 Questions about latest NSI PlayerSubmitted by John Kelley on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 21:46In Port CommissionIn the latest twist to the Naval Station Ingleside (NSI) story another last minute company surfaced just as the previous mystery bidder fell to the wayside. Since taking on the development of NSI in April of 2009 Texas A&M University System and its Development Director Dennis Beal seem to have struck out. In an suspiciously emerging pattern, every time their development skills are questioned, a last minute cash suitor shows up only to quickly fade. |
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American Bank Center Taskforce that doesn’t exist issues report.Submitted by John Kelley on Thu, 07/08/2010 - 11:50In City At Tuesday’s City Council meeting Joe Esch representing developers Wallace & Begali and Innovative Leisure Horizons LLC, gave a report from the non-existent ABCenter Taskforce. |
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Strife in Texas GI ForumSubmitted by John Kelley on Thu, 07/08/2010 - 11:47In Community Organization News State organization disavows association with Johnny Canales and Joe Ortiz On June 17th State Commander Larry Perez of the American GI Forum of Texas Inc. (AGIF) sent out two letters discussing conflicts with the national and local organizations. The first was to all state commanders and chairs along with the national Board of Directors. In it Perez outlined events of the State Conference held in Austin on June 4-6. |
 Slow Death by Rubber DuckySubmitted by John Kelley on Sat, 06/26/2010 - 13:00In HealthBook Review - If you are worried about toxic chemical exposure from common items found in our homes and at work here is the perfect book for you and the family to learn how to identify and avoid the chemicals and diseases. It is short and very well written by two guys who purposely exposed themselves to 7 common chemicals over a two week period. They were carefully bio-monitored with blood and urine measurements before and during their exposures. The first line in the introduction to Slow Death by Rubber Duck is that "The book you are holding is downright hopeful." Not a line one would normally associate with a book about pollution that none of us can avoid. |
 What does Texas Stand for?Submitted by John Kelley on Sat, 06/26/2010 - 12:57In Op-EdThat question is likely to get answered this fall in the Governor’s election. If not out shooting coyotes (supposedly) Rick Perry sits in his $10,000 a month rental mansion with 1.5 chefs, reading Wine & Food Magazine on the state tab, taking credit for the “Texas Economic Miracle.” It's an economy he and his corporate buddies built on the backs of working people who rank 32nd in the country at a per capita income level of $19,613 and the largest army of minimum wageworkers in the U.S. |
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District Attorney Claims Kostelnik Investigation still ongoing.Submitted by John Kelley on Wed, 07/28/2010 - 17:14In Port Commission We the People News submitted a request for public information to the Nueces County District Attorney Anna Jimenez asking for copies of materials submitted originally to Carlos Valdez by Attorney Tony Canales regarding Robert Kostelnik's appointment to the Port Commission. Questions of whether Kostelnik was legally appointed because of his residence status were explored by Canales in depositions, affidavits signed by Kostelnik and financial records. |
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Naval Station Ingleside offers dead?Submitted by John Kelley on Thu, 07/08/2010 - 11:52In Port Commission Sources at the Port say that currently all of the previous offers except Swiftships/APEX Group of Companies have failed to produce and A&M refuses to present that offer to the commissioners. Promises by Service Marine LLC, a company that proposed using the facility for a deep water drilling support operation and a tourism submarine builder have disappeared and a Mag-Lev train building Indian tribe failed to follow through on local meetings including one between Chief Grey Wolf and County Judge Loyd Neal. |
Las Brisas Political Commentary: What (or who) can you buy with a $3 billion project in Corpus Christi? Submitted by John Kelley on Mon, 06/28/2010 - 15:10In Las BrisasThe Las Brisas story took another turn on May 11th with was essentially a vote of support for the project by our “pro-business” city council. The Council decision would allow the city to provide water to the plant if they are granted their highly contested air permit by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). The only real effect of the council action may be to restore some of the shaken confidence of potential Las Brisas investors that resulted from the recommendation by the State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH) judges that Las Brisas should not be granted their air permit. The motivation behind the push to approve Las Brisas’ water contract may have been nothing but an effort to reassure their investors. Guaranteeing a water supply to a facility whose air permit may not be granted would otherwise seem to be a rather empty gesture. |
