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To make up for this heinous crime, I will refrain from having omelette for a week."
Musk had also responded to reports that SpaceX rockets had caused damage to wild bird nests and said
It's officially statistically impossible for the measure to fail. Cameron County is about to have a new city."
Remi Garza, Cameron County Elections Administrator
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Starbase, Texas Is now a real city!"
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk celebrated the election results Saturday night on X, formerly Twitter, writing
We need the ability to grow Starbase as a community,
Starbase General Manager Kathryn Lueders wrote to local officials in 2024 with the request to get the city issue on the ballot
Some days it’s closed, and some days you get turned away,
With SpaceX, Hinojosa saidRight now that authority lies solely within Cameron County and my office, and we think that we've proven to be good collaborators and partners with SpaceX in their operations and also in making sure and providing enough notice and public access to Boca Chica Beach,
Cameron County Judge Eddie Trevino told NBC News
If it's not broken, it doesn't need to be fixed,
he saidCities are required by law to do very little,
said Alan Bojorquez, a lawyer in Austin who specializes in helping Texans through the process of incorporating new municipalities
My primary home is literally a ~$50k house in Boca Chica / Starbase that I rent from SpaceX,
Mr. Musk wrote in June 2021If the election passes, this will be the newest town in Cameron County since Los Indios in 1995. We look forward to seeing the outcome of this election.”
Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño, Jr. then set the date of the election and said in a statement
These were pristine, beautiful lands, like, literally, a gem or a treasure of a beautiful beach, and also sacred lands of the original Indigenous people of the land,
he saidHis critics in Cincinnati say he appears to be more interested in using his mayoral run, enhanced by his brother’s reflected glow, to build a national profile than actually running the city,
writes Adam WrenIt’s a turn of events that ought to petrify anyone who thinks Washington’s deep-blue local electorate should be free to choose permissive blue-state rules.”
Capital City columnist Michael Schaffer unpacks the implicationsIf the Supreme Court does end up striking down nationwide injunctions, it could pose a huge hurdle to those who oppose the tariffs,
writes legal columnist Ankush KhardoriYou know the phrase impulse shopping? This is impulse campaigning,
University of Cincinnati political scientist David Niven told himSince SpaceX’s arrival in Cameron County a decade earlier, rents have risen nearly 15 percent and access to a nearby beach has been restricted for locals during rocket launches, drawing ire and frustration from residents shut off from their main point of access to recreation along the coast. Musk’s actions at the federal level have led to concern about what an untrammeled Elon would look like in South Texas,
McCarthy writesThe move would give SpaceX increased autonomy, virtually its own government, and greater ability to build where and how it wants,
writes Will McCarthy, who visited the town ahead of the vote for this week’s Friday ReadBoca Chica Beach is meant for the people, not Elon Musk to control,
the organization said in a statement on its site
Starbase will grow by several thousand people over the next year or two,
he posted on Twitter in 2021They would attempt more illegal dumping, they would build up their dangerous rocket operations and cause more seismic activity, cause our homes to shake, and that they would destroy more of the wildlife habitat in the region,
she told AFP