Troubling gun theft trend 

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Little Runner's big moves

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Inside the Loop

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1 big thing: Troubling gun theft trend

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San Antonio has a lot of road rage

📚 Texas Great Read set in the Hill Country

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🛒 An expensive trip to Gucci B

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Weekender guide: Vintage crawl, Selena tribute

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1 big thing: San Antonio has a lot of road rage

2. 📚 Texas Great Read set in the Hill Country

4. 🛒 An expensive trip to Gucci B

5. Weekender guide: Vintage crawl, Selena tribute

Complex school segregation history

Before Brown, Hernandez v. Texas changed a lot

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🏘️ Stat du jour: 22,000 newcomers

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1 big thing: Complex school segregation history

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4. 🏘️ Stat du jour: 22,000 newcomers

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Our city's chasms

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1 big thing: Our city's chasms

2. Why cookies are getting blingy

4. Spring's getting hotter

5.  ✨ San Antonio sips: Elevated elixirs

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Decades-long oversight

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The working class tilt

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Pup-tick in vets

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1 big thing: Decades-long oversight

2. The working class tilt

4. Pup-tick in vets

5. 🥊 Gloves up, San Antonio

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Data: The Trace via Gun Violence Archive; Chart: Kavya Beheraj/Axios

San Antonio was a top city for road rage shootings and incidents over the last decade, according to an analysis of Gun Violence Archive (GVA) data by gun violence newsroom The Trace.

Why it matters: In Texas, 72% of road rage incidents with a gun led to an injury or death.

The big picture: Nationally, road rage shooting incidents skyrocketed over the past decade, increasing from 83 in 2014 to 456 in 2023 — a nearly 450% jump.

The road rage incidents mirror a broader increase in gun-related violence.

By the numbers: San Antonio tied with Memphis for the second-highest number of road rage incidents, with 107 each from 2014 to 2023.

Houston led the nation, with 215 recorded road rage incidents in that time period.

San Antonio ranked No. 3 for road rage shootings and number of victims shot, with 83 shootings and 94 victims.

Caveat: The GVA is a private nonprofit that produces a range of gun violence estimates based on police reports, government data, news stories and more.

Some incidents go unreported, so the data is likely an undercount.

Zoom in: A road rage incident last month led to a crash with a Pre-K 4 SA school bus. A man died, and there were no students onboard, MySA reported.

Also last month, a road rage shooting left a 10-year-old boy injured, NEWS 4 reported.

What they're saying: Road rage can reflect broader social unrest, Dean DeSoto, executive director of the San Antonio-based Community Alliance for Traffic Safety, told The Trace.

"Whatever goes on in your communities is demonstrated on your roadways," DeSoto said. "Roadways are showcases."

He added that the increase in road rage incidents involving handguns came after the pandemic led to a rise in gun purchases.

Flashback: In 2021, Texas passed a law allowing people to carry concealed guns without a permit.

But drivers in Texas have been able to carry a handgun in vehicles they own without a permit since 2007 after the passage of the Texas Motorist Protection Act.

The bottom line: The number of guns in circulation continues growing, and many states are relaxing their gun control laws.

Aggressive drivers will reach for whatever is around them when things go awry — that's increasingly likely to be a gun, DeSoto said.

San Antonio ranks No. 3 in nation for road rage shootings

Road rage incidents with guns often end in injury or death.

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Line chart showing the rate of road rage shooting incidents in Texas and the U.S. from 2013 to 2023. Nationally, road rage shootings have increased from 0.3 to 1.4 incidents per million people. In Texas, that number has increased from 0.6 to 2.6 per million people.

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Data: Stanford Education Data Archive; Note: Index ranges from 0 to 1, where 0 implies no segregation (all schools have identical proportions of Hispanic and white students) while 1 implies complete segregation (no Hispanic student attends a school with any white students, and vice versa); Map: Axios Visuals

Most schools in the San Antonio area have low levels of racial and ethnic segregation, bucking a national trend of rising segregation — but stubborn economic divisions remain.

Why it matters: Researchers have found segregation disproportionately hurts Black and Latino students, whose schools tend to have fewer resources, higher teacher turnover and fewer advanced classes.

The big picture: Friday is the 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling that was meant to end legal school segregation in the U.S.

Yet new reports show racial segregation in K-12 public schools has increased dramatically nationwide.

State of play: School districts in the San Antonio area have low levels of segregation among white and Hispanic students, according to an index of racial segregation published by researchers at Stanford University and the University of Southern California.

