Links to San Antonio Events and Services
Bob Jensen at Trinity University
Google maps and satellite images --- http://maps.google.com/
Cost of Living Calculator (comparing U.S. cities and states) ---
http://www.homefair.com/homefair/calc/salcalc.html
There are also helpful reports for persons contemplating moves to selected
cities or states.
Also see
Vitual
Relocation helpers from James Angelini, CPA. Among other things you can find
cost of living comparisons at
http://www.virtualrelocation.com/
In Texas, your legislators can be contacted by entering your zip code using
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/fyi/fyi.htm
Other states have similar helper sites using Google or some other search engine.
May 19, 2007 message from Matt [matt@informationsanantonio.com]
Mr. Jensen-
I have a website about San Antonio that I work on daily. My website, http://www.informationsanantonio.com/ might be a useful addition to your webpage http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/sanantonio.htm and its visitors. It would undoubtedly be a useful addition for me as I work on building my inbound traffic while adding new content.
Thanks,
Matt Terry
San Antonio Area Resources --- http://lib.trinity.edu/servcols/govdocs/txsadocs.shtml#SanAntonio
If you are planning a visit to San Antonio, you may want to take a look at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/SanAntonioJensen.htm
Police and safety links in Bexar County --- scroll down at http://www.trinity.edu/departments/safe/index.htm
Quick Facts About Trinity University --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TrinityQuickFacts.htm
Movie Theatres and Times --- http://www.sapage.com/movies.htm
San Antonio Express News (Newspaper) --- http://www.mysanantonio.com/
New Online Services for Texans --- http://www.texasonline.com/
Drivers License and ID Card Renewals Online --- http://texasonline.state.tx.us/NASApp/rap/apps/dpsdl/jsp/eng/welcome.jsp
Vehicle Registration Online --- http://rts.texasonline.state.tx.us/NASApp/txdotrts/common/jsp/txdot_vtr_main_menu.jsp
Pay Taxes Online --- http://www.texasonline.com/category.jsp?language=eng&categoryId=10.8
Occupational and Professional Licenses Online --- http://www.texasonline.com/category.jsp?language=eng&categoryId=10.5
More Online Services for Texans --- http://www.texasonline.com/category.jsp?language=eng&categoryId=10
June 9, 2005 message from L.J. Urbano - CityTownInfo.com [citytowninfo@citytowninfo.com]
I noticed that your web site links to useful reference resources so I am writing to let you know about a new reference site that may be of interest to you and your site visitors.
CityTownInfo.com ( http://www.citytowninfo.com/ ) is a collection of information on U.S. cities and towns. The site includes almanac-like reference data, property statistics, local weather reports, links to the official city web sites and maps for about 3500 cities. The site also includes a summary article on about 50 major cities.
The site will be continually improved. We have plans for adding info on local schools, airports, libraries, and places of worship over the coming weeks. We’re open to suggestion on other information you might find appropriate for this site.
If you believe that CityTownInfo.com may be valuable to those who visit your web site, then we ask that you consider adding a link from trinity.edu.
National Pollen Reports --- http://www.pollen.com/Pollen.com.asp
Bob Jensen's Off-the-Wall Suggestions About Things to See and Do --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/sanantonioJensen.htm
Bexar County Tax Questions 210-335-6618
Bexar County Tax Assessor/Collector, P.O. Box 839950, San Antonio, TX
78299 (Sylvia S. Romo, Tax Assessor-Collector)
Arthur P. Veltman & Associates, Inc., 635 Milam Building, San Antonio,
TX 78205 Voice: 210-224-9245, Fax: 224-2953 (Mike
Edwards)
San Antonio's Monopoly Newspaper (Express News) --- http://www.mysanantonio.com/expressnews/
Official Cab Driver's Guide to San Antonio --- http://www.cabdriversguide.com/streets.htm
History of San Antonio (A Timeline) --- http://www.saconservation.org/tline.html
What's Happening Calendar of Events for San Antonio --- http://www.mysanantonio.com/
Maps --- Type "Maps" into
Google --- http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Maps and Driving Instructions --- http://www.mapquest.com/
International Maps from MapBlast! --- http://mapblast.com
DisabilityInfo.gov http://www.disabilityinfo.gov/
For persons in and around the San Antonio area, there may be some interest in the Lost Maples State Park Home Page at http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/lostmap/index.htm
While trying to discover whether my trash would be picked up on Labor Day, it dawned on me that other Trinity University staff, especially new arrivals in San Antonio, might appreciate the following links to the City of San Antonio, Bexar County, and local Federal services.
