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Comments critiqued O K Mr. Rodriguez, here are the answers you requested in your letter of Aug 6 . There is no evidence that New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is an antisemite. He may not agree with the war, nor Zionist Israel, nor Benjamin Netanyahu — neither do I — but that does no...
Voter mentality has varied through time. From choosing a leader after becoming independent from England, through a colonial war. Electing a president to unite the states into one nation where a Civil War emerged and thousands died. Freedom from slavery began to move forward when ...
MUNICH (AP) — The NHL is hoping to award an expansion franchise to Texas as soon as the end of this year, deputy commissioner Bill Daly told The Athletic this week. In an interview at the NHL’s European media tour in Munich on Friday, Daly told the publication that he’s expecting...
B ROWNSVILLE — Federal officials joined local leaders Thursday to announce Brownsville as one of four cities chosen to develop and pilot programs aimed at improving children’s health. Mayor John Cowen Jr. led a lineup of speakers who gathered at The Mitte to announce that Brownsv...
C OMBES — There was so little here in the early years that it felt like nothing. So, Olga Montes set about the task of bringing something to the small town of Combes. And in the 27 years she served on the Combes City Commission she has done precisely that. “We have gone from very...
BERLIN (AP) — Bayern Munich has been aware of Jamal Musiala’s neurological issue for at least a year, board member for sport Max Eberl said Friday. Musiala collapsed during successive games over the past week, causing alarm for teammates, opponents and spectators. Eberl and Bayer...
Dr. M. Ray Perryman is president and chief executive officer of The Perryman Group. He writes for our Board of Contributors. O ne of the most important economic sectors to long-term growth is manufacturing, which is the process of making stuff. Manufacturing is what economists ca...
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Miyu Yamashita shot an 8-under 62 on Thursday for a one-stroke lead over fellow Japanese player Nasa Hataoka in the CPKC Women’s Open, with two Canadian teenagers on the leaderboard in the national championship. American Kiara Romero was third at 64 in he...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Employees of the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District will receive a pay raise for the upcoming school year. The pay raise is part of the district's compensation plan, which was approved on Monday by the PSJA ISD Board of Trustees. T...
City Manager Gabriel Gonzalez, Mayor Norma Sepulveda and Commissioner Michael Mezmar are seen during a regular meeting Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, in Harlingen. (Courtesy photo) H ARLINGEN — The city is extending its moratorium on data center projects as an engineering firm studies ...
The Edinburg CISD administration building is seen in this undated photo. (Courtesy Photo) T he Edinburg CISD school board is facing a hard truth. During a budget workshop, Interim Superintendent and Chief of Finance and Operations Adele Felix said the district is in a financial c...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Donna Independent School District has partnered with South Texas College and the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement to launch a new dual credit program for seniors. The Basic County Corrections Academy will provide up to 20 students from Do...
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission’s annual public hearing kicked off Wednesday with an unusually festive scene outside the agency’s Austin offices: a tailgate party where hundreds of people from around the state cooked out, shared cold drinks and talked about the reason the...
STAFF REPORT Check out the first RGVSports.com Top 10 volleyball rankings of the season as voted on by our staff. The post RGVSports.com Volleyball Top 10 Rankings (08/20/26) appeared first on MyRGV.com ....
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The city of Starbase plans to approve a 46% property tax hike in September. Mayor Robert “Bobby” Peden and the City Commission discussed the tax hike during a meeting on Wednesday night. “My opinion is that we should move forward with this,” Pede...
San Benito Mayor Pedro “Pete” Galvan S AN BENITO — Mayor Pete Galvan’s calling on the new city commission to work through “growing pains” a day after a closed-session meeting in which the board was set to discuss City Charter issues including “forfeiture of office.” After a two-h...
T he city of Brownsville’s budget for the upcoming year is getting a bump thanks to a steady tax rate and expanding property values. Commissioners voted unanimously to advance the 2026-2027 Fiscal Year budget during their Tuesday night meeting, approving a first reading with addi...
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — For the second Brownsville City Commission meeting in a row, the chamber was packed with residents voicing their opposition to data centers in the city. More than two dozen people signed up to speak at Tuesday's meeting. Before the public comm...
