Tea Partiers Have Trained Poll Monitors for the 2012 Election
Photo Credit: Joe Be One | Flickr Author: Jason Cohen Houston’s King Street Patriots have trained people in thirty states to monitor polls and guard against election fraud, but some accuse the Tea...
View ArticleWhooping Cranes Have Their Day in Court
Photo Credit: USFWS Headquarters | Flickr Author: Sonia Smith The endangered whooping crane is at the center of a lawsuit that could change the rights of water users in Texas. Publish Date: Tue,...
View ArticleThe Week in Business: Profits, Losses, and Everything in Between
Photo Credit: iStockphoto | gioadventures Author: Rob Heidrick Another hiccup for AT&T, American Airlines’s parent company gets delisted, and San Antonio will now be the mechanic for America’s...
View ArticleThe Week in Business: Profits, Losses, and Everything in Between
Photo Credit: iStockphoto Author: Rob Heidrick Johnson and Johnson sheds tears over Texas lawsuit, Houston stomps Silicon Valley in tech job growth, and the sour finanial condition of Imperial...
View ArticleWhy Does Wisconsin Care About Texas’s Whooping Cranes?
Photo Credit: Flickr | szatmar666 Author: Sonia Smith The drought threatening the state’s whooping crane population highlights the importance of current conservation efforts in Wisconsin. Publish...
View ArticleNude Cowgirl Leads Cops on Slow-Speed Chase
Photo Credit: Istockphoto Author: Sonia Smith Eighteen-year-old Taylor Burnham was naked, but for her cowboy boots, when she was stopped by cops in her Jeep Wrangler in Corpus Christi. Publish Date:...
View ArticleCorpus Pooch Nearly Wins Westminster
Photo Credit: Rex Features via AP Images Author: Sonia Smith Cinders, a wire-haired dachshund from Corpus Christi, was one of seven finalists for the Best in Show title. Publish Date: Wed,...
View ArticleCalling All Whataburger Spicy Ketchup Lovers
Photo Credit: Facebook | Whataburger Author: Andrea Valdez The San Antonio-based fast food chain is giving away box 101,197, its last case of “Spicy Ketchup.” Publish Date: Mon, 2012-04-09 12:12...
View ArticleWant to Sleep in Farrah Fawcett's Bedroom?
Photo Credit: Associated Press | May, 1977 File Photo Author: Jason Cohen The Corpus Christi ranch house where the bombshell lived during high school can be yours for $215,000. Publish Date: Mon,...
View ArticleHannah Overton Hearing: Day Four
Photo Credit: Associated Press | Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Todd Yates Author: Pamela Colloff David Jones, one of Overton’s defense attorneys during her 2007 trial, broke down on the stand....
View ArticleDid Texas Execute an Innocent Man?
Photo Credit: Columbia Human Rights Law Review Author: Emily Alvarado The Columbia University Human Rights Law Review published a 400-page investigative article that alleges that in 1989, Texas...
View ArticleOverton Judge Finds No New Evidence of Innocence
Author: Pamela Colloff State district judge Jose Longoria stated that “all of the supposedly newly-discovered evidence … was clearly known and discussed at the time of trial.” Publish Date: Fri,...
View ArticleWhat an Employer!
Photo Credit: Flickr | Terry Ross Author: Jason Cohen Whataburger sticks it to the man, filing a lawsuit against debt collector NCO for repeatedly calling the company’s corporate headquarters in...
View ArticleThe ‘Texas Observer’ v. the Koch Brothers
Photo Credit: Texas Observer | Jen Reel Author: Jason Cohen The magazine’s investigative piece about Koch Industries’ Flint Hills refinery in Corpus Christi prompted the company to fire back a...
View ArticleFourteen Pictures of Rocks that Look Like Food
Photo Credit: Rock Food Table Author: Francesca Mari Robstown retirees have been exhibiting their rock dinner spread since 1983. It never gets old. Publish Date: Mon, 2012-12-03 16:06Looking for the...
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