Elon Musk wants to create his own city. Here’s how that could work By Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times
Published: April 11, 2021, 6:02am
Share: FILE - In this March 9, 2020, file photo, Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington. Musk has tweeted his way into trouble with another federal agency, this time the National Labor Relations Board. The board on Thursday, March 25, 2021 found that a Musk tweet in May of 2018 unlawfully threatened employees with loss of stock options if they decided to be represented by a union. Board members ordered Tesla to make Musk delete the tweet and stop threatening employees with loss of benefits for supporting a labor organization. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Starbase, Texas: Can Elon Musk really create his own city near SpaceX’s Gulf Coast launchpad?
The SpaceX CEO is hardly the first entrepreneur to think about forming a city.
The sky begins to light up before sunrise over a prototype of the SpaceX Starship at the SpaceX launch facility in Boca Chica.(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)
By Tribune News Service
The secluded Texas beachside community of Boca Chica Village was once a haven for retirees, snowbirds and outdoorsy people who enjoyed dirt biking, fishing or lounging near the water.
Today, traffic backs up the lone highway out of the unincorporated area that’s now home to only about half a dozen residents and SpaceX’s Starship facility. During the day, selfie-seeking tourists line the road for photos with the stainless steel spaceship under development. At night, excavators plow the earth at the busy construction site. Before test launches, residents receive a notice suggesting they temporarily evacuate for safety.
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Migrants are seeking to cross from Central America into the US in larger numbers, authorities say.
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Is America facing a new border crisis ?
Over the past few weeks, major American news outlets have described the thousands of families travelling towards the country’s southwest as a “new border crisis”.
The New York Times said the influx “poses the first major test of Mr Biden’s pledge to adopt a more compassionate policy along America’s border with Mexico”, noting the large number of migrants - combined with the pandemic - could see a major backlash to the President in his early days.