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Hands Off Boca Chica Beach | Texas News
A bizarre proposal to rename Boca Chica Beach to “Cyber Beach” sparked a legislative push to protect local naming rights—after a Mississippi lawmaker tied the beach to SpaceX, triggering outrage from Texas Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, who slammed the outside interference and pushed for a bill requiring local congressional input before any name changes. Though the renaming effort was rejected by the Domestic Names Committee (which previously renamed the Gulf of Mexico), the bill, called the Hands off Our Boca Chica Beach Act, is moving forward to ensure historic place names aren’t changed without…
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