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bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard

The bigcitysmalltown podcast, hosted by Bob Rivard, is dedicated to telling the stories of San Antonians working to make the city a more sustainable, better educated, equitable and prosperous city. We want San Antonio to become a destination city for talented and creative people, and a city where young people born or raised here want to build their futures here. We embrace diversity, multiculturalism, and every individual’s right to realize their full potential without fear of oppression.Each

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60. Victor Reyna on Leading the Asociación de...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/06/07

This week’s guest is Victor Reyna, vice president for business banking at Amegy Bank in San Antonio, who also serves as president of the Asociación de Empresarios Mexicanos in San Antonio. AEM, or The US – MX Business Association, as it is known in English, helps Mexican business professionals achieve success in the United States, and assists U.S. citizens interested in doing business in Mexico. As both countries experience presidential elections this year, Victor discusses San Antonio's special

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59. Dr. Belinda Román on Bringing Humanity to Economics

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/05/31

Belinda Román, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Economics at St. Mary’s University. Locally, Dr. Román is also Secretary/Treasurer of the San Antonio Business and Economics Society, and has conducted impact studies for the SABÉR Research Institute, an economic development think tank dedicated to researching regional economies and their development, with a focus on assisting the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal named Román as the most accurate of

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58. Jim Reed and the Expansion of the South Texas...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/05/24

How did the South Texas Medical Center become San Antonio's leading smart jobs engine over the last 25 years? This week’s guest is Jim Reed, the recently retired longtime chief executive of the San Antonio Medical Foundation, which led that extraordinary growth in the medical, health care and biscoences sectors. During his tenure managing the development of hundreds of acres to the growing medical center, it became home to the region's greatest concentration of hospitals, clinics, medical office

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57. Mary Thorsby, CEO of ABODE Contemplative Care for...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/05/17

This week’s guest is Mary Thorsby, the CEO of the nonprofit ABODE, whose mantra is contemplative care for the dying. ABODE operates end-of-life care in a single home on San Antonio’s near-Northside, caring for terminally ill individuals in the last weeks and months of life. It’s one of only three such programs in Texas. As it prepares to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its founding, listen as we learn more about ABODE.

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56. Jenna Saucedo-Herrera and Emily Royall:...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/05/10

This week, two perspectives on innovation in San Antonio. We revisit our conversations with Jenna Saucedo-Herrera of Greater: SATX as she discusses how San Antonio is winning on workforce development, and Emily Royall of Smart Cities San Antonio on how her team is using data to improve the quality of life for San Antonians. Listen in full to both conversations: Jenna Saucedo-Herrera's episode originally aired on October 30, 2023 as Episode 30. Emily Royall's episode originally aired on July 11,

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55. Garrett T. Capps: Honky-Tonk in San Antone and...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/05/03

We have Garrett T. Capps in the studio this week with guest hosts Kory Cook of KRTU 91.7 and Nicholas Frank of the San Antonio Report. Garrett T. Capps tours internationally with his band, Nasa Country, and has been a longtime curator of unique musical events in our city. Listen as we discuss how Capps has created space for other touring musicians at the bar he co-owns, The Lonesome Rose, how they weathered the disruptions to business on the St. Mary's Strip from COVID to construction, and the deep

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54. Liz Tullis and Dr. Peter Fox on the Conrad Smiles...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/04/26

Liz Tullis never gave up advocating for her son Conrad after his near-drowning and anoxic brain injury as an infant. Neither did Dr. Peter Fox, the founder and head of the University of Texas Health Science Center's Research Imaging Institute in San Antonio; and they are this week's guests. Listen as they discuss their unlikely journey to change how the medical community views pediatric non-fatal drowning and the powerful story behind the founding of the nonprofit Conrad Smiles Foundation.

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53. Bonnie Prosser Elder and David Zammiello, San...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/04/19

Today's guests are Bonnie Prosser Elder and David Zammiello, the volunteer co-chairs of Mayor Ron Nirenberg’s 15-member Charter Review Commission, formed last November to explore amendments to the city charter for voters to consider on the Nov. 5 ballot.

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52. Joe Holley on Power: How the Electric Co-Op...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/04/12

This week’s guest is Joe Holley, a longtime Texas journalist and the author of a new book titled “Power: How the Electric Co-Op Movement Energized the Lone Star State.” Power is a book that anyone who cares about Texas history and the state’s development will want to read, and Joe will be a featured author at this year’s San Antonio Book Festival at the Central Library, Saturday, April 13.

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51. Cat Dizon at the Helm of San Antonio’s Accredited...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/04/05

San Antonio entrepreneurs and startups often find themselves meeting with Cat Dizon, the chief operating officer at venture capital firm Active Capital and the chairwoman of the Geekdom board. The former senior Rackspace executive is the gatekeeper to San Antonio's leading seed fund, and is always on the lookout for young, promising businesses.

