Oct 03 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com When faced with potentially controversial matters, it’s incumbent upon public servants and elected officials to get in front of whatever scandal has them terrified. Otherwise, a veritable minefield awaits those who practice secrecy. Denials can so easily turn to lies, and lies lead only to public distrust, which spells …
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Oct 03 2014
By JACOB LOPEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com October is upon us, and that means it’s time to ring in the spooky. It’s the time of ghosts, zombies, witches and skeletons. It’s when mall food court goths obsess over Tim Burton movies that are older than they are — oh wait, they do that 365 days a year. …
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Sep 26 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com I had an interesting conversation with a young girl on Friday. We were discussing what she liked to the read in the newspaper, what would prompt her friends to pick up a copy and what exactly discourages teenagers from reading what’s in the news. At age 17, Jennifer Garcia …
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Sep 26 2014
By JACOB LOPEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Late last week, my editor asked me to drive to Brownsville the following Monday to cover the SpaceX groundbreaking ceremony, and by asked, I mean told. This meant I had to be up extra-early in order to be at the Brownsville Events Center no later than 8:45 a.m. where …
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Sep 19 2014
By JACOB LOPEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Here’s to all the keyboard warriors. Those brave souls who hide behind the safety of their computer’s LCD screen, typing away with the fearless bravado of a seasoned fighter, afraid of nothing — except real-life people. Last week, someone commented on Michael Rodriguez’s column about U2 at the San …
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Sep 12 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com I can trace my love for writing back to when I was about 11 years old. Inspired by a passion for music, I remember inking pen to paper my thoughts on how certain songs affected me at that time. Warning: I shared a similar story back in March 2010, but it …
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Sep 12 2014
By JACOB LOPEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The long-rumored Apple Watch is a thing now. I look forward to the Apple Watch. I enjoy Apple’s products. That said, I’m not one of those fanboys who takes every marketing sheet that comes from the iPhone maker as pericope lifted from the Gospel of [late Apple co-founder Steve] …
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Sep 05 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com So the San Benito Food Pantry again faces increasing demand from its clients – ‘again’ being the operative word. While I wouldn’t call it a staggering rise, watching the pantry clientele swell over the years is alarming when considering all which San Benito already contends with. In a city …
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Sep 05 2014
By JACOB LOPEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com By now you may have already read about the handful of celebrities whose compromising photos leaked for all the internet to see. Such popular female stars as Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton were the targets of an internet hacker — or group of hackers — who found joy in …
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Sep 19 2014
CONSIDER THIS: Sbnewspaper.com in Retrospect
September 19, 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Much of what’s said about the comments on sbnewspaper.com, I’m sure, is negative. In fact, I’ve long imagined that many a conversation in text messages or at the water coolers/break rooms/fax machines/kitchen tables of our lives consists of utter dismay and disgust. But then there are moments of laughter …
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