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I spent three months telling the city of Mission I thought it had a financial problem and being told (largely) that I was wrong. This month the city hired a guy who says I wasn't.
This article first appeared in the March 22nd issue of the Progress Times.
Mike Perez, who Mission City Council hired as city manager Monday, has money on his mind. ⬇️
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Lots of school districts in the RGV are getting similar emails, though they’re not all reacting the same.
Districts that don’t agree to remove books run the risk of the activists showing up at a board meeting, like they did in
@BrownsvilleISD
last month
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Last month conservative activists demanded
@MissionCISD
remove 676 books from its libraries.
The district agreed to do so in five minutes.
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Rodriguez later added that the man is in custody and the department is assessing what charges will be filed.
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Is there a limit to how many disasters we’re allowed to have at once?
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Usually
@monitornews
averages five to 10 death notices a day. Over 25 is rare. Today we ran 49 death notices, four funeral notices two full obituaries.
#RGV
"We’re not at breaking point yet, but if we keep getting four or five calls a day, we’re going to be in trouble." - Lee Castro, funeral director at Legacy Chapels in Edinburg.
#RGV
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First responders hoisting a flag at McAllen Medical following the shooting deaths of McAllen PD officers Chavez and Garza. Dozens of police officers have gathered here to pay their respects.
@monitornews
#RGV
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Got to reply to some McAllen chainsaw man fan mail today.
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Worth noting that shortly after
@MissionCISD
agreed to remove books Citizens Defending Freedom, one of the activist groups, reached out to ask for the district’s support on something completely unrelated
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“We have to be the media, because the media won’t report on us,” said one Trump supporter here in McAllen. She declined to speak with me.
@monitornews
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McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez described the shooting and killing of officers Edelmiro Garza and Ismael Chavez this afternoon as a surprise attack they didn’t stand a chance against. “They were doing their jobs,” he said.
#RGV
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Gov. Abbott says the McAllen Convention Center will be converted into a healthcare facility that can care for up to 250 COVID-19 patients. He says it’s opening up later this week.
@CityofMcAllen
@monitornews
#RGV
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Me: Mom, I went viral.
Her: You have the COVID?
Me:...no.
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Finally made it into tonight's Palmhurst City Council workshop. The front door was locked; after about 20 minutes of banging on it, a city employee told me the meeting wasn't open to the public. The city's attorney finally let me in a few minutes later.
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If you test positive for COVID-19 in
@HidalgoCounty
there's a 1 in 25 chance you'll wind up dead. That black wedge has almost doubled in three weeks.
#RGV
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The wind blew my truck door off its hinges. Guess I shouldn’t have called Hurricane Hanna mildly disappointing earlier.
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It looks like a GoFundMe campaign raising money for the chainsaw guy's bail has been taken down. The campaign earned over $1,700 before it was removed.
#RGV
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According to UTRGV School of Medicine Dean Krouse, the university is getting over 10,000 calls a day to its COVID-19 call center, five times the amount of calls it was getting earlier in June; it's tested 20,000 people and has 1,000 more tests scheduled for today.
@monitornews
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Hidalgo County will report 143 new COVID-19 cases and two additional deaths today, according to Judge Richard F. Cortez.
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Juan Lopez has transported the bodies of scores of Valley COVID victims over the past month, including the body of his own cousin. Here's what it's like to spend an evening in his shoes.
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Here’s a video of a tortoise burn victim on the road to recovery doing a little dance to brighten your Twitter feed
@NatButterflies
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A UTRGV provost called political science a "viper pit" after someone hijacked a university panel discussion on Zoom last month and broadcast what appeared to be footage of an ISIS beheading
Poli Sci Dept. requests apology from provost | Read the full story here👇
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Just saw a convoy of Trump supporters driving down tenth street in
@CityofMcAllen
honking vigorously and flying flags in the midst of a global pandemic shortly before
#HurricaneHanna
is due to arrive. They must really love that guy.
#RGV
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Two former
@HidalgoCountyTX
employees allege they were fired after making a sexual harassment complaint against longtime former JP Homer Jasso and are suing the county for up to $1 million a piece
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My mother saw this picture and asked me why Tom Cruise isn't coming to the Valley anymore.
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In some Valley districts, over 40% of the students don't have WiFi. The pandemic has made addressing that issue more of a priority than ever.
@acolleendg
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If "Spidey Snatcher" catches on I'll have completed a lifelong journalism dream of coining a nickname
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Update: I've secured the door with a dress shirt. Please don't rob me good people of McAllen.
