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Questions about latest NSI Player
07/28/2010 - 17:09

In 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.

District Attorney Claims Kostelnik Investigation still ongoing.
07/28/2010 - 17:36

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.

Naval Station Ingleside offers dead?
07/15/2010 - 21:29

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.

Apex/Swiftships swift boated by A&M
05/27/2010 - 13:30

Loss means 1,000 clean, skilled jobs won’t come to NSI

Changes in the A&M contract with the Port seem to not have had any positive impact on negotiations with Apex Group of Companies who was seeking to bring Swiftships 1,000 shipbuilding jobs to Naval Station Ingleside. General Counsel Faisal Gill left a day early after the Port meeting last Tuesday to negotiate with Pascagoula, Mississippi and Brownsville, Texas to locate there.

Port Gives A&M Deadline
05/16/2010 - 07:15

Port revenues down $4.5 million
Texas A&M not only agreed to fees of 6% for a sale and 8% of any lease they develop. A&M can earn an additional 2% by getting a substantial signed contract for sale by July 31, 2010 and closing by Jan. 31, 2011. If they do not produce a substantial sale or lease by that date they will be terminated. In order to meet the "substantial" requirement, A&M must secure a deal with a minimum of a $5 million dollar downpayment.

Port Commission

Questions about latest NSI Player
07/28/2010 - 17:09

In 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.

District Attorney Claims Kostelnik Investigation still ongoing.
07/28/2010 - 17:36

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.

Naval Station Ingleside offers dead?
07/15/2010 - 21:29

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.

Apex/Swiftships swift boated by A&M
05/27/2010 - 13:30

Loss means 1,000 clean, skilled jobs won’t come to NSI

Changes in the A&M contract with the Port seem to not have had any positive impact on negotiations with Apex Group of Companies who was seeking to bring Swiftships 1,000 shipbuilding jobs to Naval Station Ingleside. General Counsel Faisal Gill left a day early after the Port meeting last Tuesday to negotiate with Pascagoula, Mississippi and Brownsville, Texas to locate there.

Port Gives A&M Deadline
05/16/2010 - 07:15

Port revenues down $4.5 million
Texas A&M not only agreed to fees of 6% for a sale and 8% of any lease they develop. A&M can earn an additional 2% by getting a substantial signed contract for sale by July 31, 2010 and closing by Jan. 31, 2011. If they do not produce a substantial sale or lease by that date they will be terminated. In order to meet the "substantial" requirement, A&M must secure a deal with a minimum of a $5 million dollar downpayment.

City

American Bank Center Taskforce that doesn’t exist issues report.
07/15/2010 - 21:27

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.

Politics Gone Awry
11/16/2009 - 11:30

Leal Stumbles, Grow Corpus Shrivels

Priscilla Leal, District 3 Councilperson decided to get tough on staff today and in the process may have inadvertently demonstrated her own ignorance.

City Fails to Notify Residents of Toxic Waste
09/05/2009 - 06:45

Suzie Canales Executive Director of Citizens for Environmental Justice revealed today that Mayor Adame was said to have known about toxic chemicals found in ground samples on a site for a planned public housing project since shortly after he took office but has failed to take any action or even make public the information.

Caller-Times Runs Cover for Las Brisas – Adame Conflict
09/03/2009 - 13:07

The Sunday, August 30, 2009 edition of the Caller Times ran two stories which appeared to be responses to the Aug-Sept issue of We the People. Front page stories “City moves forward on water pipeline” by Denise Malan and “Council strives to avoid conflicts” by Sarah Foley both tried to spin facts in a favorable light regarding the controversial Las Brisas-Garwood Water Line and the Mayor’s resignation from the Coliseum Committee. In a brilliant piece of journalistic deletion articles in We the People showing the possible costs of Las Brisas or the Mayor’s Whatadeal ownership leading to his resignation from the committee were not referenced.

Group Says Housing Study Proof of TCEQ's Industry Favortism
09/03/2009 - 10:29

By Suzie Canales, Executive Director of Citizens for Environmental Justice (CFEJ)
Citizens for Environmental Justice (CFEJ) has learned that the Corpus Christi Housing Authority has suspended their plan to build the D.N. Leathers Townhomes, a development that was to be located at 1001 Coke Street, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78401 because the land is contaminated.