City of San Antonio Government Site --- http://www.sanantonio.gov/
Note that in many instances such a the Garbage Pickup Holiday Schedule, you do not have to use the phone number provided if you click on the hot link (e.g., http://www.sanantonio.gov/enviro/solidwaste/Nschedule.asp )
By the way, I suggest that you print the above Holiday Schedule and tack it up beside where you keep your trash cans.For your home recycling efforts, the following link may come in handy --- http://www.sanantonio.gov/enviro/solidwaste/recycling.asp
Other Public Works links http://www.ci.sat.tx.us/pubwrks/swaste.htm
San Antonio City Government Website --- http://www.ci.sat.tx.us/
Bexar County information is provided at http://members.tripod.com/proagency/bexarcounty.html
Bexar Counting Property Owner Search Site --- http://www.bcad.org/property.htm
School Districts in Bexar County --- http://penick.tea.state.tx.us/SchoolDistrictLocator/counties/r20/bexar.htm
The Alamo Federal Executive Board exists to provide closer cooperation with local civilian and military organizations. As a regional HUB for all government activity --- http://www.sanantonio.feb.gov/
Texas Tax Appraisal districts --- http://www.txtax.com/html/tcad.htm
What are current mortgage rates? --- http://biz.yahoo.com/b/r/m.html
A message from Debbie Bowling on November 15, 2001
Here's two really good sites for radar around San Antonio.
Click Here
http://wwwa.accuweather.com/adcbin/metro_radar_large.asp?partner=accuweather&nav=home&type=loop&nxsite=sat*on the above metro map site, click on the areas to show roads, etc.
Click Here
http://wwwa.accuweather.com/adcbin/local_radar.asp?partner=accuweather&nav=home&type=loop&nxtype=R1&nxsite=ksatThey are two excellent sites.
Debbie
Maps (including San Antonio Maps)
Note that in the second site listed above, there is a tab for maps
or go to http://www.accuweather.com/adcbin/maps_index?nav=home&partner=accuweather
Bed & Breakfast Suggestions for Texas
Bed & Breakfast Texas Style --- http://www.bnbtexasstyle.com/
Texas Hill Country --- http://www.texasbedandbreakfast.com/
Frederickburg --- Gastehaus Schmidt --- http://www.fbglodging.com/
HAT --- http://www.hat.org/
Texas Travel --- http://www.virtualcities.com/ons/tx/txonsdex.htm
Bob Jensen's search helpers are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm
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Accounting Fraud (including the Enron scandal on creative accounting) --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/fraud.htm When you get a new suspect that sounds like consumer fraud, you probably should investigate it and/or report it to http://www.consumer.gov/sentinel/ The
FBI's Internet Fraud and Complaint Center (IFCC FBI) National
Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) --- Report security incidents
here. When you are sent some rather surprising "facts" or find some rather surprising "facts," please investigate them before forwarding information that may be false and misleading. At the purportal.com site, users can search five of the most well-known sites dedicated to setting the record straight: Snopes Urban Legends Archive, About.com Urban Legends search, CIAC Hoax Database, CERT Computer Security Database, and Symantec (Real) Virus Encyclopedia. http://www.purportal.com/ One of our local television stations in San Antonio recommended the Private Citizen web site for reducing the amount of junk phone calls and junk mail that you would like to halt. The Wall Street Journal has also recommended this web site. http://www.privatecitizen.com/ Bob Jensen's Threads on Accounting Fraud --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/fraud.htm |
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Bob,
We've all heard horror stories about fraud that's committed on us by people who use your name, address, SS#, credit, etc. Unfortunately I (the author of this piece who happens to be an attorney) have firsthand knowledge, because my wallet was stolen last month and within a week the thieve(s) ordered an expensive monthly cell phone package, applied for a VISA credit card, had a credit line approved to buy a Gateway computer, received a PIN number from DMV to change my driving record information online, and more. But here's some critical information to limit the damage in case this happens to you or someone you know. As everyone always advises, cancel your