Women in Business: League of Extraordinary Women

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The four extraordinary women featured in this article are forward-looking entrepreneurs who embrace risk and welcome new challenges.  They have faced failures and rejections and have used those experiences to create new opportunities.  They range from a high-tech startup mogul looking to change the residential landscape in San Antonio to a young retail entrepreneur redefining […]

Role Model: Alissa Lockett

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Director, Distribution & Collection at SAWS While many San Antonians pour themselves a glass of cold water on a blistering Texas day, engineering manager and interim director of distribution and collection Alissa Lockett is part of the hard-working team at San Antonio Water System who keep the water flowing safely and clean for our fast-growing […]

Business Woman Spotlight: Anna Gorchow

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What do you do? Oversee all aspects of the business. Length of time at this job: Ten years owning and operating Harbour Hospice, 15 years working as a hospice nurse. What is it that you like best about your job? I have always wanted to be a nurse. I love the professional and caring attitudes […]

Hydroponics Flowing into Our River City

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Mother Nature devised her growing patterns to utilize basic elements of sunlight, water, soil and nutrients. However, with increasing human populations and decreasing fertile farmlands, botanists look to synthesize these growing elements more efficiently. The resulting urban farming, called hydroponics, is like in-vitro for veggies, test-tube parenting for Mother Earth, whose ticking clock is long overtaxed. Hydroponics, Greek for […]

Wild Wild West

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Plan a West Texas Road Trip the Family Will Love “I saw miles and miles of Texas…” goes the old Bob Wills classic, and those driving through West Texas will see just that — miles and miles of dusty two- and four-lane Texas roads with chaparrals darting across lonesome highways, trails cutting through stark high […]