🗳️ Mayor's Race 2025 Episodes
As San Antonio prepares to elect its next mayor, bigcitysmalltown brings you in-depth, one-on-one conversations with the candidates vying for your vote. Hosted by veteran journalist Bob Rivard, this special series offers a thoughtful, nonpartisan look at the people, priorities, and policies shaping the city’s future.
From housing and infrastructure to economic growth and climate action, these interviews aim to inform and engage listeners on what’s at stake—and who’s stepping up to lead.
Follow along as we ask each candidate: Why do you want to be mayor of San Antonio?
From housing and infrastructure to economic growth and climate action, these interviews aim to inform and engage listeners on what’s at stake—and who’s stepping up to lead.
Follow along as we ask each candidate: Why do you want to be mayor of San Antonio?
April 18, 2025
116. The Mayor’s Race: Melissa Cabello Havrda on Community, Accountab…
In this episode, Councilwoman Melissa Cabello Havrda shares her personal background growing up on the West Side, her legal and public service career, and her early influences—including time spent working under former mayors Ed Garza and Lila...
April 14, 2025
115. The Mayor’s Race: Adriana Rocha Garcia on Housing, Opportunity, …
In this episode, Bob continues our coverage of San Antonio’s crowded mayoral race with Councilwoman Dr. Adriana Rocha Garcia of District 4. A professor of marketing at Our Lady of the Lake University and former president of the San Antonio Housing...
April 11, 2025
114. The Mayor’s Race: Beto Altamirano on Infrastructure, Innovation,…
This week on bigcitysmalltown, we delve into San Antonio's dynamic political landscape as our city prepares for its first mayoral race without an incumbent in sixteen years. With Mayor Ron Nirenberg's term concluding, the upcoming election on May 3...