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Opinion August 21, 2008  RSS feed
V.P. path is long, winding
      Okay, Hillary Clinton has acknowledged that she didn't get enough delegates in the Democratic caucuses and primary elections to be declared the presidential nominee.
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Responsibility is learned before school
Editorial
      "Get up!" "Get dressed!" "Did you brush your teeth?" "Where's your backpack?" Sound familiar? Those phrases, and others like them, can be heard at probably the same moment in countless households not only in Port Aransas, but probably the world over. Some things are universal. School starts in Port Aransas on Monday, Aug. 25.
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Why do we let watches rule?
Steve Martaindale
      "People come and go so quickly here!" remarked Dorothy Gale shortly after arriving in the Emerald City in the 1939 classic, "The Wizard of Oz.
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Uncle Joe's letter to college-bound
      [Editor's note: The following is a letter written to the South Jetty publishers' daughter, Libby Judson, by her uncle, Joe Henkel, when she left for college in 2001.
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Letters to the Editor
      Letters to the editor are the views of the respective authors and not necessarily those of the South Jetty. Disgusted with filth For the past 45 years, my wife and I have been spending a week in Port Aransas with our children, their spouses and our eight grandkids. Because we are all Christians, I have been convinced to write this letter.
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