heart of San Antonio’s smart jobs economy is in the Medical Center, which continues to grow robustly alongside the city.

The event also will focus on the nexus of institutions working together in the city to build that research and development combine.

The luncheon panel I will moderate will include Dr. William Henrich, president of UT Health San Antonio; George Hernandez, president and CEO of University Health System; Dr. Colleen Bridger, director of the City of San Antonio’s Metropolitan Health District; and Jenna Saucedo-Herrera, president and CEO of the San Antonio Economic Development Foundation.

Medical Foundation President Jim Reed will deliver the keynote on the Medical Center’s history, and then panelists will explore its future and the implications for providing health care services in a city expected to grow by morethis movie!

The Oil Belongs to the People

Friday I picked up a book in the library that I had tried to read earlier this year but didn't finish. The book is called The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, written by Daniel Yergin, copyright 1991 and 1992. Although a long book, nearly 800 pages of text, it is written in a flowing and very readable English.
This morning I was reading in Chapters 11 and 12 covering the first three decades of the 20th Century. Chapter 12, titled "The Fight for New Production," starts out with a discussion of the exploitation of Mexican oil pioneered by Sir Weetman Pearson, also known as Lord Cowdray. His first major Mexican strikes began in 1910 while Mexico was under the