Early hurricane season forecast may be elevated but RGV could be passed by again
Sea surface temperatures well above average in the Atlantic Basin and the approaching return of La Nina are fueling early talk of a busy Atlantic hurricane season this year.
Commentary: MAGA effect deals fatal blow to bipartisan border legislation
The Senate worked for months on a bipartisan bill on the border that Republicans had been calling for ever since President Joe Biden took office. The bill would dramatically change immigration law for the first time in decades. It was endorsed by the Border Patrol Union. If anyone knows if the proposed bill was good for them and for helping on the border crisis it’s U.S. Border Patrol agents.
Over 7,000 ballots cast on first day of early voting in Hidalgo, Cameron counties
Both Hidalgo and Cameron counties saw an increase in first day early voting numbers compared to the 2022 primary early voting turnout with a surge in the former’s mail-in ballots and the latter’s Cameron County Republican showing.
VA opening drive-thru food pantry at no cost to Valley veterans
HARLINGEN — The VA's healthcare clinic is holding free a drive-thru pantry offering veterans healthy food.
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: Public should pay for student loans, biased education
It is unforgivable that any adult would suggest to any student that there might be a possibility to escape accountability for a loan. Actual experience has more value than all the lofty words taught from our dictionaries. If degree has a value less than the recipient is willing to repay, it certainly is less than what a taxpayer might be forced to repay.
UTRGV mobile lab hopes to take agriculture education across RGV
EDINBURG — After planting the seeds of this project over two years ago, UTRGV’s Hub of Prosperity, a 5-acre research and education farm, is now cultivating their effort in a new mobile learning lab that takes their sustainable agriculture teachings all across the Rio Grande Valley.
San Benito cooking hot elections as Cruz-Vela faces ex-superintendent
SAN BENITO — On San Benito’s fiery political stage, the May 4 election’s shaping up like a scorcher, with Theresa Servellon, the school district’s past superintendent, challenging Ariel Cruz-Vela, a leader in the board of trustees’ new majority, for her seat on the school board.
Like the southern coast: Muelle 37’s Mexican seafood
HARLINGEN — Fish swim along the walls and the music fills my ears as the waiter shows me to a table.
