Author: Mark Young

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Local elections bring major changes to the city

Mark Young

Voters pick new mayor, approve tax for street repairs The 2016 election was one of the most divisive in history. While the presidential election took up the majority of the news cycle, the local elections will affect you more in the coming years. The elections were wide-ranging and covered everything from City Council to school boards and local bonds. Twelve major propositions were on the ballot citywide, while two more bonds were up for Del Mar College and the Corpus Christi Independent School District. The majority of the propositions will have no effect on your taxes and deal with the…

Entertainment, Movies

‘The Accountant’ a crowd-pleasing thriller

Mark Young

Affleck’s latest film gives autistic people a hero to get behind Ben Affleck’s first film of 2016 didn’t exactly please the masses. While his debut as Batman was lauded, the film was destroyed by critics. Affleck’s second attempt, “The Accountant,” didn’t exactly wow critics either, but it wasn’t a total failure. Directed by Gavin O’Connor and co-starring Anna Kendrick, Jon Bernthal and J.K. Simmons, this action-thriller about an autistic accountant who works with dangerous criminals is definitely one of the most interesting films of the year. Affleck plays Christian Wolff, the eponymous accountant, who begins working for a prominent medical…

Campus

Dome ready to protect in an emergency

Mark Young

Fourteen years ago, a tornado tore through Del Mar’s West Campus, causing severe property damage to the campus and surrounding neighborhood, as well as taking the life of one person and causing multiple injuries. This devastating event got Del Mar officials wondering if there was a way to help protect more people and prevent anyone else from getting hurt because of severe weather. When it was suspected that Hurricane Ike would be coming to Corpus Christi in 2008, officials decided the best way to protect the students and faculty would be a structure that would be able to withstand the…

Entertainment, Movies

Thriller satisfies, but leaves more to be desired

Mark Young

“The Help” director Tate Taylor adapts last year’s hit novel written by Paula Hawkins, which was deemed “the next ‘Gone Girl’” by critics, for “The Girl on the Train.” However, the film proves that the two movies have little in common. The film follows Rachel Watson, an alcoholic who has an obsession with a couple she sees when she passes on the train every day. When she wakes up from a blackout covered in blood and discovers that one of the people she obsessed over has gone missing, she fears she had something to do with it. The unreliable narrator…