I almost did it to myself again — get upset about something I read in the state or national news, as if it really matters on any sort of personal basis. It doesn’t.
Sometimes, you just need a feel-good story to brighten your day. Post-pandemic, too many of us are still struggling with bouts of depression, as studies show.
Recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that six of the 10 fastest-growing counties in the United States from 2022 to 2023 were in Texas.
DHR Health recently announced that Dr. Henry Ruiz and Dr. Natalia Hernandez, both Urologists at DHR Health Urology Institute, are the first in the State of Texas to offer Revi, a newly FDA-authorized medical device designed to treat urge urinary incontinence (UUI) in both adult men and women.
According to the Urology Care Foundation, urinary incontinence affects a quarter to a third of Americans.
Sometimes, you just need a feel-good story to brighten your day. Post-pandemic, too many of us are still struggling with bouts of depression, as studies show.
In fact, according to a January 2024 U.S. Census Bureau survey, the percentage of people in the U.S. experiencing anxiety or depression remains double that of pre-pandemic (Covid) levels.
For starters, in the world of golf, there isn’t even a word for shooting a hole that posts a seven-over par on the score card.
You got your eagles, birdies, pars, bogies, double bogies, triple bogies, quadruple bogies (one of my personal favorites), quintuple bogies, sextuple bogies, but after that it stops. Sure, you could put a seven over par on the score card, but you wouldn’t want to give it a name.
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Department of Intercollegiate Athletics announced on March 20, the promotion of Eddie Galván to Associate Athletic Director for Development and Premium Seating.
Many towns in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, by the 1920s, provided baseball teams who participated in organized semi-professional leagues. The Brownsville team played on a dusty diamond on the outskirts of town.
Noted legal scholar Alan Dershowitz commented last week on the New York court judgment against Donald Trump for supposedly overstating the value of properties which would serve as collateral for loans.
I almost did it to myself again — get upset about something I read in the state or national news, as if it really matters on any sort of personal basis. It doesn’t.
This particular news gem had to do with the fact that the U.S. is now the world’s largest gas producer, thanks to the advancement of fracking (horizontal drilling) over the last 14 years or so.
Acts 26:14 (Jesus speaking), “It is hard for you (Paul) to kick against the goads.”
Jesus said from Heaven directly to Paul that God had been working in Paul’s life to change Paul’s heart and mind concerning Jesus and the holy faith. Certain people, events, circumstances, opportunities, and more, had come into Paul’s life, because of God, to show Paul the truth of the Gospel story, to change the direction of his life.
For at least the fifth year in a row, Hidalgo County has been ranked the most obese area of the country.
In news stories published this month, McAllen is named the most obese city in the U.S., but the data is based on metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs). In our case, it’s the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission MSA, which includes all of Hidalgo County.
Phyllis “Phyl” Griggs — an admired businesswoman, McAllen city commissioner, an active volunteer, and lover of animals — passed away at her home on March 7, 2024. A resident of McAllen since 1972 she embraced the popular saying “I may not have been born in Texas but I got here as fast as I could.”
She has been described as an icon,an original, a trailblazer, a force for good, a glass ceiling breaker, a mentor, a fierce animal advocate, a proud mom, and a good friend.
Michael Foy Coggins, age 74, of Converse, Texas passed away on Thursday, February 1, 2024. Michael was born in Columbus, Georgia to Bennie Foy Coggins and Mary Frances Barton.
Veteran print journalist Gilbert Tagle, Jr., 68, most well-known as the former editor of the Edinburg Daily Review in the 1980s and 1990s, didn’t come up with the famous saying, “It’s a newspaper’s duty to print news and raise hell.”