Opinion

I have made at least a half dozen trips up the Texas and Louisiana coast over the past 10 years, have seen the many refineries and petrochemical plants around St. Charles, Beaumont, Port Arthur, the Houston Ship Channel, Baytown and Corpus Christi. I always return home grateful and relieved that where I live, the Rio GrandeValley, we have none of those. The defunct 1970s’ small Brownsville Union Carbide refinery left its legacy as a designated superfund site due to its nationally significant hazardous pollution of soils and/or groundwater.

On Memorial Day weekend I saw parades and marches and a gathering of people, and speeches given by our leaders to honor those who have given the ultimate sacrifice for our country. I remembered my father, Manuel M. Moreno, who served during WWII.

We come to the Fourth of July amid times that arguably are the most unstable since the 1960s.

Every time we think the Biden administration has hit rock bottom, they find a way to break through to a lower level. In April, Biden’s EPA proposed a set of tailpipe emission standards designed to eliminate consumer choice and destroy the oil and gas industry, starting within the next six years.

The flashy national TV news story focusing on friendly robots walking around the University of Texas at Austin campus covers up a much bigger technology story breaking at the same time but receiving very little attention.

Many well-intentioned Christians today believe the Bible teaches that faith alone is the way to salvation, that is, the way to solve all of earth’s individual and collective problems. The apostle Paul certainly emphasized a simple belief in Christ that activates God’s grace/blessings, and the Protestants of the Reformation adopted this as their mantra.

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