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Family Fortunes
Dr. M. Ray Perryman, November 08, 2023 Every three years, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System releases results of the Survey of Consumer Finances. The Survey looks at family income, net worth, debt, and other indicators of the financial health of US families. The most recent report covers the interesting time period…
Edinburg CISD Board Officers To Be Elected This Week
Edinburg Texas, Nov. 13, 2023 — The Edinburg CISD Board of Trustees will elect new officers at this week’s regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday evening. As part of its annual duties, the Board will select a President, Vice President and Secretary. The current officers are President Carmen Gonzalez (Pl. 6), Vice-President Xavier Salinas (Place 5)…
UTRGV Chess Team logs another national title, as 2023 US National Collegiate Rapid Chess co-champions
Photo of UTRGV Chess Team 2023 (UTRGV Photo by David Pike) By Amanda L. Alaniz Edinburg Texas, Nov. 8, 2023 – It’s another checkmate for UTRGV’s three-time national champion chess team, which just brought home a national win as the 2023 U.S. National Collegiate Rapid Chess Champions. The championship, held Sunday, Oct. 29, was played online…
Sex trafficking, drugs and assault: Texas foster kids and caseworkers face chaos in rental houses and hotels
Photo of a home Texas rents in Belton for foster children. A report from court-appointed monitors says the Department of Family and Protective Services is housing some foster children in dirty and dangerous conditions. Credit: Court-appointed foster care monitors By Karen Brooks Harper, The Texas Tribune, Nov. 6, 2023 Some of Texas’ most victimized and vulnerable foster…
Proposition 9 would increase pensions for retired teachers and public school employees
By Kevin Vu, The Texas Tribune, Nov. 6, 2023 For 28 years, Joe Ramirez taught social studies in Austin for students including President George W. Bush’s daughters, four-time Grammy award winning musician Gary Clark Jr. and former Gov. Rick Perry’s son. After retiring in 2012, he said he initially was able to live on his…
Tragedy Unfolds in Rural Edinburg: One Fatality, Another in Critical Condition Following Shooting Incident, 3 Arrested
Edinburg, Texas – November 4, 2023 — An early morning incident in rural Edinburg resulted in one fatality and another person seriously injured. The Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office is still investigating the incident. At 3:39 a.m., the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) was dispatched to the 7200 block of Iowa Road in rural Edinburg, Texas,…
Halloween needs an extra day
I have noticed that some school districts declare the day after the Super Bowl as either a staff work day or just a day off. They did this based on the evidence over many years. Anecdotal evidence indicates that the Monday after the Super Bowl is one of the days when large numbers of teachers…
Fueling the Future
Dr. M. Ray Perryman, October 25, 2023 The US Energy Information Administration recently released its long-term projections for global fuel demand. The International Energy Outlook 2023 (IEO2023) looks at long-term energy trends across the world through 2050. It includes seven scenarios with widely varying assumptions regarding economic growth, zero-carbon technology costs, and oil prices. Of…
Hidalgo County DA’s Office launches QR Code to help victims of family violence access important resource information
Edinburg Texas, Oct. 23, 2023 – The Hidalgo County Criminal District Attorney’s Office launched an important initiative to help victims of family violence to access important resource information with a simple QR Code. “We know that everyone in our community has access to a cell phone so we created a QR Code that can be scanned…
Book bans in Texas spread as new state law takes effect
Photo above — The American flag reflects off a Houston Little Free Library designed to look like a prison filled with banned books. Credit: Callaghan O’Hare/Reuters By Jeremy Schwartz, The Texas Tribune and ProPublica, Oct. 11, 2023 As a new Texas law further restricting what books students can check out of school libraries takes effect, local bans…