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A friend just told me that I’m big time now because
@monitornews
’s website was in one of cool tiktok doctor’s PSAs
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I’ve had full-time jobs with less duties than house sitting for my parents
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My mother had a picture of my grandparents made into a puzzle. A full quarter of it is white and I think it may be unsolvable.
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La Joya ISD says a flower shop fleeced it out of $25K w/ bogus credit card charges last fall. The shop's owner told me she made some unauthorized charges but said LJISD was originally going to let her work off her debt instead of calling police
👇👇👇
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The last Sunday edition of
@monitornews
a week ago versus the first Sunday edition as a daily paper 89 years ago
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A judge Thursday disqualified attorney Rick Salinas from representing Hidalgo County JP Sonia Treviño in her election contest against Ramon Segovia. Now he's a witness who could even testify in the suit.
⬇️⬇️⬇️
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In a 4-3 vote tonight trustees on the
@lajoyaisd
board offered to tender their resignations and accept a conservator at the district to avoid a board of managers being installed by the Texas Education Agency
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Worth noting that Ryan Wolfe was charged with disorderly conduct after a fight during a small Trump rally outside
@monitornews
in December. We didn't see any violence at Tuesday's demonstrations though.
A debate has fired up between Marsha, a Biden supporter, and Ryan, a Trump supporter.
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There have been at least 100 cases of COVID-19 among students and staff from schools in
@HidalgoCounty
since mid-August. There's almost certainly more cases than that, but a variety of factors make it difficult to understand how the pandemic is playing out on Valley campuses.
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My arthritic grandmother is playing a surprisingly aggressive coronavirus game. Also note how she instructed me not to drink rubbing alcohol.
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A judge held McAllen Mayor Javier Villalobos in contempt of court Monday after he failed to show up for a trial he was slated to serve in as a defense attorney
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Lenny Sanchez, a
@CityofSanJuanTX
commissioner and La Joya ISD PD chief, resigned his commission post in May because of a new
@LaJoyaISD
policy that bars administrators from holding elected office.
Sanchez says commission might accept his resignation at its next meeting.
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In the week after Pear Harbor, 79 years ago, the RGV treated invasion as a serious possibility. The army fortified border crossings with machine gun nests, county-wide blackouts were practiced and people manned air raid observation stations, the FBI…
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Mission City Manager Randy announced he's rescinding his letter of retirement tonight
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A shimmer of hope in these dark times
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According to a Roma ISD spokesperson, the district may issue a joint statement with Lifka tomorrow.
Lifka has been reinstated to her classroom teaching position and is being allowed to keep the imagery up.
#RGV
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Last night trustees in
@MissionCISD
decided to hire a law firm to review Superintendent Carol G. Perez's legally questionable 10-year contract and she didn't seem at all happy about it
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Something large just fell on my roof. I hope it's not my truck door.
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Out of over 30,000 electronic devices the district ordered in the spring, only 4,000 are expected to be delivered by early Oct. The district currently only has enough devices for about a third of its students, a supply that's met demand so far.
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The
@McAllenISD
school board might pick a new trustee Monday and they've got a lotttt of options:
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Mourning police officers is something Valley residents have grown grimly familiar with. Law enforcement officers in Hidalgo County who have died in intentional shootings since the beginning of 2019 make up over a third of the state’s total.
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According to
@HidalgoCounty
, over 10% of
@CityofDonna
has been infected with COVID-19, the highest rate for any county municipality so far.
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Cortez said via text Monday that he was self-isolating after the meeting
Hidalgo County Health Authority Dr. Ivan Melendez is among the latest to test positive for COVID-19
#RGV
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The board voted to terminate its contract with IMAS and reallocate funds designated to the museum internally. It also voted to seek mediation with the city over Quinta funds — a step meant to help avoid litigation
Looks like on Monday the
@McAllenISD
school board may finally take action on financial commitments to
@QuintaMazatlan
and
@IMASmuseum
after controversially voting to try to renegotiate those commitments earlier this year
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At least two
@Edinburgcisd
trustees voiced support for exploring a return to virtual learning.
“Our numbers are increasing rapidly, and aside from the mask mandate, I do believe we need this option to keep our children educated, but overall safe,” one said.
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They nabbed the aloe vera bandit
Police arrested a man Wednesday for allegedly tying up an aloe vera farmer in shrink wrap in Mercedes last year and forcing him at gunpoint to sign over the hand sanitizer business the men founded at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
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The
@McAllenISD
board just voted 5-2 to name current
@BrownsvilleISD
Superintendent Rene Gutierrez lone finalist for superintendent of McAllen ISD
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Valley schools are likely going to spend this semester plagued by a variety of challenges, among them staffing shortages, academic shortfalls, and (of course) an actual plague.
