar of Texas Intellectual Property ...
The Chamber’s Chairman of the Board Renée Flores and President and CEO Richard Perez testified last week in favor of City Manager Sheryl Sculley’s contract during the City Council meeting where Council Members voted to approve an ...
With great anticipation of the upcoming college football season, the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce is excited to partner with UTSA for a reception to meet new head football Coach Frank Wilson and his assistant coaches. This will be a wonderful ...
The San Antonio Chamber has been honored by Hiring Our Heroes and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation with the three-star Chamber of Valor award. The Chamber of Valor award acknowledges the contributions of local chambers, industry associations, ...
Just two weeks after of our delegation of 130 San Antonians brought community issues to Washington D.C., members of our Energy & Sustainability issue team have already received some great news. One of their issues related to the Diesel Emissions ...
San Antonio is expected to continue to grow at an annual rate of +4.1% per year. Your Chamber reaches many individuals and businesses who are thinking of relocations to San Antonio with our annual Relocation Guide, published by Texas Monthly. In ...
Last Thursday the 2016 SA to DC delegation returned from four days in Washington D.C. where teams met with Members of Congress, Department Officials, Agency leadership and Administration Appointees to advocate for the needs of San Antonio and the ...
Please join the Diplomás Project partners for a forum on dual credit and educational outcomes for Latino students on February 10, 2016 from 8:30-noon at Palo Alto College.The Summit will address the following topics: The current state ...
It's HAPPENING! Reconnect with your LSA classmates and meet other LSA alumni at the kick-off of the LSA Alumni Association. ALL LSA classes are welcome to attend. Events details are as follows:Thursday, January 28th6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Two Bros BBQ ...
Over 130 business and community leaders from San Antonio are set to travel to Washington D.C. next week to meet with Members of Congress, agency leadership and Administration Officials to advocate for critical issue to San Antonio and South Texas. ...
During the Chamber’s first Board of Directors Meeting in 2016, hosted by engineering consulting firm Raba Kistner at Oak Hills Country Club, the board unanimously approved this year’s federal agenda. The Federal Agenda will serve as the ...
On January 13th your chamber participated in a Community Conversation (CC) discussing our Next Generation Assessments and Accountability for Texas Public Schools. Hosted by State Board of Education Chair, Donna Bahorich, and local board ...
Following is a message from SAISD Superintendent Pedro Martinez that he sent to the SAISD staff about his State of the District address to the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce on January 14.This morning, I delivered a State of the District address to ...
With over 125 business and community leaders set to travel to Washington on the annual SA to DC trip, industry teams are finalizing key details for visits with leaders in Congress and across SA to DC. This morning, the San Antonio Chamber’s ...
Frontier Airlines will launch new service in San Antonio with new non-stop flights to Atlanta, Denver, Las Vegas and Philadelphia beginning in May. Frontier is offering special introductory fares as low as $19 one-way on these new routes at ...
It's HAPPENING! Reconnect with your LSA classmates and meet other LSA alumni at the kick-off of the LSA Alumni Association. ALL LSA classes are welcome!Thursday, January 28th6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Two Bros BBQ, 12656 West Avenue (we will meet on the ...
With the annual SA to DC only three weeks away, the Chamber is excited to announce that the group of business and civic leaders will hear from both Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, and Senator Orrin Hatch at the Chairman's Dinner on February ...
More than 100 business leaders from San Antonio will travel to our nation's capital on February 1 with a comprehensive federal agenda representing the regional needs of our community. The registration deadline to ensure group trip pricing is ...
The San Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors voted unanimously during the December board meeting to support the restructuring of the San Antonio Convention & Visitors Bureau (SACVB) to become a designated not-for-profit 501c(6). The restructure ...
The beautiful downtown Grand Hyatt hotel graciously hosted the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce's last board meeting of 2015 on December 15. After presentations about our SA to DC trip and the Fifth Army, 2015 Chairman Henry Cisneros thanked the ...