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Denton Record-Chronicle
Sunday, November 22, 2015
Ingleside weathers naval base closure
and hundreds of single-family
homes began to mushroom
around town.
They had to. More than
3,000 military personnel and ci-
vilians worked at the base in its
heyday.
“We had people from all over
the world, speaking different
languages,” said Troy Mircovich,
superintendent of Ingleside’s
school district. ‘We were grow-
ing and becoming a more di-
verse community, and it was
awesome to see.”
That changed in 2005, when
the Federal Base Realignment
and Closure Commission, or
BRAC, voted to close it.
Doing so would save the fed-
eral government nearly $60
million a year, and relieve dupli-
cation of tasks already being
performed at other bases, ac-
cording to the 2005 Defense
Base Closure and Realignment
Report. Mine hunter ships were
already being decommissioned
at the time.
Military families began leav-
ing soon after. Mircovich re-
members the images of moving
trucks chugging around town,
with familiar faces inside them.
pretty tough on everyone.”
The last ship left the Ingle-
side station in April 2010, and
the Port of Corpus Christi took
over the property.
Port officials sold its pier to
Flint Hills for $8.5 million. The
rest of the station was sold to Oc-
cidental, an oil and gas explora-
tion and production company
based in Houston, in two pack-
ages for $82.1 million and $7
million.
None of the experts expected
Ingleside to make a comeback.
Not even, Jim Lee, the chief
economist at Texas A&M Uni-
versity-Corpus Christi. He
served on a variety of panels that
studied the effects of the base’s
closure.
“Although we were on the
spot in terms of the adverse im-
pacts on the local communities
through 2010, we were way off
as to what has happened ever
since,” Lee said.
Roughly a dozen industrial
plants are in various stages of
development around the port,
and are slated to begin opera-
tions in less than three years.
Most are slated to be built in San
Patricio County.
Port officials say temporarily
taking control of the base wasn’t
a burden.
They say they were always
confident someone would buy it,
even at a time when Eagle Ford’s
possibilities were still in ques-
tion.
Energy jobs help
Corpus Christi Bay
town beat odds
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By Chris Ramirez
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
INGLESIDE (AP) - Word
about Pam Sliva’s chicken spa-
ghetti has gotten out.
Food orders at the Crazy
Monkey Cafe, the tony sandwich
shop she co-owns in Ingleside,
pile up after 11:45 a.m.
The cheesy delicacy is Thurs-
day’s lunch special. It tends to
draw all kinds of customers
from businessmen, to soccer
and tee-ball moms to blue-collar
energy workers with hard hats
tucked under their arms.
“We can get slammed some
days,” Sliva told the Corpus
Christi Caller-Times. “But it’s
good to be busy.”
The days of businesses like
Sliva’s turning a profit in this
town were supposed to be over
after 2010, the year Naval Sta-
tion Ingleside closed.
Naysayers, including econo-
mists and even local business
leaders, had verbally written the
town’s obituary. There was little
to save this city of 9,600 that
hugs the north side of Corpus
Christi Bay, they said.
But they were wrong.
“We got lucky. This was sup-
posed to be a ghost town,” said
Niki Shugart, president of the
Ingleside Chamber of Com-
merce. “They were all talking
gloom and doom. And it was
easy to believe.”
Key to Ingleside’s survival, so
far, has been finding new ten-
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Alfonso Chavez, left, moves tables together during lunch last month at the Crazy Monkey Cafe
in Ingleside. The days of businesses turning a profit in this town were supposed to be over
after 2010, the year Naval Station Ingleside closed.
ants for the naval station proper-
2008, the year exploration there
began. Last year, 5,613 Eagle
Ford drilling permits were is-
sued, according to the Texas
Railroad Commission, which
regulates in the industry in the
state.
went away:
■ The recession — Texas
survived it better than most
states, but was not completely
unscathed. Unemployment in
the area hovered near 8 percent
in 2008. By 2010, the Corpus
Christi metro area, including In-
gleside, had begun to recover, re-
gaining most of the 2,600jobs it
lost the previous year. ‘A lot of
people didn’t think we’d ever
come back ... after the base
closed,” Shugart said.
■ Eagle Ford was still
new — the massive energy play’s
potential hadn’t yet been fully
realized. Only 26 Eagle Ford
drilling permits were issued in
ty
Ones with deep pockets.
