Island Matters
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Jul 23 2021
Should we Rake the Decomposing Seaweed?by Kristina Boburka, Shoreline DirectorJul 16 2021
City Council: 2nd Causeway Environment Assessment Starting Over
Island Matters Membership Newsletter
Jul 7 2021
City Council The City council is to resume its Budget Workshop at 4 PM TODAY, followed by the Substandard Structure review board meeting at 5 PM befor...
Jul 2 2021
Wave or Trend? by Tom Goodman, CVAB Vice Chair,Marketing Partner / Designated Broker, Padre Island Rentals
Jun 30 2021
Island Matters Updateby George Block, President and Editor
Jun 22 2021
The Islander: Featuring Former Mayor and Councilman Dennis Stahl
May 11 2021
Island Matters to Host Presentation by Founder and Editor of the San Antonio Report Robert Rivard
May 4 2021
Lack of Enforcement Calls for Ordinance 21-07 to Ban the Renting of Escooters
Apr 23 2021
Cameron County to Host a Vaccination Clinic at Beach Park at Isla Blanca
Apr 15 2021
Cameron County to Host First-Dose Moderna Vaccinations and Allocate Second-Dose Vaccines
Apr 2 2021
Cameron County Temporarily Closes Boca Chica Beach and Beach Access Areas
Mar 23 2021
Food Truck Lawsuit:The Institute of Justice Asks Texas Supreme Court to Intervene
Mar 9 2021
Artist Sarah Truman Brings Unique Island Culture to Art Through Henna
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??Part 2 of 4-part series
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
A Short History of SPI?s Form-based CodesPart 1 of a 4-part series
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
