San Antonio has a new City Council! The May Municipal Election prompted Districts 1, 2, 3, 5, and 9 into a June 5 run-off election. After 39,534 votes were cast by Bexar County residents, the San Antonio City Council will welcome four fresh faces. ...
Governor Greg Abbott announced this week that QTC Management, Inc. (“QTC”) will establish a new operational service center in San Antonio. QTC, a subsidiary of Leidos Holdings, Inc., provides disability and occupational health ...
The San Antonio Chamber of Commerce’s Woman to Woman, Leader to Leader (WWLL) Committee was excited to kick-off in-person meetings for the first time in over a year, after a hiatus during the pandemic. The Committee began over 10 years ago ...
Each year, the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and the Ford Motor Company celebrate women business leaders who are making a difference in San Antonio through our Tribute to Women Business Leaders Awards. The awards honor women who embody leadership ...
Tomorrow is Election Day for the City Council Runoff races. Early Voting turnout for the run-off election was predictably lower than it was in the recent general election, with just 21,560 votes being cast for candidates in City Council Districts 1, ...
The San Antonio Chamber of Commerce held the monthly Cybersecurity Council meeting this week, with a focus on efforts to promote cybersecurity education in the city. The featured presenter was Josh Beck, from Northeast Independent School District ...
Early voting is underway in Bexar County for the June 5 City Council run-off election. Turnout so far is off to a much slower start than the recent general election, with just 11,161 votes being cast for candidates in City Council Districts 1, 2, 3, ...
The Chamber’s Economic Development Council met this week and hosted Immediate Past Chair of the Chamber Board and President and CEO of Southwest Research Institute Adam Hamilton. Adam shared information about the San Antonio Partnership for ...
You have an opportunity to collaborate with the City of San Antonio and host interns this summer at no cost to your organization. These young adults are screened by City staff, provided with initial job training, and assigned a job coach for the ...
The City Council run-off election for Districts 1,2,3, 5 and 9 is less than two weeks away, with early voting starting on Monday, May 24. Your Chamber wants to ensure that residents are aware of where candidates stand on key business issues. Earlier ...
The Chamber’s Aerospace Committee met last week and hosted a team from CHA Consulting who provided a detailed report of the Kelly Field Comprehensive Plan. Following a briefing earlier in the day to the Port of San Antonio Board of Directors, ...
Women have served in our Armed Forces, defending our nation, and supporting our citizens and military missions for centuries. Their roles may have changed over the years, but there is no doubt that they have been an integral part of peacetime and ...
Since March 2020, COVID-19 forced many businesses and organizations to put programs and initiatives on hold. This includes your Chamber’s Cybersecurity Council’s focus teams. This week, however, the teams met and are back to work. Some ...
As you know, 2021 is a very critical time for San Antonio, as our business community continues its road to recovery and back to the strong and diverse economic powerhouse it was pre-pandemic. We believe it is vital that San Antonio elects Council ...
Are you interested in helping San Antonio Water System (SAWS) better serve the community? Here is your chance. SAWS is calling people from across the city to apply for a seat on their new Community Experience Committee (CEC). The focus of the CEC is ...
The Texas Military Preparedness Commission today released its Texas Military Value Task Force 2021 Report summarizing findings from virtual meetings with Texas military installations, military commanders, and command staff. The report identifies ...
The San Antonio Chamber of Commerce’s Senior Enlisted Advisory Committee (SEAC) met to discuss the benefits of collaboration and partnership, outside of the installation, as well as between the services and members in uniform. After receiving ...
As the 45th Class of Leadership San Antonio (LSA) continues its extended year with the theme of “legacy, service, and action,” Chamber leaders are already beginning to seek out LSA alumni and future business and community leaders to ...
Networking means different things to different people, and at the Chamber we seek to provide an environment where business professionals can gather to meet and do business with one another. While COVID-19 put a halt to our in-person networking ...
In partnership with the City of San Antonio, we would like to invite you to participate in our Employer Interest, Rise! Shine! & Learn! information session. Join us on Tuesday, May 25 from 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. for a chat discussing how we can work ...
Leadership San Antonio’s 45th Class held their first in-person day since the COVID-19 pandemic began, close to 400 days since their last traditional gathering and focused on how to “Be Healthy”. Class members who could not join the ...
Since 1970, the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce has been proud to host the nation’s largest series of events honoring our men and women who serve in the military. Celebrate America’s Military turned “50” years old in 2020 ...
The Chamber held its April Board of Director’s meeting virtually last week, April 29, with Chair of the Board Hope Andrade providing opening remarks. After the approval of the minutes from the February meeting, Chamber Public Policy Chair J.D. ...
With the increased distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in San Antonio, more businesses are opening fully to customers and returning to some sense of normalcy. However, the fight for immunization is not finished. According to data in Bexar County, half ...
San Antonio residents voted in the Municipal Elections last Saturday. A record turnout was recorded with more than 100,000 Bexar County residents casting their votes during Early voting periods and nearly 46,000 residents casting their votes on ...
The Chamber’s Cybersecurity Council, which hosts Cybersecurity San Antonio, featured two spotlight briefings on Wednesday. Mark Bell, the Managing Director for Digital Defense discussed Digital’s full suite of best-in-class services in ...
The San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and the City of San Antonio hosted a virtual cyber trade mission working with the City of Montreal and the Montreal Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday. The Montreal team featured three cybersecurity companies ...
This week, Governor Abbott announced that the Texas Education Agency would now release ESSER III funds from the federal government as the latest relief package. TEA also provided guidance to local districts on how much would be allocated to them. ...
The San Antonio Chamber of Commerce was a proud co-sponsor of the San Antonio ISD Foundation’s State of the District 2021 on Tuesday, April 27. It was an energizing event that gave the community an update on the great progress our namesake ...
The U.S. Army is kicking off its second annual nationwide virtual hiring campaign with a goal of recruiting 1,700 new Soldiers to serve in 150 different occupations. Army National Hiring Days is an all-Army effort to inspire individuals across the ...