The Monitor

In a little more than a week, Americans have been forced to come to grips with the possibility of losing both major presidential candidates — scarcely more than three months before the election. Republican Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt at a July 13 campaign rally, and eight days later Democrat Joe Biden, the incumbent, ended his reelection campaign in response to mounting concerns about signs of physical, and possible cognitive, deterioration.

Over the years, there has been no shortage of political bashing of the biopharmaceutical industry. At the national level, the Inflation Reduction Act will impose the first-ever federal price controls on certain drugs, with the current administration pushing for even more draconian measures. We even see it here in Texas, where the state legislature last year passed a measure to import price-controlled prescription drugs from Canada.

SAN JUAN — For 25 years, Operation Border Health Preparedness has provided Valley residents much needed free medical services from immunizations for all ages to dental services to vision exams with a mobile lab to make prescription glasses at location.

EDINBURG — Staunch public outcry prompted the city council here to kill a proposal that would have allowed voters to choose whether they wanted to extend term limits for elected officials by an additional four years.

The city of McAllen is proposing to limit the number of cats and dogs that can be housed in a single residence.

Someone in Roma is $1 million richer.

McAllen’s Quinta Mazatlán is prepared to take visitors back in time with this week’s Thursday Night Live.

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.