Two energy companies
[•'lint Hills Resources and a sub-
sidiary of Occidental Petroleum
— purchased the former mine-
sweeper base and moved in.
They brought thousands of jobs,
ideas for massive energy plants
and millions of dollars in pay-
rolls with them.
They were the jump-start the
city needed.
To get an appreciation for
how big a bullet Ingleside has
seemingly dodged, consider the
economic climate in the Coastal
Bend at the time of the base
‘It was a sad time for us all,’
he said.
At first, departures came in a
trickle. But the pace of the exo-
dus picked up.
The school district lost 300
The naval station was award-
ed to Ingleside in 1987. The base
became operational in 1992.
Ingleside had been trans-
formed from a small, quiet bay-
side town into a boomtown.
Quickly.
Its population jumped
roughly 50 percent between
1993 and 2000, and hit a high of
10,561 residents in 1999.
Large apartment complexes
students the first school year af-
ter the Ingleside station shut
down. District officials eliminat-
ed 17 teaching positions that
year.
“[The base] was never some-
thing we thought we were stuck
with. We always viewed it as a
tremendous asset,” said John P.
LaRue, the port’s executive di-
rector.
‘As our number [of students]
dropped we didn’t need as many
teachers,” Mircovich said. “It was
Suing feds costs Texas $5 million
McRaven says
U.S. must fight
extremists
Texas has now filed 39 law-
suits against the Obama admin-
istration, the Houston Chroni-
cle reported Saturday. Conserva-
tives defend the legal action as
necessary pushback against
Washington, while critics con-
demn the rising costs as a politi-
cally motivated waste of money.
More than half the lawsuits
have been aimed at the Environ-
mental Protection Agency, in-
cluding one filed in October over
the federal government’s plan to
cut carbon emissions by 30 per-
cent by 2030.
“The fight against EPA is not
just about growing the economy,
protecting private property, or
even saving jobs,” Paxton said at
a speech this week to the conser-
found to have discriminatory ef-
fects. Nearly $1 million has also
been spent defending Republi-
can-drawn voting maps that
have been thrown out by federal
courts.
Texas has won seven of its
lawsuits, while Paxton’s office
says it has lost five. Other cases
remain pending.
“It’s a significant waste of
money and resources that can
easily be spent far better protect-
ing our air and water from pol-
luters,” said Tom Smith, director
of the left-leaning watchdog
group Public Citizen Texas.
“Certainly, it can be used for con-
sumer protection or going after
a variety of corporate criminals
that have defrauded the state.”
vative Texas Public Policy Foun-
dation. “It’s about standing up
for the Constitution and the rule
of law. It’s about taking power
out of the hands of un-elected
bureaucrats and returning it to
the people.”
The costs have mounted in
recent years. In 2012, a year be-
fore Abbott launched his run for
governor, The Associated Press
reported that the Texas attorney
general’s office had by then spent
nearly $2.6 million and 14,000
staff hours toward two dozen
lawsuits at the time.
Voting rights lawsuits have
run up some of the highest tabs.
Texas has spent $1.6 million de-
fending its voter ID law, which a
federal appeals court in August
39 lawsuits filed
against Obama
administration
AUSTIN — Texas has spent
more than $5 million suing the
federal government under Pres-
ident Barack Obama as new
challenges over same-sex mar-
riage and environmental regula-
tions add to the taxpayer tab.
Republican Attorney Gener-
al Ken Paxton has filed six new
lawsuits since taking office in
January, maintaining the defi-
ance of the federal government
that Gov. Greg Abbott began
when he was the state’s top pros-
ecutor.
AUSTIN (AP) - The for-
mer Navy admiral credited
with coordinating the opera-
tion that led to the death of
Osama bin Laden says the
U.S. and its allies should pri-
oritize fighting Islamic ex-
tremists, or else the American
people “should not be sur-
prised when the barbarians
are at our gate.”
The remarks by William
McRaven, now chancellor of
the University of Texas Sys-
tem, were some of his stron-
gest on national security since
leaving the military for acade-
mia in January. The former
commander of U.S. Special
Operations Command said
sophisticated military equip-
ment, a network of intelli-
gence and continuous action
with ‘boots on the ground”
will help defeat the Islamic
State group.
“They have invited young
men and some women in so
that they can act out their
greatest perversion. It’s not
about an ideology. It’s not about
the caliphate,” McRaven said at
a national security conference
in Austin, the Austin Ameri-
can-Statesman reported.
