Let's have a chat

By LAHightower in Community Conversation

Hello, again, Advocate readers. Tomorrow is another Wednesday, which means it's time to prepare for another editorial board meeting. This week, we will be joined by Jeb Lacey, emergency management coordinator for Victoria County. He will discuss Victoria's disaster preparedness ...

Warrior's Weekend Reflections

By katduncan in Advocate Photo Blog

I believe Warrior's Weekend is one of the greatest things this community does. I have lived in multiple states, worked for multiple papers, and have never covered anything like it before I came to Victoria. The amount of love, support ...

More Hispanic students, means more federal funding opportunities at UHV

By CarolinaAstrain in Other Words

Last week, UHV announced they have now joined about 56 other Texas schools among the ranks of Hispanic Serving-Institutions. Nationally, according to a 2010-2011 report, California had at least 98 schools recognized as Hispanic-serving. Indiana and Oregon each have one. ...

What's on your mind?

By LAHightower in Community Conversation

Welcome to another Wednesday, lovely readers. We've had an exciting week in the news and we're ready to form some opinions for the coming week. As always, we will meet at 1:30 p.m. in the Internet cafe area and encourage ...

Play Atari Breakout on Google's Image Search

By cjcastillo in Digital Babble

In case you haven't seen this yet, in honor of the 35th anniversary of Atari's Breakout game, Google created a neat Easter egg which allows you to play Breakout on Google's Image search. How to play: -Go to Google Image ...

How much do you value the public's right to know?

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

Our democracy rests on an intricate set of checks and balances, brilliantly envisioned by our forefathers. Yet, our lawmakers too often want to chip away at democracy's cornerstone -- the public's right to know. Some of the offending legislation is ...

More than a Mother's Day

By katduncan in Advocate Photo Blog

Today I photographed a family at their mother's day gathering. It was the first mother's day the mom had spent with her son after she adopted him. She took him in after his mother (her sister) died, but this year ...

Annoying Friends

By askalice in Ask Alice

Dear Alice: I have one friend who is super nosy any annoying. He follows me around constantly and asks super awkward and dumb questions all the time! I wish he would shut up! The other day he dug into my ...

Why Emmitt Came

By SonnyLong in Helping Hands

How awesome was it that someone the caliber of Emmitt Smith came to Victoria to speak. Not only did he deliver an inspirational message for a large crowd at Faith Family Church, he met with smaller groups of young people ...

What happens if you raise a smart aleck?

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

Drawing by Julie Zavala When I saw a segment on the morning news about a giant African land snail invading Houston, I immediately thought of our son. A Sam Houston State University researcher warned against picking up this invasive species ...