bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard

Welcome to the bigcitysmalltown podcast hosted by Bob Rivard,
celebrating the people who make San Antonio go and grow.
Tune in for a new episode every Monday wherever you listen to podcasts.

Recent Episodes

Nov. 15, 2024

80. Dr. Bryan Gervais and UTSA’s New Center for Policy Studies

This week’s guest is UTSA’s Dr. Bryan Gervais. He is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science & Geography, and he's in the studio because he is the inaugural director of the UTSA Center for Public Opinio…
Nov. 8, 2024

79. Meredith Walker and the Texas Business Hall of Fame

This week’s guest is Meredith Walker, executive director of the Texas Business Hall of Fame, a position she has held for nearly seven years. The TBHF was founded in 1982 to celebrate the state’s most successful and community…
Nov. 1, 2024

78. Live from CityFest: The Future of Downtown

In this very special episode of bigcitysmalltown, we share a panel recorded live in front of an audience at Texas Public Radio for CityFest San Antonio 2024.  Host Bob Rivard moderated a panel of city leaders discussing how …
Oct. 25, 2024

JC Clapsaddle: An American in the Ukraine

This week’s guest is JC Clapsaddle, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and medical administration officer with a background in Pentagon assignments involving human rights and humanitarian efforts. Listen as JC discusses his mu…
Oct. 18, 2024

76. Jessica Conrad on San Antonio's Housing Market

This week’s guest is Jessica Conrad, a San Antonio realtor, Air Force veteran, and now, the emcee of the semi-annual PechaKucha creative presentations, the latest edition of which was recently staged at the Carver Cultural C…
Oct. 11, 2024

75. Grant Pinkerton Talks BBQ

This week’s guest is Grant Pinkerton, the man, the chef, the impresario behind Pinkerton’s BBQ, located right in the heart of downtown San Antonio on Legacy Park across from Frost Tower. Listen as Grant discusses his choice …

About the Hosts

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Bob Rivard

Host

Robert “Bob” Rivard is a veteran American journalist whose 46-year career has taken him to dozens of countries around the world and to 48 states (still have not made it to Hawaii!).

Bob has worked for five different Texas newspapers, beginning his career on the border at the Brownsville Herald, then moving to the Corpus Christi Caller, the Dallas Times-Herald and then, after eight years with Newsweek magazine as a foreign correspondent and chief of correspondents managing its journalists around the world, back to Texas, first to the San Antonio Light and then the San Antonio Express-News.

His work as a journalist has been widely recognized with industry awards. In April 2000, he was chosen by Editor & Publisher magazine in New York as its first annual newspaper “Editor of the Year.” Two years later Rivard received journalism’s oldest award, the prestigious Maria Moor Cabot Award from Columbia University, for his years of work as a reporter and editor in Latin America and along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Trail of Feathers: Searching for Philip True, Rivard’s nonfiction book chronicling the disappearance and murder of Philip True, the Express-News Mexico City bureau chief, in the Sierra Madre, was published by Public Affairs in New York in 2005. The books later appeared as trade paperback and e-book. The book was widely reviewed, briefly excerpted in Esquire magazine, and selected by People magazine as one of five recommended nonfiction works in 2005. Writing for The New York Times, William Grimes described Rivard’s search for True and his six-y… Read More

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Alfredo De la Garza

Audio Engineer

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Ashley Bird

Producer

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John Largent

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