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Elon Musk Secures City Status for Starbase
Mint Kolkata
|May 05, 2025
Voters in South Texas delivered Elon Musk a decisive victory, overwhelmingly approving a ballot measure to establish Starbase, Texas, as its own city.
By a margin of 173 to 4, residents of the far-flung community surrounding SpaceX's rocket-launch site and headquarters voted resoundingly in favor of the incorporation effort, according to preliminary results posted on the county election website from the early voting period. Final totals were not immediately available. Voters also approved the city's first elected officials, all three of whom are cur
This story is from the May 05, 2025 edition of Mint Kolkata.
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