More Rumors & A Reader's Comment on SpaceX

BISD RUMOURS

• Sent in: "Maybe all these crooked votes are paying off for the BISD trustees. Escobedo used to drive an old, beat down, red Ford Tauras. Now, he has a nearly new Mercedes. Lucy has one too as does Saavedra. Then, there's the famous new Cadillac Presas-Garcia drives, registered to her cousin, who works as school janitor.

  
  

  
  

A bit more on Lucy Longoria:

"I'm being told she is pushing to fire an existing insurance company by the name of Alamo Insurance and is looking to hand it over to a guy by the name of Albert Salinas with The Brokerage Store.  My understanding is that is bid is $125,ooo MORE than the current account holder.  Not only that , but he is the son-in-law of convicted felon Arnie Olivares who was tied to the PSJA indictments."

A Charlie Atkinson sighting, Luby's $3.00 entree special:


As we left the ITEC Center yesterday with Nena not feeling well, she said to me: "Maybe if I ate something, I would feel better."


We stopped at Luby's on Boca Chica, probably our most frequently used restaurant.  As I opened Luby's front door for Nena, out came through both doors Charlie Atkinson and family.  They didn't make eye contact or acknowledge the opened door.  Perhaps, they thought is was an automatic, electronically controlled door.  It seemed ironic that just a year and one day earlier Atkinson was defeated by Jessica Tetreau-Kalifa.  Jessica messaged me Monday to remind me of the "anniversary."  


So, a year ago, Charlie would have been at the ITEC Center with a SpaceX Insignia, but now his is oblivious to city matters, more concerned with moulding the character and physique of young men as an uncertified BISD P.E. instructor.


More about Lubys:


It was late, probably near closing, as we entered.  We looked around at the selections, asking one of the servers:  "Didn't we see the chicken fried steak entree advertised on your reader board for $3.00?"  She said that was probably at their Sunrise Mall location, but she would check with the manager because they frequently honored the other location's specials.


"Yes, he says we can do it" she stated.  "But, he wants you to know that these are bigger portions than we normally run for three dollars.  Tomorrow, we will have the chicken fried steak on special, too, but the portions will be smaller."


This hit me on two levels.  First of all, how nice it was for the server and her manager to honor the other location's special.  But, on the other hand, now I know that when Luby's runs a "special" it's not always for the regularly priced items sold each day.  Not as traumatic as learning there's no Santa Claus, but close.

A comment from Mescalero on SpaceX:

I was there long enough to make sure that the politicians don't care about any environmental damage this project may do. The proof of that is that not a one suggested that his/her support was provisional, depending on what the EIS had to say. I wasn't surprised by this as earlier in the month the Herald quoted a city employee saying that there is nothing but sand out there. This was clearly a statement based on the supreme confidence of total ignorance. The area is, in fact, loaded with life from the benthic community up to white-tailed deer. And I don't mean the nearby area. I mean the area (eight acres according to SpaceX) that will be directly under there launch pad. The area is an important rest and feeding area for shorebirds and wading birds and that in turn makes it an important area for birds of prey, including both Peregrine Falcons and Aplomado Falcons. And though I suspect the SpaceX project will do less damage then the unbridled and unregulated assault on the coastal environment by the ever multiplying wind farms, it will still take away a little from of the Valley's wild areas. With about 98% of the Valley already cleared, can we afford to lose even another square foot? And don't forget that ecotourism brings tens of millions of dollars into the Valley every year and every time we reduce our available wild areas as was done by the construction of the border wall, we reduce the ecotourism dollar to the area. Finally, can there be any doubt that this is going to be the end of Boca Chica Beach as we know it. Once the infrastructure goes in to support this project it will lead to the development of the area. First by the county who will put in some end of the road bathrooms to be poorly maintained and vandalized and there will need to be a nearby store for the 900 people working out there and a place for them to eat and maybe get gas. And will the highway support the heavy weight of the trucks carrying all those rockets? It was built for passenger car traffic not industrial use. It just goes on and on. I hope the community informs itself because community leaders are not anywhere near offering an objective few of this project. They are just telling us what they want us to know, not what we need to know. Mescalero