Have a great year DLSEC! The program is fabulous, great people that truly care about students!

Why doesn't the city or VISD, use (donate) one of the schools that has been closed down. To house the homeless, there's different rooms,restrooms, kitchen,etc.. Donate it to a non-profit or one of the homeless organizations, to run and maintain .

I'll fully admit I did not vote for Mayor McCoy but I'm quite pleased with his response. As usual, Bauknight continues to be an absolute short-sighed fool determined to cut off his nose to spite his face, but I'm disappointed in Young for his position on the issue.

Our condolences to the family and friends of Aunt Vicky. Love , Louis Soliz & family

It's been 12 years since my father died. I miss him every day. He will never be forgotten. If you're reading this, then you've came by a kid that stopped by his dad's obituary to leave a mark that will hopefully never be forgotten along side my late father. 12 years later and I still miss the dad I never got to know. Love Derrick quintanilla jr.

Dearest Jodi, Keith & Kevin, My thoughts & prayers are with you & your families. I'm so saddened to not be with y'all today at the service for remembering this amazing man. Love to you all. Nelwyn

Excellent remarks, thanx. That said, economic development is not a free-standing concept. It's probably the most symbiotic endeavor in which the city can engage; curb appeal of the city in general and the educational environment here are at the top of the list of priorities. Having VISD and UHV represented at the meeting is a good sign.

A well written thought , Pat. I am in totally agreement. I encourage the Victoria Democrat Party to have a fund raiser dedicated to Victoria's homeless. I encourage the Party to pledge $250,000 a year to keep the project funded. What better organization than the Victoria Democrat Party to be in charge of this project.

Mr. Garza -- Thanx for the informative synopsis. It illustrates how the city is actually doing something, however slowly it may be progressing. It was amazing to me how dramatically the North Heights Rehab and Overlay projects transformed the overall appearance of the neighborhood. Imagine the whole city like that. At the present pace it won't take more than several decades to achieve.

Pyro was the best!

What a beautiful cat! I used to have one like that several years ago.

One of the sweetest ladies I’ve ever met. Read all her accomplishments and imagine the things she has seen in her 92 years. Our thoughts are with former County Commissioner Nick Hinojosa as he adjusts to this very big loss. The Victoria County Democratic Party is grateful for the Hinojosa’s support and dedication over all these years. A life very well lived.

George, I bet my last dollar that no one will mention employer penalties for Violating our immigration and employment laws. I bet it won’t be a diverse crowd,Just people waiting to get their ears tickled with “ build the wall “ rhetoric. SMH

Thanks Victoria Advocate for correcting the format on the post!

Sorry but the formatting was lost when I posted this reply. The projects listed total more than $86 Million in projects done in the past ten years or so.

I've just returned from a road trip to Lubbock and Levelland. While there and travelling I took the opportunity to pay particular attention to street conditions in residential and business districts. Nowhere did I find anything remotely like the scabby, lunar surface road conditions here in Victoria, and that includes even the small towns along highways 137 and 87. Victoria is supposedly the oldest incorporated city in Texas. True or not it obviously enjoys looking like it.

"Sanchez is able to file a property damage claim with the city of Victoria, but he had not filed one as of Friday."

I don't think that he should have to do so.

I think that VPD or someone from the city should go to his home and survey the damage then pay to have it fixed.

That would be the right thing to do Victoria.

My heart and prayers are with you and your family.
Deanna McCue

Another propaganda opportunity for the tight wing. Yes, let's keep ouit those brown people. How Christian. You all do know that Cloud's church supports the John Birch Society, right? How Christian.

Linda, your infectious smile and sweet demeanor will be truly missed. You were always so kind to me and welcomed Yusuke and I into your home like we were family. What a legacy of kindness you have left us all. Heaven has gained a very special angel 😇

I agree Ron

The city is building roads we don't need at this time. It's always the same excuse, no money. Just like after Harvey, the water plant needed valves repaired. Instead of spending if I remember correct about $40,000. to fix them, they spent $47,500. for a survey on if they are charging enough for water.

One of the first things government is responsible for is... infrastructure. A mayor and such are lazy when they say... well it was like this when I came in... . WELL FIX IT!

Three Victoria County School Districts. Wow, VISD out performs one, sort of. The real story is our veteran trustee leaders. Under our veteran trustees how did our individual schools do?
Elementary (17) 1-F, 8-D, 4-C, 3-B, 1-A
Jr High (4) 1-F, 1-D, 2-C
High School (3) 3-C
Tenured Trustees, you own this failure. Our Superintendent, Teacher, Students, Parents and Community deserve better.

May God take you home. Rest in peace.

Well done, faithful servent. May you rest in peace.

Rest in peace.

We greatly miss you little brother! You are now in God’s hands and at peace. We will see each other later and be a family again. Love, your sister 💙

What a wonderful article! So informative and clear!

The righteous perish, and no one ponders it in his heart; devout men are taken away and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. Ted you never had a wife but you did leave behind a son ,friends and family. I pray to the Lord creator of heaven and earth that those who loved you, would bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a sprit of despair, to comfort those who mourn. In the name of Jesus. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. I miss you and Love you . Semper Fi my brother

why is this story just being told to the public when this happened on the 7th...? 😭
I pray this family gets the justice they desperately deserve...

