MCALLEN, RGV – This week’s news-wrap looks at the week ending Nov. 2, 2019.
Among the topics discussed with Rio Grande Guardian editor Steve Taylor are:
- The life of a campesino in rural México;
- The Texas Border Coalition’s efforts to ensure a complete census count along the Texas-México border;
- Greater Brownsville Incentive Corporation’s ‘We Grow Our Own’ program;
- Greater McAllen Association of Realtors’ look at Opportunity Zones;
- This year’s Constitutional Amendments for Texas, and in particular Propositions 2, 5, and 8;
- The Texas Department of Transportation’s Border Transportation Master Plan;
- The Texas Senate’s interim charges;
- Rio Grande Valley Metropolitan Planning Authority’s October board meeting;
- Doctors Hospital at Renaissance’s Paths Program;
- South Texas College’s 2019 Innovation Conference;
- Rolando Vela’s optimism about a second causeway for South Padre Island;
- The opening of a new IDEA school in Harlingen;
- The Rio Grande Guardian’s sponsorship of a soccer team in Reynosa.
Editor’s Note: The main image accompanying this podcast shows attendees at a Texas Department of Transportation meeting held in Reynosa on Oct. 30, 2019. The meeting focused on TxDOT’s border transportation master plan.
