FREE FIESTA MEDAL

By Alamo Quarry Market

Friday, April 21 | 1 - 3 p.m.

Receive our beautiful 2023 Fiesta Medal with your same-day purchases totaling $50 or more from Alamo Quarry Market stores or restaurants. Bring receipts to the pop-up display located near Regal Cinemas. Plus, enter for a chance to win a $100 Alamo Quarry Market gift card.

*One per customer, while supplies last. Employees of Alamo Quarry Market and all of its tenants are not eligible.

HA final Texas House vote on a bill introduced by Texas State Rep. Toni Rose, D-Dallas, that would bar the state from using the death penalty on people with severe mental illness has been delayed after tentative passage last week. Conservative lawmakers argue the proposal would allow killers to fake mental illness to avoid lethal injection.

Legislation that would expand Texans’ access to medical marijuana and increase its allowable potency is moving forward in the state’s House of Representatives. The Public Health Subcommittee unanimously approved a bill for full debate that would let physicians prescribe medical weed to patients suffering from chronic pain for which they would otherwise be given opioids.

HU.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth last week struck down a provision in the Affordable Care Act that requires insurers to offer preventive services such as cancer screenings free of charge. The Biden White House is expected to appeal the ruling, which affects more than 150 million U.S. residents.

The child critically injured by a falling tree branch at the San Antonio Zoo earlier this month was released from the hospital last week. Jordyn Rodriguez was one of seven people injured when the branch collapsed near the zoo’s aviary section on March 15. The remaining six were treated on-site. — Sanford Nowlin