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By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
As the cast of "High School Musical" sang the big finale Friday night, you could feel the energy and joy flowing through the Welder Center. Perhaps it helped that we sat next to the proud grandparents of Troy Bolton (aka ...
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Should a reporter smoke pot with a source to get a story?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
I wasn't expecting this question to come up when Washington Post writer Gene Weingarten spoke at last weekend's Mayborn literary nonfiction conference in Grapevine. Weingarten is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for newspaper feature writing. His anthology, "The ...
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How much do you know about Gulf Bend Center?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
Don Polzin, executive director of Gulf Bend Center, sent a video to us this week that was shown during the annual convention of the Texas Council of Community Centers recently in Houston. I was honored to accept the Frank M. ...
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By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
Frank Deford and the other magical writers at Sports Illustrated inspired me to be a sportswriter. By college, I had switched to news, but Deford's talk Saturday at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference took me back to my first love. ...
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By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
Just back from a family vacation in Colorado, we had hoped to bring back some of the cool and rainy weather. No such luck. Actually, on our first day in Colorado, the high temperature was a couple of degrees more ...
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Have you checked our online databases lately?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
Public service editor Gabe Semenza keeps adding to our databases we have posted at VictoriaAdvocate.com/DataCentral. The newest additions are for Victoria County marriages and divorces, Crossroads lottery sales and winners, death records and restaurant inspections. All of these databases contain ...
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What's an easy way to share photos and video?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
With the sweeping popularity of smartphones, we've made it easier for you to share your photos and videos with the community. Instead of having to upload your photos from your desktop to VictoriaAdvocate.com, you also now may email them directly ...
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How do you find related articles?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
We've added another new feature to our website -- related articles. Now when you read an article about, say, Texas A&M's emails regarding the University of Houston-Victoria, you'll see along the right-hand column links to other stories we've published on ...
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By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
We were excited Monday to have someone point out our mistake. As odd as that may sound, we want readers to correct any errors in our coverage. We take accuracy seriously but know any daily newspaper is far from perfect. ...
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By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
We wish we had a need today for a new feature on our online weather section: a live National Weather Service radar. Technical wizard Shawn Willmon has worked to enhance our weather section. You may view the radar in various ...