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Bill 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.

Republicans surge, Dems stay home

Republicans Elect Trial Lawyer County Chair
The March 2nd primary election got a lot of folk’s attention, even if it was about the people whose attention it didn’t get. While Republicans turned out in record numbers, fueled by some cross over Democrats who voted on Republican platform issues like abortion and the Republican governor’s candidate competition, Dems mostly stayed at home with a record low turnout.

25 million gallons of pollution as close as two foot from the surface flows towards the ship channel

George Rice, MS, a soil hydrologist from San Antonio, opened the February 11th meeting and urged local participation in all aspects of the TCEQ planned investigation of the groundwater scheduled to start in six weeks. He noted that currently not enough data is available to determine the extent of the problem in Hillcrest, but noted that in his 30 years in the industry, he had never seen a more polluted groundwater system that currently exists along “Refinery Row.” He added that movement of the hydrocarbon plume floating atop the groundwater is probably leaking into the ship channel.