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Rookie gets
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Stars tonight

A platform call for Texas to secede is

defeated at the state convention. Page A3
1 Donald Trump says his tax rate is none
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Saturday, May 14, 2016 | THE VOICE OF SOUTH TEXAS SINCE 1865

Uncertainty in air for Spurs

School
financing
system
left intact
Court says its awful
but constitutional
By Andrea Zelinski
and Mike Ward

1 H-E-B Awards: 3 in S.A.

get statewide honor. A3

AUSTIN BUREAU

Kin Man Hui / San Antonio Express-News

Tim Duncan, shown on the tarmac Friday after his flight home, has been tight-lipped on the subject.

Duncan, Ginobili face retirement decisions

Spurs fans awoke to a new
reality Friday: They
along with team members,
coach Gregg Popovich and
perhaps even Tim Duncan
and Manu Ginobili themselves dont know yet if
the pair will return next
season. The questions
could go unanswered for
weeks. Sports, C1

I havent talked
to Timmy in
about 11 years,
coach Gregg
Popovich joked
Friday when
asked if he
thought the two
players would
seek his advice.
And Manu
stopped talking
to me about
three or
four years ago.

AUSTIN Recondite.
Byzantine. Imperfect.
With immense room for
improvement. Those were
the words Texas Supreme Court used in a
hefty 100-page ruling to
describe the states oftcriticized school financing system.
The word that mattered the most: constitutional.
The high court on Friday found the states
system for funding public

Online
Timeline: See the
history of the
school funding
battle in Texas at
ExpressNews.com.

schools satisfies minimum constitutional requirements, dealing a

blow to more than half of
Texas school districts
that had counted on the
court to force the LegSchools continues on A7

Area schools weigh

transgender issues
Lt. Gov.
Dan Patrick asked
schools to
ignore the
directive.

By Alia Malik
STAFF WRITER

Ron Cortes / For the San Antonio Express-News

The heart of 80s music is still beating

By Hector Saldaa
STA FF W RI T E R

Brent Fields of the

Klocks first noticed the
trend about a year ago.
At a gig at San Antonios Sherlocks Baker St.
Pub, the popular cover
bands bassist received
an unusual song request
from a young stranger:
play Erasures late 80s
synth-pop hit A Little
Respect.
The Klocks an 80s
cover band that had
played 80s songs in the
big-hair, Spandex 80s
long ago dropped such
songs as Modern Englishs I Melt with You,
the Cures Just Like
Heaven and the Romantics What I Like About
You for fear of being
labeled old guys.
We started the set

If theres one trend that weve seen

that continually works, its 80s.
Aaron Zimmerman, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts

Edward A. Ornelas / San Antonio Express-News

David Coverdale and Whitesnake are slated to play

at the Majestic Theatre on June 6.

with it and it slammed

the floor. It set the tone
for the rest of the night,

Fields, 53, said about the

head-scratching request.
We started throwing in

80s tunes we hadnt

played in a while.
Now their set lists are
heavily 80s-driven, and
their audience is loving
it.
Eighties music is back
in San Antonio, and
nothing reflects it more
than the Tobin Center for
the Performing Arts
recent spate of 80s concert announcements:
Culture Club, Duran
Duran and New Edition.
Next week, 80s star
John Waite (Missing
You) plays a storytellers-style show at the
Carlos Alvarez Studio
Theater at the Tobin
Center on May 22. Eighties sex symbol David
Coverdale arrives with
Whitesnake (Here I Go
Again) at the Majestic
Theatre on June 6.

When Dylan Posos

wants to use the bathroom at Kennedy High
School, he has to walk to
an office that is often on
the other end of campus
and find someone who
has a key to what he described as a tiny, uncomfortable space.
Its just this little, like,
closet in the auditorium
where I have to use the
restroom, and it just became a hassle, said Posos, 18, a transgender
male student.

Online
More: Portraits of
transgender youths
accompany this
report online at
ExpressNews.com.

Now a senior, Posos

began identifying as male
in his sophomore year.
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COMMENTARY By Brian Chasnoff

Law requires officials to disclose conflicts

In defending a county
contract held by his chief
investigator, Willie Ng
Jr., Bexar County District
Attorney Nico LaHood is
eager to point to state
law.
A clause barring coun-

ty employees from seeking county contracts is

illegal, LaHood has
said, because state law
allows even county commissioners to pursue
such contracts, provided
they abstain from voting

on them.
Another state law,
however, requires local
government officials to
disclose their relationships with businesses
that have or seek contracts with their govern-

ments.
Ng might not have
submitted this disclosure
form to the county after
LaHood hired him as his
chief investigator in January 2015.
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