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TCEQ Executive Director to recommend remanding Las Brisas permitSubmitted by John Kelley on Sat, 06/26/2010 - 12:35In Las Brisas New Ozone Standards likely to put Corpus Christi out of Attainment without LB According to sources in the environmental community, it appears that TCEQ Executive Director Mark Vickers will ask the three TCEQ Commissioners to remand the Las Brisas permit. The Commissioners could ignore the recommendation and grant the permit, but with the EPA looking over their shoulder it is questionable whether they are willing to go the mat for a big polluter. |
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Nurses Win Right to Bargain at HCA HospitalsSubmitted by John Kelley on Sat, 06/26/2010 - 11:09In Local Business News Spohn loses Nurse Labor Cases Registered nurses at five HCA hospitals including Corpus Christi Medical Center won the right to be represented by the National Nurses Organizing Committee –Texas an affiliate of the 155,000 member National Nurses United. The local HCA nurses voted 228 to 132 to organize with 16 challenged votes not counted. HCA had recently reached an agreement with NNOC-Texas/NNU to allow open involvment of nurses to ask for a vote. |
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Celis Trial BeginsSubmitted by sandy bockelman on Wed, 07/28/2010 - 17:17In Legal Special Prosecutor Stumbles out of the Gate |
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Print Edition of We the People on stands now!Submitted by John Kelley on Thu, 07/08/2010 - 12:00In Newsmagazine Distribution We the People is available now as a free complimentary copy to get you started. The stories are magazine length and different from the ones on line. This month we look at TCEQ, EPA and pollution in our own backyard that gives us twice the childhood asthma and birth defect rate as the rest of the state, and the state is not good when compared to the rest of the nation. |
 Waltzing at the Doomsday BallSubmitted by Readers Write on Thu, 07/08/2010 - 11:45In National EconomyCapitalism is dead, but we still dance with the corpse As an Anglo European white guy from a very long line of white guys, I want to thank all the brown, black, yellow and red people for a marvelous three-century joy ride. During the past 300 years of the industrial age, as Europeans, and later as Americans, we have managed to consume infinitely more than we ever produced, thanks to colonialism, crooked deals with despotic potentates and good old gunboats and grapeshot. Yes, we have lived, and still live, extravagant lifestyles far above the rest of you. And so, my sincere thanks to all of you folks around the world working in sweatshops, or living on two bucks a day, even though you sit on vast oil deposits. And to those outside my window here in Mexico this morning, the two guys pruning the retired gringo's hedges with what look like pocket knives, I say, keep up the good work. It's the world's cheap labor guys like you -- the black, brown and yellow folks who take it up the shorts -- who make capitalism look like it actually works. So keep on humping. Remember: We've got predator drones. |
 We the People Back in Print! TV Weekly in your HEB!Submitted by John Kelley on Sat, 06/26/2010 - 12:08In About UsThis is an exciting and scary week for us at We the People. Because of your demand we are relaunching We the People News Magazine on a monthly subscription basis. Its sent to your mailbox for $2.00 a month, that's one third off the retail cover price of $2.99. Call 882-8177 and give our faithful customer service rep Claudia your mailing address and we will mail to you free of charge our return issue. If you like it simply complete the enclosed invoice and send it back with your check. |
 Will Bill White turn the Repubilican Tide?Submitted by John Kelley on Sat, 06/26/2010 - 10:53In Latest News & EventsBill White is not your usual politician; he certainly can’t be called a pretty boy. Bald, with a large nose and extraordinary ears and ordinary height, he reminds you of a gnome in a business suit. Then he starts to talk and he makes tremendous sense. He has been working towards this day for a long time and he has developed the credentials and expertise to run the state for the people who live here, not just his big contributors and multi-national corporations, a way of governing completely foreign as of late. |
 DA Office Intrigue ContinuesSubmitted by John Kelley on Sat, 06/26/2010 - 10:39In County Was firing of Skurka unconstitutional? What happened to the Kostelnik investigation? |
