Olmos Park News

Opponents of the planned downtown streetcar system said Tuesday that county officials broke a promise with voters when they agreed to use advanced transportation district funds to help fund the project.

Dr. Dee Kite has written numerous books from fiction to self-help, but her latest one -- "The Dumbest Things Smart People Saya To Folks With MS" -- is the most personal.A It is written with the help of hundreds of Multiple Sclerosis patients like herself, who wrote into websites about the inappropriate and hurtful encounters with mostly ... (more)

An unlicensed contractor exposed by the Defenders in a sting operation defrauded an Olmos Park shop owner out of $800. One by one, unlicensed contractors came by a Northside strip center to bid on projects: air conditioning, electrical work and electrical signs.

Rare is the quiet night in the Lone Star neighborhood south of downtown, where three lines of railroad track wind near the homes, schools, businesses and churches.