SAN JUAN, Feb. 8 - Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs steward their companies and stockholders into bankruptcy and reward themselves multimillion dollar bonuses.

McALLEN, Feb. 8 - Texas House District 36 candidate Sergio Muñoz, Jr., has won the endorsement of political leaders in Pharr, to go with those he has already picked up in Mission.

McALLEN, Feb. 8 - The two candidates for Hidalgo County Commissioner Precinct Four enthusiastically signed on as supporters of Valley Interfaith’s “Investing in our Families” agenda at an accountability session on Sunday.

McALLEN, Feb. 7 - Sister Maria Sanchez of Valley Interfaith quoted Charles Dickens at the group’s Candidate Accountability Session on Sunday: “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.”

McALLEN, Feb. 5 - Valley Interfaith hosts another of its candidate accountability sessions in McAllen on Sunday.

“I have to say to myself, ‘Yes, I don’t want to disturb the habitat of a lizard, but am I prepared to pay human lives to do that?’” - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff regarding the waiver of 28 environmental laws to build the Border Fence in Wildlife Refuges. October 11, 2007.

McALLEN, Feb. 3 - The Rio Grande Valley economy will be transformed in future years because of the investment the government is making in education now, says U.S. Rep. Rubén Hinojosa.

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.

EDINBURG, Feb. 2 - Rio Grande Valley veterans’ leaders met privately with Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst at the Hidalgo County Courthouse on Monday.

EDINBURG, Jan. 30 - Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst will meet with Rio Grande Valley veterans’ leaders in Edinburg on Monday to discuss ways of improving access to health care for veterans in the region.

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?

EDINBURG, Jan. 28 - A workshop will be held involving Hidalgo County Commissioners and Valley Interfaith on Friday to see if their differences over how Hurricane Dolly relief funds should be distributed can be settled.

EDINBURG, Jan. 27 - You have just flown into McAllen Miller International Airport from Houston for a job interview at the University of Texas Pan American in Edinburg.

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.

ALAMO, Jan. 25 - Rio Grande Valley residents have been invited to become delegates to the National Latino Congreso that takes place in El Paso next weekend.

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. 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.

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.

PHARR, Jan. 19 - Martha Sanchez of La Unión del Pueblo Entero spelled it out very succinctly.

MISSION, Jan. 18 - U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar will be meeting with the head of the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday to push for more Census 2010 advertising buys to be made locally.

PHARR, Jan. 17 - Non-profit groups that work in Rio Grande Valley colonias say they are determined that their communities will be counted in full under Census 2010.

EDINBURG, Jan. 16 - News that a devastating earthquake had hit Haiti was particularly poignant for 13th Court of Appeals Justice Linda Yañez of Edinburg.