Community letter questions Wilson Memorial shift from mission
Mary Helen Tieken urges Floresville readers to scrutinize Wilson Memorial Hospital’s change in operations. She contends demotions, nonresident hiring, and outsourcing threaten the hospital’s mission and burden taxpayers with debt from home health and outpatient therapy services. She calls for board accountability and public involvement.
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Wilson County News
Bob Duffield
Wilson Memorial
Health Care Financing Administration
Medicare
Floresville
Warm Springs
Reader protest over hospital coverage and board actions
Letter from a Floresville health worker alleging betrayal by coverage of Wilson Memorial Hospital issues. She cites demotions and questions over OB GYN ICU CCU access, hospital tax use, and a threatened arrest at a public meeting, urging clearer reporting on finances and services.
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Wilson Memorial Hospital
Yvonne Moseley
Lydia Leehan
Daria
Gloria Jimenez
Wilson Memorial
Floresville
Bexar County
San Antonio
Tejeda
Duffield
Quizified Politics and Heritage Foundation Notes
Column presents an eight question civics quiz on taxes spending welfare health care education immigration regulation and foreign policy Then links to The Heritage Foundation and quotes Bill Clinton and Frank Bain with a Bank address in Stockdale Texas The piece frames study of issues over politicians and party and suggests a passing grade for five or more yes answers.
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Ganization
Charles Dow
Wall Street Journal
Congress
Don
Bill Clinton
Frank Bain
Security State Bank
P.O
Stockdale
MALDEF sues over paving in Poth East Side Neighborhood
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund sues in U.S. District Court on behalf of Grace Rocha Roman Ibarra and Elena Ibarra alleging discriminatory neglect of paved roads and storm sewers in the East Side Neighborhood. The city denies claims and seeks to bar court costs. A judge will schedule further motions and potential trial in San Antonio.
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Maldef
East Side
Grace Rocha
Roman Ibarra
Elena Ibarra
Peth
Poth
McKamie
Wilson County News
U.S
Fred Biery
San Antonio
Wilson County News withholds print on truth concerns
A letter from ROSE BILLINGS accuses the Wilson County News of censoring content and withholding what readers deserve to know claiming the paper hides facts it deems not fit to print raising questions about editorial decisions and transparency in the local press.
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Wilson County News
Rose Billings
Floresville
WCN
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