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RGVReagan

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Metro Editor at MyRGV.com, The Monitor, Valley Morning Star and The Brownsville Herald. Posts are my own and not reflective of my employer.

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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A nonprofit with the same mission from El Paso is also scheduled for oral argument
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Appellate court to hear oral arguments in AG case against Catholic Charities
The new 15th Court of Appeals is set to hear oral arguments in the Texas Attorney General’s effort to investigate Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley over unsubstantiated claims the nonprofit ...
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
A little reflection for 2025. There's no i in team. Thankful for my colleagues (and competitors).
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Happy 2025!
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
It's been zero days again since someone got caught smuggling baby spider monkeys
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Man arrested at Brownsville bridge after CBP finds infant spider monkeys
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers on Sunday found three infant spider monkeys in a 2020 Mitsubishi Mirage driven by a man who arrived at the B&M International Bridge.
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
It's quite a collection
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Hitler, Elvis memorabilia seized from Mission clinic in $2 million Medicaid fraud case
A Nazi officer's uniform adorned with medals. Letters signed by Adolf Hitler, Charles Dickens and Elvis Presley. An ancient Roman coin. And Pokemon cards.
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Me getting road rage after drinking two sodas and getting a sugar rush (I don't drink soda regularly): OH shit. That's my mom. (I don't think she saw me) 😬
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I heard a rumor that he requested asylum but was never able to verify
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Former Gulf Cartel boss, founder of Los Zetas, deported to Mexico
Osiel Cardenas Guillen, the former boss of the Gulf Cartel and founder of the notorious Los Zetas, has been deported.
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Re: Texas Public Information Act
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Cameron County will allow residents who live around Starbase to vote to incorporate if the petition is in compliance
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Cameron County to call election if SpaceX incorporation petition in compliance
Early Friday afternoon, Cameron County released a brief statement from county Judge Eddie Trevino Jr. in response to SpaceX's Thursday request for an election to determine whether the company can lega...
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
We've been expecting this here in Cameron County. First heard rumblings of the idea around 2019. The county judge didn't immediately take our call this afternoon.
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SpaceX petitions Cameron County for election to decide incorporation
SpaceX said it has sent a petition to Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño Jr. requesting that he call an election to decide whether, Starbase, Texas, the company’s name for its Starship development and...
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
This story is a great journalism lesson in rumors. Many aspects of the problem here came in over a year as rumors. As the rumors began to repeat in the community they began to connect, and then we began to confirm parts of those rumors. This story is just another step in the reporting process.
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Harlingen school officials to cut costs, restore $23 million fund balance
HARLINGEN — School leaders are taking cost-cutting steps to help make up for former Superintendent J.A. Gonzalez's administration's move to pull $23.3 million from the district's fund balance to cover...
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Time for a walk? I think they are.
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
When a government agency is trying to get a hold on a story because a key individual is not "available" until next week... it's not happening
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
No thanks. Have a great day.
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Oh been with us for a 12 years now. Pics from shortly after getting her
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Starburst
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
He agreed to testify truthfully against William Garcia for 5 to 30. Garcia -- the only suspect who made bail -- goes on trial tomorrow morning.
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Alton man admits to role in fatal drive-by shooting of 6-year-old girl
EDINBURG — An Alton man accused in the fatal drive-by shooting of a 6-year-old Mission girl has pleaded guilty to murder after reaching a plea deal that requires his testimony in his co-defendant’s tr...
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
We've had her since 2012! She's a good girl. Her name is Star.
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
A rescue. A lover. An excellent protector. A very good dog. Girl is a lot fatter, happier and smart.
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Working on a foggy night at the Island.
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
All done with this one. Lesson on overdoing it learned as I relearn how to paint after going dormant for more than a decade. Definitely enjoyed the process and moving on to the next one.
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Update: I just fucking left. Sanity is more valuable to me than some kind of fucked up manipulative loyalty that tolerates absolutely terrible behavior.
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Me at Thanksgiving
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Believe it or not, it was going this way the whole time!
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I am having a really fun time with this painting
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Yeah, even when I started in Brownsville in 2012 they were telling me about the stories they reported on a decade or two before me. Definitely not new. Organized crime is way more than drug and human smuggling.
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Saw that an outlet or two not from the area reported that the Gulf Cartel has expanded into illegal fishing. That's just not true. This has been going on a long time. On Sunday, the Coast Guard stopped three lanchas, 19 Mexican fishermen & seized 2,200 pounds of red snapper off South Padre Island
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Gulf Cartel members hit with sanctions over illegal fishing off South Padre Island
The U.S. Department of Treasury on Tuesday sanctioned the Gulf Cartel's Matamoros plaza boss, two brothers who are in charge of Playa Bagdad for the cartel, and the owners of two camps there that are ...
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I did not do good. 4/6, I think.
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
New PIO not wanting to be responsive for days over an obligatory introduction email and folo ups trying to make contact. I've known your boss for years. I'm a longtime local journalist and community member. I will be a problem if you don't want to do your job. Whatever lol. Your choice.
