BROWNSVILLE, March 7 - It depends on us whether we get the federal funds Texas deserves by how well we respond to the census that begins April 1.

PENITAS, March 4 – The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a resolution designating March 2010 as “Census Awareness Month.”

EDINBURG, March 3 - Hidalgo County Judge Rene Ramirez has called on county residents to participate in Census 2010 when they get their census forms later this month.

ALAMO, Feb. 24 - Laura Treviño, director of the Texas A&M Colonias Program painted the picture clearly—fear is the biggest obstacle confronting the census worker when he or she knocks on the door of a Hidalgo County colonia household.

ALAMO, Feb. 23 - U.S. Census Bureau officials will today visit what they acknowledge to be one of the hardest to count neighborhoods in the nation, “Little Mexico,” home to thousands of colonia residents.

AUSTIN, Feb. 20 - The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has not given up hope of Gov. Rick Perry setting up a statewide Complete Count Committee to ensure maximum participation in the 2010 Census.

McALLEN, Feb. 16 - Concerned that it might have to bring in hundreds of workers from outside the Rio Grande Valley to complete its outreach work, the Census Bureau is holding a job fair in McAllen.

BROWNSVILLE, Feb. 15 - First the good news for the Rio Grande Valley: a recent poll by the Pew Research Center found that Hispanics are more likely to view the upcoming Census as very important.

LAREDO, Feb. 2 – U.S. Census Bureau Director Dr Robert Groves made a visit to one the most impoverished of the Laredo colonias, San Carlos in an effort to promote the importance of being counted in the census.

McALLEN, Jan. 29 - U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves will visit a colonia on the outskirts of Laredo on Monday to raise awareness of the 2010 Census throughout the border region.

McALLEN, Jan. 28 - If you have a dinner at your house, send out invitations, receive 20 RSVP’s and prepare accordingly, what do you do if 50 people show up to eat?

BROWNSVILLE, Jan. 26 - The coordinator of Equal Voice for America’s Families in the Rio Grande Valley is confident of a strong census count this year in part because local residents love to gossip.

McALLEN, Jan. 25 - The business community in the Rio Grande Valley should get behind efforts to promote a complete census count in the region, says Keith Patridge, president of the McAllen Economic Development Corporation.

ALTON, Jan. 21 - The Census Bureau’s border outreach coordinator fears she will have to recruit thousands of census workers from outside the region, thus weakening the level of trust that could be established in colonias.

ALTON, Jan. 20 - By the time its 2010 count is over the U.S. Census Bureau will have hired about 1.4 million people, full-time and part-time. Of these, Mary Lou Cavazos of Weslaco must have the hardest job.

ALTON, Jan. 21 - U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar is to receive daily reports from the Census Bureau on how many census forms are being returned via mail from the Texas-Mexico border region.

BROWNSVILLE, Jan. 4 - Some 2,000 years ago the Roman government required a census of its peoples.