The Texas Department of Transportation is proposing to widen State Highway 4 from east of Brownsville city limits to SpaceX. This road construction will specifically serve Space Exploration business and employees. This road and its public beach access have been closed numerous times over numerous years for SpaceX operations testing and launching of its heavier rockets.
Since SpaceX is also planning to become a municipality, this road expansion appears more to be a road for the exclusive use of SpaceX during its flight testing and operations while the taxpayers foot the bill. Also, this new improved road will be subject to Boca Chica Beach access closure to the residents for SpaceX operations and whims, and it is contrary to the Open Beaches Act.
I understand that TxDOT has a plan to enhance transportation infrastructure for economic purposes, but the purpose here is solely favoritism to SpaceX, a privately owned company, to be financed by the taxpayers. This is inequitable toward other businesses and a usurpation of our tax dollars for the economic profit of one privately owned company.
If you have similar concerns, please send your comments to TxDOT at [email protected]. which is accepting them until Friday, April 11.
Diane Teter
Edinburg
Not so united
The metaphor of photographic negatives is key to understand today’s political environment, where both parties exist in opposite realities; inverted, mutually exclusive and irreconcilable.
In photo negatives, colors and light are inverted, appearing like a strange, alien world. Thusly disparate are Republicans and Democrats, like foreign citizens under the same flag, so how could it be called “United” States of America?
Abject reality is now convoluted and trivialized. Endlessly disputed is basic understanding of right and wrong, good and evil. Demonstrable truths are now “my truths” (“each man did right in his own eyes”).
Democrats have mastered the art of nomenclature-as-virtue, decorating the sinister in righteous verbiage. For example, the acronym USAID appears like a charity foundation, but it’s really a slush fund for hard-left political interests.
They’re dragging us into their inverted reality, their alien world, deluding the soft-headed and the naive. God have mercy us.
Jamey Honaker
Combes
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