San Antonio’s new mayor once climbed to the highest tier of military leadership through an Army program that trains “adaptive leaders” to solve “complex operational problems.”

So far, it’s proving little match for city government.

Gina Ortiz Jones’s unusual political path involved leaving after John Jay High School to pursue a career in national security, and then returning home to best a field of 27 candidates with that experience as President Donald Trump was returning to office.

Now in the midst of a federal government shutdown — with a White House planning major cuts to the social safety net at the same time the city is negotiating a major downtown development deal — Jones is on a mission to get city leaders thinking bigger about the challenges they’ll soon face.

“Balancing t

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