Coming this week

By LAHightower in Community Conversation

Hello, readers. We had another good Editorial Board meeting this Wednesday, including an enlightening discussion with Victoria Police Chief JJ Craig and Sgt. Eline Moya. We have our editorials planned for the week. Take a look at what's coming up. ...

How much do 2 words matter to the illegal immigration debate?

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

The so-called vocabulary wars struck newspapers this week with the announcement by the Associated Press that it would no longer use the term "illegal immigrant." This ruling reaches across the country and beyond because the AP Stylebook is considered the ...

Let's talk beauty, girlfriend

By jpreyss in Beyond Beauty

One of the things I love about being a woman is that it’s normal, even expected, that I sample as many beauty products as possible. And beauty products, for me, are anything that make me feel pretty, or womanly. This ...

Track Photography

By amitchell2 in Advocate Photo Blog

Shooting track is always fun for me, but it is a challenge to keep my work fresh and exciting while trying not to take all the same shots I shot last time. Now, i've certainly taken this type of shot ...

Boo!

By SonnyLong in The Write Stuff

The "haunted" Yorktown Memorial Hospital continues to attract those interested in the paranormal and those with television cameras. The season finale of the SyFy show "Stranded" tonight at 9 p.m. features the hospital. I've been in the hospital myself and ...

Tell us what you think

By LAHightower in Community Conversation

Welcome to another Wednesday, lovely readers. This week, we will be joined by Victoria Police Chief J.J. Craig. As always, we will meet at 1:30 p.m. and encourage our readers to join us. Feel free to stop by or log ...

The Harlem Shake, or best of the past week

By ThomasRMartinez in Easy writer

I've always wanted to be light on my feet, to be more Fred Astaire than this guy. Unfortunately, it never worked out that way. I'm a klutz. I embrace that. It's a good thing not everyone in the newsroom is ...

STAAR is upon us

By CarolinaAstrain in Other Words

It's here. Possibly one of the most dreaded times of the year in public education has arrived. But this time, students need not worry "too much" this year because STAAR exam results will not affect 15 percent of student's final ...

Are you ready to debate?

By LAHightower in Community Conversation

Hello, Advocate readers. The Victoria City Council election is coming up on May 11 and we have debates scheduled with the candidates. First up will be the debate for the mayoral election. Beginning at 11 a.m., incumbent Will Armstrong, Paul ...

Thank you

By catyhirst in Yakety Yak

I walked into the Victoria County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday about 4 p.m. to get the arrest reports for the blotter, just another daily and somewhat monotonous routine for me. But that day I wandered into something quite unexpected. Deputies ...