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Crisp: Climate change reaches scary milestone

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:21:57 -0400

Last week, with very little attention, our fragile globe cruised quietly past what some news sources called a "milestone": On May 10, the atmospheric concentration of the heat-trapping gas carbon dioxide reached an average daily level of just over 400 parts per million. - The New York Times called this an "odometer moment," meaning, I guess, that it's an event we note casually, like when our car reaches 100,000 miles. And then we keep our foot on the gas and start on the next 100,000.

New water taxi service planned in Corpus Christi

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:39:14 -0400

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Supporters say a new water taxi service across the Corpus Christi Ship Channel is meant to bolster tourism in the city's Sports Entertainment Arts District.

Nolan Ryan's oldest son named Astros president

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:40:43 -0400

HOUSTON - Reid Ryan choked back tears as he was introduced as president of his beloved Astros, the team he grew up watching in the days when his Hall of Fame father, Nolan Ryan, starred as a pitcher for Houston.

Port of Corpus Christi approves $15M for new span

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:44:15 -0400

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The Port of Corpus Christi has approved $15 million to help build a replacement for the Harbor Bridge.

Border agent charged with sexual assault

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:36:57 -0400

MCALLEN, Texas - A South Texas U.S. Border Patrol agent has been arrested on a sexual assault charge after an incident with a woman he was guarding at a Corpus Christi hospital.

Corpus Christi wants to unload Columbus ship replicas

Thu, 09 May 2013 18:21:56 -0400

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - By RHIANNON MEYERS and JESSICA SAVAGE

Recent storms lead to good birding in South Texas

Tue, 07 May 2013 08:26:15 -0400

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Bird watching in South Texas just got better thanks to bad weather.

Employees of South Texas city OK to have guns

Tue, 07 May 2013 07:43:25 -0400

ARANSAS PASS, Texas - Employees of a South Texas city who have concealed handgun permits will be allowed to take their weapons to work starting Aug. 1.

Crisp: Many still suffer from Iraq War, but not Bush

Mon, 06 May 2013 13:17:02 -0400

By JOHN M. CRISP - Is it a good idea for us to be quite so forgiving of former president George W. Bush?

State monitors health of Coastal Bend ecosystem

Sun, 05 May 2013 11:22:00 -0400

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The signs are all around us.

Snails respond to fear like humans do -- by not eating

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:51:49 -0400

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - By ERICA QUIROZ

Former South Texas prosecutor charged with perjury

Thu, 02 May 2013 10:15:46 -0400

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - An ex-prosecutor has been charged with perjury in her defense of a South Texas man charged with killing his baby.

Crisp: Lotteries are really a tax on the poor

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:19:25 -0400

A strange event occurred last week here in Texas: I found myself agreeing with a Tea Partier. - Republican Scott Sanford, a CPA and Baptist pastor, was elected to the Texas House in November. He appears to be a wholesome family man whose politics place him solidly in Tea Party country. He's emphatically pro-Second Amendment, anti-tax and anti-Obamacare. He firmly asserts that life begins at the instant of conception.

For civilian workers, uncertainty about Pentagon furloughs...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 06:57:54 -0400

WASHINGTON - Jose Rivera got hurt serving his country, but pending furloughs and a pay cut pain him these days.