Aransas Pass after slice of tourist pie
Don’t look now, but the folks at the other end of the causeway have their eye on Port Aransas’ spot as a tourist destination. Within the past year, the Aransas Pass City Council has • Gained resident input on the future of Conn Brown Harbor • Let bids for a new civic center • Decided to refurbish the municipal swimming […]
Happy New Year!
From left, in front, LaVeta and Dan Phyfer of Willamsville, Mo., and Tom and Erin Gjovik of Albany, Ore., celebrate the New Year a little early — at the stroke of noon on Dec. 31. They were among a few dozen folks who took part in the Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department’s Noon Year’s Eve event at Roberts Point […]
TRASHED OUT
New system in effect nowJust when you got used to being back on Central Standard time, it’s time to readjust your calendar again. Crews began picking up trash in Port Aransas on a new schedule as of yesterday, Wednesday, Jan. 2. The new schedule is under a new contract the city has with Allied Waste, the contractor for trash pickup. The new twice-weekly schedule […]
Another look at the contenders
The Texas political lament has been that all presidential candidates come here for is money. That’s because the speculation has been that the presidential nominees for both parties will already be locked up before the March 4 Texas primaries. With polling numbers continually shifting in advance of Iowa’s Jan. 3 caucuses and New Hampshire’s Jan. 8 primary, the political deck […]
Predictions for Port Aransas in 2008
With the dawning of a new year, predictions and resolutions are the order of the day. Here are some predictions of what you’re likely to see and read about – or not — in the South Jetty during 2008. • Someone – probably more than one – will write a letter to the editor bemoaning that Port Aransas is no […]
How to figure (by pollsters)
I have a problem with polls. I’ve always been troubled by political polls and it’s just getting worse. It really struck me a couple of weeks ago in a wire story about the presidential race. They – the scientific pollsters – interviewed the standard 1,000 people about their desired candidate for president. From that, they extrapolated amazing projections about the […]
Risible, irascible Rickles
Don Rickles was on a TV special not long ago. It was a tribute to this comedian who was born in New York City. If he had stayed there, they would have a much better sense of humor. Without a doubt, he is one of our assets. (He’d gig that statement.) No writers for this guy. It rolls forth from […]
Letters to the Editor
Teaching distrustThe decision by the state Legislature to institute steroid testing at the high school level is questionable at best. What the Legislature hopes to achieve through testing, a steroid free high school, relies on the punishment mentality that seems prevalent in our society as a whole. In Principal Travis Longanecker’s recent Education Notes column (South Jetty, Dec. 20), the issue […]
