Opinion: Take this column as less of a farewell and more of a thank you to San Antonio, the Report's readers, members, and more donors than can be named here.
San Antonio Report Founders Robert Rivard and Monika Maeckle dance to the music of Flaco Jimenez y los Texmaniacs during a gala honoring the 10 year anniversary of the news site that began in February, 2012.It feels odd to announce my retirement from an organization my wife, Monika Maeckle, and I founded just under 11 years ago. But this is it: my final column as the nonprofit news site’s lead columnist.
I’ve agreed to contribute a weekly Sunday column starting in mid-December, joining the Report’s ranks of freelancers, and there is another exciting new media project on the drawing board I hope to announce soon.Success! You're on the list. I’ve had a front row seat in San Antonio, and all that’s good and not so good about the city since Monika and I with our two young boys returned to Texas after a long sojourn for Newsweek magazine. From years living in civil war zones in Central America to a New York-based, globe-trotting job that kept me far from home, it was time to return to Texas and put down roots.
My first retirement came in 2011 after 18 years in the Express-News leadership. Shortly afterwards, I accepted an invitation from Rackspace Chairman Graham Weston to come out to The Castle, the former Windsor Park Mall now available for purchase from its hedge fund owners, to develop the Rivard Report, which first published in early 2012.
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