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Texas holding local runoff elections on December 13

Two cities in Texas are holding nonpartisan general runoff elections on December 13, 2022. In Corpus Christi, three city council seats will be on the ballot. Three city council seats will also be on the ballot in Austin, along with the mayor. The runoff elections were required after no candidates…

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Fact check: Ad goes too far with claim that Joe Biden promotes surgery for trans teens

A radio ad targeting care for transgender youth began airing in cities around the country this fall — from Spanish-language stations in Corpus Christi, Texas, to sports talk shows in Tennessee to pop radio in Detroit. The ad, paid for by a political advocacy group founded by Stephen Miller, a…

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Industry Threatens Water Supplies and Coastal Ecology Near Corpus Christi

Environmentalists have seized on water supply as a “chokehold” to block fossil fuels on the rugged South Texas coast.

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Corpus Christi sold its water to Exxon, gambling on desalination. So far, it is losing the bet.

Concerns over ecological damage to Corpus Christi Bay have delayed plans to convert sea water to drinking water for years in this booming Gulf Coast city, where environmentalists see water supply as a “chokehold” to block new fossil fuel infrastructure.

The Texas Tribune

Black Residents of Corpus Christi’s Hillcrest Back in Court Over Pollution

The neighborhood has launched three lawsuits: over a sewage treatment plant, unsafe bridge construction, and now a desalination plant.

Texas Observer

Black residents in Corpus Christi file a civil rights complaint to stop Texas’ first desalination plant

Since 2007, Hillcrest residents have sued to challenge plans for a sewage treatment plant in their neighborhood, and then bridge construction.

The Texas Tribune

Trump to hold rally in South Texas two days before early voting

The former president will stage a rally Saturday in Robstown, west of Corpus Christi. Gov. Greg Abbott said he can’t attend, but Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Attorney General Ken Paxton, who are both running for reelection, will be speakers.

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John Henry Ramirez executed by lethal injection after stabbing dad-of-nine 29 times

John Henry Ramirez was sentenced to death at about midnight this evening in the state's death chamber in Huntsville, Texas, for the fatal stabbing of Pablo Castro in Corpus Christi in 2004

Daily Mirror

Texas executes John Ramirez for the 2004 murder of a Corpus Christi man

Earlier this year, Ramirez won a legal fight to have his pastor beside him at his execution.

The Texas Tribune

EPA may try to block what could be the first seawater desalination plant built in Texas

Citing water quality concerns, the Environmental Protection Agency may refuse to recognize a permit that Texas approved Thursday for a marine desalination plant at the Port of Corpus Christi.

The Texas Tribune

EPA reverses course, rejects permit for massive oil exporting project offshore from Corpus Christi

During the Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency exempted a proposed oil export terminal off the Texas coast from air pollution requirements. This week it rejected the permit because of pollution concerns.

The Texas Tribune

Lanarkshire secondary school hosts maths competition involving pupils from primaries

Corpus Christi Primary comes out on top of three-round number-themed challenges at St Andrew's High

Daily Record

Drumcondra residents join together in campaign to save Corpus Christi hall

The hall has been a much-loved amenity in the locality for over 60 years

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College Performers of the Week powered by Rapsodo: Texas A&M-Corpus Christi women’s golf

The Islanders defender their PGA Works title by 14 shots.

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College Performers of the Week powered by Rapsodo: Lucie Charbonnier, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

Charbonnier's PGA Works title was the first win of her college career.

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Medical Cannabis Provider Texas Original Compassionate Cultivation Opens Pick-Up Location In Corpus Christi, Texas

Texas Original Compassionate Cultivation (TXOG), a medical cannabis provider, will open its newest prescription pick-up location in Corpus Christi. The new site will offer a convenient option for patients who qualify under the compassionate use program (CUP) to obtain their medicine locally.

Daily Mirror

Secret note Starbucks worker passed to studying teenager, 18, being harassed by man

Brandy Roberson from Corpus Christi in Texas has spoken of how a friendly Starbucks worker handed a hot chocolate to her daughter offering her help if she needed it

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