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?
Up in San Antonio, Customs and Border Protection agents took a 47-year-old El Salvadorian into custody last Thursday for allegedly entering the U.S. illegally.
McAllen ISD Board Trustee Debbie Crane Aliseda chose not to seek reelection this year, and for one, I’m going to miss her. In fact, her last meeting was this Tuesday.
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