About a month or so ago, whenever these ICE crackdowns began, before they started arresting non-violent offenders like Leo down at the car wash, I called a local Valley police chief I know to ask him how his city was faring.
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) is coming to McAllen this Friday as a part of his “Fighting Oligarchy Tour.”
The Alamo Flea Market was almost empty this weekend, which is a miracle, but not in a good way, for the vendors who make their living there.
After launching the Iraq and Afghanistan wars based on lies and deceit, the Rio Grande Valley lost approximately 50 of our own soldiers to death and destruction, many of them the result of IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices).
Here’s a question for our politicians in D.C. — if a senior couple is living near poverty, kept afloat thanks only to two monthly Social Security checks, and one of them dies, husband or wife, how is the remaining spouse supposed to pay all the bills on only one check instead of two?
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