The Monitor

South Texas College has announced a tuition assistance program that officials say should make enrollment there essentially tuition free for all students. Such a program can help many Rio Grande Valley residents attain academic degrees or professional training and certification they might not be able to afford otherwise.

For centuries the Democrats have been the “tax and spend guys.” They’re the party of American Treasury confiscatory distribution — to themselves.

SAN BENITO — The specials on the wall catch my eye so quickly I don’t even ask for a menu.

DONNA — Faced with more than $40 million worth of sorely needed infrastructure improvements that officials here can’t find outside funding for, Donna is instead trying to offset projected costs by raising utility rates.

EDINBURG — A jury found an Edinburg woman guilty of fatally shooting her husband in 2019 following approximately six hours of deliberations.

Mission chef Ana Liz Pulido has been nominated for the prestigious James Beard Award for the second consecutive year.

McALLEN — The school board held its fourth budget workshop Monday with an update on a budget reduction plan to deal with the district’s ongoing deficit that has been reduced to $10.3 million from the initial $14 million.

An Edinburg man was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday after being found guilty of an aggravated robbery that left a man in his 70s with “severe trauma,” Hidalgo County officials said in a news release.

As a self-declared “dictator” in his first “day” of office, newly elected President Trump will want to make a few quick pen-and-ink modifications to the Constitution to undergird his planned activities.

Letters to the editor published in The Monitor, Valley Morning Star and The Brownsville Herald during the week of April 15-20, 2024.