COVID-19 vaccine roll-outs a joke for seniors
Wed, 01/13/2021 - 12:00am
If you’ve not yet hit that magic number, 65, and you’re in good physical shape, I have bad news for you:
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Pharr shuts down strip club after ownership changes hands
Wed, 01/13/2021 - 12:00am
Can’t remember what year it was, circa mid- to late-1990s, but suddenly, the city of Pharr was faced with not one, but two strip clubs opening within what seemed like months of each other: Xoticas on N. 281 and Stilettos on Sugar Rd.,
The Border Wall? U.S. is a mess; Trump’s photo-op
Wed, 01/13/2021 - 12:00am
You know, I try to stay apolitical in opinion columns. I have readers who are Democrats and Republicans, so why should I take sides? I think both parties have their good and bad points.
Politics is really nuts on the national scene
Wed, 01/06/2021 - 12:00am
LBJ knew how to rig an election the good oldfashioned way. He rigged them before the vote, not after the election had passed. Apparently, Donald Trump never read any of the LBJ bios of how he rigged the 1948 U.S. Senate election up in Duval and Jim Wells counties with the help of George Parr.
With the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines…
Wed, 01/06/2021 - 12:00am
Optimism. Hope. That’s what you hear these days in the voice of Ivan Melendez, M.D., who not only still runs his own private internal medicine practice, but works as the medical director (Health Authority) for Hidalgo County, and has done so since 2011 when life was much simpler and more pleasant for the public at large.