Hidalgo County Judge Richard F. Cortez, in his capacity as director of emergency management, issued a local state of disaster declaration related to damages the county sustained by Tropical Storm Alberto, the season’s first named storm.
There is rain forecast for most of this week. We can pray that it drops and then moves into Mexico, filling the six tributaries that feed our reservoirs, hang out over Falcon Lake for a spell, and then move up to Amistad for a week or so, without flooding any areas in the process.
Found out from an old buddy last week that the same Hidalgo County Courthouse chismé hasn’t stopped percolating.
Besides my buddy over at Breitbart.com, Ildefonso “Poncho” Ortiz and some of his colleagues, show me an American journalist who ever writes anything that puts Mexico in a critical light. You can’t. Especially among the mainstream media.
The Advance News Journal published the following story April 24th about a Valley contractor who owed a small local church $22,000.
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