Letters

A safe and reliable transportation system is vital to the security and prosperity of any society. Our quality of life — our very survival — depends on a reliable network that facilitates our efforts to get ourselves and the things we need from point A to point B. This is especially true for the Rio GrandeValley, which serves as an economic gateway to the rest of North America.

A letter printed Feb. 20 states that conservatives reject the teachings of slavery and the lynching of Mexican-Americans by Texas Rangers. That’s interesting, because I am old enough to have gone to public schools in the 1950s and 1960s and in elementary I don’t remember my teachers of that period covering slavery or Texas Ranger atrocities. Later in the 1960s in High School, we only covered a limited amount on the subject of slavery.

We have been told that we have six months of summer coming our way. Spring weather will be summer weather.

In a recent letter appearing here, Ms. Hilda Garza DeShazo, the Hidalgo County GOP secretary, seems to have fallen victim to the Kool-Aid of the MAGA right. In a second term under Donald Trump, this is much the more likely scenario:

Weslaco has a killing problem.

Yet another ethics scandal has rocked the Supreme Court, raising even more questions about the basic integrity and independence of the institution.¹

911: 9-1-1, state your emergency.

Republicans are running a massive flip-flam operation. They keep a gullible citizenry in a state of frenzied chaos with a fake agenda while they implement the only issue of real importance to them: preventing Congress from addressing America’s massive wealth gap.

To witness bipartisanship at the Texas Capitol, look to the lawmakers who are working to improve open government laws.

For many generations, our ancestors worked at very arduous jobs that paid meager wages, from youth to senior age, under very difficult conditions. They never asked, nor were they ever offered, reparations.