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UTRGV-ECISD Partnership Establishes Permanent Home
Above — Artist rendering of the UTRGV Edinburg CISD Collegiate High School slated for completion in January 2024. (By GMS Architects) By Karen Villarreal EDINBURG, TEXAS – NOV. 29, 2022 – UTRGV and the Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District broke ground on Tuesday for a new collegiate high school to serve the students of Edinburg. The facility will…
UTRGV And ECISD To Break Ground On New Collegiate High School On Tuesday
RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS – NOV. 23, 2022 – A groundbreaking ceremony for the UTRGV Edinburg CISD Collegiate High School will be held Tuesday, Nov. 29, at 10 a.m. The ceremony will take place at 1407 E. Freddy Gonzalez Drive where a state-of-the-art 85,000-square-foot facility will be constructed. UTRGV and Edinburg CISD entered a partnership…
Sarah Sagredo-Hammond FemCity Speaker For December 2022
McAllen, Texas — November 28, 2022 FemCity RGV will have as its guest speaker Sarah Sagredo-Hammond on Tuesday, December 13, 2022. The meeting will be held at the University Draft House – underground, 100 W U.S. Highway 83 McAllen, TX 78504, 6pm -8pm. The dress color theme is copper/sienna. Sarah Sagredo-Hammond, Owner & President of…
Texas Taxes
Dr. M. Ray Perryman — November 23, 2022 Every year, the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts prepares a document detailing the financial status of the State of Texas. The 2022 report (for the fiscal year ended August 31) was recently released. It paints an interesting picture that is well worth exploring. Net revenues increased by…
Professor Provides Another Look Into The Legacy Of Juan Cortina
Photo above — Marie Theresa Hernández, Ph.D., a professor at the University of Houston. Photo courtesy The Museum of South Texas History. EDINBURG, Texas — The Museum of South Texas History welcomes author Marie Theresa Hernández, Ph.D., as a featured presenter during the Sunday Speaker Series presentation, “History, Terror, Imagination: Stories of Juan N. Cortina”…
Prison Contractor MTC Accused Of Billing Texas Millions For Inmate Treatment Programs It Didn’t Provide
Photo above — Angela Piazza for The Texas Tribune. By Jolie McCullough, The Texas Tribune Nov. 22, 2022 — One of the country’s largest private prison companies has defrauded Texas by collecting millions of dollars for in-prison therapeutic programming it hasn’t provided during the pandemic, a new complaint filed with the state auditor claims. In 2020,…
Texas Energy Officials’ Proposal To Overhaul The Power Grid Is Drawing Skepticism
Photo above — Employees monitor the state power grid at the ERCOT command center in Taylor in 2012. REUTERS/Julia Robinson By Joshua Fechter, The Texas Tribune Nov. 18, 2022 — Texas lawmakers and experts who study the state’s power grid aren’t thrilled with a proposal by state energy officials aimed at preventing future widespread outages such as…
8,000,000,000!
Dr. M. Ray Perryman November 16, 2022 — World population recently reached the eight billion milestone according to estimates from the United Nations. That’s up from about 2.5 billion people in 1950, with a gain of a billion since 2010. However, population growth rates are falling, and the total will likely peak at around 10.4 billion…
UT Law School would offer distance-learning in the RGV for first-year law UT students under bill pre-filed by Rep. Terry Canales
In photo above, from left: The 10-member Texas Sunset Advisory Commission, meeting at the Texas Capitol on Thursday, November 10, 2022, include in this image Sen. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock; Rep. Justin Holland, R-Heath; Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg; and Sen. Charles Schwertner, MD, R-Georgetown, Chair. The mission statement of this legislative body, which includes five senators…
Edinburg CISD Certifies Election Results, Elects New Board Leadership
Photo above — Miguel “Mike” Farias was elected president of the Edinburg CISD Board of Trustees at last Friday’s special called board meeting. Edinburg TX, November 21, 2022 — The Edinburg CISD Board of Trustees elected new officers after canvassing and approving the votes from the November 8 school board election. Miguel “Mike” Farias, Place…