White-Hispanic segregation has decreased in Bexar County since 1991, and now has a rating of 0.18.

The rating measures segregation by exposure of students of different races and ethnicities. Zero is the least segregated and one is the most segregated.

Yes, but: At San Antonio ISD, segregation among Black and white students remains nearly the same as it was in 1991, and is among the highest segregation ratings in Texas.

SAISD has a segregation rating of 0.48 for Black and white students.

Zoom in: SAISD's Highlands High School, in Southeast San Antonio, was a model of integration in 1991: 17.6% white, 10.6% Black and 71.4% Hispanic.

By 2022, it was 2.3% white, 7.1% Black and 89.4% Hispanic.

Flashback: SAISD was one of the first school districts in the nation to desegregate following the Brown decision.

In recent years, SAISD has worked to better integrate its schools with in-district charter schools and magnet programs.

Reality check: Economic school segregation remains in San Antonio.

In the 1973 case of San Antonio ISD v. Rodriguez, the Supreme Court ruled that Texas was not discriminating against students based on wealth by basing school funding on local property taxes.

Some districts remain much poorer — and smaller — than others. The smaller South San Antonio ISD has a revenue of about $109 million, and Edgewood ISD has a revenue of about $130 million. The much larger Northside ISD, by comparison, has revenue of about $1.28 billion.

The splintered local school districts — at least 20 in Bexar County — don't help fix economic segregation today because of an unequal school funding system in Texas.

Other historic factors contribute to underlying economic division among districts, including:

Housing policies that declared Black and Latino neighborhoods "hazardous" and blocked families from buying homes.

White flight, when white families fled the cities for the suburbs to avoid integration.

Between the lines: When the Supreme Court handed down the 9-0 Brown decision in 1954, Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans weren't considered in the ruling.

Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, told Axios it would take years for Latinos to be included in school desegregation cases. Even then, enforcement was always weak.

What they're saying: Patricia Gándara, co-director of the Civil Rights Project, tells Axios that segregation of Latino children also has grown worse across the nation because some civil rights activists have given up after early gains.

"It's been radio silence on the part of the advocates and continuous attacks on the part of the critics."

Economic segregation in S.A. schools persists on Brown ruling's anniversary

S.A. is bucking national trends, but it's more complex.

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Most schools in the San Antonio area have low levels of racial and ethnic segregation, bucking a national trend of <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="rising segregation" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/2024/05/14/school-segregation-brown-eudcation-ruling-70th" data-vars-content-id="a22fbf9c-9754-404f-93d4-575b43455413" data-vars-headline="Economic segregation in S.A. schools persists on Brown ruling&#x27;s anniversary" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/2024/05/14/school-segregation-brown-eudcation-ruling-70th" target="_self">rising segregation</a> — but stubborn economic divisions remain.Why it matters: Researchers have found segregation disproportionately hurts <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Black and Latino students" data-vars-click-url="https://soeonline.american.edu/blog/classroom-segregation/" data-vars-content-id="a22fbf9c-9754-404f-93d4-575b43455413" data-vars-headline="Economic segregation in S.A. schools persists on Brown ruling&#x27;s anniversary" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://soeonline.american.edu/blog/classroom-segregation/" target="_blank">Black and Latino students</a>, whose schools tend to have fewer resources, <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="higher teacher turnover" data-vars-click-url="https://prismreports.org/2020/08/11/black-and-brown-school-districts-are-struggling-to-retain-teachers/" data-vars-content-id="a22fbf9c-9754-404f-93d4-575b43455413" data-vars-headline="Economic segregation in S.A. schools persists on Brown ruling&#x27;s anniversary" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://prismreports.org/2020/08/11/black-and-brown-school-districts-are-struggling-to-retain-teachers/" target="_blank">higher teacher turnover</a> and fewer advanced classes.

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San Antonio gained more new residents last year than any other city in the country, reclaiming its No. 1 spot on the list of gainers from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Why it matters: Newcomers are shaping the future of San Antonio, affecting everything from our housing and water supplies to the local economy.

By the numbers: The city of San Antonio gained nearly 22,000 new residents from July 2022 to July 2023, per a Census report out Thursday.

That puts our total population at 1,495,295 — just under that 1.5 million mark we've been creeping up to for some time now.

State of play: San Antonio remains the seventh most-populous city in the country.

Meanwhile, Austin fell one spot to be the 11th-largest city, overtaken by Jacksonville, Florida.

Zoom out: Texas cities continue to experience high population growth, though.

