Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pictured opening the Women’s Center at Renaissance in Edinburg in September, 2007. On Feb. 18, Pelosi will hold a midday event with U.S. Rep. Charles Gonzalez and state Rep. Joaquin Castro in San Antonio and a late afternoon event with U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar in Laredo.
Ray Coughenour, known on the radio as Col. Ray, says he has been fired by News Talk 710 KURV. The radio station has yet to confirm this. Coughenour, a retired U.S. Army officer, has hosted 'The Daily Report with Col. Ray' for the past four years. Coughenour sent out an email Thursday evening saying he had been fired.
As befits a member of a local school board, Texas House District 40 candidate Robert Peña, Jr., will make education his top legislative agenda item if elected to office. Peña, a Democat, is on the board of trustees at Edinburg CISD. He held his campaign kickoff event at the Echo Hotel in Edinburg on Thursday evening.
The Calvillo Law Firm of McAllen hosted an event to celebrate “The Empowered Woman” on Thursday evening. Four candidates running for judicial posts were honored: Letty Lopez (pictured above), Aida Salinas Flores, Gina Benavides, and Nora Longoria. Valerie Calvillo read excerpts from the poem The Empowered Woman by Sonny Carroll.
State Sen. Eddie Lucio has asked Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst if the Senate committee he chairs can study the well-being of food banks across Texas. Lucio chairs the International Relations and Trade Committee. This panel has yet to receive its interim charges from Dewhurst.
Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World has had a dramatic impact on sales taxes for the City of Harlingen and boosted sales in nearby stores, says Harlingen Mayor Chris Boswell. He reported that hundreds of thousands of people have visited the store in just two months.
Colonia residents showed up in force at a Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council meeting last Thursday to get behind a big jobs issue proposed by the Equal Voice for America’s Families network. Equal Voice wants the LRGVDC to make sure Section 3 is fully complied with.
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