Newspaper Change: AI may become publisher?
Wed, 09/06/2023 - 12:00am
I am beat. I took off work yesterday, Labor Day, which was a mistake, because now, on deadline day (Tuesday), I’m behind with my writing.
Advance News Journal
Pharr’s interim city manager returns home
Wed, 08/16/2023 - 12:00am
In the past five years, the City of Pharr has gone through five city managers, but with Jonathan B. Flores, Ed.D, Pharr’s newest city manager (still interim), the odds that he’ll last seem to be on the side of the city, considering he grew up here, knows the people, knows the politics.
This Week I’m MIA
Wed, 08/09/2023 - 12:00am
MIA, missing in action, that’s me this week. While I try to write between eight and 10 original stories, columns, for each issue of The Advance News Journal, I’ll be lucky if I can get three written today, Aug. 8, which just happens to be my 68th birthday.
County won’t release full report
Wed, 08/02/2023 - 12:00am
When The Advance mentioned last week in a front-page story that the public now has full access to an independent report that will tell us why the new Hidalgo County Courthouse is still a mess, our bad. We were wrong. Instead, the county has that info on lockdown, with no plans to release it any time soon. Not unless the Texas AG rules that they must.
County courthouse won’t be demolished
Wed, 07/12/2023 - 9:18am
The good news is, contrary to a social media post made last Wednesday, the Hidalgo County Courthouse, currently stuck in limbo, doors locked, lights out, no foot traffic, won’t have to be demolished after all. Its foundation is indeed firm, said Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez last week. Contrary to the social media post, the new courthouse is not “sinking.”