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Port A plane crash kills one, injures two
Accident at Mustang Beach AirportFreda Greene was in a hangar at Mustang Beach Airport when she saw a man nearby yelling and waving his arms. Moments later, a small plane crashed on the airport grounds. “Between me getting up and just about out of the hangar, I heard the boom – the crash,” said Greene, a Port Aransas resident, who was attending an event […]
Cast your vote!
Election Day is SaturdayIt’s decision time. Election Day, which involves three seats on the Port Aransas City Council, will be on Saturday, May 1. Some 390, or 13.1 percent, of the city’s 2,971 registered voters had cast ballots in early voting as of the morning of Tuesday, April 27. Early voting ended Tuesday. A total of 471 people cast ballots in early voting […]
Could Harbor Island see tourism uses?
Officials with three entities that haven’t always gotten along so well have been getting together and talking recently about ways that Harbor Island might be developed in ways that wouldn’t involve industrial activity. The City of Port Aransas, Port Aransas Conservancy (PAC) and the Port of Corpus Christi (POCC) have been having these discussions. This doesn’t mean the POCC necessarily […]
Transparency crucial
EditorialThe guest opinion piece below, written by the executive director of the non-profit Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas Kelley Shannon, outlines several bills moving forward in the Texas Legislature that are important to all Texans. Fortunately, Rep Todd Hunter and Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, whose districts include Port Aransas, are authors of, or have been contributors to, two of them. […]
Bills in Texas legislature promote open government
Guest opinionTransparency bills are moving forward in the Texas Legislature with bipartisan support to promote open government and correct public information access problems that arose amid the COVID-19 pandemic. With about five weeks left in the legislative session, here’s a status report on bills backed by the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, the Texas Press Association, the Texas Association of […]
Actor for governor?
Could the Academy Award- winning best actor in “Dallas Buyers Club” displace Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s bid in 2022 for a third four-year term? According to a Dallas Morning News/ University of Texas at Tyler poll taken April 6-13, in a choice between McConaughey, Abbott and an unnamed someone else, the actor got 45 percent to Abbott’s 33 percent, with […]
Power back to the people
“Power to the People” was a chant used by anti-war and civil rights protesters in the ‘60s. John Lennon wrote a song with that title in 1971. The idea flowed from the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution which begins, “We the people.” The concept behind that phrase was that the people, not the government, are sovereign and the government’s power […]
