I’ve never been a fan of the black arts, so to speak, but with the recent attacks on the City of Mission and DHR Health (Doctors Hospital at Renaissance), I’m thinking it’s time to call in the bruja, or the old brujo, and launch my own attack on the hackers responsible for so much misery.
In last week's front-page story, I wrote about how a group called Save the San Juan Hotel, led by UTRGV Associate Professor of Mexican American Studies Stephanie Alvarez, is claiming that the historic San Juan Hotel was the site of many lynchings of Mexican Americans and home to Tom Mayfield, a lawman who served Hidalgo County for many decades before passing away in 1966.
Ironically, during an interview with a Harvard University professor and “happiness expert” this month, Microsoft’s Bill Gates spoke about some things that have little to do with happiness if you are, you know, a human being: The world is entering a new area called free intelligence, says Gates.
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