Posts from ‘March, 2010’

The setting aside this day in remembrance of those living and dead deserve recognition for their selfless dedication is a good step in the right direction. After all we did fight on behalf on this Nation. Irregardless of the politics, 58,000 plus paid the ultimate sacrifice and over 300,000 were wounded and over 3,000,000 served. Many were captured and the true number of P.O.W.s has never been made public. It is for these persons that this day has been set aside. True it’s a little late, but at least someone remembers.

Just a reminder that today is the birth date of Mexican- American farm worker, civil rights leader and labor leader Cesar Chavez.

(BROWNSVILLE, Texas) – United States District Judge Andrew S. Hanen has sentenced a former Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer to 140 months in federal prison without parole for bribery, cocaine trafficking and alien smuggling, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today.

Click the web site link below for the HPD press release.

AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry today announced the Texas Film Commission, AMD, Austin Chamber of Commerce and the City of Austin will host the inaugural Game On! Texas Symposium on Wednesday, April 7, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the AMD Lone Star Campus. This groundbreaking symposium is designed to bring together leaders from the video gaming industry, education and business communities to discuss challenges and solutions to improving Texas’ digital media and video game education programs. It will also highlight innovative teaching methods borrowed from video game development.

In observance of Good Friday, Texas Department of Public Safety Driver License Division offices will close at noon Friday, April 2 and will reopen at their regularly-scheduled times beginning on Monday, April 5.

HARLINGEN, TX- The Harlingen Consolidated Independent School District invites Harlingen residents to attend a Bond Election 2010 campus community meeting scheduled for April 6th at 4:00 p.m. at the Harlingen Administration Building located at 407 North 77 Sunshine Strip.

Did you know that March 30 was “Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day?” No? Neither did most of America.

The registration forms must be delivered to the Cameron County voter’s registration office by this date. The voter registration form is available on this web site.

First time to see you’re site, I was going to try and find a commissioner’s phone number and when I looked on line for the city web page it came here.

Do you notice the apologists for the city come out to spin the story no matter what it is! This city administration is wracked with scandal from the ineptness of Gabe Gonzales to the dastardly deeds of Hall, Boswell, and Lonon.

Political discourse seldom if anything allows the benefit of anybody getting what they deserve.

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.”
Matthew 5:13 (Read all of Matthew 5)
New International Version

The Census Bureau has selected McAllen’s Lark Community Center (2601 Lark Avenue) as a Questionnaire Assistance Center (QAC), from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm, through April 1st. Census workers will be on hand to help anyone who may not understand questions on the Census form. Additional QAC’s will be opened as Census staff is available.

(McALLEN, Texas) – Bernardo Garza, 44, of San Juan, Texas, has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for lying to buy firearms, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. Chief United States District Judge Ricardo H. Hinojosa handed down the prison term at a hearing today. The prison term is to be followed by a two-year-term of supervised release.

The investigation leading to the charges began on April 17, 2009, when a firearm purchased

Learn what it takes to obtain work with the federal government at the Federal Opportunities Day event at the University of Texas-Pan American April 9.

(HOUSTON) – The continuing investigation into allegations of health care fraud by persons associated with City Nursing Services of Texas Inc. has yielded a 55-count, second superseding indictment, charging Dr. Christina Clardy, a 61-year-old Houston physician, and one as yet unnamed individual with conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud and mail fraud, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard C. Powers announced today. The second superseding indictment adds four additional structuring financial counts against defendant Kenneth Anokam, 54, a naturalized U.S. citizen from the Federal Republic of Nigeria, who was named in the previous indictment and who has been in federal custody without bond since Oct. 26, 2009.

(BROWNSVILLE, Texas) – The last of three defendants charged for their role in a scheme to purchase firearms and sell them at inflated prices knowing the firearms were to be smuggled into Mexico has been sentenced to prison, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Agent in Charge Jerry Robinette and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Dewey Webb announced today.

WASHINGTON – Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (ALKQN) member John Guzman, 31, of Big Spring, Texas, was sentenced today to 210 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks for the Northern District of Texas.

Washington, D.C. today, U.S. Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (TX-15) joined President Barack Obama, and members of Congress, as the Health Care and Higher Education Reconciliation Bill was signed into law. The reconciliation bill was passed by Congress last week. It marks an historic change in health care for Americans and sets a landmark in higher education as the single largest investment in education since the G.I. Bill of WWII.