Phil Hardberger
Phil Hardberger
Phillip Duane "Phil" Hardbergeris a former mayor of San Antonio, Texas. He took office in June 2005. He is a Democrat; however, as with all mayoral, city council, and school board positions in Texas, Hardberger was elected on a non-partisan ballot...
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It would give us the best linear park in the United States and increase the drawing power of the river ... that would make this City even greater.
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This year's general-fund revenue, paid for by property-tax revenues, fines, fees and City Public Service income is $728 million. Last year was $620 million, which is (about) a 17 percent increase over last year. Phil's not doing anything different than what the rest of them (former mayors) do. That money comes from taxpayers' pockets.
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The basic framework of this deal is (the Saints) make the city whole, and they get to keep the revenue,
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It's always possible. It's a tough business and certainly that's not unknown that they leverage one city against the other. I don't believe so myself. I think they have some serious interest in San Antonio. But perhaps I'm of a trusting nature.
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I think it is legitimate to assume we're not talking about next week they're going to go home, ... The city of New Orleans is effectively closed.
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We are going to pay more than we ever have for a city manager, but we have a lot more San Antonio than we've ever had, too,
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there's probably been a bit of racism since the first time one person looked at another person that didn't look like them.
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San Antonio is going through a metamorphosis from a small border village to a big city.
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We are going to be immensely helped from having gone through this process two weeks ago,
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sophisticated things that the industry really needs, and that we don't have. We're not an industrial town, we haven't done much of that sort of thing. We don't have enough people that know how to do those things, and consequently we are losing jobs and subsequently we're losing business.
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We're not as strong in the media market as we could be because San Antonio sits off by itself, it's not in the middle of a metropolitan area. I know (with) the National League, that carries a lot of water.
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I would like to see a more beautiful San Antonio. It's important to a city, and to individuals,
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We intend to welcome these people with open arms and try to give them some dignity that these circumstances have taken away from them, ... We will not fail to respond the way we would want to be responded to.
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Jury verdicts became highly suspect and were frequently overturned for a variety of ever-expanding reasons, ... Jury assessments were wiped out by increasingly harsher standards for mental anguish and punitive standards.