Valley In Exile

... with Earn My Vote's blog ? Is he/she on sabbatical?

... did I miss anything while I was gone?

Interesting news item concerning my previous employer, The Monitor , and a couple of my former bosses: The region's presiding judge Thu...

An activist stages a one-man march to protest immingrant jails in South Texas -- including jails for children -- and receives a trio of pol...

Over at Grits for Breakfast , blogger Scott Henson gives a shout-out to the Valley daily newspapers' Austin correspondent, Elizabeth Pie...

I just saw this on The Monitor 's website: FBI agents arrested PSJA school board member Roy Rodriguez and two McAllen contractors early...

The Running Man gets out on bail . That's right; Real Man of Genius Omar Guerrero, charged with aggravated sexual assault of a minor a...

Wanted fugitive and Rio Grande Valley embarrassment Omar Guerrero gets caught in Reynosa and marched back to the United States: The FBI bro...

Liberal columnist Molly Ivins dies of cancer at age 62. Her old employer, the Texas Observer , has an obituary -- but the site's exper...

Here's something from a couple of weeks ago that you might find interesting: U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales tours the border and...

Real Men of Genius Today we salute you, Mr. Embarrassment to Hidalgo County Mr. Embarrassment to Hidalgo County Some county officials get ar...

For all you non-journalists out there, here's a graphical representation of how newsrooms really work (compared to how editors think th...

By now everyone knows about the Dems routing the GOP in Tuesday's elections. An unforeseen consequence of the power-shift: because Texa...

The investigation into mishandling of startup money for Baptist churches in the Rio Grande Valley reveals that more than $1.3 million in d...

UPDATE: The San Antonio Express-News posts an obituary of Freddy Fender (see also the discography (scroll down) and this story from 1993 ...

Viva La Revolucion, the person in charge of the blog At The Museum , offers an update on the IMAS situation in a comment on my previous post...

The Paper of South Texas , the Rio Grande Valley's latest and greatest alternative weekly (and a publication I freelance for), received ...

The International Museum of Art & Science passed recent audits, but The Monitor 's Marc Gellar reports that it's not all roses ...

... Same as the old boss : LA JOYA — The La Joya school board’s three newest members campaigned last spring against what they called a long ...

The Monitor offers a story on Rio Grande Valley bloggers from recently departed reporter Victoria Hirschberg. The article mentions some loc...

A writer for the New Times Broward-Palm Beach , an alternative weekly, blogs about the media in South Florida (Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm...

A McAllen ISD high school principal loses her legal bid opposing her transfer to Central Office . But what was the reason for the transfer ...

The Texas Education Agency releases its 2006 accountability ratings for public schools throughout the Lone Star State. How did your distri...

A couple of new weblogs spring up, and Rio Grande Valley readers might find them of interest: CAMERON COUNTY The first site, Bloggin' Al...

***UPDATE: The Monitor doesn't have the story online (even though its reporter covered the event), but the Brownsville Herald has the a...

From the Rio Grande Guardian : At least 11 mayors from Rio Grande Valley cities will today publicly endorse Gov. Rick Perry, a top Valley Re...

Many Rio Grande Valley residents live in South Texas only part-time. During the summer, they leave the state to follow the jobs . For those ...

Remember that missing money from La Joya's municipal court? The sheriff busts someone for the theft , The Monitor reports, and it proba...

Watchdog group Texans for Public Justice releases a report on just how carefully politicians comply with a 2003 law calling for candidate...

Cameron County commissioners back off from their plan to hand over public land to developers. NewsChannel 5 reports that public outcry over...

A while back, someone with the screen name Fair & Balanced queried me in the comments section of this post : Hello Mack Harrision. I wo...

At least, that's what the official count in the Mexican presidential election says, according to the Associated Press, but the losing ca...