This is sad. This family needs to get a private autopsy done to get the truth! They still have time. If they need info I’m here....

I've been shouting this from the rooftops since coming here about a year ago. This town is great! There is something to do every day and people care about the community. Great article, let's keep it up.

Bevo scared the Georgia bulldog so bad...shouldn't Bevo be in first place?

And all of them will get off, with a slap on the wrist. Because of their age, they're just children and didn't know any better. Also the NRA and gun manufactures will be blamed.

Yeah, it's ridiculous. If anybody actually cared about illegal immigration they'd shut down ANY company found to be hiring illegal immigrants. But nope. It's always the poor innocent companies who are suffering by hiring undocumented immigrants.

best of luck ms. jennifer!...

I don't think they do Martin...When employers violate our immigration laws they are not punished. Isn't the employer committing an illegal act? Why isn't he labeled an illegal? Keep your eye on the 7 companies that were recently raided where 40% were reunited with their families or were citizens. I bet my bottom dollar those multi-million companies are in operation today doing the same thing to violate our immigration and employment laws....I understand the lowest common denominator is the low hanging fruit everyone can blame...Easy pickings.

"And she was very good. God-dang, she could figure out stuff,” Burns said." -- Such as how to develop and play the system for personal gain?

Very good Michael

People are still having issues with understanding the definition of illegal?

very nice, good job guys

This is what happens when nobody wants to pay taxes and companies get away with millions in "subsidies" and tax breaks which are nothing more than government hand-outs.

Legally blind people can occasionally have correctable vision with lenses, or they might only be legally blind in one eye. I bet Mr Rocha might have correctable vision but maybe it's not something he can get anymore. Or it could be as you said just an ID card.

"If you have big items to get rid of, the city will handle that as well." -- From the city's Environmental Services website, "Large items are collected by a knuckle boom truck and are taken to the City of Victoria landfill." Instead of waiting for a call that will never come, why can't the boom truck, in it's travels, just stop and scoop up the huge piles of dead furniture and mattress littering our residential streets? Most of it looks like Harvey debris anyway, and considering that most of the neighborhoods where it's found were high-damage areas it probably is. IMO, the city needs to get off its high-horse and just go do its job, including a routine patrol at, say, monthly intervals.

"Born with Usher Syndrome, Rocha is legally blind and partially deaf."-- Yet he has a drivers license? I hope it's just a state issued ID card.

Thank you. That is real common sense.

Commonsense ,in my opinion, does not just blame one political party and forget about the NRA’s hold on the Republican Party.
Commonsense does not leave out easy access to guns, white supremacist terrorist groups,and angry young men.
Common sense would put extra scrutiny on the person buying a 100-round drum, body armor and weapons that can kill or injure in a little amount of time.
Every country in the world has mental illness and their citizens play video games but they do not have easy access to weapons of war.
We don’t have an answer because one side blames the other, preventing them to sit down and work out the bottlenecks.

Americans can agree on one thing. The USA has a problem with mass shootings and innocent people dying or being maimed for life. It’s takes two things to do this - guns and a person. Both are the problem. There is legislation, passed by the House, sitting on Mitch McConnell’s desk to address both problems. But Trump, the Republican Party and McConnell are owned by the NRA and they will not allow the legislation to come for a vote in the Senate. Voters thought they drained the swamp in 2016. The swamp is deeper now than ever before. Citizen United, the worst Supreme Court decision ever, allowed Pacts, Corporations, and lobbyist to own the USA Government. It does not matter what the people agree on and want. We are their slaves.
Janice Ullman

"“If mistakes were made, procedures overlooked, or if things could have been handled better, this will provide us the chance to improve, correct and inform,” Burns wrote..." -- Realizing that Mr. Burns has to choose his words carefully I still have to wonder if the committee will be open to considering that the issue may be something far more serious than just inept fumbling and bumbling, especially considering some of the participants and their actions. To be plain, it smells strongly of fraud and theft.

“Lefty gun controllers”??? Seriously, are there adults who say things like this? Using terms like “the lefties” dehumanizes, making neighbors and acquaintances “the others” and thus easier to criticize or even vilify. This nonsense. Brings nothing to the table in terms of resolving one of this nations mahor problems, soaring death count involving firearms.

Ah Ha! A the F;at Earth Society has spoken.

I wonder if this is a deflection because the El Paso shooter admitted his white supremacist views…end of the story there.
The rest of the silly hypotheticals lead me to believe that the writer has a problem with lefties. He does have a vivid imagination.

Martin yes we do but as I understand it, not all firearm transactions go through the National Instant Criminal Background Check, they have that gun show loophole or the "private sale loophole." A universal background is supposed to close those loopholes. Agreed, it might not have stopped the last shootings because they were legally purchased. That's why I think more scrutiny when purchasing body armor, extended magazines, and assault weapons ( call them what you want but we know what weapons are the problem)is a better answer.

Michael, we already have background checks. Why do we need new laws that are already on the books?

