Local police are reporting more phone scams this Christmas season, and some of them are dumber than a rock, but still, sad to say, people are falling for them, and many times, the victims are the ones who can least afford to be scammed — the elderly on fixed incomes, or the single mom trying to raise three kids alone.
Approximately two months ago, a story was published in The Advance that indicated that Grand Prairie ISD (Dallas metroplex) had fired former PSJA ISD Superintendent Jorge Arredondo after only two months on the job, July through September, as the district’s new supe. The vote was 4-2 to dismiss him, with one abstention.
It’s late deadline day, The Advance is still recovering from Thanksgiving get-togethers, a four-day weekend, a Monday that took some doing just to get started, so if we’re behind with a frontpage story, top of the fold, forgive us.
Former Pharr City Manager and Police Chief Andrew “Andy” Harvey, Jr., wasn’t available for comment Monday, the same day that Chief U.S. District Judge Randy Crane signed off on a 21page document that dismissed a lawsuit Harvey had filed against his hometown city and two of its officers this past March.
I’ll bet a hundred bucks to the first comer — U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez will never again compare Hispanics who support Trump as being, basically, synonymous with “Jews for Hitler.”
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