Editorial: Mexico isn’t only culprit for lack of sufficient water, damage to Valley economy
After more than a half century as one of the Rio Grande Valley’s biggest cash crops, injecting up to $100 million into the region’s economy every year, the South Texas sugar industry has come to a bitter end — unless creative growers opt for alternative sweetening sources such as sugar beets or even stevia.
Editorial: Cornyn could bring reasonable thinking back to border issues among US Senate Republicans
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn has announced his desire to replace the retiring Mitch McConnell as Senate majority leader. We hope his efforts — and tenure as the Senate’s top Republican member — are successful.
Editorial: Schools increasingly finding they are having to address smaller enrollment, budgets
Public school districts across the country are dealing with revenue shortfalls, and the Rio Grande Valley is no different. McAllen is looking to end cooperative agreements with the city of McAllen and other entities, and cancel planned construction of theaters at McAllen, Memorial and Rowe high schools.
Editorial: McAllen ISD could lose more than mere opportunity by leaving city projects
When you’re in trouble it’s best to ask for help. McAllen public school board members should do just that, and not be so hasty to bail out of promising cooperative agreements with the city of McAllen and other entities.
Editorial: Recent phone system outage shows reliance, vulnerability of communications systems
It was a bit unnerving that last week’s phone system outage occurred just days after we learned that Russia plans to deploy armed missiles — some perhaps with nuclear warheads — into space, and as well as a weapon system that could send out energy waves that could take out other satellites.
Editorial: We hope Biden’s visit to Valley proves to be more than just another...
President Joe Biden is coming to the Rio Grande Valley on Thursday. It must be campaign season.
Editorial: School counseling efforts should look for more ways to include parents, families
The Region One Education Service Center recently announced that several border school districts have received two grants totaling to support counseling and mental health programs for students. We hope the recipients can use the funding to support holistic programs that include parents as a vital part of supporting students as well as identifying and addressing any potential problems.
Editorial: Dependence on federal grants is now creating problems for companies’ patent claims
Who owns the products of publicly funded research — the companies that created the products, or the people, through the government, who made the research possible?
Editorial: Despite ERCOT problems, connecting state to national power grid not a good idea
The deadly February 2021 statewide freeze exposed great inadequacies and mismanagement in Texas’ energy network. Since then little progress is evident in addressing the primary problems. Now a bill in Congress would force Texas, which has the only single-state energy program on the U.S. mainland, to connect to the nationwide power grid.
Commentary: AI is not all it’s cracked up to be — at least not...
Samsung released its new Galaxy S24 phone this month. The big buzz is centered around how Galaxy users discover the world around them by incorporating AI (artificial intelligence) into photo manipulation, product searches for e-commerce, and much more. This is just one example of people getting excited over AI, but the truth is it’s hard to go anywhere these days without hearing someone talk about it.