ESCOBARES, July 4 - Happy Fourth of July to all the readers of the Rio Grande Guardian! As we celebrate the birth of our great nation, it is definitely a time to reflect and give thanks for all we have. 

June 30 - The State Democratic Convention was great success. In my many years participating in Democratic politics I had never seen a more energetic and motivated convention.

June 15 - A decade ago, when I was teaching in San Antonio, a native borderlander colleague in the social sciences and I (in the humanities) received a small grant through the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center to study the cultural poetics of environmental justice in sister cities along the Texas-Mexico border.

June 7 - I attended the Hidalgo County Commissioner’s meeting last Tuesday (6/03/08) to voice my concerns about compromising the integrity of our levee system during hurricane season.

May 28 - Most of us who live here in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV) of Texas were very relieved when the Secretary of Homeland Security recently thwarted a potentially dangerous proposal by the Border Patrol to check the immigration status of all persons leaving this area in the event of an emergency evacuation.

May 22 - On Tuesday, May 20, after input from citizens and discussion among the mayor and council, the Presidio City Council voted to join the Texas Border Coalition (TBC), a coalition of Texas border cities, counties, chambers of commerce, and economic development corporations, representing over two million border residents from El Paso to Brownsville. Presidio is scheduled by DHS for levee-wall construction this year, along with Cameron and Hidalgo Counties.

May 20 - On Saturday a number of Rio Grande Valley politicians and business leaders endorsed U.S. Senator John Cornyn. 

TERLINGUA, May 14 - Adrienne Evans, a founder of the No Wall – Big Bend Coalition, has sent an open letter to Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos and Cameron County Commissioners asking them to get behind the Texas Border Coalition’s border wall lawsuit against the federal government.

April 28 - Good morning Mr. Chairman and good morning to all the members of the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans. I thank you for this opportunity to speak to you regarding this very important issue and I welcome you to our beautiful state of Texas and our home in the Rio Grande Valley.

WASHINGTON, May 5 - On this Cinco de Mayo, it is quite appropriate that the city of Edcouch is repealing a 1931 city ordinance that should have never been approved.