“I believe that they bring
people in because they realize
they can kill, they can rape
with impunity, they can tor-
ture, they can do these barbar-
ic things in the name of Islam.”
His stance was not well-re-
ceived by all in the audience.
Before McRaven took the
stage, a group of students rose
from a table, calling him a
mass murderer who perpetu-
ated Islamophobia during his
military career.
Another audience member
questioned whether McRaven
should be publicly supporting
war given that he is now the
leader of a public university
system. McRaven responded
that he could exercise his right
to free speech even as a chan-
cellor, which garnered loud
applause from the audience.
McRaven recently an-
nounced plans to establish the
UT Network for National Se-
curity, an alliance across the
system’s 14 campuses that
would knit together experts in
a range of security issues.
INDICTMENTS
■ Jennifer Wooley, interference with
child custody, Carrollton police
■ Brandi Jones, possession of a
controlled substance with intent to
deliver, Carrollton police
■ Felicia Martinez, possession of a
controlled substance, Carrollton
police
■ Marco Montes, possession of a
controlled substance, Carrollton
police; possession of a controlled
substance, Lewisville police
■ Michael Nisbet, possession of a
controlled substance, Carrollton
police
■ Nicholas Rogers, possession of a
controlled substance, Carrollton police
■ Ryan Davis, assault against a public
servant, Denton County Sheriff's
Office
■ Decolven Jones, assault against a
public servant, Denton County Sher-
iff's Office
■ Joshua Poche, aggravated assault,
Denton County Sheriff's Office
■ Brandi Lopez, endangering a child,
Lewisville police
■ Michael Bates, endangering a child,
Lewisville police
■ Jaylin Womack, aggravated rob-
bery, Lewisville police
■ Arturo Bonifacio-Leon, possession
of a controlled substance, Lewisville
police
■ Jeremy Daniel, possession of a
controlled substance, evading arrest,
Lewisville police
■ Royce Hutchins Jr., two counts of
possession of a controlled substance,
Lewisville police
■ Kevin Jackson, possession of a
controlled substance, Lewisville police
■ Brian Talton, possession of a
controlled substance with intent to
deliver, Lewisville police
■ Joshua Whitmore, theft of firearm,
Roanoke police
■ Briana Richardson, abandoning a
child, Dallas police
■ Stacey Helm, possession of a
controlled substance, Northlake
police
■ Robert Helm, possession of a
controlled substance, Northlake
police
■ Charles Tuttle, possession of a
controlled substance, Texas Depart-
ment of Public Safety
The following were indicted by a
Denton County grand jury Thursday
at the Denton County Courts Building.
Listed are those indicted, the charges
and the agency that made the arrest:
■ Ryan Bradley, assault family vio-
lence, Carrollton police
H Darrell Brooks, assault family
violence, Dallas police
■ Quentin McFail, assault family
violence, Denton police
■ Jerry Bridwell, assault family
violence, Denton County Sheriff's
Office
■ Samuel Mitchell, aggravated
assault, Flower Mound police
■ Leonel Serrato Jr., assault family
violence, Hickory Creek police
■ Juan Arriaga, assault family vio-
lence, Lake Dallas police
■ Tyler Green, assault family vio-
lence, Lewisville police
■ Jeffrey Jackson, assault family
violence, Roanoke police
■ Aaron Gross, assault family vio-
lence, The Colony police
■ Douglas Allen, stalking, Denton
police
■ Lavaughn Baker, continuous vio-
lence against family, Frisco police
■ Stephen Turnbow, continuous
violence against family, Frisco police
■ Vasily Tamayo, aggravated assault,
Lewisville police
■ Jamaal Yarbrough, aggravated
assault, Roanoke police
■ Lane Guitzkow, stalking, The
Colony police
■ Amanda Baker, assault against
public servant, Flower Mound police
■ Tanya Hubbard, aggravated as-
sault, Denton police
■ April Kean, assault against a public
servant, Denton police
■ Emma Rodgers, assault against a
public servant, Denton police
■ Ronald Thompson, deadly conduct,
Denton police
■ Catherine Dealejandro, possession
of a controlled substance, Denton
police
■ Melvin Williams, possession of a
controlled substance, Denton police
■ Alexander Simon, improper rela-
tionship between an educator and
student, Carrollton police
■ Alejandro Cabrera, retaliation,
Carrollton police
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