Coastal Bend Current

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The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.

• As first reported by Chisme Collective, data from Corpus Christi Water shows that large-volume industrial users account for over 60% of all water use Corpus Christi, confirming that companies like Exxon, OXY and Valero are driving the region’s water crisis while simultaneously pushing City leaders to advance the controversial Inner Harbor desalination plant that would dramatically increase residential water bills. At a recent City Council meeting, For The Greater Good leader Dr. Isabel Araiza no

  24 May 2026 · Coastal Bend Current · $1.5–2K · 125K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• Texas Governor Greg Abbott has threatened to “take over and run” Corpus Christi unless the City Council votes to build the Inner Harbor desalination plant. But even though residents would pay for the plant, it’s only needed to supply water to the governor’s big corporate donors, like Exxon. The City Council is scheduled to vote on the $1 billion project on Tuesday, June 2. We call on the "Fab Five" council members who voted against the project last September to STAND YOUR GROUND and VOTE NO AGAI

  26 May 2026 · Coastal Bend Current · $1–1.5K · 60K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• One of Corpus Christi’s most storied neighborhoods, Hillcrest, is home to generations of Black families who built a community in the face of segregation. For decades, the City has repaid that legacy by surrounding Hillcrest with highways and allowing refineries to operate next door. Now it wants to build a billion-dollar industrial desalination plant in the neighborhood, inside the same buffer zone it once promised would protect Hillcrest from more industrial encroachment. Neighbors are organizi

  19 May 2026 · Coastal Bend Current · $900 – $999 · 70K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• Carolyn Vaughn caught Peter Zanoni's staff directly contradicting marine scientists and the city's own far-field modeler in statements to the media.

  26 June 2026 · Coastal Bend Current · $800 – $899 · 50K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• Nearly a decade of controversy comes to head on Tuesday at 11:30AM at Corpus Christi City Hall. At stake is whether the City Council will force residents to subsidize a $1 billion desalination plant to deliver water to a handful of wealthy corporations. After the $1 billion already spent on other water projects to respond to our region’s immediate crisis, approving the industrial Inner Harbor plant would push the increase in residential water bills up to 115% or more, and present serious ecologi

  30 May 2026 · Coastal Bend Current · $800 – $899 · 60K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• Against the backdrop of Corpus Christi’s recent investments of over $1 billion in new water supply projects, Fitch Ratings, Moody’s and S&P Global Ratings have downgraded the credit rating of the City’s water and utility bonds. When the City’s credit weakens, borrowing costs go up, with the tab passed on to residents through higher bills and taxes. With the Inner Harbor desalination plant projected to cost an additional $979 million – a figure City Council Member Gil Hernandez recently noted wou

  15 May 2026 · Coastal Bend Current · $600 – $699 · 25K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library