SAN ANTONIO,  Jan. 30 - In the preface of his book, “Tejano Empire”, Dr. Andrés Tijerina reveals a significant fact about Tejanos in Texas.

EDINBURG, Jan. 29 - “Una vez más” means one more time. I write again about MAS, about Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas—Pan American (UTPA).

REYNOSA, Jan. 26, (Notimex) - La precandidata a la presidencia de la república mexicana por el Partido Acción Nacional, Josefina Vázquez Mora se pronuncio en esta frontera por la aplicación de leyes y programas que permitan a los trabajadores de la información, como reporteros y fotógrafos, contar con garantías en la realización del trabajo periodístico.

BROWNSVILLE, Jan. 25 - Coinciding with President Obama’s State of the Union address, the Equal Voice for America’s Families network, whose members work in Rio Grande Valley colonias, has issued its State of the Valley report.

REYNOSA, Tamps., 23 Ene. (Notimex) - El cónsul de Estados Unidos en Matamoros, Michael Barkin, señaló que el gobierno de su país destinará por primera vez a Tamaulipas, como parte de la iniciativa Mérida, cuatro millones de dólares en equipo.

WESLACO, Jan. 23 - Promotoras are the “heart and soul” of the Texas A&M University Colonias Program, says Dr. Jorge Vanegas, dean of the college of architecture at the university.

WESLACO, Jan. 23 - To celebrate the Texas A&M University Colonias Program, the university produced a report that highlights its achievements in the Rio Grande Valley.

BROWNSVILLE, Jan. 22 - I was invited to come forward and so I walked through a high-vaulted room filled with attorneys. Three black robed judges looked down at me from their seats high above us all.

BROWNSVILLE, Jan. 16 - Between the year 1528 when Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Pánfilo Narváez first landed in Tejas or Texas until around 1821 when Tejas or Texas became again part of the Mexican Authorities, or about 300 years, towns, villages, cattle drives, ranching, banking, and all kinds of commerce were the daily life of Texas Hispanics or Tejanos.

EL PASO, Dec. 22 - Dear Fellow Paseños. 2011. What a year, what a great community of hardworking, proud, resilient families and friends, what headlines!

MISSION, Dec. 11 - The Rio Grande Valley Equal Voice Network extends its heartfelt sympathy to the family of Joaquin Luna Lerma.

BROWNSVILLE, Dec. 11 - At the end of a long hallway in a former shopping mall, a number of temporary wall partitions had been placed so as to create a private room.

MISSION, Dec. 1 -  Congressman Rubén Hinojosa spoke on the House floor Thursday about the tragic death of Mission student Joaquin Luna.

SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 29 - Unified by genetic links of a DNA chain that stretches from Texas to the very heart of Mexico, Spanish Mexicans and Native Americans of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands share a solid bond of kinship. 

SAN JUAN, Nov. 21 - The soup kitchen at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in San Juan, which is open every Thursday evening, currently feeds 200 people a week.

BROWNSVILLE, Nov. 15 - It was the first Friday of November, and cool, clear, autumn weather has finally reached the southernmost part of the nation.

EDINBURG, Nov. 6 - I know what you’re thinking. Maybe Rick Perry is right? The violence in Mexico, the atrocities by the Narcos, demand a response.

BROWNSVILLE, Oct. 31 - One great historian once proclaimed: “If Spain had not existed, there would be no United States of America today.”

SAN JUAN, Oct. 28 - One evening, about a month ago, a man was pulled over to the side of the road by one of the city of Mission’s police patrols. 

REYNOSA, Oct. 24 - The Texas Border region was recently described as a “war zone” by retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey and retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert Scales.

BROWNSVILLE, Oct. 11 - Last week, about three hundred well-dressed, focused people met for two straight days on the campus of the University of Texas at Brownsville.

REYNOSA, Sept. 23, Notimex - La  senadora Lázara Nelly González Aguilar se pronuncio a favor de que el gobierno federal realice las gestiones necesarias que permitan apoyar la iniciativa de la ley “H.R. 714 Visitors Interested in Strengthening America”, para que los niños mexicanos puedan ingresar a Estados Unidos y reciban atención médica gratuita en esa nación.

BROWNSVILLE, Sept. 18 - Here in the south of Texas, we are familiar with any number of borders and boundaries, barriers and fences. 

EDINBURG, Sept. 12 - This Friday, September 16th, for Mexico, is like the 4th of July in the U.S. Or, said another way, the 4th of July,is like Dieciséis de Septiembre in Mexico.

BROWNSVILLE, Aug. 29 - I like to sit on our front porch in the morning, as it is a chance to enjoy the sort-of-cool breeze that blows up before the sun gets down to doing its August work.

BROWNSVILLE, Aug. 15 - The view from the second floor conference room of the South Padre Island Birding Center is spectacular.