He's touring the country to rouse military industrial complex workers with the message "If you build it, the government will ...

Over the last 20 months, since May of 2024, SpaceX has been building the second pad at Starbase, Texas. As of the end of the ...

The area surrounding Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket launch site in southern Texas has officially become a city after a vote by residents in the area on May 3. The city, called Starbase, has been slated to ...

Louis Balderas' YouTube channel depends on a small piece of land in South Texas where his cameras watch SpaceX build and launch its Starship rocket. He's leased this property for years – bringing in a ...

Voters in Cameron County, who are mostly SpaceX employees, approved a measure to officially recognize Starbase as its own town while electing a mayor and city council. Now, officials have approved ...

The SpaceX company town of Starbase is moving quickly to appoint staff and establish laws — including a zoning plan that could strip away some property owners’ rights. The newly created city has ...

Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. To start with a brief programming note, I'll be off the rest of this week and early next week for some YIMBY-adjacent travel. That means ...

Starbase was incorporated in May 2025 and is the base of a rocket program that aims to reach Mars. SpaceX employees run the city, which has itself sparked controversy among some locals. Elon Musk hasn ...

Starbase is a city without a police department, but not without police. For months, Cameron County sheriff’s deputies have patrolled the roads and beaches surrounding SpaceX’s sprawling rocket ...

Just a month after residents in Starbase, Texas, voted to incorporate Elon Musk’s vision of a new city built from the ground up, some are being told they may become victims of eminent domain.

Louis Balderas’ YouTube channel depends on a small piece of land in South Texas where his cameras watch SpaceX build and launch its Starship rocket. He’s leased this property for years – bringing in a ...