"I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)" is a song written and originally recorded by Billy Joe Shaver. [beam]

Thank you Dan

Well done Mike.

i thought the same mr goodwin. why stir all that up?

He is our President.

Rest In Peace Ted. My cousin, my friend, my Marine Corp brother. You are truly missed. I love you cuz. Until we meet again. SEMPER FI AND OORAH MARINE!!!

To my beloved brother Ted, I miss you terribly. My heart is broken. May you rest in peace. No more pain and suffering! We will see each other one day. I love you 4-Ever.... sis Pat...

Jon -- "Hispanic" isn't a race, so this isn't a racial issue. In this case it's merely part of a description, small but possibly useful. As for what a Hispanic accent might be, I'd say it would probably involve Spanish, as the name suggests. Just my opinion, but journalists should report the news as-is, without cleaning it up or spinning it to conform to an opinion or Political Correctness, especially the latter.

Another thing that makes your position ironic and disingenuous is the documented facts the Obama administration interfered in the Israeli Prime Minister election in an effort to elect any candidate not name Netanyahu. Since you like cliches, it's like "the pot calling the kettle black". One of my favorites is "get off your high horse".

Lisa chambard buesing

So sorry for your loss may she rest in peace

I watched Mueller about a month or two on TV giving his summation of the report. He looked fine. I thought he did fine. Yes, he portrayed himself as the good public servant he was. I wish we had more like him.

OMG! What is wrong with this picture? We have the Victoria County officials policing themselves instead of forming a forensic investigation team as requested. Have we gone from almost comical to almost criminal? I don't think anyone ran to the public with accusations, they ran to the public with facts and concerns and I have to applaud them for that reason. and it's hard to roll up your sleeves and go to work if you have already been told to "stay out of it".

Jon - The description, as reported by Crossroads Today, is "tall, heavy-set individuals with Hispanic accents".

Martin -- "you can't regulate a person's thoughts, nor can you deny him or her rights because of them or arrest him or her for them." -- Of course we can. It's called Hate Crime - right out of Orwell's "1984", wherein hate, purely a thought process, not a physical act, is prosecutable at the Federal level as a separate crime and as an add-on at the state, county and municipal level. And what makes hate illegal? Political Correctness, which at one time was a term reserved for the actions of communist countries. Now it rules our lives here.

“We hunt together, shoot together and drink whiskey together,” Calhoun said.
...hopefully not all three at the same time.

"Body armor and a 100-round clip." Yea that's excessive even to me.
Michael you and I agree on this point, but it's a magazine, not a "clip". :)

"“I didn’t support him in the judge’s office, and I don’t support him in the gun shop,” said White, who added he plans to patronize a Victoria gun shop in the future."

Well that's sort of petty if you ask me. Because of differences while in office you won't do business with him or his partner but you'll take your money out of town to Victoria to spend. Way to support your community Commissioner.

Body armor and a 100-round clip. Why doesn't that require more scrutiny from law enforcement......I mean, if you need a 100- round clip to defend your property, you’re re in a heap of trouble. You better call 9/11 and get multiple reinforcements. Why do you need body armor? Are you afraid a deer might attack you? ...It's time to refresh the NRA talking points.

"Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars."

Read that and understand it.

Gun control only punishes the law abiding individuals, it does nothing to those who do not obey the laws.

So sorry to learn of your Mothers passing. She was a joy to be around. She visited my Mother quite frequently when she moved back to Ashland, Ky. Mother really enjoyed having her. They would laugh and recall things that they had done when they were young. You are in my thoughts and prayers. Sarah Frances (Bloebaum) Ratliff

Uncle Cotton, I know you are at peace now. I pray you left knowing you were loved. Your kids (my cousins) can rest assured they did their best for you. Ride'm cowboy, see you on the other side ❤😥

We are sorry for the loss of Mrs. Sproles. May God comfort you as you put the pieces of your heart into order. I hope they are playing baseball in heaven so she call yell for Patty!

Shirley taught us to hold our head up and fight. Cancer can’t take away love or memories. Thank you for your example,Shirley. Our sympathy to all who mourn her loss.

Ms. Theophil, thanks for covering this story about a camping ordinance. Just a few questions: Why are the Van Deusens homeless? What has prevented them from leading a conventional life (go to school, get a job, etc)? What was Mr. Gwosdz's answer to Dr. Young's question?

Thank you for your kind words, Pat Tally. Nancy K (VCMGA)

“Make America great again“ is a political slogan, nothing else. America is already great but It doesn’t hurt to tinker around the edges to make it even greater.

Praying for the family of Mary Lou Torres, she was a special person I met her in Port Lavaca , She loved her children and grandchildren and great grandchildren and her husband of many years.This is when you all get closer to each other and her life will live on.Penny

A portion of police officers do not need to be police officers.

Rest in Peace, young man. Enjoy your eternity with God

I agree with Angela! Live your dream; you certainly deserve it!

God bless you young man! Please push to become the child specialist you desire to be. You will do great things in this world young man.God is so good!!

To Danny and all of Kerri's family, Glenn and I would like to offer our deepest sympathies. We will keep you in our prayers.
Chick & Glenn Moyer