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50. Asia Ciaravino: Rediscovering the San Pedro...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/03/29

Innovative interpretations of theatrical classics are creating a buzz in San Antonio at the San Pedro Playhouse under this week's guest, returning CEO Asia Ciaravino, who continues to re-energize the city's oldest performing arts organization. April's performances of "A Midsummer's Night Sueño" suggest this will not be a traditional performance of the Shakespeare classic. Listen as she discusses the upcoming season for the San Pedro Playhouse and ways that you can get involved.

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49. Mark Carmona Addresses San Antonio’s Housing...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/03/22

Why is affordable housing in San Antonio everyone's problem? This week’s guest is Mark Carmona, the city of San Antonio’s first Chief Housing Officer, a position created by City Council in 2018 when council members first approved Mayor Ron Nirenberg’s housing initiative. Carmona overees the city’s Strategic Housing Implementation Plan (SHIP), and previously served as CEO of Haven for Hope and Deputy CEO for the Center for Health Care Services. Listen as Carmona tackles some of the most challenging

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43:34

48. Farm to Table Food Sustainability with Mitch...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/03/15

A special episode on food sustainability in San Antonio from farm to table that revisits two of the first episodes of bigcitysmalltown. Look back with us as food systems activist Mitch Hagney and Chef Elizabeth Johnson discuss the sustainability of food systems and how we can increase access to local, healthy food for the citizens of San Antonio. Their unique perspectives take on a different flavor when consumed together. Enjoy this episode on food policy, culture and history in our city. Mitch

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47. Ileana Gonzalez, Next Generation Leader of Tech...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/03/08

How is San Antonio perfectly positioned to blend LatAm culture with an American mindset to attract and retain talent? This week’s guest is Ileana Gonzales, the CEO of Tech Bloc, a position she assumed in 2023. Like a storm in 2015, Tech Bloc’s impact was significant and rapid, and energized the previously unorganized tech community. Gonzales is a Guadalajara-born millennial who came to San Antonio to attend UTSA and was inspired to stay. Listen as we talk about the state of the startup community in

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46. Maura Bobbitt Aims to Deliver Affordable, Green...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/03/01

Can you afford to die? This week’s guest is Maura Bobbitt, a death rights advocate focused on envisioning a future where our death and grief practices can be individually- and community-focused, radically accepting, environmentally-friendly, and divested from capitalist forces.

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45. Dr. Jaime Aquino, “Teacher of Teachers,” Uses...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/02/26

Governor Greg Abbott and the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature failed to improve public school funding, despite a $33 billion surplus and the high cost of inflation. Listen as this week’s guest, Dr. Jaime Aquino, shares his vision for education as superintendent of the San Antonio Independent School District, the city’s largest inner city public school district with about 45,000 students, 90% of whom are Latino and economically disadvantaged.

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44. Veronica Salazar on UTSA and the Future of the...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/02/19

This week’s guest is Veronica Salazar, Executive Vice President for Business Affairs and Chief Enterprise Development Officer at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Could UTSA's Institutute of Texan Cultures become the future site of a new Spurs arena? Listen as Veronica Salazar discusses the future of UTSA's presence downtown. The university’s Chief Enterprise Development Officer, Ms. Salazar oversees the Campus Master Plan and the continuing expansion of the Downtown Campus, including the $90

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43. Humberto G. Garcia and the 'Mustang Miracle'

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/02/12

This week’s guest is Humberto G. Garcia, a San Antonio attorney, avid golfer, and author of "Mustang Miracle," a book chronicling the inspiring small-town Texas story of five Mexican-American caddies in segregated Del Rio who overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles to form the San Felipe Mustangs Golf Team. Overcoming racism, exclusion, and poverty in a deeply segregated city and state, they went on to win the 1957 State High School Golf Championship. Garcia’s book has become a major motion

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42. Basura Bash: River Aid takes the lead in San...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/02/05

This week’s guest is Charles Blank, co-founder of the local nonprofit River Aid San Antonio (RASA), the volunteer organization that leads monthly cleanups of litter and dumped materials that perpetually clog and deface San Antonio’s watershed, its network of creeks and the San Antonio River. Saturday, Feb. 17 will mark the 29th anniversary of Basura Bash, the annual, one-day, citywide anti-litter event. River Aid has become the host of the event. River Aid

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41. A Conversation with Juan Tejeda

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/01/29

On this episode of bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard, Bob is joined by Nicholas Frank, senior arts reporter for the San Antonio Report as they speak with Juan Tejeda, founder of the San Antonio Conjunto Festival. He has published a family memoir centered on the life of his brother Frank Tejeda, former U.S. Marine and decorated Vietnam War vet, state legislator, city councilman, Congressman, and Southside leader who died at the age of 51 in 1997.

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