credit cards immediately, but the key is having the toll free numbers and your card numbers handy so you know whom to call. Keep those where you can find them easily. File a police report immediately in the jurisdiction where it was stolen, this proves to credit providers you were diligent, and is a first step toward an investigation (if there ever is one). But here's what is perhaps most important: (I never ever thought to do this) - Call the three national credit reporting organizations immediately to place a fraud alert on your name and SS#. I had never heard of doing that until advised by a bank that called to tell me an application for credit was made over the Internet in my name. The alert means any company that checks your credit knows your information was stolen and they have to contact you by phone to authorize new credit. By the time I was advised to do this, almost 2 weeks after the theft, all the damage had been done. There are records of all the credit checks initiated by the thieves' purchases, none of which I knew about before placing the alert. Since then, no additional damage has been done, and the thieves threw my wallet away this weekend (someone turned it in). It seems to have stopped them in their tracks. The numbers are:
We pass along just about everything. Do think about passing this information along. It could really help someone? Bev Koebrich [auntiebev@mediaone.net] Bob Jensen's Advice: In your MS Word document recommended above, add password protection to that document using the menu choices (Tools, Protect Document). Then carry two or more floppy disks that contain copies of your MS Word file. Then if you lose your wallet or purse on a trip, you can beg somebody at a hotel or airport to let you read your file in an emergency. In doing so, you will have convenient access to vital information that you need. You can ship at least one copy in your shipped luggage, and you and your spouse might carry copies in carry-on luggage. You may have trouble with a floppy disk in your pockets if you walk through a metal detector at the airport. However, if you have a copy burned onto a CD, the metal detector will not affect the disk. I suggest that you add this entire table to the MS Word document containing images of your cards.
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incoming telemarketing calls, I have had great results using my
Telezapper that I purchased from Radio Shack for about $50 --- http://www.telezapper.com/default.asp The Telezapper is a one-time purchase and very easy to install. No preventative is perfect, but for Texans the new preventatives offered by the Texas PUC-Customer Protection Division are the best opportunities for putting an end to unwanted telemarketing calls. The main new option is to get on the Texas "No Call Lists" and renew these registrations every three years at http://www.texasnocall.com/ (or phone 1-866-896-6225)
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I also added the above module to my other listings of how to prevent being ripped off, how to report frauds, and what to do if you lose your purse or wallet. Go to http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/fraud.htm#ThingsToKnow
The following widely-circulated message is somewhat of a hoax. The Roadside Emergency Service is free in all cases except for the tow truck charge which is not free. Emergency services other than wrecker service are free from the Texas DPS at 1-800-525-5555
Bob
Some may know, some don't, so FYI---. It's had very little publicity. Texas drivers licenses have this number in small print on the back just above the bar code. 1-800-525-5555. its for assistance on the highway. A service truck will be sent to you. state run, paid for with your taxes. Take out your driver licenses and look.
Great Zip Code Site --- http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/lookup_zip+4.html
I stumbled on a great site from the U.S. Postal Service. You can write the street address, city, and state entries and click on "Process." The site will then give you the address complete with the full zip code (usually in nine digits).
You need not fill out the name of a firm unless you are sending the item to business.
Forwarded by Debbie Bowling
When you're from Texas, people that you meet ask you questions like, Do you have any cows?" "Do you have horses?" "Bet you got a bunch of guns, eh?"
