TONY MARTINEZ's (tmart) Blog

Had lunch yesterday at Paisano's restaurant. NAHREP (National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals) was having a lunch social. This was my first meeting and boy what a way to start a new group. Tino Diaz was a guest speaker, Tino is president of a chapter in Florida. He spoke a very ...

I, like most agents are always looking for the next best thing to get my message across and to help my business grow. Cost and budgeting is always a concern. I am here to say that Social Networking does work. I didn't think it did when I started. I would be asked if I was on twitter and Facebook ...

By Brett Clanton - Houston Chronicle ROUND ROCK — Installing solar panels and windmills may be a more elegant way to generate clean, green power. But applying extreme heat to cow manure also can do the trick. It's no joke. Animal manure, one of Texas' most abundant natural resources, can be conve...

By Gary Martin - Express-News WASHINGTON — Officials from San Antonio and other cities are scrambling to find federal assistance to improve roads, bridges, railways and public transportation around military bases that expect to see exponential growth by 2011. Pentagon plans to consolidate missio...

Last Update: 2:08 pm woai SAN ANTONIO -- The early morning rains wreaked havoc with traffic and damaged area businesses.The National Weather Service says most of the rain in our area fell between 4 to 7 a.m., prompting a Flash Flood Warning. The NWS says Guadalupe County received just over 8 inch...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — New student veterans are enrolling in larger numbers at colleges in Central Texas and both sides are creating resources to ease the transition. Experts say some of the veterans, including those recently returned from combat, have trouble adjusting to college life. The Austin ...

By Jason Buch - Express-News As their children move out of the house, baby boomers are moving into homes that better suit their mobility needs and have plenty of room to handle the whole family visiting for the holidays. Their needs often require one-story homes or homes with the master bedroom ...

Jim Poteet, AIA, is the founder of Poteet Architects, LP, of San Antonio On a recent trip to San Francisco, I spent a good amount of time at one of that city's newer attractions, the Ferry Building Marketplace (www.ferrybuilding marketplace.com/). Opened in 2004, this 650-foot-long rehabilitated ...

By Vicki Vaughan - Express-News San Antonio is on the short list to become home to a solar manufacturing plant that would be built by a Chinese company, County Judge Nelson Wolff said Friday. Yingli Green Energy Holding Co., which markets its products under the name Yingli Solar, is the company ...