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Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath’s latest guidance on how to reopen schools in the coronavirus era Tuesday brought the state in line with a Trump administration call for classrooms to stay open five days a week. Educators said they still don’t know how many parents will embrace that option. Reporter Krista Torralva breaks down the evolving debate over reopening schools at the local, state and federal levels.

Read more: Texas tells districts: Keep schools open all week, make older students wear masks

Three San Antonio police officers, fired by SAPD, were later hired in Leon Valley. Criminal justice enterprise reporter Emilie Eaton explains why.

Read more: Fired by SAPD, 3 cops hired in Leon Valley

Chef Stefan Bowers of the Battalion, Rebelle and Playland group of San Antonio restaurants he runs with Andrew Goodman is known for being outspoken. Express-News food writer Mike Sutter elaborates on a recent conversation with the chef and discusses the overall the struggles of the industry in the city.

Read: Chef Stefan Bowers speaks about San Antonio restaurants during coronavirus

Read: New upscale Mexican restaurant Frida Mexican Restaurant & Bar coming to San Antonio’s Stone Oak Friday

The COVID-19 intensive care unit at San Antonio’s Northeast Baptist Hospital is for the sickest of the sick. It’s a place of ventilators, breathing tubes and elaborate protective gear. For nurses, the night shift is long stretches of quiet punctuated by crisis. Express-News reporter Lauren Caruba and photographer Bob Owen spent two nights alongside them. They tell us what it was like behind the scenes of the story.

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One year after a massive fire devastated lives of residents at Iconic Village Apartments in San Marcos, Express-News reporter Peggy O'Hare speaks with Zachary Sutterfield and his father about the past year. 

• Grieving relatives of fire victims beg for answers, push for bigger reward
• San Antonio parents struggle with grief after son’s death in Iconic Village fire

San Antonio Express-News journalists retrace the fateful steps of three families whose journey from Guatemala ended in the death of a mother and three children on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande.

Express-News reporter Bruce Selcraig details how San Antonio's growing e-scooter culture creates frightening hazards for the disabled community in San Antonio.

Express-News education reporter Krista Torralva explains the key points behind Texas Education Agency’s move to replace all Harlandale ISD’s elected trustees, including the superintendent, following the recommendation of a scathing investigators' report released earlier this month. Find more details at https://www.expressnews.com/news/education/article/Texas-education-commissioner-moves-to-take-over-14048407.php?utm_source=podcast

Express-News education reporter Liz Teitz has details on the indictments of four former La Vernia High School students for allegedly engaging in organized criminal activity. Find more details at https://www.expressnews.com/author/liz-teitz/?utm_campaign=podcast.

Express-News business reporter Patrick Danner breaks down the eclectic life story and prized possessions of collector extraordinaire Charles Trois, a man who now finds himself without the cash funds necessary to keep his Enchanted Rock estate. Find more details at https://www.expressnews.com/author/patrick-danner/?utm_campaign=podcast.