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Rio Grande Guardian"s Podcast

Official podcast for the Rio Grande Guardian, the first online newspaper to launch on the South Texas border, starting out in July, 2005. The Rio Grande Guardian has an excellent reputation for accurate and thorough news reporting, with a specialty for border business, legislative, political, healthcare, environment, and education issues.

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5:41

An interview with Harlingen Mayor Norma Sepulveda...

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2025/09/10

HARLINGEN, Texas - Cameron County Drainage District No. 5 is partnering with the City of Harlingen to improve drainage. The first drainage project is the widening of the North Main Drain that the drainage district owns. The City and CCDD5 held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to kickoff the project. At the event, CCDD5 President Steve Jennings gave the Rio Grande Guardian an exclusive interview. He said that his home has flooded four times in the four decades he has lived there. He said that i...

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8:18

Student recommends taking Texas Southmost College's...

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2025/09/06

BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Jesse Acevedo just completed a pipefitting course at Texas Southmost College. In an interview with Ron Whitlock of Ron Whitlock Reports he said he would recommend the program to anyone because pipefitters are in big demand and the wages are good. Acevedo is about to start work for Bechtel at the Port of Brownsville. The company is building a liquefied natural gas export terminal for NextDecade. Go to www.riograndeguardian.com to read the latest border news stories a...

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5:26

De La Cruz discusses congressional redistricting,...

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2025/08/22

PALMVIEW, Texas - U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz spoke about congressional redistricting and Mexico’s water debt to the U.S. at a top GOP dinner in Palmview. The event - titled the Lincoln-Reagan Dinner - was hosted by Hidalgo County Republican Party and held at the Stallion Event Center. De La Cruz introduced the keynote speaker, U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton. De La Cruz recalled a time she met President Trump and the two were looking at a map of Texas and the Gulf of America. “He turn...

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19:03

Paxton: We need someone in Washington that has...

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2025/08/22

PALMVIEW, Texas - U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton says he wants to take to the Washington the same sort of creativity and courage he has shown as Texas attorney general. Paxton was keynote speaker at the Hidalgo County Republican Party’s Lincoln-Reagan Dinner. The event was held Aug. 21 at the Stallion Event Center in Palmview. “I want to bring something different to Washington. The kind of creativity that I'm trying to bring to my job here, I want to take that to Washington. The k...

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18:19

COO makes pitch for Texas PACE program in the Rio...

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2025/08/21

PHARR, Texas - Dub Taylor is COO of Texas PACE Authority. He recently spoke at an event hosted jointly by the Pharr Economic Development Corporation and the Rio Grande Valley Partnership. It was titled the Pharr Commercial & Investment Summit and it was held at the Pharr One Center. At the event, Taylor gave a presentation that included slides showing where a PACE project had worked in Texas. There were lots of examples shown in East Texas, the Panhandle and Central Texas. But there wer...

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5:56

Everything state Rep. Sergio Muñoz said at Mission...

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2025/08/18

MISSION, Texas - The Greater Mission Chamber of Commerce held the latest in its Buenas Tardes Luncheon series on Aug. 13, 2025. It centered on a panel discussion titled “The State of Current Business.” There were six panelists: Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez; Rick Carrera, director of economic development for the Council for South Texas Economic Progress; Joe Quiroga, president of Texas National Bank; Juan Francisco Ochoa, Jr., CEO of Taco Palenque Group; Dante Galeazzi, ...

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4:12

Everything Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez said...

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2025/08/16

MISSION, Texas - The Greater Mission Chamber of Commerce held the latest in its Buenas Tardes Luncheon series on Aug. 13, 2025. It centered on a panel discussion titled “The State of Current Business.” There were six panelists: Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez; Rick Carrera, director of economic development for the Council for South Texas Economic Progress; Joe Quiroga, president of Texas National Bank; Juan Francisco Ochoa, Jr., CEO of Taco Palenque Group; Dante Galeazzi, ...

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5:32

Everything TIPA President Dante Galeazzi said at...

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2025/08/16

MISSION, Texas - The Greater Mission Chamber of Commerce held the latest in its Buenas Tardes Luncheon series on Aug. 13, 2025. It centered on a panel discussion titled “The State of Current Business.” There were six panelists: Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez; Rick Carrera, director of economic development for the Council for South Texas Economic Progress; Joe Quiroga, president of Texas National Bank; Juan Francisco Ochoa, Jr., CEO of Taco Palenque Group; Dante Galeazzi, ...

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6:47

Everything Taco Palenque Group CEO Juan Francisco...

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2025/08/16

MISSION, Texas - The Greater Mission Chamber of Commerce held the latest in its Buenas Tardes Luncheon series on Aug. 13, 2025. It centered on a panel discussion titled “The State of Current Business.” There were six panelists: Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez; Rick Carrera, director of economic development for the Council for South Texas Economic Progress; Joe Quiroga, president of Texas National Bank; Juan Francisco Ochoa, Jr., CEO of Taco Palenque Group; Dante Galeazzi, ...

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3:38

Everything COSTEP Director Rick Carrera said at...

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2025/08/16

MISSION, Texas - The Greater Mission Chamber of Commerce held the latest in its Buenas Tardes Luncheon series on Aug. 13, 2025. It centered on a panel discussion titled “The State of Current Business.” There were six panelists: Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez; Rick Carrera, director of economic development for the Council for South Texas Economic Progress; Joe Quiroga, president of Texas National Bank; Juan Francisco Ochoa, Jr., CEO of Taco Palenque Group; Dante Galeazzi, ...