Fort Worth moved up a spot to become the 12th most-populous city.

What we're watching: Whether San Antonio overtakes Philadelphia to become the sixth-largest U.S. city in the coming years.

San Antonio tops list of newcomer gains once again

The Alamo City could become the sixth most populous someday.

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San Antonio gained more new residents last year than any other city in the country, reclaiming its No. 1 spot on the list of gainers from the <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="U.S. Census Bureau" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/san-antonio/2024/03/18/bexar-county-texas-population-growth-census" data-vars-content-id="b0fec9b5-b43b-46ec-bf14-ef61984ffbf5" data-vars-headline="San Antonio tops list of newcomer gains once again" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/san-antonio/2024/03/18/bexar-county-texas-population-growth-census" target="_self">U.S. Census Bureau</a>.Why it matters: Newcomers are shaping the future of San Antonio, affecting everything from our <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="housing" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/san-antonio/2024/04/27/home-prices-neighborhood-sanantonio" data-vars-content-id="b0fec9b5-b43b-46ec-bf14-ef61984ffbf5" data-vars-headline="San Antonio tops list of newcomer gains once again" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/san-antonio/2024/04/27/home-prices-neighborhood-sanantonio" target="_self">housing</a> and <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="water" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/san-antonio/2024/01/17/blind-catfish-endangered-water-edwards-aquifer" data-vars-content-id="b0fec9b5-b43b-46ec-bf14-ef61984ffbf5" data-vars-headline="San Antonio tops list of newcomer gains once again" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/san-antonio/2024/01/17/blind-catfish-endangered-water-edwards-aquifer" target="_self">water</a> supplies to the <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="local economy" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/san-antonio/2023/08/21/move-to-hill-country-higher-income-money-wealth" data-vars-content-id="b0fec9b5-b43b-46ec-bf14-ef61984ffbf5" data-vars-headline="San Antonio tops list of newcomer gains once again" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/san-antonio/2023/08/21/move-to-hill-country-higher-income-money-wealth" target="_self">local economy</a>.

We took a trip to Central Market (otherwise known as Gucci B) in search of the store's most expensive item.

A $16 mango that was air-freighted in from Vietnam

Tea for $336.99 per pound, made with blue butterfly pea flowers from Southeast Asia

Watch on Instagram to see the bright periwinkle color of that tea — you won't want to miss it.

And follow our San Antonio account for part two of the Central Market series, coming soon.

Tell us: What's your favorite item at Central Market, and is it bougie enough to be one of the most expensive?

Email sanantonio@axios.com to help us on our quest (or to help us find a can't-miss deal at Gucci B).

The most expensive groceries at Central Market

Central Market is called Gucci B for a reason.

Central Market is the foodie grocery store. Photo: HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

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Here's what's going on around the Alamo City this weekend.

Giddy up for the Tejano Conjunto Festival, running through Sunday at Rosedale Park on the West Side.

Learn about native plants at the Briscoe Western Art Museum downtown, 5:30-8pm Friday.

A $30 ticket includes a complimentary drink and a plant.

Catch a San Antonio Missions baseball game at Nelson Wolff Stadium on Bill Miller Night, 7pm Friday.

Dance the night away with Bidi Bidi Banda, a Selena tribute band, at Frost Plaza, 8pm Friday.

Bring your greenery for a plant swap at Tandem coffee shop on the South Side, beginning 10am Saturday.

Head to a free community block party with music, food and art at SAY Sí on the West Side, beginning 11am Saturday.

Grab your bags for the SATX Vintage Crawl and browse numerous local shops in one place at Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex, 12-5pm Saturday.

Go all out for Anime and Ramen Night at Cherrity Bar on the East Side, 6-11pm Saturday.

Enjoy a free screening of "Barbie" at Mission Marquee Plaza on the South Side, starting at 7pm Saturday.

BYO blankets and lawn chairs. There will be food trucks on site.

Bring your mat for a free yoga class at Civic Park at Hemisfair, 10am Sunday.

Shop the downtown market at The Good Kind in Southtown, 11am-8pm Sunday.

Watch short films during the Sacred Underground Film Festival, hosted at the Little Carver Theater, 7pm Sunday.

Things to do in San Antonio: Vintage crawl, baseball

Here's what happening around San Antonio this weekend.

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Economic segregation in S.A. schools persists on Brown ruling's anniversary

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San Antonio ranks No. 3 in nation for road rage shootings

The most expensive groceries at Central Market

Things to do in San Antonio: Vintage crawl, baseball

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