The Brownsville Herald

Letters to the editor published in The Monitor, Valley Morning Star and The Brownsville Herald during the week of July 22-27, 2024.

President Joe Biden on Sunday dropped out of the election, one week after his opponent — former President Donald Trump — survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House on Sunday, ending his bid for reelection after a disastrous debate with Donald Trump that raised doubts about the incumbent's fitness for office. The unprecedented announcement, delivered less than four months before the election, immediately upended a campaign that both political parties view as the most consequential in generations.

Black-tailed jackrabbits can leap 20 feet in one bound, run at speeds up to 40 miles per hour, turn on a dime and lead a predator on a vexing, zigzag chase.

Texas gardeners usually sing the same tune this time of year — the heat is oppressive, and moisture is in short supply. Some East Texas and Gulf Coast gardens received rain from tropical storms, but many Texans are humming through the second verse with continued high temperatures and a lack of moisture.

Billionaire founder and CEO of SpaceX Elon Musk is so mad at the governor of California that he's moving the company's headquarters from Hawthorne, a suburb of Los Angeles, to SpaceX's Starbase compound at Boca Chica.

Texas once sought to be a leader in the fight against lawsuit abuse and nuisance legal attacks. Today, state officials are perhaps the worst at misusing our legal system — and taxpayers' money — to score political points.

A global technology outage directly affected Rio Grande Valley air travel Friday morning, delaying flights at all three airports.

Anyone with gallstones can tell you that it's an excruciating pain which sometimes only surgery to remove the gallbladder will bring relief. But what if you're already suffering from another condition that prevents you from having surgery?

Federal authorities are suing Southwest Key, an organization long steeped in controversy in the Rio Grande Valley and across the country that houses migrant children.