T he Mission City Council voted 3-2 to initiate the search for a city manager. Mayor Norie Gonzalez Garza and councilwomen Marissa Ortega Gerlach and Jessica Ortega voted for the search, while Mayor Pro Tem Ruben Plata and councilman Jose Alberto Vela voted against. The council p...
Joseph Villarreal T he Los Fresnos Consolidated Independent School District on Monday approved an employment contract naming Joseph Villarreal as the district’s new superintendent of schools. The action came at a special called LFCISD Board of Trustees meeting. It followed the bo...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The WNBA All-Star Game is coming to the Bay Area next summer. League Commissioner Cathy Engelbert made the announcement Tuesday that the WNBA showcase game will be held July 31, 2027, at Chase Center after a weekend of All-Star activities around the San Franc...
Texas leads all team s with four players named to the preseason Associated Press All-America team announced Tuesday and the Southeastern Conference has 14 of the 27 first-team selections on the eve of the college football season. The Big Ten has eight players on the first team, l...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Buss family has voted to sell its 17.8% minority ownership of the Los Angeles Lakers to new majority owners Josh Kushner and Bob Iger, ESPN and The Athletic are reporting. The decision Monday by the six children of late owner Jerry Buss will end the family'...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A judge set bail at $50,000 for a man accused of stabbing his friend multiple times. Heriberto Cazares, 33, attended a bail hearing at the Palmview Municipal Court where he was formally charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, accor...
All construction activity at Big Bend National Park has been paused, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott announced Monday.
Major League Baseball's team owners unanimously have approved the sale of the San Diego Padres to an investor group led by private equity billionaire José E. Feliciano and his wife and business partner, Kwanza Jones. The league announced the approval Monday after a vote. Felician...
C ameron County commissioners approved a 5% salary increase for elected officials, matching across-the-board pay increases for county employees, during their regular meeting last week. The raises are part of the county’s five-year plan to bring its wages closer to those of simila...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Los Fresnos Consolidated Independent School District announced it has officially approved the employment contract of Dr. Joseph Villarreal as Superintendent of Schools. According to a news release from Los Fresnos CISD, the Board of Trustees...
EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Vikings safety/linebacker Jamal Adams was placed on injured reserve Monday, two days after leaving a preseason game on a cart with a right knee injury. Adams, a three-time Pro Bowl selection, is expected to have season-ending surgery. The 30-year-old...
Ohio State and Oregon were 1-2 in The Associated Press Top 25 released Monday, giving the Big Ten Conference the top two teams in the preseason rankings for the first time in 65 years and just the second time ever. The Buckeyes received 40 first-place votes and Oregon received 14...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The City of Edinburg held its sixth annual triathlon, where approximately 500 competitors participated. The event kicked off Sunday morning at the Edinburg Municipal Park, located at 714 S Raul Longoria Rd. Competitors participated in numerous a...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler settled in after a rough start Saturday for a 2-under 68, giving him a two-shot lead over Sam Burns and Sungjae Im in the FedEx St. Jude Championship going into a final round where so much is at stake from the top to the bottom of the leade...
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said the agency will not build a 30-foot wall or install stadium lighting through Big Bend National Park, Big Bend Ranch State Park or the Black Gap Wildlife Management Area....
The Mission City Council is seen during a regular meeting Tuesday, March 10, 2026. (Courtesy: City of Mission) M ission recently held two budget workshop meetings, which included potentially doing a new revenue bond for utility projects while the animal shelter is in talks to rec...
A view of City Hall in the city of San Benito on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville Herald) S AN BENITO — City commissioners are set to meet Tuesday to discuss City Charter issues including “forfeiture of office, qualifications of elected officers” and “stan...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The All-Star Game is returning to San Francisco in two years. Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred made the announcement Friday that the 2028 Midsummer Classic will be at Oracle Park, home of the San Francisco Giants. The 2007 game was played in the...
H ARLINGEN — Valley International Airport’s new aviation director is planning to meet with officials to discuss “priorities” after taking office, pointing to the airport’s potential amid the area’s growth. After a 10-month national search, city commissioners have approved the air...
The two candidates in the Texas Senate race are neck-and-neck less than three months out from the midterm election, according to a new poll released on Thursday....
