I was born and raised in Corpus Christi. This is my home. Where my parents met. I care about the future of our larger Coastal Bend community. And as a newly elected co-chair of the Corpus Christi Democratic Socialists of America chapter, I believe something fundamental about the future of our city: Our economy and public resources should be organized around the needs of people, not the endless demands of unchecked industrial expansion.
That is why what happened at City Hall in the late evening of Sept. 1 matters.
For the second September in a row, residents helped defeat the Inner Harbor desalination project. This time, the City Council voted 5-3 against the contract needed to continue designing a project with a preliminary price of nearly $979 million…