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Pharr Mayor Hernandez, CPRIT Oversight Committee member, announces $2.5 million cancer research grant to UTRGV

PHARR - In his capacity representing Pharr, the Rio Grande Valley, and the medical community of Texas, Pharr Mayor Ambrosio Hernandez, M.D., as a member of the Oversight Committee of the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), is proud to announce that CPRIT has awarded funding in the amount of $2.5 million to The University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) for an Integrated Cancer Research Core Facility, the only specialized facility of its kind within 250 miles.

Congressman Gonzalez announces $3.3 million in American Rescue Plan funding for the McAllen International Airport drainage

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) announced $3,307,396 from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to improve drainage at McAllen International Airport. These funds were made available through the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act, which Congressman Gonzalez supported.

Phyllis Diller’s one-liners

Ed. note: For a guy like me growing up in the late ‘50s and ‘60s, Phyllis Diller was always a hoot on the boob tube. She loved to talk about her husband, Fang. “He hates work,” she once said. “One day he called in dead.” Asked to say two words about the love of her life, Diller responded, “Short and cheap.”

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