Will Facebook be relevant in 5 years?

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

My teenage children tell me Facebook is no longer the place to be. Old people like me have spoiled the fun. I imagine that's why Facebook announced last week that it was jazzing up its look. Anyone remember Friendster or ...

Horses and History

By katduncan in Advocate Photo Blog

It's true, photographers take a lot of photos. We keep taking photos even when people think we shouldn't, or can't possibly, find anything else to take photos of. We take hundreds of photos on assignment to get the few that ...

Share your thoughts

By LAHightower in Community Conversation

Welcome, Advocate readers, to another Wednesday. On this lovely day, we will be having another editorial board meeting. This week, we will be joined by Victoria City Council member Emett Alvarez. We'd like to see you there, too. Come on ...

Relax, don't do it.

By JROrtega in The Daily Dose

I did absolutely nothing this weekend, and you know what - it was fantastic. A sore throat, endless sneezing and an overall cloudy judgement last week left me feeling lazy and needy. Not sure if it's a bug going around, ...

Happy birthday, brother

By ThomasRMartinez in Easy writer

Today is my brother Chris’ birthday. Happy birthday, brother. Except, Chris is no longer with us. He would have celebrated his 47th birthday today – save for a tragic mistake he made 11 years ago. Circumstances in his life had ...

Sports "Almosts"

By angeliwright in Advocate Photo Blog

In photojournalism a photograph that has a good idea behind it, but doesn't quite work, is often called an "almost." In my opinion the most common assignments to return from with an excellent batch of almosts are sports assignments. So ...

Victoria County Commissioners to bid temporary Air Tower management

By melissacrowe in Man Bites Dog

Victoria County Commissioners are preparing to fill in gaps if Victoria Regional Airport loses federal funding for its air traffic control tower. The court is expected to vote whether to begin advertising for bids or requests for proposals for an ...

More than Friends

By askalice in Ask Alice

Dear Alice: I am very good friends with two people at my school, for his I will call them Jake and Lilly. Jake and Lilly have been great friends since we started high school, about 3 years ago. Jake knows ...

What are your plans for Spring Break?

By CarolinaAstrain in Other Words

It's almost here. Starting March 11 through the 15th, students will be whisked away by their parental units for adventures throughout the country for Spring Break. My freshman year of high school, I was about to turn 15 and in ...

We saved you a seat

By LAHightower in Community Conversation

It's time for another editorial board meeting, and we saved you a seat. Every Wednesday, we meet in the Internet Cafe area of the Victoria Advocate at 1:30 p.m. and discuss the events of the previous week. This week, we ...