Dec 05 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com By the time you read this, I will be gone. Friday, Dec. 5 marked my last day at the San Benito News, and although I’m saddened to say farewell, I’m optimistic for this publication’s future. I leave you in the capable hands of Jacob Lopez, my staff writer and …
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Nov 28 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Ready or not, change has come to San Benito. It’s evident in new leadership present within every major public institution that serves the city, from municipal government to the school district. Challenges, however, are in overabundance while public distrust and unrest remain prevalent. Such is the case with every …
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Oct 31 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com No Color? Mechanical complications associated with the printing press prevented the San Benito News from publishing its Wednesday, Oct. 29 mid-week edition in color. The production crew has been working tirelessly to resolve the problem as color capabilities are being restored. Unfortunately, it was necessary to print the Oct. …
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Oct 25 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Allow me to indulge my fascination with the supernatural. I so rarely get the opportunity, and Halloween is the perfect excuse to stretch my legs, so to speak. Consider that eerie stories of ghostly encounters and the like have always been a topic of interest among my family and …
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Oct 17 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com I don’t want to live in a world where Manny Gomez has to apologize for his intensity, or where it becomes front page news for that matter. After reading a story published in another local newspaper on Friday about coaches from San Benito and Harlingen atoning for remarks that …
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Oct 10 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com If there’s one phrase I’m sick of hearing, it’s the oft-uttered cliché, “Only in San Benito.” Well, maybe not so much the phrase but its level of contempt is what has recently earned my scorn. Know that the source of my frustration stems not from the cynical, pseudo-intellectual types …
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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 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 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 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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