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BUSINESS
Poll says deficit is No. 1 priority
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RECORDS
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R.E.M. goes 'Green' with a fresh start
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ON THE SCENE
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King William candlelight tour
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Express-News 
San Antonio, Texas
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Monday, November 28, 1988 [[drawn in asterisk]] 

Off the record

Library planner try to outdo each other 

Architect JOEL REITZER, former member of the RIVER WALK ADVISORY COMMISSION and recent president of the SAN ANTONIO LIBRARY FOUNDATION, has been hired to an ALAMO SAVINGS team preparing a proposal for a new MAIN LIBRARY on the site of the vacant SEARS store on ROMANA PLAZA...Alamo Savings owns the property and hopes to outdo an earlier plan from COMMERCE SAVINGS to create the new library on the site of defunct FIESTA PLAZA MALL on the western edge of downtown...some ethics-in-government eyebrows have already been raised because, as president of the Library Foundation, Reitzer worked closely with CITY LIBRARY BOARD trustees, who will review and vote on the new library proposals....

Artist and professor MEL CASAS, who also happens to be a member of the city FINE ARTS COMISSION, has learned the hard way that old adage about a prophet in his own land, etc....Casas has gotten little real attention here for his striking and original art, but the LAGUNA GLORIA MUSEUM in AUSTIN mounted a major one-man show of his works...the Austin Museum even had some of its boldly colored and eye-catching billboards advertising the show put up in San Antonio...next to a large graphic cowboy hat is a huge MEL CASAS...a little encouragement and recognition never hurts, does it?...

Send your tidbits to OFF THE RECORD, c/o the Express-News, P.O. Box 2171, San Antonio, Texas 78297-2171