June 19, 2013 TXDOT-ENV Attention: Vickie Crnich 125 E. 11th Street Austin, TX 78701-2483 RE:  Comments on the US 281 Draft Environmental Impact Statement Dear Ms. Crnich: The North San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, representing almost 1400 business entities, has been a continued supporter of added capacity improvements along the US 281 corridor from Loop 1604 to Borgfeld Road. ...

Ted Dickman, BKD, LLP chief executive officer, is proud to announce Makayla Matheson as the employee recipient of the firm’s 2013 PRIDE Award. The award is given each year to one partner and one employee who exemplify the firm’s PRIDE values:  passion, respect, integrity, discipline and excellence.  BKD partners and employees nominate their peers for the award, and the winners are chosen by ...

Project Control has promoted Greg San Marco to Vice President of the project management consulting firm. Greg will serve as a Project Management Team Leader and assume increased corporate and leadership duties.  He will continue to serve our clients’ interests in his new role. Greg came to Project Control in 2007 with over 20 years of experience in project management and civil engineering re...

CommuniCare Health Centers, a non-profit healthcare organization, was recently named by the San Antonio Business Journal as one of the winners of the “Best Places to Work”. This prestigious award recognizes companies with the best workplaces in the San Antonio area (Bexar, Atascosa, Guadalupe, Wilson, Comal, Bandera, Medina and Kendall counties). The winners were selected based on the result...

For the seventh year, Padgett Stratemann was named one of the Top 51 “Best Places to Work” in the area by the San Antonio Business Journal. Award winners were selected based on the results of confidential online employee surveys completed by the companies’ own employees. The award highlights companies with the best workplaces in Bexar, Atascosa, Guadalupe, Wilson, Comal, Bandera, Medina, and Ke...

The North San Antonio Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce Annie Turner as the 2014 Chair-elect of the board of directors. Turner is Vice President and Business Banking Manager at Wells Fargo Bank, for whom she has worked for more than 32 years. After receiving her degree from Baylor University, she began her banking career in Laredo, Texas and later moved with her family to San Antonio o...

We are at the halfway point of 2013 and it’s been an amazing year so far of advocacy, networking, recognition, leadership and professional development. Advocacy In May, the North SA Chamber presented the Eighth Annual State of the County Address with Judge Nelson Wolff. The Judge discussed the continued revitalization of the city’s core and the need to attract and retain young professionals...

Leaders of Methodist Children’s Hospital, a campus of Methodist Hospital, were honored today by the Studer Group as Evidence-Based Leadership Health Care Organization of the Month for June. The award was presented during the Studer Group’s Excellence in Nursing Institute being held in downtown San Antonio. The Studer Group is a national organization focused on helping health care organizatio...

When police alerted CPS Energy that a man posing as a utility employee gained entrance into a house on the city’s West Side with the intent to assault the resident, CPS Energy’s communications team swung into action. After quickly calling a joint press conference with police to remind customers they can verify an employee by asking to see ID and calling CPS Energy, the team turned to social ...

This tax season, nearly two-thirds of Americans report paying bills as the highest priority for spending their refunds, according to a recent Cricket Wireless survey*, a sharp increase from 2012 (50 percent). In fact, in every region of the country, more than half will spend their tax refund to pay bills – Northeast (65 percent), South (65 percent), Midwest (60 percent) and West (59 percent). O...