They all want to know if you've been to South fork. They watched Dallas.
Have you ever looked at a map of the world? Look at Texas with me just for a second. That picture, with the Panhandle and the Gulf Coast, and the Red River and the Rio Grande is as much a part of you as anything ever will be.. As soon as anyone anywhere in the world looks at it they know what it is. It's Texas. Pick any kid off the street in Japan and draw him a picture of Texas in the dirt and he'll know what it is. What happens if I show you a picture of any other state? You might get it maybe after a second or two, but who else would? And even if you do, does it ever stir any feelings in you?
In every man, woman and child on this planet, there is a person who wishes just once he could be a real live Texan and get up on a horse or ride off in a pickup. There is some little bit of Texas in everyone.
Did you ever hear anyone in a bar go, "Wow...so you're from Iowa? Cool, tell me about it?" Do you know why? Because there's no place like Texas.
Texas is the Alamo. Texas is 183 men standing in a church, facing thousands of Mexican nationals, fighting for freedom, who had the chance to walk out and save themselves, but stayed instead to fight and die for the cause of freedom. We send our kids to schools named William B. Travis and James Bowie and Crockett and do you know why? Because those men saw a line in the sand and they decided to cross it and be heroes. John Wayne paid to do the movie himself. That is the Spirit of Texas.
Texas is Sam Houston capturing Santa Ana at San Jacinto.
Texas is "Juneteenth" and Texas Independence Day.
Texas is huge! forests of Piney Woods like the Davy Crockett National Forest.
Texas is breathtaking mountains in the Big Bend.
Texas is the unparalleled beauty of bluebonnet fields in the Texas Hill Country.
Texas is the beautiful, warm beaches of the Gulf Coast of South Texas.
Texas is the shiny skyscrapers in Houston and Dallas.
Texas is world record bass from places like Lake Fork.
Texas is Mexican food like nowhere else, not even Mexico.
Texas is the Fort Worth Stockyards, Bass Hall, the Ballpark in Arlington, the Astrodome and the Alamodome.
Texas is larger-than-life legends like Michael DeBakey, Denton Cooley, Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, Janis Joplin, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Landry, Darrell Royal, ZZ Top, Eric Dickerson, Earl Campbell, Nolan Ryan, Sam Rayburn, George Bush, Lyndon B.Johnson, and George W. Bush!
Texas is great companies like SBC Corporation, Dell Computer, Texas Instruments and Compaq. And LOCKHEED MARTIN AEROSPACE,! Home of the F-16 Jet Fighter and the JSF Fighter.
Texas is NASA.
Texas is huge herds of cattle and miles of crops.
Texas is skies blackened with doves, and fields full of deer.
Texas is a place where towns and cities shut down to watch the local High School Football game on Friday nights and for the Cowboys on Monday Night Football, and for the Night In Old San Antonio River Parade in San Antonio. Texas is ocean beaches, deserts, lake s and rivers, mountains and prairies, and modern cities.
If it isn't in Texas, you probably don't need it.
No one does anything bigger or better than it's done in Texas.
By federal law, Texas is the only state in the U.S. that can fly its flag at the same height as the U.S. flag. Think about that for a second. You fly the Stars and Stripes at 20 feet in Maryland, California, or Maine and your state flag, whatever it is, goes at 17 feet. You fly the Stars and Stripes in front of Pine Tree High in Longview or anyplace else at 20 feet, the Lone Star flies at the same height - 20 feet. Do you know why? Because it is the only state that was a republic before it became a state.
Also, being a Texan is as high as being an American down here. Our capitol is the only one in the country that is taller than the capitol building in Washington, D.C. and we can divide our state into five states at any time if we wanted to! We included these things as part of the deal when we came on. That's the best part, right there.
Texas even has its own power grid!!
And you just can't sell Viagra to a Texan. Drugstores only stock it for tourists. (I added this one!)