Some schools are back in session this week and Valley districts are taking different approaches to keep COVID-19 out of their campuses
My latest story with
@TheMattTWilson
on how Donna ISD, Edinburg CISD & Edcouch-Elsa ISD are preparing
#RGV
@monitornews
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In 1988, the sitting mayor of McAllen repeatedly had the cops called on him for driving around town and blasting blackbirds with his BB gun. He stuffed two and kept them in his office — presumably as a warning to the rest. The Monitor, May 6, 1988.
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The lab's got the ability to process about 2,500% more coronavirus samples than it processed its first week. They really are crankin' em out.
#RGV
🧪🔬🦠
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“There’s children there who don’t know where their parents are, who don’t know why they’re there,” Lopez said. “We’ve heard stories of children here for weeks. It’s just eerie."
#RGV
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UTRGV's Dr. John Thomas says he expects the majority of COVID-19 tests in the RGV to be processed by grad students in his lab. They can turn around a test result in about 12 hours– assuming they don't get swamped in samples.
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Majestic! With all the self-isolation and reduced traffic, nature is coming back to
@monitornews
's parking lot. 🌱🦅
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30 people died of COVID-19 in
@HidalgoCounty
since yesterday. Here's where that number came from.
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The Monitor contacted 26 of the district’s campuses Wednesday, asking receptionists whether masks are required at their school:
-16 said masks are required
-1 said masks are optional in the lobby
-9 said masks are encouraged but not required
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Carolyn Mendiola,
@MercedesSchools
superintendent, is waiting to be arraigned in Alamo. It's not clear what led to her arrest, but it follows months of scandals at the district.
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The city of Mission launched its EMS program this year with absolutely no financial plan and a lack of staff.
According to Mission's fire fighter union, the staffing shortage meant one of its members worked a 72-hour straight EMS shift this month.
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"The police department also attempted to charge the newspaper $15.30 for a one-page probable cause affidavit and the two front pages of the police report. After a complaint to city hall, the newspaper obtained the documents at no charge."
@RGVReagan
ain't messin' around
Pharr man shot and killed during struggle over gun via
@monitornews
(I haven't worked this hard for a crime brief in a long time. The Pharr Police Department just ignored me for 4 days before trying to charge me $15 for a one-page prob cause affidavit)
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Last night the Mercedes ISD school board fired Superintendent Maria Chavez, not real sure why though 👇
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On top of all that, Sullivan City City Attorney Frank Garza resigned this afternoon:
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The city of Edinburg authorized its city manager Tuesday to enter into a real estate purchase agreement related to acquiring H-E-B Park as a venue for the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s football program
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Eddie Brooks, a Valley resident, waiting for the president’s arrival in
@CityofMcAllen
. Though pro-peaceful transition, he wasn’t overly bothered by the Capitol riot. “Three hours, four hours, was it, of people taking selfies? They call that an insurrection?”
@monitornews
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The board voted last night to place Perez on paid administrative leave and told its new attorneys to negotiate a separation agreement with her ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Last night trustees in
@MissionCISD
decided to hire a law firm to review Superintendent Carol G. Perez's legally questionable 10-year contract and she didn't seem at all happy about it
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Looks like
@McAllenISD
trustees will consider backing out of more than $4 million in commitments to Quinta Mazatlan and IMAS tomorrow
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Looks like on Monday the
@McAllenISD
school board may finally take action on financial commitments to
@QuintaMazatlan
and
@IMASmuseum
after controversially voting to try to renegotiate those commitments earlier this year
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Is the liquor store an essential retail establishment? Asking for a friend.
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Update: Tim Smith is now neck and neck with a whole different hurricane, but falling markedly short of Brett Favre. Let's go Tim Smith!
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The board just accepted Saldivar’s resignation. He’s not here. The board plans to fill his seat by appointment at the end of this month
Longtime
@McAllenISD
Board Trustee Sam Saldivar is stepping off the board at the beginning of next month
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5% of
@Edinburgcisd
staff who chose to be tested for COVID-19 have tested positive, Board President Mike Farias says. The district delayed the start of the spring semester over the weekend as has been offering free testing to employees this week.
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The
@MercedesSchools
board will discuss placing recently arrested Superintendent Carolyn Mendiola on administrative leave tonight and consider her resignation agreement. Mendiola isn't here and Asst. Superintendent Nancy Castillo is in her seat.
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