Island Matters
100% Facts-only Online Newspaper. Our goal is to have the most well-informed community on the Island. Keeping the public well informed one story at a time!
Jan 9 2021
Chaos: What's Going On?Substandard Structure Review Board Meeting, December 18, 2020
Jan 9 2021
City Council and Senator Eddie Lucio Jr. Welcome Lydia Caballero
Dec 8 2020
Food Trucks: SPI Violates Texas ConstitutionFor Immediate Release
Nov 4 2020
(Photo by Erica Lerma de Macaulay. Pictured is a flipped single pole umbrella with Mrs. Lerma de Macaulay?s two children.) 3/11/2020 What?s happenin...
Oct 6 2020
A memorandum opinion issued on the Larry Mark Polsky?s case to build a sexually oriented business (SOB) north of Beach Access No. 6 on the Island has ...
Aug 27 2020
House Bill 2439 Trades Sticks for Carrots.Part 4 of a 4-part series
Aug 18 2020
Development Standards Task Review Faces Back Lash Over Denying Motions and Requesting Further Guidance from the City Amid HB 2439
Aug 6 2020
House Bill 2439 to Supersede City?s Form-Based CodesPart 3 of a 4-part series
Jul 15 2020
?You're Not Going to Let Them Do That to Your City Are You??(5 ½ min read)
Jul 14 2020
Dear Editor, It seems that based on my ad agency colleague, Don Breeden's letter to the editor, I believe that CVB budget numbers have begun to ...
Jul 13 2020
Dear Editor,After coordinating the advertising for the Brownsville Convention and Visitor?s Bureau for the last 15 years, I will jump in on this. Ste...
Island Matters - Letter to the Editor
Jul 7 2020
Dear Editor,Totally in agreement with CVB leadership! Every beach community and visitor destination is going after the same markets that South Padre...
Jun 23 2020
(Photo above from before form-based code shared in a presentation given by Councilwoman Alita Bagley in a City Council Workshop on January 22, 2015) ...
May 21 2020
Fireworks > Humans 21/5/2020 What happened: During a Special Events Committee meeting Monday, May 11, 2020, a...
May 9 2020
SPI's TV Station Coming to the Island 9/5/2020 Douglas Best, founder of the Partnership Institute and Iron Knee Video Entertainment, has made his wa...
May 8 2020
Concerns About Island Visitors Doesn?t Match SPI Reality. 8/5/2020 Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño gave the current UPDATE on the COVID-19 virus...
May 1 2020
Are We Ready to Reopen? 1/5/2020 Executive orders are in place to reopen Texas starting May 1, 2020. These orders begin phase 1 of r...Apr 27 2020
EDC Postpones Assistance to Businesses Affected by COVID-19 27/4/2020 What happened:[NOTE: We held this article to wait for clarifications by Ken Me...Apr 23 2020
UPDATE: COVID-19 Testing 23/4/2020A poorly written paragraph in yesterday?s Island Matters left the impression that there was a 10-minute break...
Apr 22 2020
City Council Emergency Meeting 22/4/2020 What happened:City council passed a motion this morning to: Extend the City's declaratio...
Apr 21 2020
City Council Cuts $2 Million, Upgrades Fire Hydrants, and Urges Citizens to Complete 2020 Census 21/4/2020 What happened:The City Counc...
Apr 20 2020
$2,074,000 Budget Cuts Required to Offset Loss of Sales and HOT Tax Collections 20/4/2020 The SPI City Council met for their mid-year bud...
Apr 17 2020
"A Vision for South Padre Island's Micro Hospital" 17/4/2020 Dr. Joe Ybarra and Mr. Sam Wilkinson shared their vision for a new, 100% pr...
Apr 15 2020
City Council Emergency Meeting 15/4/2020 What happened: An emergency City Council Meeting was planned and posted at 11:15 a.m. April...
Apr 10 2020
Can we Handle a Hurricane on Top of a Virus in 2020? "Knowledge is the antidote to fear." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
