Opinion

I almost sent a text to my dog the other day. I actually was about to send a text to my wife, Michelle, and the subject was going to be about how we needed to get our dog, Gidget, to the vet for a checkup. Then, foggily, I typed Gidget’s name instead of Michelle’s into the space reserved for the […]

With Marines on American streets and fascist disinformation invading American minds, one is compelled to wonder what Edward R. Murrow would say. But that query is a tad irrelevant. There’s no space in today’s political media culture for an Edward R. Murrow. Granted, if you watched George Clooney’s play “Good Night, and Good Luck” (broadcast live last weekend on CNN), […]

If you’re Back East watching the news coverage of the riots in Los Angeles, you probably don’t know what’s really going on out here. That’s because, as usual, the national news media are doing a shallow and biased job covering the latest chapter in the country’s illegal immigrant deportation story. The media have showed cars set on fire and crowds […]

On Tuesday, May 20, the commissioners of the Port of Corpus Christi (POCC) voted to abandon their plans for a permit that would allow the discharge of hypersaline brine and other chemicals from a future desalination plant into the waters near Harbor Island, and to seek a permit to discharge these materials several miles offshore in the Gulf. I applaud […]

Dear President Trump: It’s time to pivot on the “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act” you’re trying to get the House and the Senate to pass. It’s not because your ex-pal Elon Musk has done a 180 and blasted it, bluntly but not so inaccurately, as “a massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill” that “is a disgusting abomination.” It’s not because […]

Every once in a while, way back when I was in high school, two meatheads would agree to fight when classes let out. They were brainless lummoxes, the kind who liked to snap kids’ jockstraps in the gym locker room, and sometimes, when they had a beef with each other, they’d head to a patch of grass just beyond school […]

When people think of Port Aransas, they picture golden beaches, Gulf breezes and that unmatched small-town charm where everyone feels like a neighbor. But beneath the surface of every smiling visitor, every booked beach cottage and every plate of fresh-caught seafood served at a local diner, there’s a truth we all need to embrace: Tourism isn’t just part of our […]

Summer sounded better in the ’70s. I woke every morning to the birds chirping outside my window screen, a dewy chill in the air. I’d smell my father’s pipe, which he smoked while he read the paper downstairs. I’d go down to greet him. He’d make scrambled eggs and toast covered with butter, and we’d eat while the birds kept […]

It’s commencement season, where friends and family gather to celebrate those that just graduated. While one chapter of these students’ lives has concluded, another is about to begin. Over the past several weeks, many parents have received information as to which preschool, elementary, middle, high school, or college their children will attend this upcoming fall. Given the frantically competitive nature […]

Hats off to the Port of Corpus Christi commissioners for finally rejecting the idea of discharging desalination plant wastewater into inshore Port Aransas waters. Cheers to the Port Aransas Conservancy for doggedly working for the past several years to prevent such discharge from happening at that location. If you’re new to Port Aransas or you’ve been living under a jetty […]