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Michael Rodriguez @michaelscottrod.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The Brownsville Herald and MyRGV.com have covered this story extensively with insight about the local impact SpaceX has on the #RGV. Veteran journalist Steve Clark finds his pen and notes: “Another key finding is that the Starship launch is ‘substantially louder’ than the launch of a NASA … rocket.”
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We write about seized monkeys more than you would probably expect.
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McAllen traffic stop results in seizure of monkey, cocaine
A traffic stop in McAllen on Monday resulted in the seizure of a small black monkey and $23,200 worth of cocaine.
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Melissa del Bosque @mdelbosque.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The Border Chronicle has dumped X. Our first post on BlueSky...Hope you will read and subscribe. We write about the U.S.-Mexico border from a border perspective. 🔥 🦂https://www.theborderchronicle.com/p/the-red-revenge-tour-a-q-and-a-with
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The “Red Revenge” Tour: A Q&A with Pedro Rios about What to Expect in the Borderlands with Donald Trump
Trump's first run "was all about building the border wall and contriving a fictional ‘bad hombre’ bogeyman to fear and loathe." This time the "tactical dehumanization" has an extra "rabid vigor."
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The ruling came late last week
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Judge denies environmental group’s request to halt SpaceX launches
A federal judge in Brownsville last week denied an environmental group’s request for a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction against SpaceX over its water deluge system used during lau...
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Having fun with a painting
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
We're libtards for reporting on a water crisis where we live. OK. Lol.
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Go Spurs! 😅
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Hard eye contact is key. Miss those days.
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I love odd news
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Stolen shoe mystery solved at Japanese kindergarten when security camera catches weasel in the act
Police thought a shoe thief was on the loose at a kindergarten in southwestern Japan, until a security camera caught the furry culprit in action.
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MyRGV.com @myrgv.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The U.S. International Trade Commission, or ITC, on Tuesday determined that the U.S. shrimp industry is being “materially injured” by imports of frozen warm-water shrimp from Indonesia that the U.S. Department of Commerce says are being sold in this country at less than fair value. | #RGV
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Struggling Valley shrimpers receive good news on new import measures
In an industry where bad news is the norm, shrimpers in Texas and elsewhere in the United States finally have a sliver of good news.
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MyRGV.com @myrgv.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
“We started out fostering, it was just going to be a foster case and the minute they took them away from us someone was going to adopt them, my heart broke and I said, ‘No, those are my children,’” Darlinda said. “I fell in love with them and we decided to adopt.” | #RGV
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Tears shed as Valley children in foster care welcomed to new families
EDINBURG — Two-year-old Zoe ran about the hall here inside the Hidalgo County Commissioners Court chambers with a mischievous smile as she tried going up the stairs.
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
We've tried to get comment for a couple weeks, but here's what you need to know.
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Valley hospitals mum on Abbott’s citizenship question mandate
Gov. Greg Abbott's executive order that requires hospitals across Texas to ask patients for their citizenship status officially went into effect as of Nov. 1, but with a single exception Rio Grande Va...
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
We found out where SpaceX gets its water for its deluge system. There's a bunch of stuff a Brownsville utility does not want us to know.
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SpaceX consumes millions of gallons of Brownsville water amid scarcity
As municipalities throughout the Rio Grande Valley contend with the reality that water scarcity is a long-term issue with no easy solution, many have turned to water conservation efforts that target t...
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Her arrest comes just days after one of the assassin's pleaded guilty during the middle of his trial.
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New arrest made in Brownsville murder-for-hire plot
Days after a 36-year-old San Antonio man pleaded guilty to a murder-for-hire plot during the middle of his trial, authorities have arrested a woman on charges of capital murder, conspiracy to commit m...
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Monitor Del @monitordelcia.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The Rio Grande is seen from a private dock along the river on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024, in Mission. (Delcia Lopez | dlopez@themonitor.com)
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I was the reporter in the courtroom. I do too. And our readers always remind us in the comments when we cover sentencings: fajita guy got 50.
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
As of now, there's no mechanism in place for Valley farmers to even access the water. @myrgv.bsky.social
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Gov. Abbott accepted Mexico’s water offer. Will it actually benefit Valley farmers?
SAN JUAN — Once again, farmers in the Rio Grande Valley are finding their hopes dashed over the prospect of being able to access water for their crops, even after a recent order by Texas Gov. Greg Abb...
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
We almost made it thru the year w/o any cases, but I'm not surprised: the mosquitoes have been horrible here this year. @myrgv.bsky.social
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Cameron County reports cases of locally acquired West Nile, dengue
Cameron County Public Health officials on Thursday said they have detected two locally acquired cases of West Nile virus and a locally acquired case of dengue.
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
After years and years and millions of dollars, the project has to completely start over because of faulty construction.
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
While facing charges, he also unsuccessfully ran to be president as a Republican
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Edinburg man accused in cattle theft scheme back in custody
A 41-year-old Edinburg man accused of stealing 232 and 37 head of cattle from two different men is back in jail after failing to appear in court for a second time, according to jail records.
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RGVReagan @rgvreagan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Definitely amused at SpaceX fans complaining about traffic after the launch. I'm the dumbass who drove to the Island to fish on Spring Break and Semana Santa, multiple times. Accept your traffic fate!
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