EPA crashes amateur car races with buried regulation By Kenric Ward  Published March 16, 2016   watchdog.org A “power grab” by the Environmental Protection Agency threatens to crash America’s amateur car-racing industry without putting so much as a dent in climate change, warns the chairman of the House Space, Science and Technology Committee. The EPA’s move to… Read more »

Mayor Pete Saenz's full State of the City address Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 4:32 pm | Updated: 8:35 pm, Wed Mar 16, 2016. Laredo Morning Times  Mayor Pete Saenz presented his State of the City address to a crowd of community and business leaders Wednesday morning at the Laredo Country Club. The speech serves as a summary of the accomplishments the mayor and… Read more »

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Congressmen Work to Block EPA Proposal on Race-Modified Street Cars Five members of Congress have introduced a bill to exempt full-time race cars from the EPA's street car regulations. Five members of Congress have introduced a bill to block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from regulating former street cars that have been modified for full-time racing duty. The bill comes in… Read more »

South Texas Senior Summit on April 7   The RGV Hispanic Chamber Health Committee is well underway at making preparations for the annual “South Texas Senior Summit” that is scheduled for 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, April 7, at the Boggus Event Center in Pharr.   The event focuses on the senior community and offers free health screenings and dozens of informational booths that… Read more »

Jailers decry cuts in program to reimburse them for holding immigrants Bill for immigrant prisoners shifts to state, local taxpayers Sixteen years ago, the Justice Department doled out $563 million to lockups such as Harris County's to oversee immigrants who were in the country illegally and had committed crimes. It was the most ever paid out by the department's State Criminal… Read more »

Primer Ministro y legisladores de EEUU destacaron relación bilateral entre ambos países El jefe del Gabinete Ministerial, Pedro Cateriano, recibió a una delegación de congresistas del Comité de Apropiaciones de la Cámara de Representantes del Congreso de Estados Unidos, con quienes resaltó el buen nivel de la relación bilateral y la cooperación entre ambos países en diversos… Read more »

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Editorial: Time to end Cubans' special immigration status Two GOP presidential hopefuls might not want to hear this, but it’s time for Congress to do away with the special status that grants Cuban migrants the automatic right to legally reside in the United States as soon as they set foot on U.S. soil. There’s no longer anything special about Cuban conditions that should endow them… Read more »

Cubans' Free Ride After Crossing Into U.S. Riles Mexican-Americans (radio interview link below)  Cuban migrants are getting in to the U.S. through Laredo, Texas. Some lawmakers say it's time to remove the special status Cuban migrants have, saying it's unfair to others who face worse hardships. RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: With U.S.-Cuba relations on the mend, some Cubans are afraid… Read more »