Observations
Waste of $$$: McAllen Election
The wasted money on a special election, thanks to a petition, courtesy of Ground Game Texas, and the possibility of McAllen residents losing control of the city to out-of-the-area PACs is enough to drive me to drink.
Donna ISD Board Wins State Award
For anyone who’s been watching Donna ISD school board politics, its legal problems, problems with the Texas Education Agency over the past 10 or 20 years, there are times when it resembled a novella, and not a very good one at that.
AI Defines: Crooked Politicians
When I’m lazy, which is most of the time these days, I fall back on AI to do some writing for me. It’s the wave of the future –AI doing most things. Can’t mess things up any worse than us humans.
Wasted Water
Last week, The Advance published a photo of a local fast-food chain that continues to water its parking lot despite the fact that we’re living through a drought, with our reservoirs (Falcon and Amistad) still near record low levels. Despite a welcome rain bump last month (September), they’re still low, low, low.