UPDATED: Presidential permit granted for Laredo 4/5 International ...
Oct 14, 2024 · US Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz understanding that the State Department considered the presidential permit application for Bridge 4/5 complete on June 6, 2024, and submitted a recommendation to President Biden on August 5. U.S. Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn of Texas. LAREDO, Texas ...
Holguín: Texas’ Uninsured Children Crisis – A Failure of Leadership
Oct 27, 2024 · Eric Holguín, Texas State Director for UnidosUS. Recent data by the Census Bureau shows that Texas continues to lead the nation in the number of children without health insurance. In fact, Texas has held this shameful title for 15 years straight. Two out of every three children in Texas who lost health care coverage between 2022-23 were Hispanic.
LUPE Votes encouraged by new poll showing Vallejo closing in on …
Oct 27, 2024 · SAN JUAN, Texas – LUPE Votes says it is encouraged by a new poll showing its endorsed Congressional District 15 candidate, Michelle Vallejo, is within three points of unseating U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz. In 2022, De La Cruz, a Republican, defeated Vallejo, a Democrat, by eight percentage points. The district used to be a safe Democratic ...
Writers and Staff - Rio Grande Guardian
was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and is a USAF Veteran. He now lives in Universal City, Texas. He is the author of several books dedicated to Spanish Mexican people and events in U.S. history that are mostly overlooked in mainstream history books. His latest book is “Preserving Early Texas History (Essays of an Eighth-Generation South ...
Hitachi Energy: We could not ask for a better partner than McAllen …
Oct 28, 2024 · Hitachi Energy: We could not ask for a better partner than McAllen EDC. Hitachi Energy has announced plans to build a $70 million distribution transformer factory in Reynosa. The company said 350 new jobs would be created. McAllen EDC officials Rafael Angel Ortiz Salazar (far left) and Ralph Garcia (far right) met recently with Hitachi Energy ...
The Rio Grande Valley Partnership celebrates its 80th Anniversary
Oct 25, 2024 · WESLACO, Texas – The Rio Grande Valley Partnership recently celebrated its 80th Anniversary with an event at its offices in Weslaco. According to the late Marjorie Johnson, who chronicled the activities of RGVP for 37 years, the group was formed in 1944 as the Lower Rio Grande Valley Planning Board to provide a clearing house and planning organization to promote economic diversification ...
Cruz: 7,000 high-paying jobs, $24 billion in investments now at risk …
6 days ago · If the permits are not reauthorized, over 7,000 high-paying jobs will disappear, and roughly $24 billion in investments in the Rio Grande Valley will be lost. There is no precedent for this decision. Charles McConnell, the former Assistant Secretary of Energy at the Department Energy in President Barack Obama’s Administration says “If ...
Cuellar: Dropout recovery programs change lives and communities
Oct 9, 2024 · Darcia Cuellar says school districts will receive full state funding for bringing dropouts aged 18 to 25 back to their campus to earn a high school diploma. The funding is also there for tuition for post-secondary certificates. Cuellar is Region One’s dropout recovery program senior director. Cuellar moderated a meeting about dropout ...
Exclusive: CIL to build 200,000 square foot cotton warehouse in ...
6 days ago · EDINBURG, CIL Group is to construct a 200,000 square foot warehouse to house cotton in Edinburg, its president has revealed. Joaquin Spamer tells the Rio Grande Guardian he has purchased 11 acres of land in the Edinburg North Industrial Park for this purpose. “We are very grateful to Raudel and the EDC team.
Perryman: The Working Poor – Rio Grande Guardian
4 days ago · Perryman: The Working Poor. The overall economic and social consequences of poverty are staggering, writes Texas-based economist M. Ray Perryman, in his latest guest column. In 2022, 37.9 million people (11.5% the US population), lived below the official poverty level according to the US Census Bureau. For context, in 2022, the weighted average ...