Rep. Oscar Longoria, Jr. D-Mission, was one of 15 state representatives appointed on Monday, June 12, 2023 by Speaker of the House Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, to the recently-created House Select Committee on Educational Opportunity and Enrichment.
Not sure if you care, but Robert Kennedy Jr. is rising in the Democrat 2024 presidential polls. In a poll conducted by Harvard CAPS-Harris in June 2023, he received 15 percent of support among Democratic primary voters, up from 10 percent in a poll conducted by the same organization in April 2023. Relatively speaking, though, that’s still not a lot given Joe Biden’s 80-plus percent ranking among Democrat voters. In all the polls, Uncle Joe is leading Kennedy by at least 40 percentage points.
Note: Looking up some old news from the summer of 2013 to publish, 10 years ago, I came across this story about the ownership change of the old McAllen State Bank tower.
— Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced he will send cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose districts $1.1 billion in local sales tax allocations for July, 7.5 percent more than in July 2022.
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