By KEN BENTON Today’s Star featured an opt ed piece by 4A EDC chair,Terry Gray. At first blush, when asked my opinion, my thought was “So what, it’s adone deal, why bother?” Pressed further to provide some “analysis” of what was written, I again resort to “leave it alone. We will soon have BPS...
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Due to some technical problems, a very interesting and informative response by Ken Benton to Harlingen Economic Development Corporation Chairman Terry Gray, whose comments were printed in the Valley Morning Star Sunday,cannot be published here until a computer problerm is resolved on Monday. It is good information and we want all to read it....
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By JOE RUBIO The big question that has risen is can we continue to afford the Bass Pro Shops project? In the recent discussion of the Project Boat at the last Harlingen Economic Development Corporation meeting, part of the BPS lease is to build an enclosed boat storage yard, which has an estimated additional...
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By JOE RUBIO The main subject of the last two Economic Development Corporation meetings has been to focus on the financial woes of the EDC. EDC Director Bill Martin made two presentations on possible solutions..One of the solutions is to delay the payment of $1.1 million to United Health Services. UHS has been receiving...
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By JOE RUBIO Talking about (City Attorney) Roxann Cotroneo, she sure has her hands full at City Hall. At times it appears that she is running the city of Harlingen, as she has introduced programs that deal directly with problems. Instead of making excuses, she takes them head on and finds solutions. And mostly,...
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By JERRY DEAL Difference of opinions are good, making personal hateful statements are not. I have brought this situation up before, but it has not stopped certain bloggers from making personal derogatory statements about other bloggers they do not agree with. This publication’s rules of permitting comments so long as they are not libelous...
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With the deal made betweem Gov. Rick Perry and House Speaker Joe Straus concerning the release of $3.1 billion in rainy day funds for this year, but “no touching” future RD funds will it create the need for a special legislative session? That’s the question being asked by Virtual Capitol news service. Perry on...
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By KORI MARRA District 3 City Commissioner As usual, Mr. (Joe) Rubio doesn’t have a clue as to what happened Wednesday night. He was physically present, but that is all. I have never stated that my District is more important than another. I stated that my District has a higher tax base than the...
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By JOE RUBIO Score one for the good guys. “Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together?” said the A-Team leader Hannibal Smith. The perfect execution of a plan occurred on Wednesday’s City Commission meeting. The “good guys” or to some “the New Guard” executed a plan of controlling the hiring of...
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By KENNETH BENTON I had to tend to the office today so I could not make the HEAT meeting. I’m hopeful all went well and a good discussion of how to attract, educate and assist new candidates for office was had in open forum. We elect people to office to direct and guide the...
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