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4:24

Everything RGV banker Joe Quiroga said at the Buenas...

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2025/08/14

MISSION, Texas - Joe Quiroga is president of Texas National Bank. He was one of six panelists at a Greater Mission Chamber of Commerce event on August 13 titled “Buenas Tardes Luncheon. The panel discussion was titled The State of Current Business. In his remarks, Quiroga said there were positive and negative things to report about the current Rio Grande Valley economy. Here are his remarks. Go to www.riograndeguardian.com to read the latest border news stories and wat...

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78:08

Everything Sean Ferguson and Michael Camden said at...

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2025/08/13

HARLINGEN, Texas - The Council for South Texas Economic Progress recently hosted a Lunch & Learn session at Texas State Technical College. The event focused on RFI Best Practices and was organized by COSTEP’s director of economic development, Ric Carrera. Carrera said RFI Best Practices is a crucial for driving smart growth and meaningful investment across the Rio South Texas region. “We were thrilled to welcome a full house of regional economic development professionals...

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11:38

Previewing the 2025 Pathways for Trade Symposium

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2025/08/05

LAREDO, Texas - The 32nd Annual Pathways For Trade Symposium takes place at the Laredo County Club on Thursday, Aug. 28. The evening before a reception will take place titled the Trade Ambassador’s Dinner. The symposium is being hosted, as always, by the Laredo Economic Development Corporation, which has served Los Dos Laredos for 58 years. This year, the symposium’s title is “The New Era of Trade: Perspectives & Opportunities.” The symposium will explore the latest trends, poli...

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3:08

Jokl: River Walk-type project planned for Downtown...

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2025/08/05

BROWNSVILLE, Texas - On Friday, Aug. 1, the City of Brownsville and their outside consultants, Freese and Nichols, hosted a community information session about their new Downtown Renaissance Master Plan. Longtime Brownsville-based realtor Larry Jokl was sitting in the audience. At the end of the presentation Jokl got up and walked to the podium. After being given the microphone, he said he could not understand why the city planners and outside consultants had not discussed the planned Renai...

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3:49

Edinburg Mayor: New water tower will help us meet...

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2025/08/03

EDINBURG, Texas - Pam Bentsen Havens and her mother, Marge Bentsen, have explained why they donated land for a million gallon water tower in north Edinburg. They said it was the right thing to do for the community. Here is the interview: The Bentsens gave the Rio Grande Guardian an exclusive interview at the conclusion of a ribbon-cutting ceremony the City of Edinburg held to unveil the new water tower. The new water tower cost $5 million to build. The money came from the City of Edinbu...

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9:54

Everything Manny Cruz said to the Small Cities Coalition

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2025/08/01

WESLACO, Texas - The Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council set up the Small Cities Coalition in 2011 and, potentially, 46 cities could participate. Unfortunately, not all do, said LRGVDC Executive Director Manuel Cruz, at a recent meeting of the group. But that does not stop the LRGVDC from providing great services to the small cities, Cruz said. These include programs to help with economic development, job creation, infrastructure, and tourism. Here is an audio recording of...

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6:01

We must come together in a unified fashion, Hidalgo...

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2025/07/27

WESLACO, Texas - Hidalgo County Regional Mobility Authority Chairman Robert L. Lozano has made a plea for unity when it comes to transportation projects across the region. Lozano made his comments at a special meeting of the Rio Grande Valley Metropolitan Planning Organization policy board. He is a board member of the MPO. HCRMA did not get its proposal for more funding for Segment 4 of the Hidalgo County Loop project passed yet Lozano, in n effort to show unity, still voted for the staff...

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5:07

A Young Democrat gives the Texas House Minority...

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2025/07/24

MCALLEN, Texas - Julio Salinas is chairman of Texas Young Democrats. On Saturday, July 12, 2025, Salinas took state Rep. Gene Wu of Houston on a tour of key locations in Hidalgo County. Wu is minority leader in the Texas House of Representatives. Following the tour, Hidalgo County Young Democrats met with Wu. They spoke about the “devastating impact” ICE raids were having on Valley communities. And they impressed upon Wu the need for more investment in the Democratic Party in the ...

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9:32

Texas House Minority Leader: I'm going make sure...

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2025/07/24

MCALLEN, Texas - The minority leader of the Texas House says he is going to ensure Hidalgo County Democratic Party gets the funding it needs to be competitive in the 2026 election. State Rep. Gene Wu of Houston visited the Valley recently to hear from Young Democrats and grassroots progressives. In a meeting at the Hidalgo County Democratic Party HQ in McAllen, the young activists told him they felt the region had been neglected by the state and national party, thereby allowing Republicans ...

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6:07

A Mexican perspective on calls for an automotive...

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2025/07/14

René Xavier González, head of new business development and marketing for Sidee Industrial Development in Matamoros, has given a Mexican perspective to the idea of a bi-national auto cluster initiative. The idea has been proposed by the Council for South Texas Economic Progress. González said some companies may need convincing about the data they share but he thinks there will be buy-in. “Sometimes there are issues about confidentiality and security. A lot of companies would ra...

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