Category: Editorial

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Precautions for Spring Break: Don’t drink and drive

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Sara Riojas / Staff writer The Corpus Christi Police Department plans to continue safe Spring Break practices for the upcoming Spring Break holiday. The efforts made last year resulted in a low number of arrests for drunk driving. CCPD reported that from the weeks of March 9-19, 2012 they made 25 arrests, citywide, involving drinking and driving.  The efforts from the police department in prior years keeps beach-goers respectful of the laws they have in place, this year is no different. “Txdot gave the CCPD a $20,000 grant for added patrol this Spring Break.” Explained senior officer Marc Harrod of…

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Opinion: Discovering oneself through the act of writing

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Rudy Leyva / Staff Writer A room is full of hopeful candidates applying for a few positions being offered by a company. Human resource personnel are checking over the applications that have been turned in. A woman calls out the name of one of the applicants as she continues to look over the document in her hand. A young man approaches the desk. The company representative asks if he has ever had any previous work experience.

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Don’t neglect the local issues

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As the waning days of the 2012 Presidential Election give way, one cannot help but anticipate the decline in interest towards political affairs that seems sure to follow. In many ways, U.S. politics have come to mimic another favorite American pastime: football. Dedicated followers follow the various stages that go into a campaign with the same vigor as any dedicated Cowboys fans follow their beloved team. As they poll the “victories” and “losses” on the campaign trail and pundits across all networks offer the play-by-play, interest grows among those who don’t usually follow the support leading up to the climactic…

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Debates limit America’s choices

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For many outside of the political mainstream, election season can often be somewhat of a drag. From the sudden influx of political association that seems only to emerge from usually unconcerned peers during this time of the season, to the timeless primetime classics that are the presidential debates. Nothing affirms one’s dissatisfaction with the current form of political commercialism and spectacle than the celebration of the nation’s semi-democratic process that serves as what the presidential debate has become.