The city of Roma Water Treatment Plant is seen in this undated photo. (Courtesy: City of Roma /Facebook) T he city of Roma says complaints of foul, unusual smells in the municipality’s water follow “border-security infrastructure” work and “law enforcement activity in the river n...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Cameron County Commissioners Court on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve a 5% salary increase for elected officials. The discussion and vote centered on a pay increase for the 2026-2027 fiscal year, according to the Aug. 11 meeting agenda ...
Carlos Yerena S AN BENITO — Under a split vote, interim City Manager Carlos Yerena is taking San Benito’s top administrative position. In a heated meeting, Commissioners Daniel Cortez, Rick Perez and Victor Manuel Gonzalez voted to appoint Yerena to the city manager’s post while ...
B rownsville’s Historic Battlefield Trail is one of three trails nationally vying for inclusion in the Rails to Trails Conservancy (RTC) Hall of Fame this year. The other two are the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail, located in the Buckeye State, and the Mount Vernon Trail in Virg...
B ROWNSVILLE — Beach-goers can expect to pay more for access to Cameron County coastal parks beginning this fall as officials prepare to roll out fee increases they say are meant to keep up with the rising costs of maintenance. During an early August meeting, commissioners approv...
By Jess Huff | The Texas Tribune T he Texas Workforce Commission Tuesday voted to cut 9.5% of the state’s child care scholarships, which represents approximately 14,000 seats for children. For some regions that need to meet lower scholarship numbers in 2027, those cuts will begin...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — City officials gathered in Alamo on Wednesday morning to celebrate the completion of a $1.5 million drainage improvement project. Alamo Mayor J.R. Garza said the city partnered with the Texas Department of Transportation on the project along Ala...
A thunderous applause echoed through the city’s council chambers Tuesday after the council unanimously voted to renew a local Mission establishment’s conditional use permit. The Ice House, located at 815 N Francisco Ave., got its conditional use permit renewed for one year with t...
Superintendent Richard Rivera T he Weslaco ISD school board voted to accept superintendent Richard Rivera’s retirement which is set to go into effect on Dec. 31. “The first time I was here 16 years and then I left,” Rivera said. “So, the second term, in December, it will be four ...
H ARLINGEN — The downtown mural paying tribute to Southwest Airlines’ founder will remain overlooking the newly revamped Lozano Plaza. Under a deadlocked city commission vote, the push to remove the mural honoring the legendary Herb Kelleher was crushed after a second round of di...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Weslaco Independent School District Board of Trustees voted to accept Superintendent Richard Rivera's retirement on Monday. Rivera will continue his role as superintendent through Dec. 31. Rivera's career with Weslaco ISD began in 1967, when...
E DINBURG — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott visited Moore Air Base Monday to discuss plans to prevent further spread of the New World screwworm. Following a brief demonstration of the Department of Homeland Sec...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott visited Edinburg to watch a drone demonstration on how this technology will help detect the New World Screwworm. On Monday morning, Border Patrol agen...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Big East named Tim Brosnan as the sixth commissioner in conference history on Monday. Brosnan succeeds Val Ackerman, who announced her retirement in April after serving as commissioner for 13 years. Brosnan brings years of experience in media, sports and busin...
Dangerous CBP denial A fter flooding in mid-June in our communities and along the Rio Grande, flooding isn’t theoretical — it’s personal. Our homes, our municipal water‑intake systems and our neighborhoods sit in the path of whatever the river becomes during a major storm. That’s...
WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert has sent a memo to teams that addresses ongoing discussions around transgender athletes in women's basketball. “I know many of you have received questions in recent weeks regarding transgender athlete participation in women’s basketball, and I ex...
Ernesto Gorena wants to know how Republicans and Donald Trump are trying to kill democracy (letters, July 20). Fox News apparently has failed to keep him informed. Well, here’s a little something: Election lawyers at the Brennan Center for Justice and Democracy Docket have ...
The Protect College Sports Act failed to reach a vote during an all-night, pre-recess session in the Senate that ended early Saturday, though the bill did gain a spot on next month's calendar after the chamber comes back from its summer break. The measure has been touted as one t...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Brownsville Public Utilities Board announced on Friday that it has implemented a Stage 1 Drought effective immediately after reservoir conditions have improved. According to a news release, the combined conservation storage level of the Falc...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- The Harlingen City Commission met on Wednesday for its initial review of a draft proposing changes and regulations to its code of conduct about the public comment period at city meetings. A draft of the proposed changes was first presented at a...
