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  Freeman: Army Specialist Kevin Cardoza, # 47
EDINBURG, May 19 - With the spring/summer fighting season beginning, U.S. losses in Afghanistan, predictably, are increasing.
  Gallego: Stretching the meaning of 'flexibility' in overtime bill
SAN ANTONIO, May 13 - Feeding a family. Paying our bills. Making sure our kids have what they need. For most of us, those are the core things we worry about each month and they all involve money.
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    Barrera: South Texas calls on President Obama to resolve Mexico water debt
BROWNSVILLE, April 29 - The Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas is suffering the impacts of extreme drought from two sources: natural and man-made.
    Freeman: 'No More Hurting People. Peace'
EDINBURG, April 21 - One Sunday afternoon, as almost every Sunday, 60 to 70 children sat at cafeteria tables. Each child had a bowl of two big scoops of strawberry ice cream.
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    Perryman: Texas in 2050
WACO, April 18 - The population of Texas is changing. Over the past decade, we added more new residents than any other state, including California (despite its substantially larger population).
    Jacoby: Bipartisan breakthrough, starting point for Congress

EDINBURG, March 29 - It is a little known fact but the idea to build a monument honoring the heritage and contributions of Tejanos at the Texas state Capitol in Austin was born at the University of Texas-Pan American.

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  Freeman: Army Specialist Kevin Cardoza, # 47
EDINBURG, May 19 - With the spring/summer fighting season beginning, U.S. losses in Afghanistan, predictably, are increasing.
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  Gallego: Stretching the meaning of 'flexibility' in overtime bill
SAN ANTONIO, May 13 - Feeding a family. Paying our bills. Making sure our kids have what they need. For most of us, those are the core things we worry about each month and they all involve money.
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  Barrera: South Texas calls on President Obama to resolve Mexico water debt
BROWNSVILLE, April 29 - The Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas is suffering the impacts of extreme drought from two sources: natural and man-made.
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  Freeman: 'No More Hurting People. Peace'
EDINBURG, April 21 - One Sunday afternoon, as almost every Sunday, 60 to 70 children sat at cafeteria tables. Each child had a bowl of two big scoops of strawberry ice cream.
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  Perryman: Texas in 2050
WACO, April 18 - The population of Texas is changing. Over the past decade, we added more new residents than any other state, including California (despite its substantially larger population).
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  Jacoby: Bipartisan breakthrough, starting point for Congress
WASHINGTON, April 16 - As recently as nine months ago, today's bipartisan breakthrough was beyond imagining.
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  Balido: Border component of 'Gang of Eight' framework raises questions
PHOENIX, Ariz., April 10 - The bipartisan group of U.S. senators known as the "Gang of Eight" that is crafting a comprehensive immigration reform package has, by anyone's measure, a tough job.
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  Mounce: Humor Me: Professors Have Class
EDINBURG, April 7 - We all know “kids say the ‘darndest’ things.” So do my college-age “kids.” In fact, they say, do, know, don’t know, oh, so many things.
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  Mounce: Albright: All Right? Partly Right?
EDINBURG, March 31 - Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright appeared last Tuesday, March 26, 2013, at the University of Texas—Pan American (UTPA), Edinburg, Texas.
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  Freeman: Sympathy for Rapists; None for Their Victims

EDINBURG, March 24 - Four recent events prompted one more column on rape.

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  Acevedo: Demographic Reality and the Hispanic Family

WACO, March 11 - Demography [population] may be easy to explain but is more difficult to understand in the context of social policy. 

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  Brown Perez: Hugo Chávez and the Inevitable Force of Nature

McALLEN, March 10 - Landing at Maiquetia’s Simon Bolivar Airport in Caracas in August of 1999 with my three young children and a cart full of luggage in tow, I was immediately jolted out of all my preconceptions of the mystical Amazonian paradise affectionately named by Christopher Colombus as “Little Venice” or “Venezuela.”

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  Mounce: The Past is Prologue: Bolívar and Chávez

EDINBURG, March 10 - Long live Bolívar! That, certainly, was the hope of recently deceased Venezuelan President, Hugo Chávez.

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  Freeman: The Violence Against Women Act and Our Rape Culture

EDINBURG, March 10 - In April, 2012, U.S. Senate Democrats and 15 Republicans passed a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).

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  Gallego: Sequester is a Manufactured Monster

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 5 - This thing we now call "the sequester" is a manufactured monster.

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  Freeman: Republicans and Our Culture of Rape

EDINBURG, February 28 - Rape is the most under reported crime in the nation. 

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  Freeman: Who Protects Women From Rape?

EDINBURG, February 17 - Some in the media have noted the apparent disparate treatment of the Jerry Sandusky case and the apparent rapes of two coeds by Notre Dame football players.


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  Freeman: Death - Imagined and Real

EDINBURG, February 10 - News media intensely covered the woes of Notre Dame University linebacker, and Heisman runner up Manti Te’o. 

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  Balido: Rethinking outbound inspections on the border

PHOENIX, January 31 - President Obama's second term is officially underway, but one of his top priorities for his second term was made apparent well before he took the oath of office.

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  Mounce: The Future of South Texas - City of Valley High

EDINBURG, January 27 - Shades of “South Pacific.” The City of Valley High. (“Bali Hi” . . . “Come to me, my favorite island”, etc.) Get it? No? You don’t remember the famous book, Hawaii, by James Michener?

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  Harrington: Two things to remember on MLK Day

AUSTIN, January 20 - Neither Martin Luther King nor Rosa Parks descended from heaven to take up positions as civil rights leaders among us. Nor did César Chávez or Susan B. Anthony. 

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  Freeman: MLK and a Radical Revolution of Values

EDINBURG, January 20 - Of Dr. Martin Luther King’s numerous great speeches, I  return most often to his powerful speech at New York City’s Riverside Baptist Church (4 April, 1967) entitled, “Beyond Viet Nam:  A Time to Break Silence.”

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  Wright Edelman: How We Can Truly Honor MLK

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 20 - In his last Sunday sermon at Washington National Cathedral, Dr. King retold the parable of the rich man Dives who ignored the poor and sick man Lazarus who came every day seeking crumbs from Dives’ table.

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  Balido: Border management, new strategies discussed at think tank forum

PHOENIX, Ariz., January 17 - I had the distinct privilege last month of serving on a panel with Adm. Thad Allen, a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton and the former commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, and acting Customs and Border Protection Chief Operating Officer Tom Winkowski.

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  Mounce: The American Mediterranean

EDINBURG, January 13 - The “American Mediterranean” is a metaphorical theme to be explored in a forthcoming conference of seminal importance in Cuba this spring. 

   
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Freeman: Army Specialist Kevin Cardoza, # 47

Gallego: Stretching the meaning of 'flexibility' in overtime bill

Barrera: South Texas calls on President Obama to resolve Mexico water debt

Freeman: 'No More Hurting People. Peace'

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