Sick of COVID
Wed, 03/10/2021 - 12:00am
For most of us in Hidalgo County, really the start of this pandemic began last March, the week before spring break.
Advance News Journal
Former IDEA charter school CEO lands in San Antonio with new plan
Wed, 03/03/2021 - 12:00am
This charter-school editorial dates back to last Dec. 29th (2020) when former IDEA Public Schools CEO Tom Torkelson wrote an op/ed in the Dallas Morning News (DMN) claiming that the arrival of IDEA in the RGV in the 1990s was one of the major stimuli used to increase educational opportunities for students here by forcing local school districts to up their game if they wanted to stop losing students to IDEA.
Judge Cortez responds to Gov. Abbott’s decision to reopen Texas businesses and rescind statewide face mask orders
Wed, 03/03/2021 - 12:00am
EDINBURG – Hidalgo County Judge Richard F. Cortez responded to Governor Greg Abbott’s announcement to reopen Texas businesses at 100 percent and rescind a statewide mask mandate with the following statement: “I appreciate Governor
Gov. Greg Abbott says he’s rescinding statewide mask mandate and capacity limits on businesses
Wed, 03/03/2021 - 12:00am
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Tuesday that he is ending Texas’ statewide mask mandate next week and will allow all businesses to operate at full capacity.
Abbott burns the face mask
Wed, 03/03/2021 - 12:00am
You’d have to be old enough to remember the early 1970s, but feminists had these events they called “Burn the bra.” It was meant as a sign of liberation. They burned their bras, literally, apparently not realizing until years later, after sag had sunk in like a deflated balloon, that bras had a decided purpose -- support.